by Katy | Sep 12, 2019 | body, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality
Wildness “the spontaneities of life”* “the ultimate creative reality of earthly being”** “a subjectivity that is aware of its vibrant place in ecosystems and human community”* What is it to allow the truly wild creative impulse that exists deep...
by Katy | Aug 21, 2019 | body, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, poetry, practices, song
Turn as the earth and move, turn, Circling what [you] love. Whatever circles comes from the center. ~ Rumi Your sacred center. What does that phrase evoke in you? Your sacred center. Where is it? Is it some place in your body? With a...
by Katy | Jul 31, 2019 | awakening, earth, Enneagram, mindfulness, seasons & cycles
Don’t seek perfection. Instead, be in touch with the living quality of each moment. ~ advice from Pema Chodron Try it right now. Open your senses—eyes, ears, nose, taste, touch, balance—and allow the living moment to touch you. Take it inside you and allow your...
by Katy | Jan 3, 2019 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, seasons & cycles, The Feminine
Serene Alchemist of the Wild, she whispers into the circle of women at Women’s Temple, looking straight at me. Yes, the women nod, it’s my temple name. These women don’t know me. We have just spent about an hour dancing and practicing in circle together,...
by Katy | May 9, 2018 | Enneagram, food, mindfulness, personality, seasons & cycles
I’ve spent a lot of time pulling weeds. Starting with the most common ones—Creeping Charlie taking over the whole backyard when I first moved in with Dave, grass growing in garden beds, plantain, dandelions, and here in Minnesota, those purple...
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...
