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What a year this has been.  In the traditions in which I have been taught  The people come together to celebrate the seasons venerating the sacred calendar  of the wheel of life.  How do you celebrate this turning of the seasons?  How do you recognize this moment of darkness? What will you renew as the light returns?  I am carrying a prayer to truly recognize  the blessings in my life I am committed to integrating a consciousness of gratitude  in the deepest way that I can to

How much does it need to hurt, this pervasive loneliness, eating away at our hearts until we are so frozen, so unwilling to express our...

Even though I have been working for years to love my body to accept myself with compassion There are definitely still times when I look in the mirror and simply do not feel good.   At the same time you know like I do that the only difference between us and the ones in the stars is that right now we still have a body.  It is this body that gives us life that opens the possibility for us to grow to listen with all of our senses  to the universe.  It is this body that moves us t

It happens to me too.  All the time.  During the night, in front of the fire, I can feel the magic that lives in us all, I can see that...

It is now the month of Tishrei, which begins with Rosh Hashana, the holiday that marks the New Year in the lunar calendar of the Hebrew...

Grieving together - Israelis and Palestinians in sacred activism I live in a beautiful bubble in the middle of the desert.  It is an...

Two and a half years ago a crazy and beautiful friend of mine invited me to come to his land to dance with his people and build a sweat...

My beloved Ecuador Wow!! Today we fly to Ecuador my home on the other side of the world high up in the mountains where the flight of the...

Listen to the Waters...dance for healing in NYC!! As a child  I remember often being told to sit down.  I was always moving…  dancing...

My book…a nostalgic reflection, still relevant today  When I was little my grandmother bought me many journals always encouraging me to...

A few days ago we completed the  Dance of the Spirits and incredibly powerful ceremony honoring the lives of the ones who no longer walk...

What does it mean to be truly authentic in these times?  Last week we sat around the sacred fire with the purpose of AUTHENTICITY in a...

When we come together in ceremony we collaborate in the deepest possible way to share with one another what is moving through us and to...

Sometimes I begin my day feeling the weight of it all feeling the endless cycle of painful news the collective grief  and the heaviness...

Ten years ago when my mom died I realized that my grief  is not mine alone.  I realized that in my tears live the tears of all of the...

How is it that we have come to think prayer belongs to religions?  I draw my prayer from the molten lava core of the earth through the...

We have been traveling for the past few weeks in Spain, meeting people, weaving webs, thinking and dreaming about a piece of land.  We...

This time of pandemic has forced us to stop, to observe ourselves. When we do, we realize that the way that we have been living until now...

Just over a month ago, I marched on Washington with hundreds of thousands of women. I think it is fair to say that we were all moved. ...

I had already written my piece to share as we basked in the afterglow of finally electing a woman president. I was so sure we were...