Sounding as a practice…

on Apr 24, 2021

Sounding… The practice of using our voices to heal and engage goes back, well, probably as far as we do as a species. Through Continuum, I have deepened into my understanding of how I can use sound to meet myself in more and more subtle ways. I have also seen how this ability to explore and engage through sounding in particular has helped me to discover and know things that go well beyond this body. So today, I thought I would share some thoughts on sounding.   We are creatures of connection, sounding is one of the ways we can do this. It is one of the ways we touch the world, offering something of ourselves. It is one of the ways we exchange with life inside our own living system and each other- through voice, body sounds, or vibration. Whether we make any vocalization or not, our bodies are already sounding.  If a body is alive, that body is making sound. Whether that is in a...

Fluid Strength- Inspiration from the Animas

on Nov 19, 2020

One of my loves and passions is teaching Continuum, or rather I should say sharing vs teaching as truly, it is our own fluid intelligence that is the teacher in Continuum.  In some of my more recent series we’ve looked at resiliency, developed deep listening and surrender, and in the one I led in September, we explored our fluid strength. The theme for “Fluid Strength” came to me as I was finishing writing another workshop.  I knew that would be the title of the next series, but I did not yet know what the series would look like or the exact direction it would take (more lessons from water…). Rick, the pup, and I were able to take a little long weekend escape to the mountains and on this rainy lucky morning I found myself up early with no one else around. So, I offered myself the rare treat of stepping out into the world before doing treatments. I walked myself down...