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What I love most about turning to the natural world to gain insight into our own human condition, is that it gifts us with some of the most beautiful metaphors. One of my absolute favourite and most beneficial acts of self-care is to go out into nature with a camera and seek out these metaphoricalContinue reading “How walking the same path in nature – every day – can help you find ease through life’s major transitions”

It’s a satisfying thing: walking to a farm stand to buy your groceries for the week. When I lived in Vancouver, I used to spend the occasional weekend in Squamish, helping out on a family friend’s vegetable farm. Not only did I love waking up with the sun to get my hands dirty, but itContinue reading “Farm Stand”

Whether she’s latched to my breast, curled up on one of our chests, or whaling and screaming as we bounce her in our arms while pacing the length of the house, entry into motherhood (parenthood) has been an awakening to the sacredness of life. A sacredness that we now hold. We hold it literally inContinue reading “Holding the Sacredness of Life”

 “Ignorance is bliss” is quite a common expression – mostly used in one of two contexts: 1) some use it to explain their own conscious choice of ignoring, as in not seeing something as it is in order to preserve a more ideal or optimistic perspective on the world; or 2) some use it toContinue reading “Why Ignorance Is Bliss”

Somehow and with no clear direction or vision of the future of my expression, poetry has been speaking the language of my heart newly. Through circles of grief and love, and inspiration from those who wrote and mused poetry before me, I’m allowing the direction and vision to unfold naturally. Mary Oliver, Pablo Neruda, KimContinue reading “Prayer for the Ending of your Suffering”

I hadn’t laughed that hard in so long. My belly hurt and coffee came up my nose. So animated was his story of irony – in this commercialized world of yoga festivals, where preachers bring together young souls in an era of spiritual deprivation. We suffer from our phones, social media, and ego-driven practices aimedContinue reading “Breakfast with Phippen”

 A year has shed its skin, yet again. The dark days have reached their darkest and are now gaining light each morning we wake. Some speak of resolutions. I prefer to set intentions. Drink water. Take rest. Eat well. Love wholeheartedly. Why then, if the answers are so simple, do we meander down paths ofContinue reading “A Year of Plenty – Yoga has 8 limbs”

Each day, my practice awaits. The ability to move freely through time and space is never quite the same as it was yesterday. Some days, I can breathe without constraint. Other days, the only way to breathe in such a way is by curling into a ball on the floor smothered in the weight ofContinue reading “In the Wake of Solitude”

I offer this poem as it brought words to an understanding of what I needed from those around me with a recent loss I’ve encountered. It was the loss of someone whose love reminds me of the beauty, tenderness, and inspiration of the monarch butterfly. Perfectly, he took me strolling through a field of milkweedsContinue reading ““Blessing for the Brokenhearted” by Jan Richardson”

What if when you were driving, your full attention was on driving? What if when you were eating, you were completely absorbed in the nourishment of your mind? While having a conversation, what if your focus was on listening deeply? What if when the sun was shining, you relished in its light and warmth; andContinue reading “What if I meditated?”