This blog post is my last in a series leading up to Thanksgiving. I feel like, in a way, this blog series has helped me to unearth myself or birth myself back into my life. I feel more centered in who I know myself to be and more connected to my creative life. I struggle to expose myself with this level of vulnerability, and yet I feel safer in the written word than almost anywhere else in my life. Writing is a dependable way for me to translate the vibrations that make up my

Being aware of the whole world as a living, breathing, conscious presence can make living a normal life pretty difficult. I have tried many ways and strategies to attempt a normal life as a human being during this time. Some of my strategies have been successful, others have let me down. Overall, I am a highly functioning adult member of society mainly because of the incredible support I receive from the people who love me. I get very easily overwhelmed by the work of this wo

I am sitting down to write my blog this evening after a long day full of things that I love. I taught two yoga classes, spent time with a dear friend and with my children, swept the sidewalk, made a quick dinner and persistently longed for the safety and bliss of immersing myself in the Divine Beloved. Ever since I was a child, I have held the golden thread of another place. My connection to this ancient memory of belonging to the world has been the backdrop of every event an

I am currently participating in a 21 day Sadhana (daily practice) with the Awakening Women Institute. We are encountering the Goddess Lalita Devi from the Hindu tradition through poetry, stories, chanting, and movement. I am on day twelve of the Sadhana, and I am feeling the effects. Lalita Devi is the goddess of softness, playfulness, sensual joy, expansiveness. She is one of the primary creation goddesses of the Hindu tradition. Hers is the medicine of softening, opening, e

As a child, I often walked the fields calling out to the animals that if anyone needed help, I would help them. I would ask the Earth herself and God to guide me to any animals that needed help. I wanted so much to heal. To be a healer. One day, my prayer was answered. The memory is fuzzy, as I was only around five years old. As I can recall, I came upon a litter of kittens, abandoned in the cold. I scooped them up, put them in a box and rushed them into the house. I was abru

When I was a very young child, I would walk through the fields around our house and pray that I would find an animal that needed saving. "Please, send me any sick rabbits or birds or baby squirrels that I can feed and take care of." I had watched my grandma nurse a dove back to health after she found it half frozen in the snow. I thought it was the most magical and beautiful thing I had ever seen. My grandma was complete magic to me. When she would walk outside twice a day ye

"Once in a beautiful, faraway land...that was, somehow, not so very far..." So starts many a story. This story is about a magical world, filled with truth. Truths fall from the sky, bubble up from the waters, sprout from the earth. The living creatures love the mystery and adventure of finding the truths and learning more about the enchanted place where they live. Until one day, a human finds a truth that seems especially beautiful, and decides to keep it and guard it and dec

The whole point of the dancing, is the dance. ~Alan Watts Here we are. Where is that, you might ask? Well, here of course. Have a look around. What is that you are sitting on? Or standing on? How are those feet holding up today? Has that ache in your back gotten any better? Are your shoulders more relaxed today? Yes. Here we are. Here, this particular moment, one experience in a long string of moments connected by breath. We call this life. We call this being human, being ali