There are few things more delicious than the experience of being fully present. Can you recall how it feels in your body? Or maybe you’re fully present right now. What are the sense perceptions that arise? For me, it’s usually a beautiful spaciousness that doesn’t deny any of the contractions…

Less than a few a hundred years ago, wild buffalo — what we nowadays refer to as bison — roamed in their millions across the vastness of North America. …

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a pretty resistant relationship to goals due to a number of reasons (including the garden variety fear of failure.) One of the more interesting ones was that as a child of the 80s and 90s — the age of the insatiable…

When was the first time you experienced inner conflict? I’m taking an educated guess that you don’t remember because it’s one of the earliest ways that most all of us learn to relate to ourselves. …

There once was a woman who dreamed herself awake. ​ ​As with any worthwhile endeavor, she had help. In her Dreamtime, she would be visited by snake, butterfly and stag. ​ ​When you open your eyes and go back to the other place, they said, remember — there’s more to Life…

This isn’t the first and certainly won’t be the last time that I write about reclaiming our safety, specifically our felt-sense of safety. Today, I wanted to share a simple and powerful way to start doing this in a way that feels authentic, without your nervous system being hyper-aroused (externally…

On the Lunar New Year back in January, I was lying on the couch in a semi-altered state after indulging in some gentle daydreaming. The currents of the day called for it, not that any excuses are needed for daydreaming. ​ Slowly, these three words echoed in my ear: ​ ​Trust…

One of my many favourite bits in C. G. Jung’s memoirs, Memories, Dreams, Reflections is his account of his visit with the Pueblo — the Indigenous people of New Mexico. This was back in the 1920s. For the Swiss Jung, his travels revealed to him how he “was still caught…

It’s Winter Solstice on 21 December here in the northern hemisphere. Among many other magical meanings around this time of opposites in balance, it’s also the entry-point into a new story in Root + Rise: A Membership Space for Mythic Inner Alchemy — and its first birthday! I can’t believe…