Did you know the words heal and whole share etymological roots? Believe it or not, healing energy is flowing everywhere all the time. (And if you don’t believe it, I invite you to get curious about how your body and breath hold on to that thought.) It is something we can connect to, and it connects us all in wholeness. It is not something that must, or even could, be generated by our sweet, messy, little human will power, even if we tried (though bless us for trying). It is something to be accessed, and we access it best by continuously clearing all of the many intricate strategies we have developed over time that interfere with it.
Sense and Be Sensed
Somatic work is to become more conscious of ourselves as beings that process the energy of all that is through our senses. We explore how to sense ourselves, and then we continuously refine how we make sense of what we are sensing! But we don’t just sense ourselves to exist in an isolated vacuum. We do so to shift all of our connections and relationships, to our family, our lovers, our friends, our neighbors, our cities, our earth, and beyond. To clearly, deeply, and fully sense yourself, and to allow yourself to be clearly, deeply, and fully sensed by another is an act of vital resistance in our world where closing off, running away, and shutting down might seem like the only viable option.
Release your butt™
Release your butt™ first occurred to me in 2021 while I was collaborating on a project focused on undoing white supremacy in the Alexander Technique. I realized there is a link for me between my whiteness and my patterns of tension. Born from my irreverently reverent nature, this phrase helped shift something in my soma along with putting a big old grin on my face.
Today I’m delighted to announce the Release your butt™ line of hats, mugs, and totes.
Honoring Your Heart
Three Cheers for Despair!!!
Hope is a prized value woven prominently into the fabric of America. Our culture urges us not to sit in the discomfort of despair. We insist on striving for a hopeful outlook no matter how bleak the circumstances. However, I write this in defense of despair. Allowing ourselves to be with this discomfort can act as a catalyst for change. Rather than thinking in mutually exclusive terms: hope or despair, I’d like to propose a spectrum containing both.



