Reflections and practices for living with openness, intention and vitality.
Cultivating Joy (When You’re Really Not Feeling It)
For years now, I’ve been rewiring my traumatized brain and reforming my melancholic disposition towards what’s good. It’s a practice I continue, even when I’m not feeling it.
Superbloom Party: Cultivating Belonging
A Superbloom party is a gathering that promotes the elements of full bloom living—physical, emotional, spiritual wellbeing to enable the fullest expression of your higher self in midlife and beyond.
Blue Zone Living Meets Full Bloom Living
Blue Zones are places in the world where people live exceptionally long lives. What can Blue Zones teach us about living full and vibrant lives right here in the present?
30-day Stretching Challenge
I recently added a morning and night stretch to my daily routine. For me, this gentle practice is a consistent way to treat my body as an integral part of my consciousness and to make amends for the years of mistreatment and non-acceptance. It also just feels great!
Playing with Shadows on Halloween
On Halloween, we welcome the dark things out of the shadows and into our homes and streets. Becoming closely acquainted with the darkness and shadows inside of us offers a profoundly freeing spiritual experience.
30-day Meditation Playlist for ADHD
Mindfulness and meditation can help wandering, busy and anxious minds become more present, self-aware, calm and focused.
Travelog: Medjugorje (Prophets & Visions)
Medjugorje is a rural village about a half an hour from the cultural center of Mostar, in the southern part of the country of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It’s an unofficial Catholic pilgrimage site where the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared to six children with a message of love, healing and mercy.
Travelog: Croatia (Rebirth)
When you travel, you hear stories and see snapshots of lives from completely different backgrounds. And in some instances you have the privilege of hearing a story that really resonates with you and echoes your own inner journey.
Camp Menopause: An Integrative Approach
I didn’t want my entrance into menopause to be anything like puberty—marked by ignorance, shame, neglect, embarrassment and silent confusion. I wanted to be shown a different way.
Body Integration at Kripalu
If Esalen in the spring was a much needed upturning of my senses, then Kripalu in the shoulder season between summer and fall has been the integration and grounding.