A chakra often characterized for its sexuality, I find its watery dimensions to be layered with both humanity and divinity. Growing up in a society that exploits sex and a religion that denied it, I observed it too often reduced to one or the other. The energy this chakra represents spans desire, sensation and emotion. Much like water changes form to become ice or snow, this chakra`s energy can shrink or expand commensurate to our awareness of it.read more
Don`t do yoga. Step onto your mat with your bare feet. Breathe. Pick a yoga pose, any pose. But don`t do it; at least not the way in which you`re accustomed. Arrange your arms and legs and body to take up the outer form of the pose, then wait. Breathe. Feel the yoga pose spread from your center and push out into the edges of your body, refining. Don`t move so much as expand by millimeters wherever it tells you to make space.read more
In 2007 I moved out west with the intention of studying massage therapy in Hawaii. What a great excuse to live on a tropical island, I thought! I landed in Portland, Oregon and fell in love with the city. There was an open house one day at East West College of the Healing Arts.read more
This practice is settling and slow. Questions about my vision begin to float to the surface. Literally my vision (I started wearing glasses at 7 years old); metaphorically my vision (where do I see myself in five years); and spiritually my vision (who do I think I am and who am I really?)read more