Our time in this workshop will be spent connecting with our breath and creating space within. When we connect with our breath we can enjoy the peace outside the hamster wheel of our thoughts.
All in Healing
Sigh, Tea Kind of Makes Sense Season
Grateful for the healing tea’s I’ve received from friends, ESPECIALLY as the damp PNW fall sets in
RENAISSANCE World Tour Review
She started the concert singing “I Love You” and then proved it for nearly three heart pounding, scream & tear inducing hours of sonic and visual EXCELLENCE, the likes of which have never been seen until Beyonce's Renaissance World Tour!!!!
Free to Express My Version of Blackness at Refuge Outdoor Festival 2023
This year’s Refuge Outdoor Festival was incredible and I’m truly looking forward to next year’s gathering! It was the diversity medicine I needed and I met people I’ll definitely be spending time with between retreats.
I grew up in a Black family surrounded by mostly White people and Christian culture (I know, how did I end up like this?!). It made it harder to access some of the deepest parts of who I am and it’s a privilege to have so much more space to do so now.
Reconexión Ceremony Recap
Ceremony is home and I got to go home again this past Sunday at Reconexión. This particular offering by beloved and powerful woman of spirit Maria Muñoz @marialightowl was the first of, I suspect, many to come but it felt familiar. It was warm, everyone belonged, there was no pressure yet we were so held, there was respect and curiosity, it felt fertile.
Acupuncture: Ancient Chinese Medicine addressing today's woes
Seasonal allergies, and their often severe related symptoms, used to keep me disoriented, indoors or reaching for allergy pills.
There's a better way! Around the arrival of each season I head to my community acupuncture clinic. They know just what to do and better yet, it's affordable, peaceful and most importantly: effective!
5 Healing Opportunities for Growth, Healing & Transformation
I have such a great network of healers/facilitators/medicine folk here in the Pacific Northwest!! Here are just a handful of upcoming opportunities to look into...
I'm heading to Ghana/ Afrochella in 2023!
AfroFuture (formerly called Afrochella) is a music, arts and culture festival that celebrates the inspirational influences from the African Diaspora. The festival seeks to highlight and unite people under a banner of African and Black pride and educate on the intriguing contributions from the African continent and the culture it continues to spark beyond it’s beautiful shores.
Pill Poppin' with Intention
The longest story short: I’m seeing a naturopath to restore balance and generate health in my body and she’s got me on hella supplements. How can I go on this journey without feeling overwhelmed or missing the signs that I’m actually getting better?
Happy Loving Day!!!
I’m the Black half of an interracial couple and I have a LOT of feels about it.
Maybe other Black folks in interracial partnerships can understand this but somewhere, deep inside, I experience feelings of guilt because my partner is White….
A Vipassana Retreat for Black Folks!
A Ten Day Silent Meditation Retreat Centering People of the African Diaspora. Online Registration Opens on May 15
How To Dancewalk
I started Dancewalking in 2009 as a self-dare. I dared myself to show no restraint, to let my body move when my favorite songs came on during my park walks in San Diego. Nobody told me to dare myself so why would I inflict what seemed like a cruel sorority hazing game on myself?
I Finally Made Fire Cider!
Ancient, Ancestral, Affordable, Universal Healthcare right here. I've been seeing Fire Cider pop up here and there, a sure sign to pay attention and lean in.
Resmaa Menakem of 'My Grandmother's Hands' on Unhealed Trauma
But it isn’t culture. It’s a traumatic retention that has lost its context over time…
Land Acknowledgement to the Coast Salish Tribes
Today I offer deep gratitude and acknowledge the land of the Coast Salish tribes, including the Duwamish and Muckleshoot tribes, who’s ancestral lands I live on, work on, hold ceremony, am held by, cultivate, enjoy and today call Burien. Ajo & Ase
Moon Reading: New Moon in Libra
Happy New Moon in Libra!! New Moons bring an opportunity for a fresh new start or a retooling/revamp of what you already have going on. In Libra this can look like a true effort to redefine what balance looks like in YOUR life (not someone else's!), intrigued??
Release Resistance to Change
Breathe through it bb, let it go....
Significant spiritual growth may feel like a mini death and in a lot of ways it is. As we grow and change, old parts of us, outdated patterns, friends, environments and old desires shift as well.
Happy PRIDE 2021!!!
May we all continue to grow our capacity to CELEBRATE one another
A Memorial Day Spent in Remembrance
This here goddess was raised in a military family so YEA I have some mixed feelings when it comes to Memorial Day. I’m one part free spirit and one part “a loudspeaker bugle reveillere was my alarm clock”. The duality is certainly becoming more apparent as I age into what I can only assume will be the beloved but weird “Old Healing Lady on the Edge of Town.”
Semi Woo Moon Reading: Full Super Flower Blood Eclipse Moon in Sagittarius 2021
Happy Full Flower Super Blood Eclipse Moon in Sagittarius(at the eve of Gemini Season!) WOWZA!! We’re coming in hot to a Full Moon in Fire Sign Sag that is being fanned by the winds of Air Sign Gemini.