I’d never owned a yoga mat, and didn’t know what a child’s pose was. I balked at the idea of putting my face anywhere near a mat that someone else’s feet had sweated on, wasn’t comfortable sitting or lying still with my eyes closed for any length of time, and there was no way in hell I was chanting Om.
continue readingLearning where to stick and when to fold. When to follow through, and where to alter course. What are the risks and what are the gains, and how to judge the cost?
continue readingThese feelings of helplessness, of loneliness, of creativity, of community, of longing, of fear; all of the feelings that have surfaced as 2020 has elapsed, collapsed, and relapsed, none of them are new. These feelings already existed in our world, in our carefully-ordered states of work and leisure. Loneliness, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, and other psychosocial malaises had long been growing pre-COVID-19, and didn’t show signs of abating over December 2019 (during what we now know was the dawn of the pandemic).
continue readingThe underlining tenet of productivity is the belief that what exists right now is not enough. It is antithetical to wealth or health or joy.
continue readingWith everything that has happened so far this year, and everything that still lies ahead, we’d be forgiven for falling into despair. Yet still we dream.
continue readingAudre Lorde’s words are such nourishment for my soul. “A woman speaks” is one of the most important poems in my life.
continue readingThe time has come! My wellbeing coaching services are now open for new clients.
continue readingAs practitioners, it’s time we take our reclaim our words, our movements, our communities, and ourselves.
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