Category: Essays
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Dreaming again
In the first quarter of the year I didn’t dream much, or, I did but they didn’t have the epic, saga like quality that I’m accustomed. They were felt, slowly, and seen only in fragments. I needed the rest, and I didn’t think too hard about them. I had also been contemplating the idea of…
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Field Notes from a 90 Day Sadhana (Part 2: After the 90 days)
Have you ever considered creating a container of dedicated meditation or spiritual practice? If you’re like me and benefit from some structure, it can be a wonderful way to deepen your practice and engage the learning that is possible from repetition. I’ll be slowly unpacking that learning with you over the upcoming months, but if…
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Held in a state of suspension (and tension)
On Tuesday March 19 at 11:06pm EDT we reach the exact midpoint between the solstices, with equal hours of day and night. As we cross this invisible threshold we begin an acceleration towards the height of summer. As with the solstices, often our bodies hold the echo of this marker in time, feeling its effects…
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Field Notes from a 90 Day Sadhana (Part 1: day 45)
My arrival at a Yoga Nidra practice happened slowly at first. Tracee Stanley was the teacher whose introduction welcomed me, she was a guest I encountered in another online network. I bought some of her meditations (although many are free, if you want to browse around) and listened— I enjoyed them, but didn’t dive in…
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Getting Lost
You might think you really know yourself, and what you’re capable of, until you endeavor to move through a period of time without a well-formed “plan.” It turns out many attributes that I thought were character might’ve been well-honed methods pretending that I can control the outcome of my life.Boredom becomes a sticky, viscous material…
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Rest is a Portal {part 2}
You can find part 1 here (from 2021) Rest is a mindsetRest is a practiceRest is an act of devotionRest is distinct from leisureRest is necessary for the repair of the mind, body, and spirit.Without rest, we cannot heal.There are many ways to rest. We can only give from what we have.Our spirits may be…
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Finding Satisfaction in not knowing
I recently learned that I calculated my personal tarot archetype of 2023 incorrectly. Which seems like a cosmic error because evidently I also did this the prior year, in spite of it being simple math! I double, triple checked and sure enough I had been believing this whole time that I was working through one…
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Energy Movement through Time: Part 2
Read Energy Movement through Time Part 1 here I’ve believed in Past Lives since I was very young, I had several dreams as a child that I understood to be glimpses into past lives and the time between lives. Peering into the experiences of another time validated some of the feelings I had even then.…
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Energy Movement through Time: Part 1
A well-known therapist turned healer, Daniel Foor, speaks extensively about honoring our ancestors and speaking with them. In a recent lecture last year he said that we can’t reduce them to “merely an energy” and emphasized the need to acknowledge the otherworld as an actual place. I agree with this statement in spirit, but I…
Inward Vision 