the joy of being yourself – manipura

“Joy comes when you’re being spontaneous — it’s really hard to be happy when you’re not being yourself.” – Tony Robbins “The only way to avoid pissing people off is to do nothing important.” — Oliver Emberton “It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

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dancing with the beauty and vulnerability of the unknown

svadhistana – the right to feel, the power of relationships “Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationship between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and something larger than yourself.” — Jonathan Haidt “Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos—the trees, the clouds, everything.”—Thích […]

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Solstice Intention Setting for 2017 (and beyond)

Several years ago I learned an exercise similar to the one I am presenting here based on an Abraham Hicks Teaching. This is my own version of the exercise. I borrowed this post from one of my workshops. The exercise was based on writing and using the energy of the new moon. I’ve revised it for […]

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The only constant in life is change . . .

Muladhara Message for the week of December 19, 2016. As we approach the final process of the United States elections today, these most recent root chakra (Survival • Tribal Power • The Right to Have, To Be • Earth) quotes resonate strongly with me. How do they resonate with you? More importantly, how are you resonating […]

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Sisters Walking into the Lion’s Mouth

Stories about the Dakota Access Pipeline have been troubling my heart for some time now – this story by Victory Lonnquist especially moved me, brought me to tears, touched me on so many levels. Maybe it’s the moon, or my moon – or that water, the earth, women – are so powerful and yet, so repressed […]

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Fear, Love, Gratitude and the Election

Letter I wrote the day after the (2016) election.  Hi, I don’t know what’s going to happen – and that is a scary feeling. Currently, it feels like all is lost – my spirit feels like it’s trying to jump out of my body – but the pit in my stomach is keeping it tied […]

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Touch of Creole

I voted weeks ago. – I’d love to escape into the forest today. A little bird told me it’s ok to get away.   A little music and a little peace.

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