The meaning of the word obedience my surprise you…etymologically, it means ‘deep listening’. This is the ‘obedience’ of true loving attention and self-care. To turn toward our own body, heart and spirit with that kind of listening may give us the guidance, medicine and comfort we need. We are sensitive beings; it is our design …
Our nervous system function happens automatically, going back and forth between the two poles of sympathetic activation and parasympathetic relaxation. In a healthy and resilient nervous system, we go between the two as needed, defaulting to the relax and heal parasympathetic system most of the time. That balance can be disturbed when we have experienced …
In these last few days, I have shared some practices that can help to calm and soothe – they sure have been nourishing for me. It seems like this surreal time can be a portal in a way, and it’s essential to nurture our inner lives more than ever. The body/mind practices help shift us …
“Tension is who you think you should be, Relaxation is who you are” Lao Tzu It’s kinda funny to think that it takes practice to be who we really are, to return to our ‘naturalness’. So often it seems we are trained by the world to hold our true being at arms length, so to …
There is so much energy moving through and around us, so much input and STUFF…for me, meditation is a necessary pause that helps me digest and integrate my experience, helps things settle and ‘find their place’. There are so many benefits of meditation practice; research tells us it makes us smarter, more compassionate…better versions of …
Sustainability is a word we hear often in these days of waking up to the real needs of our planet and our communities. The heart of sustainability is in our own relationship and care of our body, mind and spirit….unless we are connected to our self and our own true needs, we cannot be sensitive …
Many of us we brought up to value ambition, goals and the importance of working toward something. This forward and outward orientation is indeed a fine thing, it is an important part of our capacity to create, achieve and grow. But it isn’t the whole equation. There is another part of our nature that simply is. It is …