Living w/ Fibromyalgia During the Free Fall Into Facism: Cultivating GLIMMERS
Holding the Tension of Opposites The month of March ricochets from blizzards, high winds, torrential rainstorms, and freezing temperatures to blissfully warm days accompanied by birdsong and the sound of […]
Contemplative Practices & Civil Disobedience: Moving Beyond an Individualistic Wellness
Contemplative Practices & Civil Disobedience: Moving Beyond Individualistic Wellness to Connectivity & Caring. Finding the work of Joanna Macy felt like a homecoming to me. I’ve always felt like a […]
Tiny Rituals of Joy for When the World is Burning
Tiny Rituals of Joy for When the World is Burning. Turn towards suffering, your own and others, tend to the reality that people are being disappeared, nuclear threats are becoming […]
The Celtic Wheel & Beltane & Finding My Way
The Celtic Wheel & Beltane Beltane, a cross quarter festival of fire situates directly opposite Samhain (otherwise known as Halloween), the Celtic New Year. The fires lit on Beltane are […]
Music is Medicine
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 […]
Chant: Find Your Voice in Community
Chant: Find Your Voice in Community! Chanting, repeating a phrase melodically and rhythmically, is a simple way to engage in music without joining a choir or group. Chanting is something […]
Sankalpa: Intentions & The New Year
Sankalpa- Connecting to the Deepest Desire of Your Heart My Realization of the Power of Intention Ten years ago I had the job I believed I would do for […]
Sinead
The Voice. Her voice. Raw. Unfiltered. What did you feel when you first heard this voice? I heard the ancestral cry of Irishwomen. I heard the sound of […]
Collective Wellness: Devotions for These Times
The roof of my mouth is sore. My nostrils and eyes both burn and there is a slight ache in my throat. The wildfires that continue to burn in Canada […]
5 Practices to Open Your Heart
Yesterday in our Yoga Class Curator Pilgrimage & Puja Community Practice, founder and teacher Susanna Barkataki led us in an inquiry around devotion. She referenced Yoga Sutra 1:39: Meditating on that which is […]