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If you’re feeling a little bit stuck, or cut off from yourself, or maybe too emotional or scattered, take a baby step and choose a practice or some inspiration from my blog to support you.

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MovingWays

by Katy | May 23, 2019 | body, earth, food, mindfulness, personality, practices, relationship, self-care | 10 Comments

I recently heard the word “lifeways,” in reference to indigenous ways of living in harmony with the natural world. Something in it really struck me and reignited my desire to live in lifeways, in ways that are nourishing for me and the natural world. Now I’m...

Letting Pattern Keeper Guide

by Katy | Apr 18, 2019 | awakening, creativity, mindfulness, personality, The Feminine | 4 Comments

In preparing for my upcoming SoulCollage Facilitator’s Training, I have been rereading SoulCollage Evolving by Seena Frost. She includes a long list of archetypes that may be guiding our individual lives—Great Mother, Warrior, Creator, Healer, Compassion,...

waves welcome me

by Katy | Apr 4, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, relationship, The Feminine | 7 Comments

Friend, our closeness is this. Anywhere you put your foot Feel me in the firmness under you. ~ Rumi On vacation at Mar de Jade (Mexico) two weeks ago, my morning meditation was being on the beach with the rising tide of waves. Usually, I was the first...

Happy Spring Equinox 2019!

by Katy | Mar 20, 2019 | awakening, creativity, earth, practices, ritual, seasons & cycles | 0 Comments

Spring Equinox is Thursday March 20th at 4:59 pm Central Time. The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall soon see the results of that love. Every seed has awakened and so has all the animal life. It is through this mysterious power that we,...

nurturing & greeting rituals

by Katy | Mar 8, 2019 | earth, mindfulness, poetry, practices, relationship, ritual, self-care, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Imagine coming into the presence of a baby. (Or, if it's easier, a baby animal.) Eyes round and open, she is awake and alert, expressions flitting across her face. Would you ignore this luminous presence? Or would you take in her precious being...

to love

by Katy | Feb 14, 2019 | body, earth, mindfulness, practices, relationship, ritual, seasons & cycles | 2 Comments

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin We are part of everything we see— this is the love that...

Remembering

by Katy | Jan 25, 2019 | body, earth, poetry, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 0 Comments

Remember by Joy Harjo from She Had Some Horses Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away...

Serene Alchemist of the Wild

by Katy | Jan 3, 2019 | awakening, body, Enneagram, mindfulness, personality, seasons & cycles, The Feminine | 0 Comments

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,...

the longest night

by Katy | Dec 20, 2018 | practices, ritual, seasons & cycles | 0 Comments

Winter Solstice is just about here. Friday, December 21st, at 4:23 pm Central Time. This is not a human-formed celebration, but an earth event, a turning of the earth wheel that happens once each year. As we are inhabitants of this earth, earth standing...

living fully!

by Katy | Dec 6, 2018 | awakening, body, practices, self-care | 0 Comments

"For what makes you come alive can keep you alive, whether you are paid well for it or not." ~ The Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo, p. 399 I’m just back from my last training session to become a Full Voice Coach! What a rich and beautiful time, being with...

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