Janie Chandler, Energy Medicine Now

02/01/2026

Imbolc/St Brigid's Day (Feb 1-2) marks the midpoint between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox—the cross-quarter day when Winter/Water energy begins to wane and Spring/Wood energy starts to stir.

This is the quickening of the earth. Seeds come awake below the surface and begin to loosen their husks. Dreams that have been gestating through the dark winter months take hold as ideas ready for action. Energy is rising upward, reaching for the surface, seeking the blessing of the sun, seeking expression and manifestation.

Determination and purpose fuel expansion and forward movement—not breaking through the crust of the earth just yet (that will come with the Equinox) but stirring with enthusiasm, creativity, and inspiration. Spring hasn't sprung, but it's beginning to wiggle, unfold and unfurl, and give life to all those ideas and dreams that have been quietly gestating.

Sync your psyche with the season: Create a Spring Altar with symbols of early life—sprouting seeds, crocus, violets, eggs. Then try this magical alchemy: write your intentions for the year on paper, tuck it under a pot of planted seeds on your windowsill, and water regularly. Review your intentions each time you do. Watch both your seeds and your dreams sprout as Spring energy waxes.

01/29/2026

Engage your subtle energies with tools and insights drawn from various healing traditions to discipline your mind, strengthen your immunity, improve your clarity and focus, increase your vitality and joy, and live a consciously responsive – not reactive – life, in tune with the rhythms of nature.

01/27/2026

It seems pretty clear to most of us what’s wrong with the world, but what would the world look like if it was “right”?

Join me in activating a future of kindness, cooperation, and dignity.

📅 Date: January, 30th
⏰ Time: 9:00 am PST
👉 Place: LIVE on Zoom

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01/26/2026

The Five Elements of Nature each have a unique vibrational signature to them.

When we fine-tune our awareness and bring the elements into sharper focus we begin to see how everything in creation – including our own psyche and body-terrain – is influenced by these elements in nature.

- Janie Chandler

01/23/2026

It seems pretty clear to most of us what’s wrong with the world, but what would the world look like if it was “right”?

Many of us struggle in feeling powerless to be able to shift the current state of affairs and change the trajectory of humankind—I know I do. Showing up on the streets, making phone calls, sending emails, signing petitions and boycotting corporations might build the strength of the collective tide, but is it enough, and where will that rising tide take us?

Join me in activating a future of kindness, cooperation, and dignity.

Rich Conversations LIVE with Janie - Episode 13 (FREE)

📅 Date: January, 30th
⏰ Time: 9:00 am PST
👉 Place: LIVE on Zoom

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01/17/2026

From my muse, John O'Donohue.

At any time you can ask yourself: At which threshold am I now standing? At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter? What is preventing me from crossing my next threshold? What gift would enable me to do it? A threshold is not a simple boundary; it is a frontier that divides two different territories, rhythms, and atmospheres. Indeed, it is a lovely testimony to the fullness and integrity of an experience or a stage of life that it intensifies toward the end into a real frontier that cannot be crossed without the heart being passionately engaged and woken up. At this threshold a great complexity of emotion comes alive: confusion, fear, excitement, sadness, hope. This is one of the reasons such vital crossings were always clothed in ritual. It is wise in your own life to be able to recognize and acknowledge the key thresholds: to take your time; to feel all the varieties of presence that accrue there; to listen inward with complete attention until you hear the inner voice calling you forward. The time has come to cross.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Excerpt from his books: To Bless the Space Between Us (US) / Benedictus (Europe)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

01/14/2026

It was 40 years ago today... I met Joseph Micketti when I was 24 years old and had moved into the house he was sharing with other students at the Boulder School of Massage. We've been living together since the day we met, and have been working together pretty much since we graduated from massage school. So it's been a lot of togetherness. It's been hard work (I think most long-term unions requires hard work now and then) but it's obviously been working. So happy Meeting Day my Love --we have a lot to celebrate. 😍

01/13/2026

I AM STOKED!!! As of this morning my publisher (Inner Traditions/Bear and Company) has the completed manuscript and graphics for my book--Your Wild and Vital Life: Using Energy Medicine as a Portal Into the Divine Mystery. Not sure when it will hit bookstores near you, but it's coming! I could not have done this without the IMMENSE help of my family, Autumn and Azalea in particular, and Michele Stohen, my graphic artist and all round right-hand woman 💕 . This day has been a long time in coming, and I truly hope that the final product will be available sooner than later (but it's out of my hands now).

Centuries of convention have contributed to the pervasive belief that humans are separate from nature, each other, and the universe. This has left many people feeling a void of connection with Spirit and Self, and a longing for relationships of depth, meaning, and purpose.

Combining wisdom from the Chinese Five Elements and the Pagan Wheel of the Year, Your Wild and Vital Life provides practical ways of balancing energy and connecting deeply with the world around you. The merging of these ancient traditions provides a big-picture perspective of the Divine Mystery, while grounding our participation with it through affirmative prayer, innovative ritual, and practical energy medicine exercises.

Janie Chandler—an energy medicine practitioner with over thirty years of hands-on experience—has helped thousands of clients learn to organize their own energies for greater clarity, joy, and vitality. Knowing how to clear and focus our energies are invaluable steps toward achieving the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being we long for. In Your Wild and Vital Life, Janie gives readers the tools to engage with those energies in order to create harmony and resonance within the body. When we understand that everything is energy and we are no exception, we begin to reconnect to Self and Source—and we finally know where we belong.

01/06/2026

A little photo dump from New Year's Eve and the full moon. I expect that 2026 will continue to be a bit bumpy before it smooths out into the Age of Aquarius that we've dreamed of. I am so grateful to have the family, friends, and community that I do, to help me navigate the choppy waters ahead. Blessings on your new year 💕

12/30/2025

I’m in retreat for a couple of days to close out this intense year. I needed quiet me-time, to commune with myself and hear my inner voice. I’m in a fantastic environment where I am also communing with all the Rhythms—Earth 🌍(my body, and the ground under me), Water💧 (river and bath), Wood 🪵(forest, wooden mantle, and log building), Fire 🔥(candle and fireplace), and Metal 🪨 in the form of the stone surround of the fireplace.

I’m wishing you the opportunity to get quiet with yourself and to commune with the Rhythms of the Life Force Impulse, and start the new year refreshed.

12/23/2025

Resolve vs Recommit—which mindset serves you best at the New Year?

This New Year, do you need to resolve (re-solve) something, or would re-committing to something be more apt? For me, New Year’s resolutions got tarnished back in my 30s when I would resolve something in January (usually involving my habits around eating and exercising), and inevitably by March I’d lose my enthusiasm and drop back into sloppier habits. This set me up for repeated disappointment in myself for not having the will, or resolve, to follow-through.

But when I got in touch with my core intention and changed the way I was thinking about it, I shifted from resolving something to recommitting to myself, which is much more meaningful for me. This is the topic of this month’s Rich Conversation, along with offering my family’s New Year’s Eve tradition (hint—it does involve champagne, but it does not involve midnight).

I hope you’ll join me for this final Rich Convo of 2025 ❤️ (It will be pre-recorded and broadcast on Friday, December 26th at 9:00 am PST.)

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12/20/2025

For many years now my Winter Solstice tradition has been to make a Bûche De Noël (aka a Yule Log in our house). I think I’ve gotten pretty good at it, though in my head I still hear Paul Hollywood critiquing my work as I go along 😆. (My secret ingredient is Nutella 😋 recipe in the comments) Cutting into this special cake is the final step in our Solstice tradition which starts with a meditation/ritual in the full dark, followed by lights, music, and feasting, then burning the Solstice Wreath in the bonfire (accompanied by bagpipes) and finally dessert. What are your Winter Solstice traditions (or what might you consider adopting)?