Mist and fog coat the Nihonjin mountain landscape and Zen permeates every moment.  I am totally blessed to be able to live this life and have the opportunity to serve like this. Spirit warms my heart and people innocently awaken my humanity.  Japan offers a broadening breath to my already full life – all my [...]

I have a habit of finding my meditation in the deep purple of night, a throwback from waking at three a.m. for morning meditation. I had a strong conversation with Spirit about taking back my medicine from places that I had left it.  It was a very potent listening and journeying – I am sure [...]

I think new beginnings are a good way to look at our lives. Every day, every moment we get up and start all over again.  Literally everything we do even, if we have done it before, is new and fresh in that moment if we find what the Buddhists call beginner’s mind.  BM is a [...]

Challenging to just live let alone live a good and integruous way. I just taught a wonderful three day class on holding Space and communications. How to do nothing or very little with intelligence and help people to process according to how they really need to. It is challenging to know how anyone including ourselves [...]

I was sharing in a class how traveling has given me the opportunity to live my vision of the work that I do. I was also sharing that every time I go somewhere it becomes a journey/event that moves my life. I am sure I came from Nomadic origins – I love the feeling of [...]

Back in Topanga woke to the early morning sun gently piercing through a field of fog. Back from japan two weeks still not back – even as I walk the dogs this morning in gratitude for where I am and all that I have Japanese healing guides whisper to me through a zen filter of [...]