Begin again...green rising from the soil. Spring time is my favorite season of the year where everything comes back to life. Love is made visible. Everywhere I look outside my home...it is training my nervous system to be at peace. Love, gentleness, grounding, perspective and returning to spring green in my heart. After a long, cold winter's rest, the yard's buried treasures begin again to wake up, without fail. I love to watch them slowly and gracefully emerge from the e

I woke up at 5 a.m. and slowly descended the stairs in my dark and quiet home. I walked into the kitchen and mindfully fill the coffee carafe with filtered water from the refrigerator. As the carafe fills, I begin with standing grounded on the wood floor. I imagine I am standing on a wood floor in a yoga studio. As I inhale, I flex my feet and lift up onto the balls of my feet pause for a moment and slowly lower back down onto my heels as I lift my toes on the exhale. A fl

Lake Pepin at Dawn Inhaling peace and exhaling gratitude is a practice you can feel in your body. There is a lightness felt in your chest. Similar to how the dawn begins in your heart way before it breaks over the horizon. A steady breath has already settled in. This embodiment practice you feel gives your nervous system time to rearrange itself. You are learning a new rhythm. A rhythm to be the peace you want to see, feel, and know in this world and wrap that peace in

I wrote this meditation this morning as I reminded myself, it is spring, but it sure looks and feels a whole lot like winter. After...