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Opening Up! Let’s Practice
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” ~Deepak Chopra Let’s break out of our comfort zone! Let’s break … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking/Food, Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged comfort zone, cooking, dancing, energizing, experimenting, fresh, movement, newness, opening up, possibility, practice, quotes, uncertainty, vitality
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Your Shimmering Treasures
What a rocky start to the week. Very sad family news one day followed by a day of heightened anxiety about a distressing local emergency. Both mornings, I sat with my head in my hands, stopped in my tracks. I … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Inspiration, Kindness/Generosity, possibility and expansiveness, Santa Hat/Christmas
Tagged Christmas, Connection, dancing, expansiveness, Generosity, hero, hero journey, inimitable, inner treasures, Joy, light, practice, Saint Teresa's prayer, Santa, Santa Claus, shimmer
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Compromise and Integrity: Life Lessons from Dancing
How do we hold onto our integrity? What do we choose to give up when we can’t “have it all?” That’s what yesterday’s fabulous and challenging dance class raised for me. The questions came up as I stood on the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Inspiration, Mindful, possibility and expansiveness
Tagged artistic, artistic vision, challenge, choices, compromise, concession, dancing, identity, integrity, Joseph Campbell, life lessons, marsh, meaning, meaningful, movement, Pina Bausch, possibility, quotes, values, What do you stand for, what's important, wholeness
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Epic Life
Originally posted on Sirena Tales:
Surfing 50 foot waves? How do you train for that, let alone do it? As a 16-year-old, no less. The fam just watched “Chasing Mavericks” again, based on the true story of Jay Moriarity whose…
nature keeps the beat
a lone deer drifts from his woodsy home, onto the knowing marsh like a question transfixed as he is now by the grandeur a great blue heron’s stature then unrushed bows, entering nature’s hushed pavane the surest rhythms the purest grace … Continue reading
Next Stop, Transcendence
I don’t actually know if that will be the next stop. What I do know, as I get ready to go to dance, is that if I don’t shift gears now, transcendence won’t be on the itinerary any time soon. … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Mindful, Soulful
Tagged awareness, being present, commitment, dancing, flow state, Inspiration, meaningful, mindful, miracles, movement, openness, optimal experience, passion, possibility and expansiveness, practice, quotes, self, transcendence
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dancing with the deer
it’s a borderland this place where I dance my reverence a humble offering to the world, an in between place, fluid dissolving into earth and reversing where, if you believe, murky mists dispersing birth faeries and earthly dreams, and it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, poetry, Soulful
Tagged borderland, Dance, dancing, deer, dreams, faeries, grace, healing, healing dance, hope, in between, Inspiration, marsh, movement, nature, nature's beauty, poetry, possibility and expansiveness, reverence, sea, threshold, water
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So, You Used To Be A Dancer?: Life Lessons from Dancing
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Photo credit: Nikki Carrara “I can tell you used to be a dancer,” the well-meaning, sixtyish woman confided to me as we left the dance fitness class. “I could see by the way you moved…
Posted in Inspiration
Tagged alive, artist, authenticity, Dance, dancer, dancing, defining success, follow your heart, Joy, movement, passion, personal calling, quotes, vibrancy, vitality, vitalizing
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How Dancing Saved My Life
Sounds dramatic, right? Yet, I realized once again last week that the seeming hyperbole is actually spot on in so many ways. I had been sitting alone in my kitchen, crying. Feeling powerless to help my husband who was in … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Soulful
Tagged body, body wisdom, Dance, dancing, empowerment, expansive, healing, Inspiration, movement, passion, physical, positivity, possibility and expansiveness, question assumptions, quotes, relieving stress, spiritual, transcendence, vibrancy
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