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How Might We Embody Earthseed/Parable of the Sower teachings?
We tend to live in concepts, and Octavia Butler’s Earthseed isn’t a conceptual invitation: it is about the here,…
Bravery is Generative
...embodiment is brave work, and, bravery is generative, allowing us to be generative humans co-creating this life together
Poetry Re-Membering Me
I am grateful for spaces and places that allow for words to come. Words which help me to process…
Seeing through Distortions and Choosing the Present Moment.
My heart had been burning for days, and thank goodness my dreams like to help me process while I’m…
Be Who You Are: Living as an Empowered Participant in Your Life (MIE 2024)
Some understanding of what it is to be a human being, and especially a human being in relationship with…
Intentional Transformation: A Guided Rest Meditation of Releasing and Receiving
It can be powerful to connect with what we are willing to release, what we are opening to receive,…
A sneak preview into 2024 Matrix Integration Exploration
Over the course of MIE, I’ve so clearly witnessed the impact of these simple practices and this welcoming community,…
A New Relationship with My Hungry Ghost
She's a hungry ghost- insatiable, while yearning to be satiated. I sit with her. I have a newfound patience…
Trusting Life as a Sexual Assault Survivor
I am on a journey of discovering, not perfection, and in that journey there will be moments where I…
Trusting Life Enough to Pause and Feel Through
As I stepped outside into the sun, the tears flowed. And flowed. I wasn’t sure when they’d stop. I…
Forgiveness: Tending our Hurts with Kindness
I choose to connect with forgiveness in a more liberatory way, where it is not about shame, blame, fault,…
Trusting life, Remembering True Belonging
While we might be on capitalism’s hierarchical stepladder differently based on our various privileges, we are all less different…
How do you Trust Life When you have Vertigo?
For me, vigilance can show up in a number of ways, but basically the subtext is “you’re in danger!…
Trusting Life: a Series of Posts Chronicalling Internal Wounds Wanting Love
We break that cycle with love, and compassion. When “love becoming” happens, when these unloved aspects surface to be…
GenXers, I love us
Gen X’ers, I really do love you. I mean, us. There’s something rather delightful about having clients from this…
Consent! Live IG Aug 9th, 9am EST
Consent! Phewwweeeeeee this is a huge topic. Consent is all about choice, and choice is connected with empowerment… and…
Cleaning out the Cobwebs of Lovability
Breathing with and feeling through these questions was un.com.fort.able for awhile. Tears, somatic gripping, mental story telling cycled through…
Let’s be Love Renegades Together
But a lot of us are ready. We’ve been waiting. We’ve been desiring to know and live through our…
Developing Trust with Life
As I listened back to the podcast I did in February, I could hear how I could this podcast…
Reclaiming language, and a new podcast!!!
I'm continuing to allow myself to connect to core words of creation, I’m allowing myself to unmask, **knowing** that…
Being Available With Life
I have one precious life here. I want to spend it most connected to my true desires, my purpose,…
Becoming conscious of the unconscious allows empowerment
I invite you to be curious about what may lie just beneath your conscious awareness, that, when you slow…
Trust your Gut? Regulate your Brain and Nervous System First.
Being able to regulate ourselves- to move ourselves from being in the fear centers of the brain, to the…
Life is Art
The fire that magnetizes all things make all things exquisite. water drops of reflection, of everything.
Being in Life, With Each Other
While I don’t always trust people, I trust Being in Life. There’s depth in that clarity that feels simple…
The Art of Reclaiming Attention, and our Wholeness
Emotional negligence or other kinds of abuse, makes for a busy brain. For any survivor there is a learned…
Matrix Gathering: Learn, Discover, Deepen
Simple mind/body practices, which help to regulate the brain and nervous system, that shift our conditioned ways of responding within…
The Inner Child & Adulting: A Relationship of Discovery & Emancipation
We will be centering pieces of writing that lift up the journey of becoming conscious participants who are in…
Slowing down with Peat Moss and Discovering our Interdependency
I am excited to be a presenter August 31, 12pm-2pm, EST for the zoom session “Slowing down with Peat…
Guest Blog Post: How can Anat Baniel MethodⓇ NeuroMovementⓇ help us navigate grief?
I’m excited to share a blog post from Ana Maria Pardo this month! How can Anat Baniel MethodⓇ NeuroMovementⓇ…
Opening the Doors to Psychonaut Explorations
I watch how my young one’s energy maneuvers to try to have control. I notice their wanting of familiarity…
The Mutuality of Birth and Death
Maybe you’re on this journey of discovery too. Maybe you too feel insecure. Scarcity. Doubt. Maybe you’re aware of…
Growing Our Seeds Together
“my heart is burning, my body trembling. I am grateful and I have grief. so much realness these days.…
Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The Collective, and Possibilities through Liberatory Writing
Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The Collective, and Possibilities through Liberatory Writing I am so excited to share an…
Discovering Empowerment Together- March and April Gathering
Discovering Empowerment Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find spaces and people…
Deepening into Self, Deepening into Health
So many of us are great at taking care of our clients, family members or friends. We know how…
Restoring Integrity
The phrase “eat crow” came into my attention this morning. I’m not sure if it’s a phrase I grew…
New Life through Communities of Practice
When we have healthy Communities of Practice, our nervous system and psyches learn that although we may have experienced…
Writing as a Tool of Discovery and Transformation
**Updated: Season 1 is now 4 sessions instead of 6, and is now open for individual session drop-in at $25/class.…
There is a Transformative Way to be With Life
“You’re naive. You’re being an idealist. You’re not in touch with reality.” I these messages came hard at me…
We Can Learn Presence
Rumi’s The Guest House is centered in every course I lead, so when I heard it this morning, it…
Staying Aligned with You in 2022
“What is keeping me from being present?” This is a gently and curiously held question that keeps me company…
Empowerment through Embodiment: Jan/Feb Gathering Dates
Discovering Empowerment Together Through Embodiment It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find spaces…
Moving Forward into the Solstice Light!
This is a time when the sun rises out of the darkness, and we have the opportunity to as…
Safe Ways to Slow Down as we Discern, Connect, and Enjoy the Journey!
Ana Maria from Move and Bloom and I have been recording “walk and wonder” chats, but today our “walk…
A YouTube: Discovering the Possibility of Living from Being after a Childhood of Urgency
Today’s YouTube- Discovering the Possibility of Living from Being after a Childhood of Urgency To live from another way…
Journeying Through Childhood Energies
Journeying with unmet energies of our young years is trippy because we can easily perceive that we, as our…
What Do You Desire?
I desire community and intimate connections that are generative- life giving and life promoting- and are in integrity. I…
I Pray For my Enemies
I Pray For my Enemies. It matches my desire to serve god, to serve love, and to find all…
Mental Health and Well-Being Professionals Committed to Change: MIE2022
Mental health and well-being professionals committed to change – this is for you! “I had a tremendous experience in…
A Letting Go… A Filling up…
A letting go, and a filling up, are happening simultaneously. A releasing of falsity, as wholeness is remembered and…
Through What Lens Do You See the World?
With sustained practice and gentle deepening into uncovering the limitations our trauma-installed limitations, we start to develop an increased…
Re-wiring to Discover a New Reality
If we want something different, then we have to connect to and introduce something new. Old patterning can keep…
A Weekend of Knowing Love: Zoom retreat
Our time together will be filled with spaciousness and creatively designed opportunities for us to slow down, receive, and…
Grief opening up to Possibility: Retreat moving to Zoom!
As I shared this new vision with clients I got immediate positive feedback- they were so excited about being…
Learning how to Include More, to Shift our Reality
For some of us, it’s easier to center fear. But obviously that is no way to live. Just like…
Scarcity and Abundance
Scarcity. Abundance. Phew. I have a scarcity shadow. I’ve been writing about it more and named it in the…
Connecting to Enoughness
Inspired by a client's question, this guided rest mediation invites us to connect somatically to the topic of “enoughness.”…
A Conversation about Knowing Love
Ana Maria Pardo from "Move and Bloom" and I had a passionate conversation. We love the work we do…
2022 Matrix Integration Exploration
This is transformational work, and you will have a community of practice to support you along the way.
dear girl- A Book of Poetry
I don't often recommend books, and when i do it is very intentionally. Survivors, you will be seen, touched,…
Reclaiming mySelf
Part of the journey as a survivor is untangling the stories we had to weave to survive through those…
Taking Off Masks Together
Being with others who are dancing the dance of un-masking makes it hella easier.
Exploring Being Committed without Attachment
I don’t control what is outside of me, but I do have choice with how I engage with life.…
We Can Know Love: Being Together on Zoom (edited)
I’m so excited to tell you about the zoom retreat October 22, 23, 24! But first, let me tell…
Stepping into the Unknown, Back Then.
Sometimes a whole lot of something can be created from what seems like nothing.
Participating in Life through Self-Love
It is my practices (read more here, here, and here) that allow me to STAY IN LIFE, when so…
August/September/October Embodied Gathering: Let’s Get Real
In this group we are real with each other. We show up as we are, with whatever is going…
Loving Large in a World that Wants to Control Love
I am enlivened, inspired, and expanded by these connections that take me deeper into the unknown. It is here…
Our shared experience with gravity
Our shared experience with gravity In this guided rest Lisa will invite you to connect with gravity. The…
Activism and Integrative Exploration: a Necessary Pairing
We can say we want to dismantle racism, or shift patriarchy, or be inclusive (or, or, or) but if…
Moments of Listening, Slowing down, and Receiving
Life, as busy as ever, continues to open her hand to me, as if to say, "here, come."
You Can Be Yourself
Just a sentence that conveyed so much. My heart swelled, and it transmitted something deep into my being: Just…
Exploring the Perceived Mental and Being Reality
Exploring the Perceived Mental and Being Reality In this 20 minute guided rest Lisa will invite you to…
Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The Collective, and Possibilities through Liberatory Writing
I am so excited to share an upcoming offering with all of you: Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The…
Being ReBorn
I have so many questions these days: Who am I without the ideas/fantasies that sell me false truths? Who am…
Life Sings Me a Love Song
life sings me a love song, a beckoning from the beyond to travel into the beyond. past what I’ve…
The Day After
I wonder how far back we’ll have to remember, to re-member ourselves as people who co-create futures that honor…
Standing Rest
Standing Rest In this meditation we will try a different form of exploring your body. Lisa will guide…
Slow Unfoldings
This morning, a scent grabbed me, nuzzling a part of me that had been slumbering all these winter months.…
Life’s weaving as HerSelf
I will be writing a poem per day during the month of April, and will be studying the Kybalion during…
Discovery in Being Lost
Letting myself be lost... staying in beginner’s mind- it is the deepest invitation these days for me. I watch…
A Slow Down, A Wake Up
I feel beginner’s mind especially strong right now, not so much by choosing, but in that it’s found me-…
Supporting Ourselves in Moments of Challenge
Supporting Ourselves in Moments of Challenge This is 23 minute guided rest was done during a Gathering in which…
Gentle Grounding
Gentle Grounding Lisa helps us discover how we can gently ground ourselves in that which is supportive, so…
Using Practices to Survive
I have utilized many practices to survive, and many to thrive. And sometimes they weave together, as is often…
Seeing Beyond the Curtain
As I type this I am reminded of all the spiritual "wake ups" that I have had in my…
Rest Singing Bowl
Rest Singing Bowl In this rest we get intimate with the here and now, consciously cognitively exploring our…
Opening up to the senses
Opening up to the senses Connecting to our senses may help break our minds free of debilitating thought…
Exploring into Purpose
Exploring into Purpose Purpose came up today in 3 client sessions. What a rich topic to explore! I…
Are You Connected with Your Orgasm?
Are You Connected with Your Orgasm? “How do we live, love, suck, f*ck and liberate ourselves? How come we’re…
Solstice Mediation
Solstice Mediation In this Solstice rest meditation I guide our nervous systems into a state of somatic receptivity…
Exploring Discomfort
Exploring Discomfort In this video the 3 recent blog posts about discomfort will be read to you.
Trust the details of Love
I am not supposed to know details. Where I came from, when she died, what they escaped, what came…
Waking out of oppressive matrixes, inside and out, into Love
Transform yourself to transform the world… Grace Lee Boggs What’s going on? Across the world, cities are coming alive…
Earthseed Octavia E. Butler
This is a 17 minute rest from a gathering based on Octavia E. Butler’s poem, Earthseed. Know that in…
Evolving Through Deep Questions
This is an excerpt from a larger piece… shared the day I graduated from the WWFaC conscious leadership training.…
Our Connective Dance of Fear, Hopes and Dreams.
This was originally titled on the Living Inquiries web site as “Fear, Hope and Dreams… and Connection“
What Shape Waits in the Seed?…..
We experimented in one of the gatherings from last month…. This led to the following rest. Enjoy!
Be more available for your life!
Be more available for your life! “Learning more about embodiment practices and the nervous system has really shifted…
Loosening the Grip of Oppression
Our own internal oppression is linked to oppression that exists in the world, and vice versa. Waking up necessities…
The Hidden Liberation in Exploring our Shoulds
“Exploring “Should Energy” As A Way To Increase Self-Awareness”
Heart-Work; Guiding us Forward
Heart-Work; Guiding us Forward This was first published on the Living Inquires web site as Part 2- Social Justice,…
Honoring Lived Experiences
Affirmations can create more cognitive dissonance, and suffering, when they are not coming from lived truth.
Opening the Doors to Freedom
Synopsis: Exploring our psyches reveals our unconscious meaning making with regards to love, greatly impacting our life and our…
Navigating the Process of Personal Evolution: The Death of the Psyche
Along the journey of waking up, there are tearing downs. As we add acknowledgment, we can give space to…
Gravity: a new exploration of surrender
A curious way to connect with and learn about our experiences- and how we habitually and unknowingly hold ourselves…
Aha! Moments: the first steps to sustainable wisdom
Turning Aha! moments into sustainable life enriching expressions takes willingness and readiness. Here’s some useful steps to support your…
