Physical & Emotional Pain. Living the Practice.

Physical & Emotional Pain. Living the Practice. While I don’t identify with the good vibes only wellness industrial complex, my life’s work involves working in spaces offering tools for wellness- […]

Blessed are Those Who Walk in Peace.

Children of various ethnicities pushing a large bin of weapons off a cliff.

What does it mean to be a person who embodies peace? What does it mean to be a peacemaker? These are guiding questions for me living in a culture of […]

Unpacking These Times

A Picture of a hand drawn spiral with the different points on the spiral of The Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy.

In these times, I feel gratitude for: The earnest song of the first bird before dawn. The magic that music holds The possibilities that words create Curiosity that takes the […]

Yoga & The Third Way

Background of the Palestinian Flag with letters on a ribbon.

Yoga & The Third Way How do we show up when everything in the world is fragmented and burning? Why do we continue to respond to harm with inflicting greater […]

We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home

People walking toward light with the words overhead. We are all just walking each other home

We Are All Just Walking Each Other Home. Music for the Journey I enter into the dimly light room. The patient is curled up in the fetal position, his breath […]

Everything is Broken. Everything is Beautiful.

Everything is Broken. Everything is Beautiful. (Susan Cain) Sitting in the spaciousness of brokenness and beauty. Brokenness is everywhere. Gaza. Sudan Democratic Republic of the Congo Political Polarization. Our world […]

Music is Medicine

Image of Rachel, a white woman with gray hair playing a shruti box. A Celtic harp sits on the floor beside her.

Music is Medicine It is both so simple and yet so profound to use music as a support for the life/death transition. I play the Celtic harp and also use […]

Living In Love.

Mural on the side of a square building with shades of blue in the background and black block letters that read Love Out Loud

Living in Love Living in love Fear is so easily available to us. It is a primal response for survival. It can be helpful and inform and guide how we […]

What is Your Medicine?

What is Your Medicine? What words are holding you right now? What songs are you walking with on the journey? How do you build capacity for the intensity of these […]