How do we reclaim connection to the balanced moods, active sex drive, and graceful aging that are symptoms of a harmonious hormonal cycle?
How do we most effectively take a stand for the health and vitality of our beloved planet?
The answers to these seemingly different questions are actually the same…
What if you could actually achieve your goals through pleasure, in a way that is restful, supported by community and without staying stuck in overwhelm or frying your nervous system? How can we align to the immense creative power + wisdom of the divine feminine?
As a reset button for our body - mind - heart, ritual bathing reminds us that our body is a portal through which our divinity flows when we are in a state deep relaxation.
Want to know what your purpose is? Want to know how to serve this precious world and her people?
What would 2024 look like if you lived from the wisdom of your body instead of old patterns and the voices in your head?
Are you an embodied woman? Juicy, relaxed, centered and powerful. To be an embodied woman is a practice of remembering and a service of healing the planet.
Never underestimate the power of women - we birth the world through our bodies. But how will the feminine change the game?
Not with guns, threats, money or governments but with her Womb.
While the Dark has been vilified in our culture, all of life and love begins in the Dark - a seed in the soil, the birth of stars, a babe in the womb.
Samhain teaches us the root of our magic - to embrace your fears, wounds and the parts of yourself that you keep hidden in the dark. You’re invited to build your toolkit with night vision, your trust in your capacity to weather the storm and to find your strength.
If you're a spiritual woman and you love ancient wisdom, perhaps you've felt like something is missing - something embodied + juicy that supports the emotional complexity of your experience. Most spiritual practices we idealize in the West today were created primarily by men so that they could experience the mystical, visionary currents that women have inherent access to through the processes of mensuration, birth and menopause.
The Circle is Ancient. Your ancestors knew this shape well. Something otherworldly happens when women gather in circle…. The Circle helps us remember so we can heal the wounds of forgetting.
Do you ever hide parts of yourself in order to be liked, accepted or to please others?
This week, my dream is coming true as I head on pilgrimage into an ancient forest high in the White Mountains of Sequoia, home to trees that are among the oldest living beings on earth.
Pure Wild Women energy is raw, sensual and sexy and primal.
Wild Woman shadow is bitchy, addicted and unhappy.
Don’t have time to connect with your wild, animal nature? Make time for her or she will come out in her shadow form.
As Spring awakens the Earth calls us to remember who we are. This is the magic of Imbolc. The rebirth is upon us. We’ve officially become virgins again. Anything is possible.
Seen throughout history on every continent, the Ourosboros is a map out of unnecessary suffering, a signpost towards healing outdated programming and ancestral trauma.
The snake is a symbol of the feminine - mysterious, sensual creature - primal and embodied, able to shed her skin to rebirth herself anew - life giving birth to life.
Until light is rekindled at on the new moon, we are in the dark jungle wilderness of shadow work and self reflection. Watch this video for the Goddess mythology behind the “In Between Life Lounge” + Practice this self reflection ritual to return to alignment with your soul.
We know Gaia’s dance of death and rebirth as the seasons. Our wholeness is nurtured when we are brave enough to say yes to this dance within ourselves. Deepening our relationships to the seasons is the foundation of the embodied mystic path and a pathway to the gifts of deep presence. Enter into the incoming mystery of Fall with the freshness of an open mind and heart.
The foundation of any movement for social change must come from internal shifts first. The most effective way to change the world is to change how we see the world.
Does your life ever feel a bit chaotic?
Nu Kua, the Northern Chinese Goddess who creates order out of chaos lives inside of us all. Let her story awaken you to your greatest healing tools and turn inward to your most powerful healing tools.
Water is the great alchemist that makes all life possible . To honor water is to honor life, sensuality, emotion, intuition, creativity, pleasure and an ancient future. Water is the body of life.
The process of shedding perfection is a process of healing deep cultural wounding and ancestral trauma. The only passage way back to the fullness of the sacred present is by seeing and experiencing this moment, our bodies and ourselves as we actually are. It is in this reunion and remembering that we begin to reclaim our inherent power, magic sauce and joie de vivre.
Whether we have children or not, we’’re all mothers. To mother is to be a channel through which life creates itself. The energy with which we mother carries the seeds not only of our personal future but of the collective future. What are you mothering at this time in your life? What energy are you bringing to your creations?
What if there was a life hack to remind you that your true power comes from within?… Enter Ritual. Small conscious action can remind us that we are magical, wild beings having a human experience, that we are cosmic deities in yoga pants and t-shirts, that we are children of the Earth, that within us lies the power and wisdom to choose the future of our lives and the planet.
Our greatest efforts to establish consistent self care routines may fail if they don’t take into account our organic our biochemical shifts throughout the month and year based on the cycles of the moon and sun. The cycles of the moon are a mirror reflection of our own nature. When we align to nature, we begin to understand our own nature. Enjoy this Free Moon Cycle Yoga Class - an homage to the blood cycles and cosmic cycles that create life.
As an anatomy nerd and trainer, I find that yoga, developed in an extremely different context than us modern humans live, with its strong emphasis on stretching and folding, doesn’t always address our need to strengthen our core and the back line of our body to prevent discomfort or injury from excessive screen use and sitting.
How do we work with negative thoughts about our aging process? How can syncing to nature’s cycles support healthy aging? What would it be like to live in a culture where wise elders are the leaders? Check out the interview….
Embody the mantra “gratitude is my natural state” by practicing this live embodied meditation and playing with these four practices to deepen your relationship to the abundance of the Earth.
Stepping into circular time by understanding your month, your year and your life around the Wheel of the Year is a healing and liberatory practice of reclaiming trust, acceptance and inner empowerment as a way of life and building a more resilient, regenerative and beautiful world.