This year, as we celebrate Thanksgiving in the United States, it is clear we are living in a time with an intensity of national news and world events that can easily draw us off center, into the past, or cause us to wonder how to make sense out of the future. This quote by Melody Beattie brings…
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Discover the Joys of Movement
This feels like a good time to share an excerpt from my Wellness Wisdom: 31 Ways to Nourish Your Mind, Body, & Spirit book (2nd ed. 2011). If you would appreciate inspiration and encouragement about choosing a joyful way to move, then you’ll enjoy this! Chapter 15 Discover the Joys of Movement Years ago I…
Where are you supposed to be?
Last June I was walking along the Edmonds Beach in Washington as I frequently did during the 16 years I lived close to the Puget Sound. As I walked, I was reflecting about the fact that four Nia studios had closed behind me in the past six months and I was clearly feeling like…
Deer, Wild Turkeys, Cardinals, & Vitamins
I am sitting in my new country bedroom looking out into the snowy woods as I write. Seven, yes seven, deer are gently grazing outside my window. (The deer is my spirit animal!) As many of you know, in 2016 my Nia classes were few and far between because The Dance Space closed, other studios…
A wish for peace in 2017
Peace on Earth . . . As the calendar presents us with the end of a year and the promise of new beginnings, I wish you a vision of expanded wellness that contains much love and peace. My intention is to be the place where peace and love shows up, even when it’s difficult. What’s your…
13 Tips for Transformational Wellness
“All transformation begins with an intense burning desire to be transformed.” ~Wayne Dyer Do you have this intense burning desire to transform a part of you life that isn’t serving you? Are you looking for a little less stress in your life? Are you desiring to feel more love? Do you want to feel really, really well?…
The Space In Between
A few days ago, the management of the beautiful dance space where I have been teaching Nia for nine years gave us a week’s notice to cancel further classes and return our keys. My last class there will be Saturday morning, December 20. When I read the email notification, I immediately went into a very…
Affirmations for Your Wellness Path
We have over 60,000 thoughts a day and most of them were also bonking around in our heads yesterday. These thoughts most often reflect our subconscious beliefs. So, the power in a positive affirming statement is that it can slowly but surely become a welcome part of those repetitive thoughts and eventually become a belief….
Practice Peace
ARE YOU READY FOR MORE PEACE TO ENTER YOUR HEART AND LIFE? It seems like a good time to share an excerpt from the “Practice Peace” chapter in my Wellness Wisdom book to offer you a generous helping of nourishing peace. Peace begins at home, home within the center of each of us. Our peaceful…
The book I didn’t write in 1985
As many of you know, my first book, Into the Mouths of Babes, was published in 1984. But it seems a year later I had another book in mind. My daughter recently came across this piece of yellow construction paper with a list I wrote in 1985 of 14 things I could do every day…