Breathe in, feeling into the expansion in your chest. Be present with the sensation in your chest as your inhale moves your ribs, your abdomen, and anywhere else you may feel sensation. Breathe out, letting this breath be a release of that which is no longer serving your body, or You in this moment. Continue […]
Embodied Living – A path of discernment knowing your self Read More »
The other day, Winter sang me a song As I lay on my couch, curtains open to reveal the snowy ponderosa forest in my backyard, She whispered to me. Between coughing spells, I was able to hear Her. I thought that I would share the insights received. There’s a practice I teach. It stems from
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Some days, you’ll find me on a yoga mat. After all, it makes sense that you’d find a credentialed yoga teacher here, on the mat: breathing and moving through postures that a lineage of human beings have gathered to explore the infinitely expansive tradition we call yoga. What isn’t so logical (on the surface) is
The Yoga of The Forest Read More »
I had been on this exact climb before. It was down on the warm up wall. It was that easy one we quickly ran up to get in a first lap. There was no real challenge in it for me at this point in my climbing career. When I had brought my family here (a
Rock Climbing, Trauma Healing, and Awakening into the human body Read More »
I knew I wasn’t quite ready to sign up for a 100 miler. It had been a dream of mine for a few years now, and after running 100 kilometers (~60 miles) through the mountains of Colorado the previous summer, my takeaway had been that if I were to ever increase the distance, then I would ideally spend another year focused on strengthening up important muscles and healing injuries (you know, like a good yoga therapist would do). But life doesn’t always work in an ideal fashion, does it?
Big Goals, Non-Attachment, and Being With Things As They Are Read More »
Autumn is in full swing here. The leaves have been changing and the ground is forming layers of decaying life – that which has been here shining brightly all summer long, and with one last show of fantastic color is finding its way to the Earth where it will continue the process of transformation. Of
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Come walk with me through the forest Across dirt and rock And gnarled root. Come walk with me through these trees, Look up there – do you see them, the leaves dancing in the light, Joining with Wind to play an Earthly tune. They’re up there, Shielding the harshest of Sun’s rays, Filtering the light,
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Come walk with me through the forest. That’s what I heard as I woke up to a bright sun shining through my car window. I’d gone to sleep here, in this dirt parking lot off the highway, the night before…. The night before. Ugh, I’d felt so terrible. And that cut deeply, because I came up
On slowing down and new perspectives Read More »
WOW. Just…. Wow. Had you told me five years ago that I’d be spending these past few days resting up as I prepared to travel to Colorado to go run 100 miles through the mountains, I would have laughed out loud. Had you told me I would be resting after spending weeks up in Colorado
5 Lessons Learned Training for my First 100 Miler Read More »
In June 2022, the fires of New Mexico had been burning for months, and the total acreage was nearing 1,000,000 acres burned. Just two months! How could so much devastation be happening? I hadn’t been handling it well. With the grief of so much loss of forest and the fear and uncertainty of the evacuation
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