Do you know how to receive generously?
One of the core tenets to my work is that our own healing, and our own somatic experience can never be extracted from the living Earth body. For when we try to “heal” as individuals, or when we try to balance our nervous systems while leaving out the integral piece of inter-relationality, we are always missing the mark.
So many of us are seeking healing. Seeking clarity. Seeking purpose. We long to feel whole, to know who we are, and to remember what we’re here to offer.
Am I Crazy If I Sense Rocks Talking to Me?
Have you ever felt a plant or a tree talking to you? Or felt like there were unseen beings watching you? Or felt like you needed to move a rock because it wanted to be somewhere else? And then, immediately doubted yourself for being crazy? I watch this happen all the time in others. Folks doubting their experiences, thinking they're crazy, thinking they’re making up their profound and magical relationship with Earth. Even if we “know” it’s alive, insidious voices of societal
The Seed of Samhain in Beltane
Beltane historically honors eros. Honors the lovers. Honors how love, desire, sensuality, and pleasure help sing the world awake towards the climax of Summer Solstice.
How reveling in beauty is just as important as honoring the harder aspects of life we’re facing right now, the grief, pain, the shock, the fear. How if we don’t, in fact, honor pleasure, we cannot know the full depths of Life.
For the Witches: My Favorite Definition of Magic
Our effectiveness in this 3D existence lies in how deeply and fully we can embody ourselves here. And I've found that Earth beings want us
Remembering Our Animist Roots: The World is Alive
Dartmoor stone circle, UK Last week I shared some thoughts about our collective spiritual crisis. I shared that part of the work to...
Snake Medicine: Sensuality + Earth Connection
Often representing the Goddess herself, snakes symbolize healing, fertility, wisdom, rebirth, guardianship, and their intimate relationship
Can You Let Earth Love You? Building Relationship with Earth
Earth Day is tomorrow, and so I've been pondering my relationship with Earth and how much it's changed over the course of my life. I've...
Your Senses: A Gateway into Relationship with Life
April has become one of my very favorite months since living in Portland. It feels as though almost overnight, the Earth breaks open in...
What the Plants Often Tell Me
The plants love us, but are really tired of how we treat them. I feel this over and over from the plants when I sit with them. ...
Sensitivity is Our Salvation
In last week's Plant Wisdom Circle, 16 of us gathered together to connect with the spirit of Cottonwood. As we journeyed with the spirit,...