by Katy | Apr 5, 2018 | awakening, goddess, poetry, seasons & cycles
Return to the Most Human by May Sarton Return to the most human, nothing less will nourish the torn spirit, the bewildered heart, the angry mind: and from the ultimate duress, pierced with the breath of anguish, speak of love. Return, return to the deep sources,...
by Katy | Mar 6, 2018 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, practices
What does it mean to be awake? An age-old question, for sure. If things aren’t going wrong in our lives, we sometimes don’t even know that we’re not very awake. It can be so easy to glide along in the comfortable illusion of awakeness. I’m fine. I don’t let...
by Katy | Feb 13, 2018 | awakening, practices, seasons & cycles
I wonder when this happened last–Valentine’s Day falling on the first day of Lent! The holiday that encourages voluptuous appetites, hedonistic pleasure, and over-the-top expressions of love. AND the marking of 40 days in the desert...
by Katy | Feb 1, 2018 | awakening, body, food, practices, seasons & cycles, self-care, The Feminine
magnificent trees, their root structure spreading horizontally twice their height. icebergs, 90% of their mass underwater. deep sleep, providing the substrate for your body to integrate, heal, and grow. real, nourishing food, feeding your cells, creating your...
by Katy | Jan 18, 2018 | awakening, personality, self-care, The Feminine
At an Enneagram presentation a year or so ago, a question came up about being selfish. Selfish is such a buzzword–especially for those of us who grew up as women in this culture, over the age of 30 or so… We were taught that to be selfish–to be...
by Katy | Dec 26, 2017 | awakening, mindfulness, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles
Remember with me for a moment what it was like for our ancestors, for some of us, even as close as our great-great grandparents… As the Autumn passed, the days grew darker and darker. After the harvest celebrations and the fields gone fallow, people cozied...
