ANCIENT WISDOM FOR MODERN LIFE

But one of many magic moments as I cross the threshold to 36 💫 I am deeply touched by the sisterhood that has unfurled around me in my 7 years in Toronto. You hold me and lift me up. ♥️ I am so grateful and profoundly lucky.
📍We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us 👣 ..... ......... ............ ............... ................... ....................... #josephcampbell #theheropath #wanderingsoul #goodreminders #seekingtheancientpaths #turkey🇹🇷 #turkey #antalya #side #2011 #spiritualarchaeology #excavation #diggently #freeyourself
Soaking it all in.... ☀️🌿 ... ... ... ... #happysaturday #springhassprung #forestbather #dadssweater #listeningtosilence #soloadventures #writinginspiration
(🇮🇹, June 2010) In the stickiness of the mid-day heat I wandered up a small laneway leading to the center of Palantino Hill. Here, I found a tiny, active church. I have been a doubting Thomas on the god front my whole life, so walking into a church and feeling good about it, not to mention, feeling god in it, was a new experience. It was a relatively unimpressive church, (for Rome) and so refreshingly empty and quiet. I sat on a pew in the back row, slipped off my sandals, and let my sweaty feet press against the cold marble floor. My ears were flooded with choir songs piped over the PA system. I gazed up at the domed-roof and dulled frescoes around me.  My whole life I had assumed that prayer was only for the religious. But, for those skeptics like me, could it be “...an unfailing device for bringing introversion into the mind”? ✨ So I sat, and I prayed. Losing myself in an hour of prayer felt as long as my entire trip. My thoughts were filled with intentions for courage and love, forgiveness and release, a stream coursing from myself to others and then back to me. No Jesus in sight. When I opened my eyes, I felt lighter, satiated somehow, my perspective sky-blue. ✨ That day, I learned that the ritual of prayer is about connection - not only to god, or the divine, but with what is most important to us. Like trying to balance on one foot, It is only in the continual striving for balance that we achieve it. So, prayer is a ritual that adjusts and refines our inner equilibrium. Intention knows no limits - all walls are home to a heart speaking its truth. 💫 As I left the church, I noticed a small table. On the table was an old clay bowl with a sign above it reading: “Intenzioni di Preghiera”. One was supposed to write their prayer on a piece of paper and leave it in the bowl. The inter-lingual substantiation of my new interpretation of prayer lifted the corners of my mouth. I scrawled a sentence in my journal, ripped it out, and left it unfolded, face-up in the bowl.✨ ... .... .... #travelstories #rome #sunday #prayer #intenzionidipreghiera #agnostic #church #traveljournal #writersofinstagram #leavingpompeii
Potential 📈 .... .... .... .... ... #sketchbook #freehand #women #rising #together #feelingit
Pops in his happy place ✨ ... .... ....familyofartists ♥️
#throwback to last June and my very first Spiritual Archaeology retreat. 6 brave women leapt into a weekend of yoga, shamanic ceremony and self-reflection in the quietude of the woods, trusting me to hold the container for whatever needed to be illuminated. Today I'm dreaming-in more retreats for this coming summer .... whatever shape they take will be #puremagic thanks to the unbelievable souls that surround me 💫Bring on the sweat, silence, earth and sky - it's gonna be an expansive summer! 🌾💧☀️ .... ..... ..... ...... Thank you @starkskincare @oliviacdavis @mafalda_gugliuzzi @natsauce @mdani @meaghan.howlett for taking the leap! ♥️ .... ..... ..... ..... .... .... #yogashaman #yogaretreat #natureheals #ceremony #silence #movementismedicine #environmentalism #liveit #yogisofinstagram #shamanism #spiritguides #animalmedicine #simplicity
Welcome Spring! ☀️Welcome Persephone, lady of light, back from the underworld. ☀️Welcome Ostara, back from the darkness with brother in tow ☀️ welcome Kukulan, feathered serpent, as the sun illuminates your path down the temple steps ☀️ Welcome Jesus, rising from the dead, we see that your story is amongst the many that came before you, teaching the cycles of nature and life☀️ Welcome back dear grandfather sun, today in perfect balance with sister moon ☀️Welcome the new seeds of growth as we enter another growing season we honor the food you will give us so we may life another year ☀️Welcome, the seeds of transformation within us, as we sit today in equilibrium, learning to integrate the darkness of the winter into the future of next summer ☀️WELCOME remembering - that the old ways and the old teachers have a voice again and this is not the path of dominance and dogma but of love and empowerment for ALL☀️ Clean your homes! Clean your hearts, with sacred smoke and spontaneous prayers! Frolic in arrival and make love in the corn fields! welcome fertility everywhere, we are but part of the greater turning... .... .... .... #asanovesobelow #springequinox #allofthegodsandgodesses #haveameaningandaplace #springishere #fertility #rituals #soweremember #wearenotalone Photo courtesy of @davidsalisburydc
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In the last month, I've had the great pleasure of speaking with trailblazing women's rights activists who have dedicated their lives to equality and empowerment. Whether teaching female leadership courses at Cornell, or marching beside Gloria Steinem and Gloria Allred in the 70's or being the first female sports journalist to enter the locker room, all of the wise women I have spoken with have said this: THE ONE THING above all else that will move women forward in this world is if we work together. We've been divided and conquered for too long - only in solidarity and collaboration can we make the real gains we dream of, as women, and as a society as a whole. Here's to pulling together our collective dream in #2018..... .... .... For more wisdom on women in leadership and business, read my interview with the amazing Deborah Streeter for @theprevailproject ✨🔗 IN BIO ... .... ..... ...... Original artwork by @_lauraberger_ 💚 ..... ...... ...:: ...... .....:: ....::: ......:::::: #internationalwomensday #women #unite #forallofus #forourfuture #strongwomen #timesup #respect #equality #forall