We typically categorize protection responses as hyper-active (fight, flight), hypo-active (freeze, fawn). It recently hit me: this framework of categorizing protection responses is all about quantity of energy output. What could be more capitalist?

As I envision new Fall offerings, I’ve been reflecting on what it means to reconnect to our intuition. That felt sense of knowing, rooted and connected— like the soul sighing. An overview of the framework of the elements, which has been key for me in returning to my intuition.

There is so much mystery in creative process. Creativity is not only holding space for volatility, but respecting chaos as a vital ingredient.

When I need a deep reset, pilates is where I turn. A breath practice at its core, pilates re-awakens connections throughout the body.

I made my first zine!! The process was so generative—chatting to friends, learning, exploring, deciding on the type, figuring out the formatting. And then finally writing, printing and FOLDING, which may be my favorite part. Handing out the first physical batch today was so special.

Voice, trauma and power are inextricably linked, and voice is essential to liberatory work. Traumatic experiences can deeply rupture our self-trust, especially when we don't understand why our bodies are doing what they are doing.

I’ve been reflecting on how often we’re taught to fear our inner fire, to dampen and control. Fire can be incredibly disruptive, especially when wielded with skill.

VOICE is a powerful healing and liberatory force, both voice as expression and physical voice. Voice is also a channel into our own truth and complexity.

Our summer theme, voice of fire, is all about channeling anger into clear voice. If you are not full of anger, are you even paying attention?? Our basic survival instinct and love of life demand anger.

As we close our May theme, thawing freeze states, I have been reflecting on the state of my body in early 2021, when I was coming out of a deep prolonged freeze. As I started to feel again, I realized I had so much bunched up tension and pain— my left hip, lower back, shoulders, heel— all of my body was screaming for care. Posture is physical, emotional, relational...

Often the first step of moving out of chronic freeze cycles is seeing how NATURAL this space is, especially in the context of oppression. An overview of protection responses & writeup of breath practice.

Freeze states are a natural response to the Tower— a time of deep upheaval, where we are actively tearing away the foundations that we once believed support us. While we strive for a sense of home, The Fool is here to remind us that our imagination can be a wildly generative, powerful space.

Our May theme is Thawing Freeze Cycles, and one day in I can already feel how essential this is— Because collapsed and drained is where oppressors want us. These acts of terror are meant to traumatize not just those directly impacted, but all of us who dare to raise our voices for justice.

Anger is not only a natural emotion, it is a source of protection, clarity and power that oppressed people are systematically cut off from by design.

U.S. democracy is not backsliding, it has already collapsed. We are not doomed to fascism, but we have to claim our power. I won’t pretend to have answers, but I have thoughts about our path forward

Teachings are always translated through the body of the person offering them, and all of their unexamined conditioning….Not only did these teachers lack understanding of what racial discrimination means, they often warped Buddhist teachings in service of white supremacy.

Across the U.S. and world, people using their voices to call for Palestinian freedom & to end the genocide have faced violence, job loss, doxxing, harassment, and more. Why are our voices so threatening? Because our voices can tear down the illusions necessary to colonialism.

Whatever your resources and capabilities, there are ways you can have an impact. List in progress and updated daily.

I AM DISGUSTED by the manipulative simplicity with which Biden is discussing Gaza & Israel. The dangerous erasure of historical context, in service of oppression and genocide.

The moon was always a presence in my life. Floating through poems and songs, a prominent guest in Zen texts, an anchor in the sky. I had no idea how much would shift when I began collaborating with the lunar cycle a few years ago.