Apr 2024 Newsletter (Apr 2024)
Reflecting on the eclipse, a podcast episode, and upcoming events The eclipse from Progressive Field, taken by Tom Ondrey Wow. Wow. Wow.    The birds got quiet. A wave of cool air washed by me as it got dark. At 3:16 pm in the afternoon. Five minutes later, life was back to normal.   Our minds tend to anticipate how something will happen and is taken aback when that’s not how it goes. There’s been so much hype about the solar eclipse that, I’ll admit,

Jan 2024 Newsletter (Jan 2024)
Upcoming trainings, workshops, and more Finding Our Way to Healing with The Breath   "Happy New Year" seems an inadequate phrase for what lays ahead in 2024. In our post-pandemic, war-torn world, “Happy” and “New” feel a bit unattainable. With the dramatic increase in rates of anxiety and depression ─ especially for women and young people ─ where do we find happiness? With old conflicts and ethnic hatreds erupting for homelands and resources, where do we look for

Sept 2023 Newsletter (Sep 2023)
Plus more from Chautauqua and the Hakini Mudra for healing My granddaughter watching the sunset across Little Assawoman Bay, Delaware. Bearing Load in a Time of Trouble   The beach is a great place to get a clearer look at human anatomy! While scanning the crowd on Bethany Beach in Delaware, I noticed a man, probably in his 40s, who looked strong, but his gait was discombobulated. His knees were bowed out, and he waddled side-to-side when he walked.   T

Feb 2023 Email Newsletter (Feb 2023)
Plus the Big 6 for Lymphatic Drainage by Dr. Perry Nickleston Our Journey to the Center of Our Core   We hear so much about core strength, but what does it mean? And why is it often so difficult for us to connect with our core?   When I work with people one-on-one, some part of their core almost always isn’t very well connected to their brain. Instead, our brains use muscles in our neck, jaw, shoulders, back, and even our toes for power instead of gathering it fr

Sept 2022 Email Newsletter (Sep 2022)
Love can do anything Rejecting Hate & Fear and Choosing Active Hope   During vacation, I was outside enjoying the gentle breeze at dinner with my daughter’s family in South Fenwick Island, Delaware when I noticed a man’s t-shirt at the next table. I had seen the front when he’d gotten up. It said “Pistolville” and had pictures of various handguns on it. When he sat down, I saw the saying on the back of the shirt. It read:   Love may turn out to be fake But the HATE

July 2022 Email Newsletter (Jul 2022)
How we move forward Moving Past the Dualism of Red vs. Blue   "When you're down on the lower levels of the pyramid you will be on either one side or the other. But when you get to the top, the points all come together, and there the eye of God opens." - Joseph Campbell, author of “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”   How happy was this Independence Day for you? It’s complicated for me as I worry about our country. Daily I work to find ways out of the “Us vs. Them” men

Jan 2022 Email Newsletter (Jan 2022)
On the passing of Thich Nhat Hahn On the Passing of Thich Nhat Hanh 1.22.22. "No Mud, No Lotus"   As we mourn the loss of the remarkable Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, peace activist, and ecologist Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022), we remember his famous quote as we are certainly in the mud at the moment. We’ve lived through two years of the Covid-19 pandemic resulting in five-and-a-half million deaths worldwide, political divisions in the US beyond what any of us have se

Sept 2021 Email Newsletter (Sep 2021)
Plus a bonus book excerpt! How to Center in an Age of Turmoil   Our world today is a lot to take in. My husband calls much of what we see in the news “The Anger Movement” because so many people seem so violently upset.   How do we maintain our center and participate productively in this environment?   Last weekend, I attended an online meditation retreat with Zen Priest Angel Kyodo Williams, author of Radical Dharma and Being Black. She told us the single cap

July 2021 Email Newsletter (Jul 2021)
Upcoming classes, revised training date, and recommended reading Healing Ourselves with the Earth   Have you ever lost yourself in a tree? At our friend’s property in Rhode Island off Narragansett Bay (New England’s largest estuary), there is a Copper Beech that my artist husband has drawn. It has a royal canopy of burgundy and silver, fanning out like a giant mushroom over a stalk of trunks that sink into its base like a huge bunch of celery.   I practiced yoga faci

May 2021 Email Newsletter (Jun 2021)
Upcoming classes, trainings, and recommended reading Tree or deer: which do you see? Re-entering the World with Fresh Eyes Sometimes things aren't exactly as they appear. We couldn’t wait for the pandemic to slow so we could return to life as we knew it, right? But now that the virus is (hopefully) receding, how do we re-enter our world? What do we add back into our schedule? Perhaps more importantly, what don’t we bring back? Can we make small talk after a year without

Nov 2020 Email Newsletter Copy (Nov 2020)
Upcoming classes, trainings, and recommended reading How Can We All Win?   Regardless of how you felt about Saturday’s election results, can you remember how the other half of America feels?  In a stunning performance, the fearless and sometimes off-the-rails comedian Dave Chappelle posed this question in his brilliant and edgy monologue on Saturday Night Live.   Chappelle leads by remembering his great-grandfather who was born into slavery in South Caroli

July 2020 Email Newsletter (Jul 2020)
The yoga path forward (online!) Aug. 1 Zoom Workshop: See Details Below And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 Almost 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy shifted the country’s mindset with this now-famous speech. His words echo in the cavern of our current predicament in which a worldwide pandemic has killed 152,00

July 2020 Email Newsletter (Jul 2020)
The yoga path forward (online!) Aug. 1 Zoom Workshop: See Details Below And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.” – John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961 Almost 60 years ago, President John F. Kennedy shifted the country’s mindset with this now-famous speech. His words echo in the cavern of our current predicament in which a worldwide pandemic has killed 152,00