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HAPPY SOLSTICE! Winter Solstice…a still point. A pause. Through the Fall the days have been growing shorter, earlier evening darkness that lasts longer into the early morning hours. Winter Solstice, usually December 21st, marks the pause point, this deepening into darkness stops. It is the shortest day and longest night of the year. From this …

First published by The NeuroImaginal Institute, November 26, 2013 Ok. I have been working at this for years…yet; have delayed writing about it this month! Then I received a wonderful newsletter, thanks to my friend Sally. It sparked me to remember all the value in the practice…and engaged me with fun facts. Here are a …

originally published on Luminous Life Maps March 27, 2017   Warming up, gentle music carrying me…in…into my body, into the space, into the dance. I get curious, checking in with this body today. Following nurturing breath and beat into joints, muscles, aches and pains, stiff and crunchy places… into the question…what is here now? My …

originally published September 24, 2016 on luminouslifemaps.com Yesterday I joined my very small Authentic Movement group for a once a month dive into what is…in this BodySpirit universe I live in. The format we work in is: one serves as sacred witness and the two movers in our group move with eyes closed…following the inner …

First published by The NeuroImaginal Institute, November 4, 2015   In the season of Halloween, Dia De Los Muertos and Samhain, we danced an ancient dance of honoring and healing, together, with intention. We call to our lineage … to all that we have come from through time and all that will come from us …

originally published September 12, 2017 on luminouslifemaps.com   Grief & Freedom…hum, they don’t seem to go together at first glance do they? Freedom is such a lovely concept and feeling. It is something we generally agree upon as a good thing. The dance and art engages freedom on many levels – freedom of thought, freedom from patterns that …

As I sit and tune into the energy of transition I am aware of how urgently I need to feel my body in space, where I physically am during these changing times. I do this by feeling my center, my breath and my bottom against the cushion I’m sitting on…letting the weight of my body …

I could go on and on about this book…the bottom line is: READ IT and practice! Being a person who both loves my work and one who can be driven by passion to work a lot…I have found this read a beautiful reminder. I have been reminded of what I have found naturally over the …

Time. I have had the strangest relationship with time lately. I hear from others they too are experiencing something similar. The COVID quarantine is about 8 weeks established now. The initial reeling has settled. I have created some form of order and a bit of a rhythm to my days and weeks. Much of this …