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There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centered on the body. Gautama …

Nearly two years of dancing with COVID has left most of us reflecting, reconsidering, reevaluating, and maybe just reeling.  For me, this time has driven the Extrovert in me into quiet reflection on so many things. Both in my work and personal life.  I have taken the time to step back from much that was …

So many people I talk with are wanting to step into more ‘normal’ activities and return to life after a year of COVID … simultaneously so many feel they have outgrown the life they had. Many feel they have grown a new, more sensitive skin from this life closer to home. We are, collectively and …

Happy Spring Equinox to you! The middle point, equal space between the shortest and longest days of the year…we are moving out of the darkness and into the light. Hope returns, potential bursts forth, rebirth is all around! So why do so many of us feel TIRED?! The season change does that to the body …

(originally published 2/25/2016 by the NeuroImaginal Institute) It is late Winter…early Spring…we are in this dance of between-ness, across the borders of season. Each season having its own energy signature within us, just like in life as we transition from one thing to the next, one meeting to the next, one home to next, one …

(Originally published 2016 Luminous Life Maps, Edited February 2021) How would it be to fully inhabit your body? To get into your body and fill out your experience of your body being… so you can listen, respond, and choose from your awakened embodied self. What might happen as you get IN there? It’s a powerful …

Originally published 2018 Luminous Life Maps We ‘sell’ change…the basic, stripped away truth is we sell change. This is a hard sell. No one wakes up in the morning and says, “I think I will change today!” No way. We tend to fight change, put it off, resist it, and do everything possible to keep the familiar …

Originally published 2019 with Luminous Life Maps When I said YES to being on the the ‘warmup’ team for OLOX, the Siberian NeoShamanic Arctic Ecstatic Dance group, I didn’t give it much thought. Ha! Foolish me. As I have prepared with my collaborating magic friend Vanessa, I have felt a strange importance to it all. …

Originally published 2018 Luminous Life Maps This week I have been reminded of why I do inner work…both as a Guide and as a faithful student. I have spent the past 5 days with no voice from an upper respiratory gamboo. I have felt tender and quiet…except for the frustrating engagements I have had with …