A Place to Breathe

12/13/2021

Thank you Audra Kleinman Fuest for allowing me to be a part of your 2 Day Plant-Based Challenge and talk a bit about Mindful Eating!

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03/31/2021

“Setbacks become love notes...” beautifully put. Thank you
It is in the struggle, in the pain that the biggest opportunity for loving-kindness for ourselves lives.

For years, the Loving Kindness Meditation has been something I struggle with.

Who am I? It seemed self indulgent...as I continue down this mindful path I have discovered that bringing loving kindness to myself first is the answer - if we cannot truly hold goodwill toward ourselves, we cannot hold suffering.
With this loving kindness for ourselves are equipped to then see the other, and send our kind heart - our love to them, unconditionally.

01/06/2021

January 27th starts my 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. I still have a few slots available. Register with the link in my bio, or dm me with any questions.
#2021

01/01/2021

A Blessing for the New Year

One the day when
The weight deadens
And you stumble,
May the clay dance
To balance you.

And when your eyes
Freeze behind
The gray window
And the ghost of loss
Gets into you
May a flock of colors,
Indigo, red, green
And azure blue,
Come to awaken in you
A meadow of delight.

When the canvas frays
In the curragh of thought
And a stain of ocean
Blackens beneath you,
May there come across the waters
A path of yellow moonlight
To bring you safely home.

May the nourishment of the earth be yours,
May the clarity fo the light be yours,
May the fluency of the ocean be yours,
May the protection of the ancestors be yours.

And so may a slow
Wind work these words
Of love around you,
An invisible cloak
To mind your life.
- John O’Donohue

12/29/2020

Intention.
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Mindfulness practice reminds that this beautiful precious life is here to open to, even in struggle. In setting heart-full intentions we are opening to inquiry, allowing the opportunity to reinstate what has been, and what is now important to you.
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I invite you to look at this coming year and reflect, setting what intentions are meaningful to you.
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What am I truly grateful for from 2020?
What do I want to invite into this new year?
What am I ready to release and leave behind?
What matters most to me now?
How can I show care and compassion to myself and others each day?
Where do I want to grow? To show up?
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We are embarking upon a new year - leaving one that was so different from many we have all experienced before. Quarantines, new perspectives, new ways of looking at how we live and showing gratitude for this precious life.
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2020 allowed the opportunity for some to re-evaluate what’s important and commit to a meditation practice. Committing to a mindfulness path is something to be recommitted to each day, each moment.
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Cheers to all the blessings and wisdom from this year and all the goodness that will come from the next.
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12/08/2020

I am excited to announce my 2021 zoom dates for - link in my bio
This 8-week research-backed program has shown to help:
- Decrease Stress
- Improve Immune Function
- Increase mental clarity
What better skill to learn going into the new year thank one that teaches you how to manage stress & cultivate well-being.

11/24/2020

The latest research on the benefits of Mindfulness.

A new roundup of mindfulness research on reducing the effects of inflammation, online treatments for depression, and how your breathing impacts free will.

11/13/2020

Feeling so much gratitude for those that could join me for Freedom Friday today! Thanks for taking the time to breathe with me - if you missed it, It’s every week at 7:30a MT - link to sign up in my bio.

10/30/2020

Please join me on Friday, November 13th for our Freedom Friday Morning Meditations live on Zoom.
No experience required, just bring you and your breath. Register here:
https://place2breathe.com/programs

MBSR, Mindfulness Meditation, Yoga & Mindful Meditation and Movement Retreats

10/28/2020

“Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
— Mary Oliver

10/25/2020

Do you remember the last time you looked at a flower, at a situation, with awe and excitement? It used to be so easy when we were little, still learning & growing, to have that sense of wonder with something new.
Watch and experience what happens in the midst of change. Is it met with resistance, thinking that we should know the answers? Or rather with that delight and curiosity because we are about to embark on a new adventure?
The beginners mind opens, finds a sense of freedom in groundlessness, or allowing that pause and seat in the uncomfortable. Because in that unknown is where magic, strength & self-care are the most alive.