Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – It’s okay to cry and not know the reason. It’s okay to have a day where you feel low energy or down even if you slept well the night before. It’s okay to feel angry and want to throw a whole set of china (or maybe two) at a wall without…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – “While the outside world rushes to move on, the experience of the pandemic has yet to fully leave my body. Parts of my body, my mind, my spirit are still trapped in the limbo of pandemic despair, pandemic depression, pandemic numbness, pandemic survival. I will NOT be pressured to move at…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Calm and steady are often the goal of our spiritual practices and our therapeutic healing. Many folks come to my practice with the desire have more ease and less upheaval in their lives. This is a worthy pursuit especially if our life is primarily a series of being battered about with…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I typically post this blog and send out the email around the new moon. I do this partly to have a regular marker to help me stay consistent but mostly it’s because the new moon is the dark moon, a time of gestation and the beginning of the moon cycle. I…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Blessings to you. Really, I send you blessings and think of you often. I wonder how you are faring as we traverse these challenging times? Most times have a challenge or edge to them, do they not? Are you able to taste moments of sweetness when they show up? ‘Cause they…

Artwork by Jose Ramirez Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – Last month I spoke about rituals. And here we are just emerging from the traditional days of honoring the change of the season (Samhain which marks the halfway point between fall equinox and winter solstice) and those that have gone before us (All Hallows Eve, All Saints…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I squat at the river’s edge and place the palms of my hands on the surface to feel it’s movement and let it speak with me…I offer my thanks and my blessing. I pause and place my hands around the warm cup and slowly take in the fragrance and the flavor…

Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – First, if you are in the Seattle area I will be in town offering a pop-up in person outdoor yoga and meditation class on Thursday, September 23, 10-11:30am at Volunteer Park…followed by some time to socialize, so come by afterwards if you can’t come to class… YAY! Click HERE to register through Seattle…

Artwork by Barbara Stahler-Sholk Hello Fellow Body-Mind-Hearts – I don’t know about you but I have been feeling a great deal of decision fatigue. As circumstances rock and roll and shift around me I am having to constantly re-orient to new information and fresh situations and make more and more decisions. And some of those…