Recently my boys and I decided to create art from nature found objects.  We made little paintbrushes from dried, stripped and frayed yucca leaves, paste from ground mesquite beans, and textures from leaves, fibers and dirt.  We smashed up and grinded flower petals, seeds, cacti and pomegranate fruit to make rich colors and we painted […]

  As we step a month deeper into 2013 may we be inspired to step deeper into the Sacred Feminine within all beings.   This is the year when the feminine energy is remembered, reawakened, and honored. There is feminine presence in all expressions of creation, so gentlemen you are not off the hook.  This time […]

I am continuously enamored and inspired by the diverse beauty and intelligence of the natural world.  I spend most of my time outside, on a mountain, in my garden, at the park.  I study the behavior of plants and animals. I attune my senses to the elements and the sensations they evoke within my being.  […]

I integrate various modalities in my healing work to promote restoration on all dimensions of self.  Many times with clients we simply establish talk-therapy, other times we move the body through yoga or a somatic, releasing practice.  Sometimes we establish sacred practice and meditation, and most of the time I combine them all.  Regardless, each […]

As the green summer leaves fade like a watercolor into golden ambers and mustards, the old China Berry tree facing the west of my yard begins to shed again.  This is the Earth’s way of telling me October has arrived bearing a season of transition.  With it comes the early set of a resting sun, […]