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06/11/2025

Gratitude for the philosophers, the mystics, the activists, the artists and all those that remember them and keep their fires burning.

23/10/2025

The journey of boundaries begins within. With internal exploration, discovery of the individual landscape. Understanding the territories of yes and no. And the vast valleys and chasms between.

It's only when we know our boundaries, we can begin to practice speaking into them. Watching them shift and change as they meet the material world through our words.

And we can only truly understand the power of boundaries when we are willing to take responsibility for honoring them. Accepting the losses that come with it. Choosing our own integrity and sanctity and removing ourselves from dynamics that require our self-betrayal.

Ultimately I am the only ones who can know and honor our boundaries. Ultimately I am the only one who can honor the territory of myself.

16/07/2025

I lost a potential client this week.

It was a fortuitous meeting. There was a palpable spark of aliveness when she asked me about my work. An eagerness and a hunger.

She was the one who offered the words "somatic therapy". And I said, yes it could be called that. But I don't use those words because I'm not certified.

And I watched the light go out.

I wish people understood how little these pieces of paper mean.

How much the entire field of somatics has been appropriated from indigenous wisdoms around the world and locked behind the paywalls of the ivory towers.

The great scam of imperial capitalism robbing you of your body and then selling it back to you.

There is no certification that would allow me to do the work I am here to do.

This work rests on something older. Deeper. Wiser. More complete.

The teachers to whom I bow are not so concerned with trading papers.

And so I feel the pain of loss all the way down. Through the cold field of intellect. Through the desperate rage of separation. Through the aching void of emptiness. To rest in the space of loving acceptance for all that is.

You can find me there.

23/06/2025

Good solstice

22/06/2025

How free are you from the tyranny of the mind in its need to understand. To quantify. To explain.

In Truth our capacity to know is limited. In the unseen realms we may experience and perhaps never explain. That is the essence of Faith.

The business of Religion is drafting dogma. Training your mind into some shape of its making.

The path of experience is resting in the Unknowing. Opening the doors of perception to a Wisdom beyond knowing. To a Truth that defies explanation.

20/06/2025

One of the pillars that I hold in this work is Slowness. There is so much waiting to be felt when we put down the rushing and the hurry. And it is sometimes an act of Faith to do so. To soothe the animal body in its survival instinct and Trust that there is something bigger holding you.

A week after landing, I am finally starting to feel fully here. And really, I have no idea what I am doing in Ireland. It was a call that sat on hold for three years. And the disorientation of transcontinetal travel is real. The stress reflex, the panic, the rush to understand. But as this body settles the field of vision opens. There are new horizons in the distance. There are limits to how far we can see. And there is always beauty waiting on the other side.

06/05/2025

It's easy at the moment to get lost in the onslaught and lose the pulse of this body of work. But perhaps now more than ever we need people in their bodies with their hearts open, loving life enough to keep looking for loving action in the world.

This work aims to do exactly that, addressing the body as a gateway to a multiple realities; physical, emotional, relational and spiritual.

Offered virtually and in person, individually and in relationship, this work increases your intimacy and fluency with your internal sensational reality and your congruence with authentic loving self-expression.

Ultimately this work is about empowering people to deeply feel themselves, hold a safe-enough space for their own experience, and embrace a loving and playful relationship with life in all of its expressions.

How much could we change this world, if we truly loved all of it?

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03/05/2025

More and more it's becoming clear to me that all of the work is grief work. That becoming intimate with the pain of loss is perhaps our most potent opportunity to touch the infinite space on the other side of the veil. That the grieving can be a portal of our becoming if we have the capacity to stay in the body and ride the waves of energy that ripple as the part of us that lives in the heart of another travels to the other side.

That wave of energy that comes with loss is the same wave of energy that comes with life and the capacity to be with that is the only skill in the journey of toward unwavering presence with the miracle of existence.

28/03/2025

"the capacity to withstand great force or pressure"

but what does that look like in human terms? human changing from moment to moment. human in these soft breakable bodies. human vast and mighty to an ant and infinitesimal to the earth.

what reveals our capacity to withstand great force?

the strength to put the burden down,
the strength to grieve,
the strength to feel,
the strength to forgive,
the strength to break,
the strength to heal,
the strength to start again,
the strength to care,
the strength to soften,
the strength to listen,
the strength to change,
the strength to believe,
the strength to resist,
the strength to hold,
the strength to love.

how do we withstand great force?

how do we exercise our humanity?

24/01/2025

“Everyone has many associations with a flower the idea of flowers.... Still—in a way Nobody sees a flower, really.... So I said to myself-_-I’ll paint what I see—what the flower is to me but I’ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it_-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.”
Georgia O’Keeffe, 1939

22/12/2024

Even in the teachings we tend to lean on equanimity in relationship to negativity or unpleasant stimulus but remembering and scaffolding the practice of equanimity in relationship to heightened positive states in essential when we begin working with pleasure, desire and bliss.

06/11/2024

Today I call on my ancestors
I ask them for their wisdom
for the strength that survived fascism
For the Grace that defied persecution
The grit that withstood exile
The courage to cross oceans
And the drive to start over.
By their fortune I was born to an ease they could never have imagined.
Today I pour their steel into my spine.
We will not go back.

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