Life has been quite the ride lately, don’t you think? How have your heart and nervous system been responding to it? A deep truth that’s a core part of my work is that the more available I am to life, the more life becomes available to me (because life +…

Summer is in full swing, and the Mojave high desert is hot. In the 100s before 9am. Rushing around is not an option, although the newer energies moving out here these days seem to be hell bent on overriding the slow summer pace and maintaining a constant gogogo…but that’s another…

I had a memorable dreamtime experience recently. The dream itself was a dull and mildly stressful one where my bag was stolen. As I was about to angrily run after the thief, my limited sense of ‘I’ expanded quite significantly and the thought arose: This is a very boring dream…

We have just moved through the midpoint of the year, summer solstice — midsummer, the longest day of the year as the sun remained in stillness at its apex. The northern hemispheric axis of our planet now begins a slow tilting away from the sun as we move towards autumn…

Are you done with trauma as culture? If you’re reading this, I’d hazard that the answer is a yes. Before diving into an exploration of this, let’s begin with a quick working definition of trauma. For me, the one that’s been most clarifying is from the somatic (body-based) therapeutic lens. …

As I dive into this short essay, I want to presence all of my Self, invite all that’s happening within me to participate in the formation of the words taking shape on the page as I write. ​There’s a subtle tightness in my chest area, coming from the emotion of…

If curiosity were a season, it would be spring. ​It would be the wildflowers that bloom in spring. How does it feel in your body when you look at wildflowers? Even just one, bursting up brightly through the earth, fearlessly and full of grace? That’s the playful frequency of curiosity…

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. …