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Crisis & Challenge as Opportunity

“The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.” C.G. Jung It seems that the cosmos are aligning in a manner that is creating what could be perceived as a serious unfortunate events.  For the last few weeks I have heard from all sorts of friends,  family,  and students a steady discussion regarding the turmoil occurring in their lives.  Random acts of weirdness,  unexpected deaths,  health diagnosis,  and accidents. I find it interesting that in…

A Lizard in my Pants: Reptilian Reflections

A Lizard in my Pants: Reptilian Reflections I was teaching Thursday night restorative,  a class that has built its self beautifully on the foundation of doing very little and experiencing profound shifts in health and mindfulness from simple asana,  dedicated intention and healing space. Though our attention is typically quick to move within and reconnect to our sacred wholeness,  our class was otherwise engaged in the unexpected arrival of a tiny gecko who had claimed his spot in a crest…

Season of Gratitude

  November has arrived;  it seems with a first class,  next day delivery as I am still looking for the lingering summer heat and more lengthy transition into the cooler offerings of fall,  not to mention I am quite ill prepared for Christmas music and parking-meter garland wrappings. None-the-less,  November is one of my favorite months of the year. The weather is beautiful (at least in AZ),  the food it fantastic,  and the practice of gratitude is reinvented from a…

Season of Balance, A space of Presence

As October comes to an end we take with it a continuing practice of balance and step into a time of year that brings deeper,  quieter and more intuitive contemplation and observation. Traditionally,  the end of October is a very symbolic transformation;  it is when the lighter half of the year ends and transitions into the darker half of the year. In the deep quiet and stillness comes the whisperings of intentions stirring like seeds within the womb of earth,…