Giving thanks to the skins we've shed this Year of Snake. Reflection and Journal Prompts on Letting Go to Grow.

“It’s the most handsome pineapple,” she said of my purchase. Pear shaped with two head stalks, the most beautiful pineapple is non binary. Every duality has its oneness. Every binary, it’s non-binary. Two heads, one body Outside & inside Husk & fruit Spiked & smooth. And inside, the perfect pattern emerges, spiraling binary code. We are the anima and the animus woven. Shiva pursuing Shakti. Yang chasing Yin. And still also the Tao, the one, consciousness, divinity. We are bo

Connection. How do we connect to each other? I’ve written a lot about how we can each connect to ourselves, but what about connecting to...

As I begin to type up more of the automatic writing transcripts from 2020, I feel a nausea in my belly. It's a mash-up between giddiness and nervousness. Giddy to share the profundity of the messages, and a nervousness to putting myself out there as a lunatic. The word lunatic comes from luna, the Latin word for moon and the suffix -atic meaning "of the sort." So, in the spirit of admitting my own lunacy, I will concur that the messages I receive do come from the heavens, t

Automatic Writing at Sunrise. January 18, 2021 I ask for guidance Emotions sometimes feel like a reckoning. Direction feels backwards at times. This is the message I am given to transcribe: Backwards is also a direction, often not so different than forward. Expansive is the true direction of the soul. Spirit wishes to expand. Beyond the physical, Beyond the limitations of the material, Beyond duality. Dualities of Direction: Inward / Outward Forward / Backwards Upwards / Dow

A few months ago, I was teaching a one-on-one class online today to a student newish to yoga. On this day, when I asked her how things were going, she replied “I’m just walking towards the darkness at the end of the tunnel.” This student began taking yoga classes in January of 2020, in her mid forties, as a New Years Resolution. She told herself she would take four classes and then be able to check it off her "list of suggested stress lowering activities." She purchased an ex

The nature of shadow and light, duality and oneness. There’s a story about Ganesh and how the moon got its big crater. As the story goes, Ganesh was walking home from a big party where he had over ate, he fell down and everything around him went awry. The big full moon that Ganesh had previously been admiring for its perfect beauty and light, starting laughing at Ganesh. Ganesh angered and started yelling at the moon but the moon kept laughing. Ganesh got so angry that he tor