I’ve been exploring the idea of serendipity for quite some time now. According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition is “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” I love this word. Something about the energy of how it bounces off the tongue makes me want to redefine it…
Balance and symmetry are not necessarily the same thing. I realized this after my teacher showed me today how large my liver is on my right internal side body compared to the small spleen on the internal left. They are not symmetrical, but they can be in balance within the whole system of my body….
So just how intelligent are our bodies? We associate a lot of the automatic responses that our bodies make with muscle memory, and yet, we rarely talk about our bodies as having their own intelligence. Increasingly, we are finding that it’s not that our bodies aren’t intelligent, but that we have subverted our capacity…
A full, embodied life in relationship with our bodies can upgrade a good life to a wonderful life full of magic and wonder. If you have been practicing the body scanning practice that I shared last week, you may have noticed judgements coming up. If you haven’t been practicing the body scanning practice, you may also notice…
Have you ever heard about how trees in a forest use the network of fungi underground to communicate and share nutrients? There are so many ways that patterns in nature mimic one another. But the one that I want to share with you today is how your nervous system is similar to the mycelial…
I recently listened to a podcast interview where the guest was an expert at biomimicry. Her big idea is that for millions of years humans learned from nature how to solve their problems, but that for the last few hundred years, we have worked harder than we needed to in order to invent our own…
The fire is lit. The spell is cast.The guidance is channeled. I’m on my way, at last.Each step I’ve taken pointing me here.Each path worn down trying to steerMe back to myself, my true nature calling.The compass, my heart, fears only stallingTo protect me from overestimated harm.Not realizing that my true nature would charmThe foggy…
She’s been struggling recently. Something deep inside wants to be found and healed. And yet she floats on a grey, waveless sea with fog around obscuring all the eye can see. Parts inside vie for control. Through food and smoke they jockey for a hold, Arguing and passing the buck until She’s stuffed…
Each morning I have started pulling an animal spirit card to guide and inspire me through my day. On this particular morning, Earthworm came up. Earthworm reminds me this morning, “Mastery takes time, and you’re on the right track,” and “not to be intimidated or lose hope.”* Just as my mind space was getting cluttered…
I’m sitting and finally writing. Something I’ve been saying I want to do for years. Something that my heart has been telling me to do for decades. Oh, I’ve written in lots of journals and diaries over the years. I’ve even written on napkins when there wasn’t writing paper on hand to dump out the…
