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 […]

Chant: Find Your Voice in Community

Chant for Healing

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

Metal art sculptures of silhouettes in a field

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 […]

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 […]

Beltaine. Passion, Power & The Celtic Wheel

  Dolores Whelan, teacher of Celtic spiritual and wisdom traditions guides explorations of how ancient wisdom can form and shape values in which a new society can be formed. Joanna Macy, […]

Ahimsa & Satya. Fierce Tenderness

  Cancel culture cloaked in self righteousness is easy to access. It is this reactive, defensive mode that is readily available to most of us (including me for full transparency). […]

Longing & Light

  6:50 AM. The morning light is slowly brightening through the orange curtains into my yoga space, formerly my home studio. Prior to this slow turning toward the sun, in […]

Random Thoughts and Ramblings

Random Thoughts and Ramblings: I love that Gen Z is falling in love with Kate Bush. I could care less about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. My early summer perennial […]