The 12 Birds of Solstice

December 18, 2011

ON THE 12TH DAY OF SOLSTICE  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~    MY MINDFUL NATURE PRACTICE   * * * * * GAVE TO ME * * * * * 12 TUNDRA [...]

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Touchstones in Troubled Times

December 11, 2011

This week a 2-year old boy came to the Tot-Mama Yoga class distraught. He and his mother arrived by bicycle—as they do every week—and he had wanted to wear his sunglasses, but his mom had not been able to find them. In full-on meltdown mode he was sobbing and fending anyone off who had the [...]

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Mindful Nature In My Mukluks

December 4, 2011

If I told you I don’t miss getting out and communing with nature, now that the weather is cold and blustery, I’d be lying. In fact, this week I felt myself teetering on the edge of seasonal downheartedness. When I realized I couldn’t remember the last time I’d walked by the river gorge, I was [...]

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Dance Yrself Clean

November 27, 2011

This weekend, my husband and I cleaned the house, with the electronic percussive beat of LCD Soundsystem percolating in the background. Doing laundry and cleaning the bathroom never felt so joyous. Seriously. After weathering a life-altering medical crisis, getting back into normal routines felt like bliss. There’s much to be grateful for this year—as there [...]

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My *Not* To Do List

November 20, 2011

Everybody’s got a To Do list. Especially at this time of year when the winter holidays loom and the end of the year is just a sprint away. Well, Pssssst, let me whisper a little secret in your ear. [Here it is, ready? I'm cupping my hands near your ear...] It’s more important to have [...]

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It Can Be Easy Being You

November 13, 2011

When do you feel most like you? The vibrant, alive, expansive version of you! Go ahead and close your eyes for a minute and see if you can remember a time you felt—in every cell of your body—that you were right where you were supposed to be. That in this moment you’ve come alive. That [...]

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Being Foxy

November 6, 2011

Last Saturday afternoon—after spending hours at the computer preparing handouts for the Mindful Nature Day Retreat—I hopped on my bike and headed to a favorite spot by the river. There’s an oak savanna overlooking the river gorge and (this won’t come as a surprise if you’ve been following me) I have a favorite tree that [...]

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Happy Samhain

October 31, 2011

I’ve got my devil horns and cape on, the Trick or Treaters are about to start knocking on the door and…oops, I realized I didn’t get my weekly blog post up. Yesterday’s Mindful Nature Day Retreat was a lovely, nourishing, inspiring day, and I’ve been completely unplugged ever since (which can be a good thing [...]

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Natural Time Management: Part 1

October 23, 2011

Life gets so very busy, doesn’t it? Even for those of us who are trying to simplify our lives, with all the electronic media we use to stay current, keep in touch and find value, we are nearly always ON. I’ve experimented for years with balancing structured do-ing time with fluid be-ing time. And the [...]

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Hang Up and Walk

October 16, 2011

Could part of our feelings of stress, overwhelm and not-enough-time-in-the-day be because we’re always ON? Turned on (but not in the 60s slogan sense). We’re talking digitally tuned in and turned on these days. All the time, for so many of us. And the experts are blaming our feelings of too-much-to-do-in-too-little-time on always being available [...]

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