A Restful Space

02/12/2025

“Should you feel that with this pain your heart might break, remember that the heart that breaks open can hold the whole universe. Your heart is that large. Trust it. Keep breathing.” - Joanna Macy


Our next Community Rest and Grief Retreat has a new date, and there are four spots left!

One Day Rest & Grief Retreat
Sunday 3/2 11 am - 5:15 pm
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This special community offering opens with grounding and orienting meditation, a short introductory talk on the radical power of rest and grief and the relationship between them, and a deeply supportive heart-centered Restorative Yoga practice including a meditation.

After a break for nourishment and reflection/journaling on your own in , we will move into a Community Grief Ritual that includes a short opening talk, meditation and breath practice, poetry and song, the option (never requirement) to share in a Talking Circle (as taught by Francis Weller), and sound bath.

We will close with a deeply nourishing and integrating Yoga Nidrā (yogic sleep) practice from a fully supported resting pose.

Warm heart-nourishing, nervous system-supporting tea from will be served throughout the day.

This one-day retreat is offered at a sliding-scale exchange of $85-145 with one partial scholarship spot available. In addition to the retreat, you will also be enrolled in my self-paced online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉.

Just seven total spots ensure an intimate trauma-conscious container. Reach out with any questions, and sign up at the 🔗 in the usual spot. ❤️

02/11/2025

Once upon a time I wrote a dissertation about spaces of agro-food disconnection and re-connection, about systems of exploitation and possibilities for remembering and re-enchantment. I tend to think my current work focused on radical rest, communal grieving, and cyclical alignment has changed direction, but it hasn't actually...it's the same work, slightly different angle. This is all about cultivating embodied liberation and getting free together.

'All flourishing is mutual.' -

02/09/2025

During a restorative yoga class last week, as I talked about how urgency and scarcity live in our bodies and how I feel them all the time, I unexpectedly felt tears welling up behind my eyes. The ways systems of capitalism, colonialism, and all systems of supremacy and oppression live in our bodies is a real and valid form of grief.

Like all shapes and moods of grief, this too - this especially - needs to be tended, honored, metabolized. This too - this especially - is radical, liberatory practice.


Community Rest & Grief Retreat
Sunday 2/16, 11 am - 5:15 pm
in

This special community offering opens with grounding and orienting meditation, a short introductory talk on the radical power of rest and grief and the relationship between them, and a deeply supportive heart-centered Restorative Yoga practice including a meditation.

After a break for nourishment and reflection/journaling on your own in , we will move into a Community Grief Ritual that includes a short opening talk, meditation and breath practice, poetry and song, the option (never requirement) to share in a Talking Circle (as taught by Francis Weller), and sound bath.

We will close with a deeply nourishing and integrating Yoga Nidrā (yogic sleep) practice from a fully supported resting pose.

Warm heart-nourishing, nervous system-supporting tea from will be served throughout the day.

This one-day retreat is offered at a sliding-scale exchange of $85-145 with one partial scholarship spot available. In addition to the retreat, you will also be enrolled in my self-paced online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉.

Just seven total spots ensure an intimate trauma-conscious container. Reach out with any questions, and sign up at the 🔗 in the usual spot. ❤️

02/09/2025

Your rage makes sense. Your grief makes sense. Your numbness, fear, anxiety, overwhelm make sense. Your emotions make sense. Your body makes sense.

In the Buddhist practice of compassionate abiding, we soften around and make space for all parts of ourselves and our experience. We don't force out or push away, we rest into and make space to hold it all. And in that space, what has congested can begin to move.

You make sense. You make sense. You make sense.

And you are needed in your wholeness, exactly as you are.


If you're local to Humboldt, come rest and grieve and make compassionate space in tender community in , and if you're not (or even if you are) you can enroll in my self-paced online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉, at sliding-scale tiers starting at $0. Right now half of proceeds from Yoga for Eco-Grief are donated to LA fires mutual aid, and 2/3 of proceeds from Breathing for 🍉 are always donated to fundraisers and on-the-ground orgs in 🍓.

02/07/2025

Friends I'm dreaming up a self-paced online community offering that would align with and move through a lunar cycle in a sweet cohort, cultivating embodied cyclical consciousness as post capitalist practice.

Opening with introductory lecture articulating cyclical alignment and rest practice as radical, liberatory work, folks will receive a short recorded talk, breath practice, and yoga nidrā (yogic sleep) guided awareness practice for each phase of the moon (new, first quarter, full, last quarter) as well as journal prompts and space to share, reflect, and ask questions.

This would be recorded and self-paced but released with each lunar phase over the course of a moon cycle, and the chance to discuss and engage with me and each other through discussion forums. Tentative course title to make it real...Resting with the Moon: Embodied Cyclical Consciousness as Radical Practice.

If this is something you'd be interested in I would love to hear your feedback! Whenever I've offered my in-person Lunar Restorative Yoga series I've gotten messages from folks requesting an online option, so this inspired the idea. Feel free to comment and/or dm me if you'd be interested, and I'll drop a place for you to share your email address with me in my stories for anyone who would like to get on the waitlist for the first cohort. I'm envisioning late spring for the first one...

02/07/2025

I choked and sobbed my way through these gorgeous words from in at the end of my introductory lecture in Breathing for 🇵🇸, a fundraising self-paced online course for all those advocating for a free 🍉 and collective liberation. Because none of us are free until all of us are free.

This course roots in gratitude for all those doing this radical work of awareness and activism and explores the role of breath - life force, birthright, consciousness - in sustaining long-haul activism and metabolizing collective and ecological grief as anti-c@pitalist, transformational, liberatory practice.

Beginning with opening meditation and lecture rooted in wisdom from Yoga, Buddhism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, this course consists of NINE short, accessible video recorded breath practices, plus TWO bonus audio recordings - a 'Breathing Through' meditation from the AND a Yoga Nidrā guided awareness practice for deep rest.

This mutually supportive course is offered with unlimited access and EIGHT sliding-scale tiers ($11-88), plus a FREE ACCESS option, and TWO-THIRDS OF ALL PROCEEDS go directly to vetted fundraisers in G@z@ and to activist-centered mutual aid funds.🍓

All remaining proceeds expand access to our rest and grief offerings , creating sliding-scale and community care spots while supporting collaborative community offerings.❤


Since launching Breathing for 🇵🇸 over the summer, we've been able to donate $258 to .humanity, $50 to , $75 to 'Help a Q***r G@zan and his Family to Safety,' $58 to the Hardship Fund for CPH students , $195 to , $100 to , $100 to , and $25/month to (🔗s for these fundraisers are in my biio).

We've also co-sponsored a film screening at with where we raised $278 for a 🇵🇸 family.

This is the heartfelt, liberatory offering that keeps on giving. Please learn more at the 🔗 in the comments. No donation is too small, everything helps. 🙏🏽🍉

02/06/2025

02/05/2025

For anyone shocked right now, please know that forced displacement is ALWAYS inherent in colonial capitalism. The quiet bits are just being said out loud now. This has always been the plan.👇🏽

The first photo shown here (slide 2) is from 🍓 in 1955 (shared by from the UNRWA Photo Archives), and when I first saw it in Dec '23 it struck me as eerily similar to a photo from the 1960s that I found in Ghana's National Archives...


In the second photo (repost from ): 'Kids smiling as cement block houses began replacing their tented refugee camps in the G@za Strip, 1955.

Over 80% of G@za’s population are refugees who were expelled by Zionist militias from their villages and cities in historic P@lestine during the 1948 N@kba. For a while, they lived in tented camps in anticipation for the return to their homes.

As it became clearer that Israel would never allow this to happen, and that Arab countries did not have the power to help them, the refugee camps of G@za slowly transformed from tented camps into the semi-cities and towns that exist today.'


In the second photo (3rd slide): A resettlement project of nuclear homes constructed to house displaced Ghanaians in 1966.

In the 1960s the US-, UK-, and World Bank-funded Volta River Project and Akosombo Dam in Ghana displaced 80,000 people and flooded ancestral homelands and rich ecosystems in order to industrialize and continue extracting resources from Ghana after so-called independence from colonial rule.

The flooded land, with a surface area of 3,275 miles and more than 730 villages, was seen through neo-colonial eyes as empty, 'where nothing was before.' The 80,000 displaced people were forcibly resettled into 52 settlement projects with 120-square foot nuclear houses aimed to modernize and re-produce not only the landscape but the people themselves (last two photos).


There are countless examples of displacement and re-settlement from across the globe, historic and ongoing. This is how colonialism works. The eradication and re-production of landscape in order to extract resources and re-produce place and population is always a key piece of the modernity project.

02/04/2025

I was grading my college students' papers today and was so inspired by a share from one of them...

They shared that when they'd first been taught the tragedy of the commons in a political science class - the cultural assumption of human nature as greedy and self-interested wrapped up as taken-for-granted fact - that they'd felt a kind of sadness, and that it somehow hadn't really sat right. But they'd accepted it and moved on.

And that now, reading a radical critique of the tragedy of the commons and a defense of the commons, that they'd felt an embodied sense of relief and 'truth-sensing.'

YES.

YES YES YES.

YESSSSSSS.

Our bodies will FEEL the truth when we find it.

Our bodies already know the way.

Embodiment is the practice, is the way.

02/04/2025

What if the liberatory work so needed in these times could be this sweet and this soft?

Community Rest & Grief Retreat
Sunday 2/16, 11 am - 5:15 pm
in

This very special community offering will open with grounding and orienting meditation, a short introductory talk on the radical power of rest and grief and the relationship between them, and a deeply supportive heart-centered Restorative Yoga practice including a meditation.

After a break for nourishment and reflection/journaling on your own in , we will move into a Community Grief Ritual that includes a short opening talk, meditation and breath practice, poetry and song, the option (never requirement) to share in a Talking Circle (as taught by Francis Weller), and sound bath.

We will close with a deeply nourishing and integrating Yoga Nidrā (yogic sleep) practice from a fully supported resting pose.

Warm heart-nourishing, nervous system-supporting tea from will be served throughout the day.

This one-day retreat is offered at a sliding-scale exchange of $85-145 with one partial scholarship spot available. In addition to the retreat, you will also be enrolled in my self-paced online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉.

Just seven total spots ensure an intimate trauma-conscious container, and there are THREE spots left. Sign up at the 🔗 in the comments. ❤️

02/03/2025

So much gratitude for the beautiful beings who rested into our liberatory intentions at our Imbolc workshop this morning. Did you know radical work could be this soft? 🕯️

02/01/2025

Inspired by an exhilaratingly radical conversation I had with a friend this evening at the co-op. This is the time.


'The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.'

-Hopi Elder's Prophecy, June 2000

01/29/2025

Lunar New Year blessings friends. May we embrace the radical possibility of the liminal, may we remember how to see in the dark, may we find and support one another, may we shed our collective skin, may we remember who we really are, and may we find our way home, together. 🐛🦋


This excerpt comes from a powerful 'Web of Life' meditation that I've been braiding into our One Day Rest and Grief retreats. The next one is coming up on Sunday , February 16th, and I would love to have you. ❤️


Community Rest & Grief Retreat
Sunday 2/16/25, 11 am - 5:15 pm
in

This truly special community offering will open with grounding and orienting meditation, a short introductory talk on the radical power of rest and grief and the relationship between them, and a deeply supportive heart-centered Restorative Yoga practice including a meditation.

After a break for nourishment and reflection/journaling on your own in , we will move into a Community Grief Ritual that includes a short opening talk, meditation and breath practice, poetry and song, the option (never requirement) to share in a Talking Circle (as taught by Francis Weller), and sound/vibrational healing.

We will close with a deeply nourishing and integrating Yoga Nidrā (yogic sleep) practice from a fully supported resting pose.

Warm heart-nourishing, nervous system-supporting tea from will be served throughout the day.

This one-day retreat is offered at a sliding-scale exchange of $85-145 with one partial scholarship spot available. In addition to the retreat, you will also be enrolled in my self-paced online courses, Yoga for Ecological Grief and Breathing for 🍉.

Just seven total spots ensure an intimate trauma-conscious container. Sign up at the 🔗 in the 🔗 spot. ❤️

01/28/2025

'On the journey of the bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down.With us move millions of others, our companions in awakening from fear. At the bottom we discover water, the healing water of bodhichitta. Bodhichitta is our heart—our wounded, softened heart. Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die. This love is bodhichitta. It is gentle and warm; it is clear and sharp; it is open and spacious. The awakened heart of bodhichitta is the basic goodness of all beings.'

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01/28/2025

Your rage makes sense. Your grief makes sense. Your numbness, fear, anxiety, overwhelm make sense. Your emotions make sense. Your body makes sense.

In the Buddhist practice of compassionate abiding, we soften around and make space for all parts of ourselves and our experience. We don't force out or push away, we rest into and make space to hold it all. And in that space, what has congested can begin to move.

You make sense. You make sense. You make sense.

And you are needed in your wholeness, exactly as you are.

❤️

01/25/2025

'Hold onto your faith and courage. Let everything else go. A change is coming.'

- ❤️ (how I love reading passages from 'Pause Rest Be' in my Restorative Yoga classes 🙏🏽)

01/24/2025

If you are scattered, call yourself back. The revolution needs you whole.