The plants need to be watered. My mind stirs My thoughts obsess I attach cling, crave The plants need to be watered. The energy of a bustling metropolis housed in the emotional vessel of a desert landscape Parched, desperate The plants need to be watered. The earth is nourished as the soil moistens The ground … Continue reading Sunday Morning Musings: The Plants Need to Watered

To desire the ‘pulling up’ … of something. To cast. To wait. And then a bite … followed by a reeling in. The resulting fear and excitement to see what is on the other end. A panic followed by a reflection. A state of awe that THIS is what surfaced. A pause. Now what? We … Continue reading hooking the unconscious

I am coming out of a ‘state’. I am surfacing from a ‘space’. I am noticing a shift. My energy is moving. This is the language that I use in session, as a therapist, to describe and understand emotions. This is the language that I use with myself, to describe and understand emotions. I find … Continue reading surfacing

In the current climate, the desire to split has become increasingly prevalent. Split? It is this way or that way … this is right and that is wrong … my mood is either up or down. When we split, we sever connection. Two opposing things, actions, objects, feelings, sensations can occur at the same time. … Continue reading vibration v. ambivalence

I am interested in moving the breath down…. I have become increasingly aware of the addiction to ‘up’ …. In my personal asana practice, there has been a realization to the many years that I have unknowingly (unconsciously) spent in a state of activation. As I am increasingly attuned to the subtlety and complexity of … Continue reading The diaphragm: The seed of the ‘A-ha’ moment