I’ll keep it brief, as here in New Orleans we are letting our normal lives drop away and giving over to the spirit of the Mardi Gras season. After the celebration settles, I am hosting a 6 week Lent Movement Sustainability series, starting Wednesday February 25th, 8 PT/10
Happy New Year and Happy Carnival to all who celebrate. In 2025 I followed the quiet voice and felt sense of knowing around bringing movement and somatic work more into the center of my offerings. I am following the thread and building more trust in myself and in life. Part
What Resourcing has to teach us about sustaining social change work.
“Through movement we become familiar with the messages, stories that we carry in our shoulders, in our hips, between our legs, and under our arms. The body is the gateway to the entire psyche. Through the body we enter into the landscape of our inner world, which includes our feelings,
I have been in a season of both losing and deepening personal practices. I used to journal every morning, moving slowly and intentionally. Now my morning routine looks like trying to make coffee with my eyes half closed while my toddler looks up at me with her big brown eyes
Today is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the 4th anniversary of Hurricane Ida. Yesterday was my 37th birthday. The juxtaposition of these two dates don’t live easily in my body. Celebration and mourning. The singular gift of my life and the loss of at least 1,800
Learning a new language while my daughter learns to speak. I've wanted to learn Spanish for about fifteen years. The summer after I graduated college, I enrolled in a Spanish level one class at a community college in Boulder, Colorado. I remember sitting at a cramped desk and
Two weekends ago I met up with some of the most beautiful and powerful women in my life and we danced in the corner of the dance floor with full abandon. I was committed to going 100% for as long as I could because it is so unusual for me
Last Tuesday was Mardi Gras day in New Orleans. If you ever need a reminder that people can be motivated by something other than capitalism, I suggest you observe the work of thousands of people preparing for the final days of Carnival. In this sacred season, we work day and
I’ve always loved to dance and move my body, though I’ve never been particularly "good" at dancing in a technical sense. I dropped out of ballet after a few months and I never made it into any dance teams or performing groups beyond middle school. As
Last month, my daughter turned one. As fate would have it, my first work baby, The Weavers Project, came to a close a month before I gave birth. Coming into a completely new shape as a parent on the heels of closing a big chapter of work, one that I
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