These days I am resonating with what my teacher, Mada Dalian, teaches. Healing into consciousness means we are free of the imprints we took on from social, religious, cultural conditioning, so we can live and create from our consciousness – our pure state of presence. In light of what is happening on the world stage, … read more
Tikkun HaNefesh: How to Reveal the Light of Your Soul
It was Rosh Hashanah 2009. As I stood next to a stream in my temporary home of Santa Fe, NM participating in a tashlich ritual (clearing ritual for the Jewish New Year) the spiritual leader said, “What is keeping you from shining the light of your neshema (soul)?” I knew at that moment that after … read more
The Changing Nature of Spiritual Expression
The living spirit grows and even outgrows its earlier forms of expression; it freely chooses the men and women in whom it lives and who proclaim it. This living spirit is eternally renewed and pursues its goal in manifold and inconceivable ways throughout the history of mankind. Measured against it, the names and forms which … read more
The Experience of “Being” Loving Kindness
“…The love is melding things so they are all one. People and trees and grass and all of you. You are being it by just looking with those kinds of eyes. That is the way – wow. Yeah. It’s – ahhhh – too much to talk about because it isn’t speakable. It is just being.” … read more
Calm In the Midst of Chaos
Today is a good day. I got to aerobics, moved my body for the first time in a long time, and feel pretty good having unpacked a household of stuff in just one week. I am beginning to feel settled and I love it here, back in the place where I grew up. Never thought … read more
Healing Generational Pain
The Ancestors say, “Maybe this one will be the one to break the patterns. Maybe this one.” ~ Angeles Arrien I am very grateful for the wisdom of my teacher, Angeles Arrien, who taught me that our ancestors are always cheering us on, wanting us to break painful generational patterns. My Grandpa who always held … read more
Standing Up For Consciousness
To counter the darkness that is on the rise, I welcome you to stand with me as we awaken to the truth of who we really are: Only consciousness can help us… …live in peace, freedom, love, and brotherhood, and make this planet a better place for ourselves and generations to come.” – Mada Dalian
Flying Free
I couldn’t wait to attend an art class with my favorite teacher, Karen Arp-Sandel, today after weeks of intense work and little play. This assemblage art box I made evolved as I followed my intuition and placed items in it as I felt called. It wasn’t until I placed the final butterfly in the doorway … read more
Mother Wound
Mother-Daughter relationships can be filled with angst. Mine certainly was. I have never read an article that describes what I experienced so well as one written by Bethany Webster which I link below. It has taken me a lifetime to undo the threads of self-hatred, disempowerment, and squashed creativity that I took on from my … read more
