Category: Explorations and practices
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Finding your center as the veil grows thin
As we cross the threshold of the equinox, we find ourselves in a potent portal of release and connection as we approach the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The days are shorter, the veil between the seen and unseen realms grows thinner, and we have access to the potent energies of release and “completion.”…
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Meditating with Plants: Flowers, Fruits, and Seeds
This is a meditation on connection with the energy of flowers, fruits, and seeds I like to approach connecting with plant spirits from: 1. a mediumistic and 2. metaphorical perspective. 1. Tune into your breath, your heart and your own personal energy. Imagine your Breath forming a bundle of energy, a bud, at the center of your abdomen. …
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Physical Movement and Energy Movement
It’s an artificial distinction, to separate the physical and the energetic. Or the emotional and the energetic.Most of us are heavily socialized to ignore the energetics of our experience, focusing on the more tangible or the “rhyme and reason.” I write often here about the energetics of the emotional experience and the ego/psyche/“self.” But we…
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Is it intuition, or anxiety?
Many of us are taught not to value our gut instincts, and even to ignore them. The less privilege you hold societally the more likely that you have been told that you can’t trust how you feel. If you’re offended, that’s because you’re too sensitive. If you feel unsafe, you’re being paranoid (or you actually brought…
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Demystifying Energy Practice
Foundational practices tend to be where we start when learning anything. And yet when we return to them after more experience, we often find they are more complex than they initially seemed.Some of the questions people usually ask when I’m teaching Reiki or leading a group might be “are there different types of energy? Is…
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Winter Dreaming…
Dreaming for me is an act of communion, a relationship. I allow my dreams to hold their own space. I try not to analyze my dreams, but to participate in them. To let my dream selves show me what I need to know. I take some time in the morning to transfer to my conscious…
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The Road ahead (in a Chariot year)
You know that feeling when you’re just starting to fall asleep, and your thoughts begin to flow into more dreamlike sequences? The night of solstice, after a day heavy with ritual and ending with a very high intensity Rinse & Repeat group (for me anyway), I started thinking about the idea of soul mates as I…
Inward Vision 