A little plant clipping was taken from @misfitstudio many many moons ago as I tended to her mamma. Today, that tender shoot is a strong independent plant. Soon, the Misfit Queen street studio doors will close, for the purposes of expansion and growth. Thank you @misfitstudio women for the tender gifts of community, fitness, and a space to lead my own classes within your walls last September. It's been an honor to be a student and teacher within this church of movement for the past many years. Just as this little plant has grown huge in my home, I wish you all a safe landing in whatever new home you're destined to set down deep roots in and grow bigger, brighter, more wild than ever before 🐅❤️🔥until then, see you on Ossington!
August 2018: Writing about the river I grew up on, and in... feeling that full circle kinda thought pattern, of cycles of completion on the heels of eclipse insanity... dove down to the bottom of a pool and floated up to find thunder skies above me....thoughts about the space between the lighting and the thunder crack... what happens there? The eyes on the bottom of my feet said: walk down this street, okay, let's go. Here I found a plate, handmade, from the UBC museum of anthropology ... okay yes, you'd like to come home? I think I have a spot for you... later... in a trance, I reached for a card: SALMON came jumping up stream to me, saying this is the time of completion, going /coming home , full circle swimming... I look up at the blue plate just hung on the wall - closer.... 5 salmon swim across her lip... these are the precious days when the chaos forms a coherent pattern, when answers are provided. They are rare, and so precious and important to hold onto. Like Something's got my back - or maybe, it's ME. .. .. ... ..: #streamofconsciousness #salmon #serendipity #writing #swimming #summertime #memories #entries #medicine #imstrongerthanithink #memoir
Portrait of unconditional lovingness. If we all could be as constant and consistent as this furry fellow in our love and compassion for self and others the world would be a much different place. 💓 #animalmedicine #lessonsinlove #furbabies #catsofinstagram #ivan #captainadventure #murfin
This is an Ancient prayer. Someone's hand-etched call for relief....expand..... this scroll withstood the pressure, underground, the cracks, the heat, and the falling away of if its pagan faith rituals over centuries .... now, she is excavated - unraveled, brought back into the light. Today I see The dust being blown off the ancients. the names of the goddesses, of fertility and magic -- the bulls of Isis, of Venus and Mars ring out in the world once again, mouths shaping the words: Wands, penticles, cups, snakes swords and witches ... But did they ever truly leave us? Or were they stored in the coding of our DNA - as recessive faith? What will they bring the world, this time around? In a new 21st century expression, in the hearts of and souls of the humans of the anthrocene? What might decayed prayers reveal about our way into the future? ... ... ... #returnoftheancients #isis #scrolls #prayers #napoli #ritulas #revival #gods #syncretism #excavation #spiritualarchaeology #dna #goddesses #rebirth #feminine #ecologicalspirituality #venus #mars #anthrocene
My heart + These humans = pure happiness ♥️ .. .. .. #missingmyfamily #spain #travelmemories
What is sticky? Misdirected anger, jealousy, feelings of inadequacy and limitation, and and and and... these are the burs we collect as we walk the path of life. They get stuck in the creases of the psyche, the folds of our pant cuffs, and tangled in our hair. What are your methods for removal? What are your best deburring tactics? Movement, humor, silence or noise? I like a bit of it all. And I try to remember that the thoughts that are sticky, uncomfortable and prickly have a purpose. Burs are seeds. So what can we invite them to become? 🌱 .. .. .. #seeds #nature #metaphor #methods #becoming #peacewithlife #survivaltactics #art #whatevergetsyouthrough #spiritualarchaeology #diggently #freeyourself
Seek what is seeking you. Seek what is buried. Under the rubble of personal history are the artifacts of your aliveness. Dig gently. Revel in the mystery and and adventure of the excavation -- for healing doesn't have to cause more pain than what broke us in the first place 💛 ... .. . #messagefromspirit #artemis #ressurected #artifacts #ancients #museum #musings #healingdoesnthavetohurt #paradigmshift #spiritualarchaeology #journeytotheunderworld #katabasis
Musings from an art museum: 1) mythology is very much alive - revived and reinvented. Proof of its intrinsic place in the human psyche and soul. .. .. .. 2) We are returning to nature worship - the pendulum has swung - the modernity we chased is now what we fear. 3) On click-and-go engagement. What if we let artcapture us rather than try to capture it? Can we commit it to memory rather than storage? How might that feel? 4) what if being with art was a similar practice as mediation? Waiting, patiently...waiting still, longer, looking, waiting.... still.... quiet...until, oh! It suddenly begins to dance and move and shift and stir the senses. .. . .. .. 5) Art deserves patience and attention in order to come alive. I am willing to give it this, for magic to happen. .. .. .. #art #howwesee #newmythology #ourcollectivevision #museumofcontemporaryart #meditation #shifting #artcomesalive #patience #rewards #experiments #ideas
A year ago today I made it to the mirror city and the little girl I was led me there to met the woman I am and a bridge between past and present and future was built. This is what healing looked like for me. So I laid down the pain and picked up my pen... .. .. "Pompeii gives each one of us the gift of finding and recognizing our own path. It is a ‘mirror city’ in which every human being can evaluate himself if he really wants to, by embarking on a personal journey of discovery to rediscover authentic feelings that are all too often anesthetized and subsumed within the innermost parts of the soul. Pompeii offers us the possibility of learning about ourselves in a two-thousand-year-old fragment of humanity." .. (Marcello Fiori - Elegy for Pompeii - Pompeii: Echoes from the Grand Tour.) .. ... #leavingpompeii #writing #followtheclues #seek #dig #artifacts #spiritualarchaeology #pompeii #napoli #inspiration #adventureofalifetime #writersofinstagram
"Confess your hidden faults. Approach what you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are attached to, let it go. Go to the places that scare you." .. .. Sage words for dark months and new moons 🌚🍁 ... ... (Advice from her teacher to the Tibetan Yogini Machik Labdron) ... ... #november #darkdays #bringusclarity #theplacesthatscareyou #pemachodron #vesuvius #fearless #obsidian #fall #healing #gettingbackup #yoga #buddhism #soulevolution #newmoon