Gratitude Changes Everything

When I am grateful I find my grace. 🌼 Admittedly it has been painful to witness the horrors occurring within Myanmar, but even more so the global lack of appropriate response. Meanwhile girls are being abducted from their schools by the hundreds in Nigeria by terrorist groups. There is an ethnic genocide occurring in Ethiopia. [...]

Liberation

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.” ~ Aung San Suu Kyi My earliest childhood memories are rooted in state violence. Much of my life since has involved some measure of [...]

Yourself, As Your Self.

Can God Offend God? 👁 Ask yourself, your Self beyond this idea of “self”...Is there anything that is not God?? I see/hear people in spiritual communities suggesting, “This isn’t the way,” or, “That isn’t the spiritual path.” People striving to be like someone else, some other ideal of ancient past. The past is merely a [...]

Yin Things

It's not about a perfect body, but a perfect practice. Yin Yoga is a seated practice, holding asanas for up to five minutes. I use this practice for myself and others, specific to healing and integrating traumas that we tend to hold in the lower parts of our bodies and chakral system. At minimum, it [...]

Still I Wonder

We paint ourselves in a way that is acceptable to the mind’s eye. Yours and mine. We can never know one another. Flashing lights. Behind a darkness born of Babylon. And we cannot see.  We speak our truths in a way, still calculated for the audiences’ response. We speak rage. Love. And all things in [...]

Revolution Collective

Now that I have your attention, I wish to speak to a few things that are disturbing not only to myself, but to the collective frequency. It’s no secret we are living in challenging times. The social climate is anything but peace. What I want to remind everyone is that the Earth itself was founded [...]

Peace.

If you ask 98% of humans globally, what it is they want most in life, they will tell you they want peace. Yet, the vast majority of them have absolutely no idea how to attain it.  The most profound thing I took away from this year so far was told to me by someone of [...]

Cannabis vs. Presence

I’ve been sitting with a burning question. A client asked me this week how I felt about cannabis usage. This individual visited to me to discuss his trauma and generative ways to work through and with it. My first reaction was that I am absolutely against it’s prohibition--since it is deeply rooted in racism—that people [...]

Dreamfast With Me

“Let the past die.” As if they are not aware that trauma is like recurring movie. Played over and over. In every cell of our bodies. Deeply enmeshed in our ciphers. For trauma survivors, the past never dies. Trauma is etched into the fabric of our beings. It enters and makes a home in the deepest [...]