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Habitual or Ritual?
It’s the New Year, and with the turning of the year, comes an invitation to create some new healthy habits! Putting habits in place means not having to think so hard—we can just do the things we need to do on autopilot. Perhaps you want to jump out of bed and...
Winter Solstice 2019–emerging into light
Winter Solstice occurs this year on Saturday, December 21st, 2019 at 8:19 pm Pacific Time. This is one of the most celebrated turnings of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as it indicates the beginning of the return of the light as Eairth begins to...
Breathing in the Morning
Breathing in, I know that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know that I am breathing out. I’ve been practicing with one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s breathing gathas* every morning lately. It feels good to have a quiet morning practice that is about connecting with...
presence-full time
Stepping outside with a task in mind, I move with intention toward its completion. Subtly and completely, my perception shifts, and instead of allowing my mind to dictate the doing, my body opens—to the front and sides and back— adding a fullness and a...
the steady center
Cutting Loose by William Stafford Sometimes, from sorrow, for no reason, you sing. For no reason, you accept the way of being lost, cutting loose from all else and electing a world where you go where you want to. Arbitrary, sound comes. A reminder that a steady center...
Welcoming Fall
Autumn Equinox was last Monday, September 23rd at 12:50 am PT. This is the time when the dark and light hours are approximately even and marks the turning into more darkness as we head toward the Winter Solstice. Why mark this transition at all? In a...
exploring wildness
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...
creating sacred space
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...
the living quality of each moment
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...
Freedom to Rise like Trees
From all quarters, life on this precious Eairth is desperately calling for the rising of the rooted Feminine—in both women and men. Eairth* and all her creatures are gasping for breath. We lose between 1 and 300 species every day (low to high estimates),...
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