Self-Care Discoveries Blog
PILGRIMAGE IN A PANDEMIC
do the neighbors up the street think me strange for going a few times a day to stand under their tree? for looking up under it at the pink and blue at the birds that swim through at the…
BOTH / AND
BOTH / AND at 12:15pm, i sit in my living room (same thing every day) at 4pm, something different every day (dancing in my living room yesterday, tai chi / qigong in my backyard today...naked feet,…
grief: because to return to old ways of life only leads to death
i grieve i grieve the ill the dead those who care for them for those who wish they did i grieve for ones who have not yet awakened that this is a brand new day but most of all i grieve my life, for…
DAY ZERO, YEAR ZERO
DAY ZERO, YEAR ZERO Something in me knew I needed to finish this book I had begun over a year ago . . . When We Rise by activist Cleve Jones. In it, Jones chronicles his ‘life in the movement’ for…
a new friend?
i enjoy one of winter’s last night-time skies a new season dawning arriving unfurling herself — life! and yet so much of me all human life (?) wants a bug to die (I fear it too) disrupting slowing…
retreat, restore, re-vision...
As our Ohio governor was announcing wisely the closing of schools, we had decided to close VITALITY through at least March 23 with an aim toward health and safety for us all. And as I went outside to…
'a healer in every home'
Emergency room nurse Janet Mentgen knew that more was possible with her patients who were in terrible pain. So Janet studied with a medical doctor who was using hands-on healing techniques with his…
Tolo Naa...may his memory be a blessing for our whole world!
I felt very powerfully one of my tai chi / qigong teachers today as I played with these moving/breathing styles. Nganga Mfundishi Tolo Naa was among the greats on the planet. The Medicine Man. The…
a very different yoga...
our yoga classes are more sensation-oriented than physically-rigorous... perhaps hearkening back to the roots of yoga 3000+ years ago... more of an invitation to knowing oneself and choosing to live…
SELF-CARE is WORLD-CARE!
How? When I... ...sit with a cup of tea and stare into space and realize it’s all going to be okay, the bigger picture of all things...the meditation that comes, that first begins with a storm of…