At my retreats, we’re working with the phrase, “I am here.”
On Saturday’s retreat, we coupled “I am here” with all kinds of experiences: yoga (lead by the wonderful Brandie Werner), feeling into our feet, back, hands, head and heart (also known as centering), visualization, we even said it while savoring chocolate.
I am here.
This itty-itchy phrase [...]

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I’m a retreat-creating permission-to-be yourself whirly-gig girl these days.
The holy gap that is a retreat is where I’m living much of the time these days.
It feels like the world is revealing itself to me, at the same time, it is holding its breath.
This state is ticklishly delightful and prickly painful.
It’s like living inside a Mary [...]

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There is an emptiness that comes to me when I am finished leading a retreat.
A scrubbed out-ness. Hollowed out. Pumpkin after scraping before carving.

It’s an odd feeling, not bad at all, but if I don’t ground myself, and have a lot of awareness, I start pounding chocolate.
I wish I could sum up the magic [...]

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I got to meet, hug, feed and give laundry to the stupendously wise, beautiful and compassionate Susan Piver Saturday night.
Another reason Twitter rules!
I had loved Susan’s work for years but I was too shy to approach her.
But along comes Twitter and we start tweeting and then Susan had a question for me and suddenly, we [...]

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