Waking Nomad

Waking Nomad A nonprofit creating spaces where people explore consciousness and come to feel more whole, open and alive.
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Not just by thinking about it, but through direct, embodied experience.

Less than a month until we gather for Cacao & Sound!We'll start with a warm cup of LavaLove Cacao, ease into gentle Kund...
09/02/2026

Less than a month until we gather for Cacao & Sound!

We'll start with a warm cup of LavaLove Cacao, ease into gentle Kundalini yoga to settle the body, then sink into an extended sound meditation together. One simple practice carries the whole evening: keep returning your attention to the sound.

Come with an empty stomach, the cacao works best that way! (And maybe you’ll decide to share a meal together afterwards anyway.)

Details and sign-up: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/experience

New on the blog: the phrase that finally got me moving."Nobody is coming to save you." That's the line I open with this ...
08/31/2026

New on the blog: the phrase that finally got me moving.

"Nobody is coming to save you."

That's the line I open with this week, and it's a hard one, but it's also the exact realization that pushed me to stop waiting for the right doctor, the right expert, the right anything to hand me the answer, and start finding what actually worked for me.

This week's piece is about taking back the wheel.

Read it: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/post/nobody-is-coming-to-save-you

Life is not a performance.There is no single correct path through this story, and no secret version of it that counts as...
08/30/2026

Life is not a performance.

There is no single correct path through this story, and no secret version of it that counts as winning while the rest of us are simply living it. Every choice you've already made, and every one still ahead, is just another page, yours to write however you write it.

No one is grading this. There is no ending you have to reach to finally say you did it right.

You just keep showing up, keep paying attention, and keep turning the page. Practice without performance. That's the whole thing.

September has a way of calling us back to a rhythm.The looseness of summer is a gift, and it's also nice when it ends an...
08/28/2026

September has a way of calling us back to a rhythm.

The looseness of summer is a gift, and it's also nice when it ends and the body wants something steady again. As the season turns, we'll be leaning back into a regular yoga practice together, and there's an easy way to join from wherever you are: Thomasina's online yoga.

No catching up, no level to reach. Just a return to the mat when you're ready.

Practice with us: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/yoga

Save the evening: Cacao & Sound Meditation, Saturday, September 26.The season is turning, and the long push of summer fi...
08/26/2026

Save the evening: Cacao & Sound Meditation, Saturday, September 26.

The season is turning, and the long push of summer finally eases. This is the time to gather in: to bring home all that the year has grown in us and set it down where we can actually see it. We'll begin with a warm cup of LavaLove Cacao, move through gentle Kundalini yoga to settle the body, then sink into an extended sound meditation together. Rich, layered vibration, and one simple practice: keep returning your attention to the sound.

You are whole. You are exactly on time. Come take the season in with us.

Saturday, Sept 26, 4–6pm · Historic Marine Village Hall.
Details and sign-up: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/experience

New on the blog: why you can't think your way out of a worry loop.There's a loop most of us know too well. A worry, a re...
08/24/2026

New on the blog: why you can't think your way out of a worry loop.

There's a loop most of us know too well. A worry, a replay, a familiar what-if we pick up and turn over and set down and pick up again. And the reasonable thing to do seems obvious: get inside it and solve it, think it through until it finally lets go.

Part of what I learned the hard way is that this rarely works. Digging around inside the loop is mostly fuel for the fire. The groove just gets deeper. The way through is quieter than that, and it starts somewhere other than thinking. That's the thread this week.

Read it: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/blog

Summer has its own loose rhythm, and that's exactly right. But if you're starting to feel the pull to return to somethin...
08/23/2026

Summer has its own loose rhythm, and that's exactly right. But if you're starting to feel the pull to return to something steady, the mat is always here.

Thomasina's online yoga is a simple place to come back to a regular practice, on your own schedule and at your own pace. No catching up to do, no level to reach. Just a quiet return to the body whenever you're ready for it.

Practice with us: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/yoga

Lately we've been bringing sound meditation into workplaces, and something happens in those rooms that's hard to forget....
08/21/2026

Lately we've been bringing sound meditation into workplaces, and something happens in those rooms that's hard to forget.

A team that's been pushing hard toward a shared goal sets it all down for an hour. No agenda, nothing to solve, no one performing. Just breath, vibration, and a rare permission to be a whole person in the middle of a workday, instead of leaving most of yourself in the parking lot. People come out of it softer, clearer, more themselves. Recently we did this with the teams at Aveda, General Mills, Catalyst Insight Collective, Craft Hair Collective and Hello Hair Collective. It is always a good time!

If your workplace could use an hour like that, we'd love to talk about shaping something for your team.

Reach out: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/contact

You already have what this takes.We hold the room. We bring the sound, instruct the breath, and maintain a steady presen...
08/20/2026

You already have what this takes.

We hold the room. We bring the sound, instruct the breath, and maintain a steady presence. But the shift that happens belongs to you. It comes from your own attention, your own willingness to stay with what's actually here.

The year I disappeared.This week, the blog belongs to Thomasina, in her own words. It's the most personal story she's sh...
08/17/2026

The year I disappeared.

This week, the blog belongs to Thomasina, in her own words. It's the most personal story she's shared with you yet: the hardest year of her life, and what actually brought her back.

Read it: link in bio or www.wakingnomad.org/blog

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