🌲Rooted and rising🌲 . Looking forward to some good mama nature medicine this long weekend. .. Less screen time more green time. .. support your local parks and green spaces!🌱🐒get out and play! . . . . . . . . #happylongweekend #playislife #natureneutralizes #screensdown #getsomegreen #publicparks #torontonature #chilltfout #lessscreensmoregreen
“My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration." Nikola Tesla 🌀 our bodies are equally powerful antennae... somatic tuners... 🌀 Sometimes I think of each asana/yoga pose as a station on the universal radio dial - each with a unique energetic signature (from amped to serene), each with its own particular subset of knowledge, inspiration and strength. 🌀 forward folds would definitely be easy listening / slow jams to put you to sleep, or move the dial to warrior pose for some motivational classic rock 🤘 🌀 The body is also a receptor and conduit... it just speaks a different language than the mind... 🌀 . . What do you think is playing on the 'radio' in this pic?! . . . . .📸@mdani 🖤 . tesla #receiving #tuningin #asana #somaticexperiencing #somaticintelligence #radio #stations #yoga #mindbody
A little #tennyson for #nationalpoetrymonth. On Persephone's spring return from the underworld... 🕯🏺🖋🖤 thou camest, O my child Led upward by the God of ghosts and dreams, Who laid thee at Eleusis, dazed and dumb, With passing thro' at once from state to state, Until I brought thee hither, that the day, When here thy hands let fall the gather'd flower, Might break thro' clouded memories once again On thy lost self. A sudden nightingale Saw thee, and flash'd into a frolic of song And welcome; and a gleam as of the moon, When first she peers along the tremulous deep, Fled wavering o'er thy face, and chased away That shadow of a likeness to the king Of shadows, thy dark mate. Persephone! Queen of the dead no more -- my child! Thine eyes Again were human-godlike, and the Sun Burst from a swimming fleece of winter gray, And robed thee in his day from head to feet -- "Mother!" and I was folded in thine arms. .. ... .. #poetrymonth #persephone #spring #queenoftheunderworld #rises #intothelight #newmoow #mother
ONE WEEK FROM NOW -- you could be deep in your creative unconscious playfully wrestling with bears, riding black horses into the sun, or conversing with ancient elders under a crescent moon... 🌙 There are no limitations to The imagination, yet as we grow up we are taught not to daydream, to distrust fantasy and live within the confines of the rational mind. But what if we could have both? 🌷 We can. Just as yoga asana helps us find freedom to play and move in our body, so the deep meditative state of journeying helps us find space freedom joy and powerful creative inspiration and personal guidance beyond the rational mind. 🌱 if you've ever been curious about shamanic Journeying, or looking for opportunity to continue an ongoing relationship with your spirit and animal guides, please join me for my four- week spring shamanic yoga session. ☀️ Each class is a unique ceremony fusing Kripalu yoga and shamanic journeying, with each class thematically steeped in mythologies of rebirth, awakening and returning from the winter underworld. 🌼🌼🌼🌼 Session Dates: Sundays April 7, 14, 21st and May 5th. Time: 7- 8:30 pm DM for details and registration ♥️
made a new friend today - she had some interesting things to say☀️🌲 #spring #aroundthecorner #vernalequinox #tree #medicine #listening #lookingup #sunnyday #natureheals #forestbathing
Surround yourself with women who make you feel like a badass superstar and watch how quickly your life is elevated ✌️ To my ladies who inspire me to venture fearlessly through the mud and dance in the light: I ♥️ you. (Now let's kick some ass) xo #iwd2019 #ladieswhoball #balanceforbetter
Lake Ontario, temporary crystals ❄️💎
My little country mice came to visit 🐭♥️🐭 #famjam #reunited #lovemykin #papa #stannita
This is my g-ma Dot. She's 91 and is in many ways the most important woman in my life. She's endured, with stunning grace the loss of her husband, her sisters,her daughter, and fiercely maintained her independence and autonomy. She's lived alone for over four decades - and has a vibrant community and social life. She is the epitome of endurance, fortitude, optimism and tenacity. Her no bullshit approach to life is something I aspire to - and her wicked sense of humor has brought her through soul crushing loss. She's a self-professed firecracker, burnt at both ends! Recently, I started giving her massages when I came home to visit. All of a sudden I saw a whole other side of her, she just melted in my hands. I realized how society turns away from the aging body. In our cult of youth we fear the aged and sick bodies but by god, we never loose the need for touch, for pleasure, for contact and physical caring. And as the pain patterns of tension, arthritis and injury grow deeper and more familiar over time, I can imagine needing touch even more. You can see the look of peace on her face during this moment at Christmas. Her skin is amazingly soft and delicate. I study and honor her body as a map for where I might one day land : if life is generous enough to grant me those years. In our dialogue about body positivity, I'd like to remind us to pay special attention to the bodies of elder women. They are beautiful, they are sacred, they have sacrificed much for us and deserve the same tender touch and care we so readily give to a child. ❤️🙌🏼✨ . #bodypositive #touch #massage #notjustforyouth #elder #care #grandmothers #gramma #beautifulbodies #allages #elderwomen #touchheals #honortheelders #firecracker #dot #love #february #givelove
Timing is a funny thing. . The more I learn, in my body and my mind, how we truly ARE nature, not just a part of it, the more humbled I am - the more I trust the act of surrender. . Everything comes and goes in its due time - and often, that's not up to us to decide, or even know in advance. Our job is to stay tuned in, and flow - which is never easy, especially when it's not what we wanted, planned or hoped for. . I find these lessons most fierce in the winter months. I find myself still rebelling against the deep freeze of life, productivity, creativity, and even health that the winter brings. It's a challenge to live in a world that asks us to not be nature, to not be animal, shifting, changing, adapting, malleable, multi-faceted, and instead to be more machine, constant, steadily productive, a sameness day in and day out that for me tears away vitalness. . I believe that this is why so many of us are excavating the old rituals and ceremonies, patterns of life and breath that were forgotten mere centuries ago, and speak to the seasons in our bones. Our survival, our heart health, joy, and aliveness is at risk as we are being called to protect it. . This is what Spiritual Archaeology is to me: a rebellion against our forgetful society - an opportunity to live as nature and discover that texture of life, together. . Apparently, January was not the month for us to gather together again - and looking back, that's okay. I bow to the deep healing and insight that bed-rest and even illness offered me. But now, I humbly send out another call, like a wolf in the deep snow, to you, my fellow pack member, let's try again! Awoooooo!! . Our new session dates fall now with the new moon and the energy of intention . WARMING THE SHAMAN'S CAVE will begin: . SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3rd until SUNDAY MARCH 10th. . Our winter practice will include: . GENTLE MOVEMENT: Kripalu Yoga to release tension and cold. . SHAMANIC JOURNEYING: To play in the expansiveness of our imagination and subconscious, seeking to revive the birthright of insight and intuition. . ANIMAL MEDICINE: Through autonomous journeying, you will discover your own animal guides as they present themselves.