Jenn Farley, Simple Spirituality

04/07/2025

Moving through your week, sometimes you might need some help connecting to qualities that will support you. This week, we invite the quality of calm into our beings through connection with breath, connection in community and the guidance of the meditation.

10/29/2024

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Jennifer Farley, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT is a psychotherapist that has a private practice integrating spiritual wisdom practices with body-based psychotherapy such as dance/movement therapy, Internal Family Systems therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She offers individual sessions, workshops, retreats....

10/29/2024

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Jennifer Farley, MA, LPCC, BC-DMT is a psychotherapist that has a private practice integrating spiritual wisdom practices with body-based psychotherapy such as dance/movement therapy, Internal Family Systems therapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She offers individual sessions, workshops, retreats....

10/03/2023

Connecting with Ancestors 🌟🌈🌟 - https://mailchi.mp/7962fa0a53a6/2022-offerings-free-visualization-meditations-and-more-15379995

Many believe that at this time of year, the veils between the worlds become thinner, and thus, it becomes easier to connect with those who have moved beyond our physical world. During this journey meditation, you will be invited to connect with the wisdom of your ancestors, deepen your relationship, and perhaps experience healing for both you and your lineage.

08/23/2023

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06/21/2022

The summer solstice 🌞 is upon us for those of us in the western hemisphere, which brings up a specific question for me- So what?
Or, to put it more thoughtfully, what does the summer solstice mean to me in this modern era?

I know that when it comes to things like the solstices, full moons, equinoxes, eclipses, etc, many people turn to the internet to try to research the spiritual significance of such events. There is nothing wrong with that… I’ve turned to external resources many times in that way. However, I’ve found that I feel much more connected to the cycles of nature when I contemplate them for myself. I ask myself questions like:

☀️What actually is happening in the natural world that brings about this event?
☀️What is moving into balance? What is becoming unbalanced? ☀️What is shifting or stabilizing?
☀️How does this event truly impact and resonate with me?
☀️What does this time of year mean to me?
☀️What is being called forward in this time for me?
☀️How does this event mirror my own personal cycle?

When I contemplate these questions for the upcoming solstice, here is what comes to me…

The summer solstice marks the day with the longest amount of daylight in the year. A celebration of Sun! That means that each day after the summer solstice, the days will get slightly shorter and shorter…

For me this year, it feels that my practice is to invite the energy and fire 🔥of Sun into my internal world. To “internalize the light”, so that Sun can continue to fuel me even as Sun’s presence wanes. I am in a phase of action, and it would help me to have the Sun’s medicine supporting me. I can feel that this is what is true for me, and I am grateful 🙏to receive and celebrate the medicine of Sun during solstice!

If this makes sense to you, I invite you to approach the solstice in a similar way- by reflecting on some of those (or similar) questions and discovering how you are being called (or not being called) to acknowledge this time of year.

Blessings! 💗

06/11/2022

✨Feeling very fortunate that I don't have to be camping to sleep (comfortably! 😋) outside...

05/19/2022

🥚Aren’t these eggs beautiful?!?! 🥚

These eggs are from chickens that my friends tend. I met the chickens this weekend and collected some eggs as they were laid.
It makes me want my own chickens! 🐔🐥🐔 It makes me want to grow more of my food!
I feel a deeper personal connection that brings a level of nourishment beyond the biological.

I always try to connect to appreciation 🙏 for the Beings that create/harvest my food, and I am so grateful for this deeper and more personal connection to my food!

05/12/2022

I wanted to take my mom on a trip. I didn’t quite know why. I wanted to treat her and let her know I love and appreciate her, but that wasn’t the complete reason.

Then I realized
We went on a pilgrimage.
We shed the Old Roles.
Mother no longer has to be Nurturer/Teacher/Worrier/Rescuer/Caretaker
Daughter no longer has to be Rebel/Contrarian/Golden/Just Right/Appeaser/Buffer

We stepped into a new world.
One where we are two women relating to one another, sharing time together, sharing stories and experiences, laughing, exploring, encouraging…
What a sacred rite of passage.
Free now to truly understand the depths of our Divine Bond
I love this new world.

Thank you The Lodge at Woodloch -- A Destination Spa for providing such a serene, luxurious, fun environment for our time together!

05/06/2022

Appreciation 👏versus Gratitude 🙏

In a lovely yoga class 🧘‍♀️this morning, there was an invitation to be with what we could appreciate in this moment.

It felt so good! And it led me to reflect on how appreciation could possibly be easier to access than gratitude at times. I have encountered many people who have shame associated with gratitude practice due to historical experiences where people told them that they “should be grateful” 😔or because it can sometimes be really hard to be grateful in a moment of struggle. I wonder if appreciation could be a practice that has less charge…

I intend on exploring an appreciation practice in the upcoming week, and seeing how it feels different, or not, than gratitude practice. I invite you to do the same if this sounds interesting to you…

What can I appreciate in this moment?

Feeling appreciation for dunja from Yoga Shala by the Sea for this spark of curiosity!
Definitely appreciating the smoothie🥤 I’m drinking, the sun ☀️ on my face, and the ease of my schedule today among many other things.

It seems like our dog Jay is appreciating the grass scratching his back in this video, and I hope the grass is appreciating him rubbing his stink all over 🤪

04/22/2022

Last weekend, I finally took the plunge and completed my Open Water Diver Certification! It is something that I have had on my wish list for years now, and motivated by an upcoming trip, I finally took action.
It is hard to believe that I’ve lived on the Monterey Peninsula for almost 10 years now, and I can count on one hand how many times I’ve actually gone swimming in the Bay/Ocean (for those of you who are not as familiar with the area, the water here is perpetually pretty… chilly… to say the least.)
Being able to begin to explore the waters here was truly awe-inspiring. I feel like although I have lived here a decade, there is a whole other realm that I have only been aware of on an intellectual level. Last weekend, I got to make contact with that realm. It was another humbling reminder that no matter how much I think my world is familiar, once I open to the idea that there is more to discover, new worlds will be revealed.

04/12/2022

This gave me a giggle...