Writings from the Heart

Coyote Medicine

Coyote Medicine

I saw the coyote peering back at me through the sagebrush. So highly attentive and tuned into the world around her, she was aware of my presence even with the window and adobe wall between us. With ease and grace, she turned away and disappeared among the trees. Even...

Thunder Beings, Lightning & Butterfly

Thunder Beings, Lightning & Butterfly

Our New Moon gathering, a Throwing of the Bones Ceremony, was immersed in a field of magic. We were joined by booming Thunder Beings, crackling jolts of Lightning, Winds and Rains. Just as I began describing the medicine of Butterfly who is sitting in the heart of the...

River Rock

River Rock

I was instructed by the spirits to find a special stone to bring to ceremony with groups of people. This guidance was perplexing. I’d recently moved across the country and just had let go of my license as a psychologist. Most everything in my life felt unsettled. My...

Behind the Masks

Behind the Masks

These past few months, I’ve been learning about masks. How to sew them. When to wear them. How to navigate six-feet of separation. How to communicate with muffled words and smiles unseen. For the past twenty years, I've been learning about masks in a different kind of...

From the Inside Out

From the Inside Out

How can we heal the legacies of trauma and rebuild our lives and our world? Listen to these clips for guidance from Throwing of the Bones Ceremony. Vision & Root   From the Inside Out Pathway to New Beginnings  ...

Sacred Ground for Grief

Sacred Ground for Grief

I went to the red rock mesas to be in ceremony to grieve for so many with so many for so much I went to the red rock mesas to sit on sacred grounds to breathe - everybody's birthright to listen to be in the field of a wide-open embrace of the unbound love for all...

When the Light Gets In

When the Light Gets In

    "There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen Here we are in a global pandemic. Not the first time as humans. Not the first immense shifting in life on our planet. Still, here we are. I’m wondering how you're...

Spaciousness

Spaciousness

In the midst of quarantines and closures within each of us lives a spaciousness ready and waiting to be found. You are as vast as a star. Mother Earth is showing us the instinctive power of healing in what looks like magic in the organic unfolding in just a few weeks:...

Song Ceremony (free audio)

Song Ceremony (free audio)

Finding Your Song Ceremony is a traditional ceremony in the Ka Ta See lineage. This guided ceremony is a pathway for remembering your natural way of being ~ loving, aware, awake, connected, peaceful, playful, creative, knowing, curious...and so much more. [button...

Today I Saw a Butterfly

Today I Saw a Butterfly

Today I saw a butterfly her blue speckled wings glistened in the sunlight the magic of her metamorphosis danced around in the winds. She flew over the sagebrush and landed on red sandy soil resting awhile opening and closing her wings a silent rhythmic drumbeat...

Beyond the Fears

Beyond the Fears

Remembering What Lives Beyond the Fears With the escalation of fears, we often get lost in overwhelm and powerlessness, blaming and judging, and the survival mode patterns of fight or flight or freeze. While tending to physical health in our personal and collective...

Living the Love

Living the Love

If we're waiting for somebody else to change, to start loving or stop hating, we’re placing the power for change-making directly in their hands. Rendering ourselves powerless. Relinquishing our dreams. Love is our nature. Our genuine human nature. Claim the beauty and...