"You can't push the river." - Unknown This quote says it all. If there’s ever a time for this quote, it has been this past year when timelines were totally out of our control. What we could do, though, was flow and trust the process! That’s why I love this quote. I believe I saw it in a Peter Levine book, Waking the Tiger , and...
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. - 1 John 4:16 In 2014, I spent a little bit of time with a man who believed in Jesus. I mean, he was a full on Christian. That was new to me. Most of the people I’d spent romantic time with were either...
“I do things in the right order, all I have to do is listen and trust, then respond.” - Sarah Haykel You know, sometimes in life, I rush things. With business, personal relationships, things I enjoy doing, like dancing, I’ve tended to rush the process. I guess a part of me thinks: I just want to get there already! Or, I want to...
Fracois Raoult’s Essential Yoga Teacher Training at Open Sky When I first moved back to Buffalo in 2008, I learned that several people I knew or was becoming acquainted with had taken or were taking a yoga teacher training in Rochester, N.Y. The training was a 200hr course called the Essential Teacher Training with famed instructor of the...
“The process of getting there is the quality of being here” - Sarah Haykel This quote came through me many years ago and is SO TELLING! Every time I see it scribbled on a bright pink sheet of paper on my desk, it’s a great reminder to be HERE now and see how HERE is feeling in the moment because that’s how I am going to experience...
Have you ever read a book that achingly touches the deepest places in your heart and soul? In 2012, as a part of the Coaching for Transformation certification program I took, we were required to read Dawn Markova’s powerfully reflective book. It touched me deeply. Markova’s reckoning with major life changes and upheavals and how...
LOVE Empowering Questions: How will you be more of the Love you are here to be today? Make it realistic, write it down. Take 2 minutes to choose two new actions or ways of being that will bring more love into your life, into your relationships and into the world. With Love and Aloha Nui Loa, p.s. Want to know how mindful you...
The Sensual Body Movement: Mindfulness In Movement Dancing expressively and emotionally, while connected to beautiful music, has always been inspiring to me. Drawn to this type of movement since high school, I felt insecure and uncomfortable sharing it out in the open. Over the years, I began to come out of my shell with this...
Have you ever felt like this? I gotta tell yah, sometimes I’ve felt so alone, like I’ve had to do everything myself: to make this life work, to have what I think I want, etc. Have you ever felt the same way? But, then I have moments of insight, which remind me of what’s really true and give me the strength to let go and...
Learning Nonviolent Communication for More Effective Communication Honestly, even though I love to communicate and have learned some helpful skills at effectively communicating, I can still feel so scared to communicate, get triggered while in heated conversations and feel defeated before, during or after communicating with someone about...
