March 2025~ Erasure is one of colonization’s most effective and inhumane strategies for collective silencing and oppression. Googling an online dictionary, the definition of erasure is: the removal of all…
February 2025~ I became a Continuum teacher in 2006. Continuum is al ife and movement practice created over many years by somatic pioneer Emilie Conrad. When I first experienced Emilie’s…
January 2025~ One of my favorite Christmas presents from this recent holiday is this license plate (above). I’m going to put it on the front of my car, so it…
We need the light because we are the light. And yet, we are, and need, the darkness too. Our inner landscapes exist in darkness. Visible light may enter our superficial…
December 2024~ I just watched the movie White Bird on a flight, and even through the tiny airplane screens, I found elements of this film quite impactful. I imagine a…
November 2024~ In September’s newsletter I alluded to writing about Haiti and the Haitian community in this newsletter. November is always potent with its first day, the Day of the…
October 2024~ Many of my Indigenous teachers remind me to enter spaces in the natural world consciously. Whether going for an ocean swim, taking a nap in a forest or…
September 2024~ We all enter spaces: Walk through doorways. Jump in a pool, or the ocean. Step into a meadow. Open a fence gate and enter a garden. Daily, annually,…
August 2024~ Every Sunday, I join a small group of Santa Feans to feed prairie dogs who live, as most now do, crammed in a triangular wedge of dry dusty…
