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Sacred Thread Update: December New Moon 2024
Hello Dear Embodied Siblings – Here in the northern hemisphere we are in the time of Solstice and New Moon…a time of darkness, rest, withdrawal and contemplation. It is the time of transition of seasons and a place of deep considerations. I actually love this time and its invitation to turn inwards and consider where…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: November 2nd New Moon 2024
Hello Dear Ones – New moon blessings. I am thrilled to share with you that after a 5 year hiatus (due to the 2020 LionsHead Fire and more) I will once again be offering a weekend retreat at Breitenbush Hot Springs. On May 16-18, 2025, we will gather for a weekend of nourishing Continuum Inquiry…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: November New Moon 2024
Hello Dear Ones – Everyone I am engaging with these days is naming the very real experience of our collective anxiety of what may unfold in the coming weeks around the US election. This is on top of all the other devastation and heartbreak that is beamed to us from around the world. We are…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: October New Moon 2024
Hello Dear Ones – There are times, and they seem to be happening with more and more regularity, when words feel inept and even a disservice. And for someone like me who loves words and feels the potency of language that can be a challenge. But what I have also learned over the years is…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: August New Moon 2024
Hello Dear Ones – Kayf haal–ik?…How is your heart…in this moment? When I ask ‘how are you?’, this is really what I am asking. I want to know what is breaking you open and what is anchoring you? What is it that brings you deep gladness and who encourages you to dance? All too often…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: July New Moon 2024
Hello Beautiful Beings – To be honest, I don’t really know what to say to you today. The world seems so unbelievably fractured and beyond repair sometimes. My heart aches right now and some days the practices of ritual and beauty feel so empty. But I also know they are needed. I know they are…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: June New Moon 2024
Hello Beautiful SoulBodies – Last weekend I attended a service in honor of the life and death of a partner of a friend and colleague. I had met this man twice and each time was touched by his smile and presence but knew him mostly through my friend. She calls him her ‘sweetheart’ and his…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: May New Moon 2024
Hello Beautiful SoulBodies – I am dancing with the potent reminder of how precious this life of embodiment is. How magnificent, heartbreaking, beautiful and fragile we are…as humans, as a web of life. Death will do that, if we let it. It will gather us up and remind us to remember and be present for…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: April New Moon 2024
Hello Beautiful SoulBodies – Beauty is necessary for the Soul to be able to navigate life and its burdens. The Soul needs pleasure for its ongoing capacity to hold grief and challenge. Gratitude gives us the capacity to be with grief. Beauty and Burden are sisters and they are deeply entwined and need each other.…
Read MoreSacred Thread Update: March Quarter Moon 2024
Image by Tuan Pham Hello Beautiful SoulBodies – In my somatic therapy work a big part of the process is cultivating noticing…of our body, our behavior, our unconscious ways of reacting. This is the same practice that we engage in meditation…becoming aware of the habits of body and mind and broadening the scope of awareness…
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