Play Your Note

Play Your Note

  My yoga teacher training instructor shared some wisdom from her mentor with me a few weeks ago.  It has stuck with me, ringing truth into my ears ever since:   Each of us play a note in the orchestra of life – of the world, both physical...
Heard and Held

Heard and Held

It was supposed to be a regular coffee date.   I waited for you on the patio at Starbucks, with my tea steeping in front of me and the cars zooming past to my left. I was nervous.  I had made up a story in my mind that you were a Very Busy Person, and that I...
The fear and sadness of letting go

The fear and sadness of letting go

(this is my home, all gussied up for a winter solstice women’s circle) For the past seven years or so, I’ve been following a plan.   It hasn’t been a linear path, but it’s been intentional and focused nonetheless.   It all started as...
I am normal I am normal I am normal

I am normal I am normal I am normal

I’ve been feeling a little more free lately.   Why, you wonder? Because I’ve decided I’m normal.   I, like so many others in our current culture, have pathologized myself all too much. My inclinations, my quirks, my preferences all taken a...
Alignment is Not A Brand

Alignment is Not A Brand

  I’ve had to ask myself, over the years that I’ve grown this business, if this is what I really want.   I suppose anything that has a person awake at 4:30a.m. every day or that causes one to do ridiculous things like shoot videos and post them...