As I looked around at the tables cloaked in white linens draping the floor while listening to the final speaker of the YA National Conference in NYC, 2013, I thought, “What is underneath the façade of this conference?”  For a moment I saw a typical...

Dear Reader~ I want to share with you a green smoothie recipe I tried a few weeks ago. It was DELICIOUS.  I used to do green smoothies religiously and now I do them once in a while. This is a three part smoothie: making it, dancing to the sounds of...

Hello Party People! It is with great pleasure that I present to you the first of a series of vlogs around body awareness.  See below for the video, which includes a brief meditation that you can do at work, home, before you go to sleep at night or...

"I give myself permission to mess up, to make mistakes and to be messy and I invite you to give yourselves permission to mess up and make mistakes.  That's where all the learning is!" I said to a small group of 7th graders in a dance class at a...

My twin sister just sang me a little bit of Alicia Key's new song "Listen to My Heart" and I said, we could create a song like that, so we started spittin' some rhymes on the corner of Elmwood and Trinity Place. Then I heard this stuff going...

Hello All~ Here is another Owning Pink Blog, fresh off the presses.  Click here to go to the blog post! I want to know, what are three things you can do to be a better Defensive Driver?  And, how will these three actions impact the rest of your...

"It's so interesting," I said, bracing myself against the chill of the day and pointing at the sunlight shimmering on the water.  "The sunlight is not on the water, but it looks like it is." My friend looked at me quizzically, agreeing with a nod....

I want to thank Paola Blanton for her inspiration in the article: In the Wake of Adversity - Movement to the Rescue. This morning I noticed my own "post-trauma" in the body due to an experience from over 6 years ago. I felt it in my body when I...