Welcome to my Calendar!
If you’re looking for things to do that will help you reconnect with yourself, you’re in the right place!
My offerings include many options to meet your yearning for a life that is congruent—aligned with who you are and how you want to be in the world.
This is a 4-part series: October 18th & 25th, November 1st & 15th.
Is there anything between you and being at home in yourself? For most of us, there is, a lot of the time. Come explore what gets in the way of a free and open heart and what we can do about it—using the wisdom of the Enneagram, mindfulness, and your own loving presence.
In this 4-part series, we’ll dive deep into the false type assumptions, stories, and beliefs that get in the way of forgiving ourselves and others. With practices to engage all three centers, we’ll inquire into, come to understand, and meet with compassion the ways that we block our hearts. And we’ll courageously try on new ways of being, feeling, and thinking to forge new neural pathways and create a life worth living.
Gratitude heals your heart, helps your mind calm down, and even creates health in your body. So, why do we tend to wait until Thanksgiving to really focus on it? Join Holistic Life Coach Katy Taylor to learn not only the power of gratitude, but also hands-on practices you can take into your daily life.
Minimum of 4 students required.
Registration through Mississippi Market.
This class is cancelled Thursday, November 30th as I’ll be out of town. See you on the 7th!
This class meets weekly on Thursdays from 7:30-9:00 pm.
Relax, renew, and restore with SomaYoga, Yin Yoga, meditation, and embodiment practices specifically designed for a woman’s body, heart, mind, and soul.
Yoga, as we practice it in the US, has been developed by men for a man’s body, not a woman’s. Our curves, our different hormonal cycles, our neurological wiring, and the body tyranny we face in our culture… these all call out for a different way of practicing.
Women’s yoga, as I’ve been studying and practicing it, is about creating space for you as a woman to express and be all of yourself through your body. It is a way of inhabiting your body in an inquisitive way, of coming home to how a pose can flex, move, curve, and flow to feel good and opening and inviting in your woman’s body.
Women’s Yoga is an embodiment practice that includes all impulses of life—messy, chaotic, calm, curvy… however inhabiting your body and life from the inside expresses on the outside. Allowing your body her full expression is what creates the space to deepen your presence and feel more trust and acceptance of yourself. Read more.
I would love to practice with you!
This class meets weekly on Thursdays from 7:30-9:00 pm.
Relax, renew, and restore with SomaYoga, Yin Yoga, meditation, and embodiment practices specifically designed for a woman’s body, heart, mind, and soul.
Yoga, as we practice it in the US, has been developed by men for a man’s body, not a woman’s. Our curves, our different hormonal cycles, our neurological wiring, and the body tyranny we face in our culture… these all call out for a different way of practicing.
Women’s yoga, as I’ve been studying and practicing it, is about creating space for you as a woman to express and be all of yourself through your body. It is a way of inhabiting your body in an inquisitive way, of coming home to how a pose can flex, move, curve, and flow to feel good and opening and inviting in your woman’s body.
Women’s Yoga is an embodiment practice that includes all impulses of life—messy, chaotic, calm, curvy… however inhabiting your body and life from the inside expresses on the outside. Allowing your body her full expression is what creates the space to deepen your presence and feel more trust and acceptance of yourself. Read more.
I would love to practice with you!
We’ll meet at Emmy’s festive Dayton Ave, home at 6:15 for mulled cider and holiday treats to get warmed up and ready.
Then singer Katy Taylor and Friends will serenade Lex-Ham neighbors with Christmas Carols. We’ll sing down 1-2 blocks of Dayton, and then cross Selby onto Hague and/or Laurel.
Wordsheets will be provided.
Join the Winter Solstice Celebration, a contemplative, family-friendly, Celtic-inspired ritual to mark the turning of the year as the darkness gives way to the growing light. This participatory ritual will include chanting, meditation, candle-lighting, singing, and cauldron jumping. Kids—bring animal masks and hand percussion (rattles, shakers, bells)!
This is my version of the popular “Challenge.”
A perfect way to get back on track after the holidays
and to start your New Year with presence!
For 5 days, you’ll receive daily emails with practice suggestions, and we’ll support each other in a private facebook group, sharing our triumphs and our struggles. I’ll lovingly hold your hand as you try on simple, doable changes to create more presence in your life.
Join me to get excited about your life again–
because you’ll be aligned with its innate support, rhythm, and beauty.
You’ll be living your life with sacred intention and practice.
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries! If you can’t make this one, hope to see you at one of the next two.
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries! If you can’t make this one, hope to see you at the one in February.
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
Note: This workshop is part of a full-day women’s retreat. Exact time of my 75-minute workshop TBA.
Join me to explore practices to support you in cultivating the confidence and heart needed to live your life courageously. This workshop is experiential and will include working with body (movement), heart (attunement and compassion), mind (mindset and awareness), and soul (inner aligning).
(For an hors d’oeuvre, try the practice pictured above.)
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
Have you discovered the super powers of tea?
- Not only does it refresh,
- And slow you down,
- And calm your spirits,
- And gently energize you,
- …
But tea also gives you a chance to cultivate mindful presence with whatever you are engaged with.
We will gather, with tea, to turn our mindful and gentle gaze to poetry.
Read, listen to, and savor the singular beauty of each poem, while engaging in a mindfulness process inspired by the sacred practice of lectio divina.
Share tea, a gluten- and dairy-free treat*, and poetry—all in presence-full company.
Bring poems to share related in some way to the Spring theme of awakening.
Watch for the next Tea & Mindful Presence Gathering
in early Summer!
Spring is the season for new beginnings—
for Holy Happenings.
But if you’re feeling sluggish, low on energy, worn out, or just plain winter weary, you may need a reset!
Join spiritual educator, Jan Lundy and Friends ( I’m one of them 🙂 ) for a one-of-a-kind experience of clearing, opening, and harmonizing so Spring’s juicy energy and goodness can pour into YOU.
“Spring Reset” begins Monday, April 9, and it will “Revitalize Your Body,” “Rebalance Your Heart-Mind,” and “Restore Your Spirit”!
Through 30 days of stellar information, inspiration, personal practices, and generous guidance from Jan and her Reset Team–me, Carol Egan, and Kaveri Patel, experts in body, mind, spirit wellness–we’ll help you get re-energized and reboot your life so you can experience your best, most glorious Spring yet!
In this gathering, we combine the simple act of drinking tea with presence practices to develop mindfulness of body, heart, mind, and soul. We grow awareness of ourselves, each other, and the tea we are engaged with to land more fully in the present moment.
Both caffeinated and non-caffeinated tea will be available.
Through original, celticky, and sacred chant and song,
may the door of your heart slip open.
In Sufism, Laila is the deep secret love of God, that fierce and sweet song that stirs the heart for union with the Beloved. Through angelic voice, mountain dulcimer and prayerful intent, she joyfully reminds you Who you truly are.
Katy sings original and medieval chant and song that weaves celtic ornamentation with haunting, mystical invocations and prayers. Her voice creates a bridge between heaven and earth, calling down the angels from on high to join hands and hearts with the goddess of the earth.
Known and deeply appreciated in the Hudson Valley for years, Amy puts the very essence of her entire being into song. She lifts you up into a higher plane with her beautiful, larger-than-life voice.
Note: The Woodstock Sufi Center is above the Burnette Gallery and between Mirabai Books and Catskill Art and Office Supply.
We look forward to singing for (and with ) you!
Have you discovered the super powers of tea?
- Not only does it refresh,
- And slow you down,
- And calm your spirits,
- And gently energize you,
- …
But tea also gives you a chance to cultivate mindful presence with whatever you are engaged with.
We will gather, with tea, to turn our mindful and gentle gaze to poetry.
Read, listen to, and savor the singular beauty of each poem, while engaging in a mindfulness process inspired by the sacred practice of lectio divina.
Share tea, a gluten- and dairy-free treat*, and poetry—all in presence-full company.
Bring poems to share related in some way to the Fall theme of letting go…
* Real-food and low added sugar, too!
The instincts of the Enneagram teachings are the name we give to a group of three flavors of instinctual life-force energies. These are the same energies we share with our animal ancestors.
The instincts supply the fuel for the way our type manifests in the world, so learning about and working with them is a way to understand how your Enneagram type is driven around in the world, how you go on autopilot and lose presence.
In this workshop, we will explore the three instincts, inquire as to how they show up in our lives, and come up with ways to live them in a more balanced manner that promotes growth, transformation, and deeper presence.
Full Voice: The Art & Practice
of Vocal Presence
How can you embody your full presence–through your voice?
How can you speak so people will listen?
What gifts reside deep inside you that are yearning for expression?
How would your life be different if you were “unsilenced?” If your voice were alive, expressive, powerful, and clear?
No matter what you do for a living, you spend a good part of every day in conversation–at work, at home, and in your community. As important as our voices are, few of us know how to embody them to their full potential. Many of us feel self-conscious about how we sound, but don’t know how to make authentic, lasting change in our voices.
Learning to consciously tap the full range of expression available to you in your voice also opens up a fuller range in your bodysoul… and makes it much more likely that your message will reach the minds and hearts of your listeners. Working with your own full voice makes you a more skillful listener as well.
Full Voice is the work of Barbara McAfee–I am in her Full Voice Coach Training Program and this is part of my practicum!
In this highly interactive, practical, and fun workshop, together, we will:
- Explore our vocal strengths, habits, assumptions, and challenges,
- Increase vocal awareness, flexibility, and expression using the Five Elements Framework,
- Identify ways to use voice to project authority, express passion, extend compassion, and convey vision in everyday conversations,
- Learn how to use our voices to awaken our gifts,
- And have fun, playing and making sound together!
Logistics:
Friday, November 2nd, from 7:00-8:30
St. Paul Yoga Center, Corner Studio
FREE! Let me know you’re coming, or just show up!
Thank you for your interest—
to be rescheduled in the New Year!
Do you take mindful time for yourself / yourSelf?
Resting deeply in your true Self is different from watching TV, zoning out with our favorite substance, or cruising around the web.
Resting deeply in your true Self usually includes these attributes:
- slowing down,
- being quiet and/or still and listening deeply within,
- connecting with your individual creative expression,
- being mindfully attuned to whatever you are engaged with,
- …
We especially need this during the holidays!
We will gather, with tea and a gf & df treat*, to rest in ourselves. (*Real food; may include butter.)
We will engage with our creativity, meditate, share, and take time to deeply fill our wells so that we can meet the world with more presence.
Join the Winter Solstice Celebration, a contemplative, family-friendly, Celtic-inspired ritual to mark the turning of the year as the darkness gives way to the growing light. This participatory ritual will include chanting, meditation, candle-lighting, singing, and cauldron jumping. Kids—bring animal masks and hand percussion (rattles, shakers, bells)! No RSVP needed–just come!
We’ll meet at Emmy’s festive Dayton Ave, home at 6:15 for mulled cider and holiday treats to get warmed up and ready.
Then singer Katy Taylor and Friends will serenade Lex-Ham neighbors with Christmas Carols. We’ll sing down 1-2 blocks of Dayton, and then cross Selby onto Hague, Laurel, Ashland, or Portland…
Wordsheets will be provided.
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
- January 30th, 2:00 pm, West 7th Library
- February 14th, 11:30 am, Sun Ray Library
- February 19th, 6:30 pm, Rondo Library
Did you know that the Enneagram is not just about personality? The types are best understood when we consider their divine origins. Each type, at its deepest essence, is a flavor of the Divine, of True Nature, of God. When we feel disconnected from the Divine, the ego personality that develops is a compensation for this loss, an attempt to get back to our sacred home.
We will explore the Essence Qualities of the 9 types with words, image, and poetry. From this deep understanding of our Essence, we understand how feeling separated from it causes each ego type personality to unfold with perfect beauty and coherence. We will also consider how this loss of divine Essence contributes to the distortion of the instincts.
It’s never too cold to laugh, but it is too cold to go out if you don’t have to, so stay in and we’ll reschedule this session soon!
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
- January 20th, 2:00 pm, George Latimer Central Library
- February 14th, 11:30 am, Sun Ray Library
- February 19th, 6:30 pm, Rondo Library
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
- January 20th, 2:00 pm, George Latimer Central Library
- February 14th, 11:30 am, Sun Ray Library
- February 19th, 6:30 pm, Rondo Library
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
- January 20th, 2:00 pm, George Latimer Central Library
- February 13th, 2:00 pm, West 7th Library
- February 19th, 6:30 pm, Rondo Library
This is a public event sponsored by the St. Paul Public Libraries!
Come explore the art of laughter to invite more joy, play, and wellbeing into your life with me, a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader! Because of the deep pranayamic breathing exercises, this form of practice is called Laughter Yoga, but it does not include any physical asanas and can be practiced by people of all ages who are willing to be a little bit silly.
- January 20th, 2:00 pm, George Latimer Central Library
- February 13th, 2:00 pm, West 7th Library
- February 14th, 11:30 pm, Sun Ray Library
Relax, renew, and restore with SomaYoga, Yin Yoga, meditation, and embodiment practices specifically designed for a woman’s body, heart, mind, and soul.
Yoga, as we practice it in the US, has been developed by men for a man’s body, not a woman’s. Our curves, our different hormonal cycles, our neurological wiring, and the body tyranny we face in our culture… these all call out for a different way of practicing.
Women’s yoga, as I’ve been studying and practicing it, is about creating space for you as a woman to express and be all of yourself through your body. It is a way of inhabiting your body in an inquisitive way, of coming home to how a pose can flex, move, curve, and flow to feel good and opening and inviting in your woman’s body.
Women’s Yoga is an embodiment practice that includes all impulses of life—messy, chaotic, calm, curvy… however inhabiting your body and life from the inside expresses on the outside. Allowing your body her full expression is what creates the space to deepen your presence and feel more trust and acceptance of yourself. Read more.
I would love to practice with you!
Yoga nidra is as sleep-based, conscious relaxation and meditation technique, also known as yogic sleep. It is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, when your body and mind are completely relaxed, but your deeper awareness is online.
After overviewing the process, you will be led in a yoga nidra meditation, a multi-step process for integration of body, heart, mind, and spirit. We will also discuss the art and energetic benefits of the deep rest yoga nidra provides, and how to cultivate more rest into your life.
Advance registration is required. Registration closes the day prior to the event.
Cancelled–Watch for a New Date in 2020!
Taught by Dave Hall and Katy Taylor at the beautiful, rural Christine Center in Wisconsin.
What does it mean to recover our wholeness?
How is it that we find ourselves, as adults, living in a small room tucked away in a corner of the glorious mansion of ourselves?
What happened to the freedom and joy and possibility that we may remember from our early childhood?
The Enneagram can give us a focusing lens on our core personality type, helping us understand how the world and our families responded to our core needs, desires, and fears—and how we, in turn, responded to the world—creating the partial personality we inhabit now. The Enneagram can also show us, because it is itself a complete model of the human soul, the way to recover our initial wholeness.
We learn about our own core personality type, not to label ourselves or to stuff ourselves into a box, but to understand the nature of the box we already live in—and to see the way out!
Over many years of teaching the Enneagram together, we have developed our own unique way of conveying the riches of this transformational system, incorporating stories, poetry, music, imagery, discussion, and embodied experience, all as ways to help participants find their unique path back to wholeness.
Minimum of 15 students.
More information and registration on the Christine Center website:
The Enneagram types divide symmetrically into a number of triads which reveal similarities about the types in them.
One of these is the Dominant Affect Groups, first named and developed by Don Riso and called the Harmony Triads by David Daniels.
The Dominant Affect triad shows us one of the ways, as a result of our type, that we initially reacted to the loss of direct contact with the Divine. Within each triad, each type lives out a specific flavor of how we manage that loss and, in so doing, resist reality, losing presence.
We must continually practice to undo these underlying orientations to reality in order to be in more direct contact with the Divine. As we do, we not only feel more present, but also in more real contact with others.
We will explore not only the theory, but how we can practice to release the grip of the Dominant Affects and become more whole.
The Law of Three teaches us how to work through the places where we get stuck in dualistic either-or thinking. Learning how to access the Third Force leads to more “Win-Win-Win” outcomes in our lives. And, yes, that makes three wins!
In this workshop, we will explore Gurdjieff’s Process Enneagram to understand how accessing Third Force enables us to jump to a higher “octave” in our work of psycho-spiritual transformation.
Free for members, students, and first-time guests. No advance registration is required.
I’m not teaching a regular class these days, but I will be subbing for Terese Pritchett’s classes for a few weeks if you’d like to study with me. My approach is based on my training in SomaYoga and women’s yoga, and includes a lot of practice with interoception (feeling inside your body for how the movement affects you) and with mindfulness. Read more.
I teach yoga as a way of being present with your body.
You can drop in or register ahead of time:
May 28, Tuesday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
May 29, Wednesday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
May 31, Friday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
June 3, Monday, 5:30- 6:45, Beginning/Continuing
June 4, Tuesday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
June 5, Wednesday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
June 7, Friday, 9:30 – 11:00, Ageless
Since we’ll be moving to the Pacific NorthWest this summer, this may be the last chance to study with me!
I’d love to see and practice with you!
We are in the process of moving from Minnesota to Port Townsend, Washington State.
Until we get settled, all offerings except coaching are on hold!
If you want to read about our process, please read the blogpost MovingWays.
About Me
I support curious and soulful people to practice presence so they can feel more at home in the bodies and at ease & resilient in their lives! Read more. Seeking a Profound Map of the Soul?
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