Kismet Landing

12/08/2025

Meet my new rescued kitty, Janet the Wonderful! She’s such a gentle soul. She reminds me that it’s OK to wait for what is meant to be and that good things sometimes come when you least except them. Thank you to my husband, Jonnie, for introducing us!

19/07/2025

The Wild Woman,
She’s calling you—
the barefoot path,
the whispering trees,
the firelight laughter under moonlit skies.

Join us for 2 sacred nights of deep connection and soul-awakening:
August 22nd-24th 🎼✨

✨ Private camping in a secluded sanctuary
🥗 Nourishing farm-to-table meals
🎨 Art as exploration
🧘‍♀️ Yoga, sound baths & embodiment practices
💃 Dance to awaken your wild within

We are half full and moving quickly—
If your heart says yes, don’t wait.
Your place in the circle is calling… but not for long. ❤️

Details here Wild Woman Nature Retreat

👉 Reserve your spot today.

15/07/2025

Did you know Ayurveda is like Chinese Medicine, except it's from India? It's a holistic health and wellness lifestyle with the goal of helping you balance your body’s systems. This balance leads to better health and vitality!

Ayurveda focuses on root cause, prevention, and healing through food, lifestyle, and herbal remedies. My favorite part of Ayurveda is how accessible it is. You can practice in your own home using affordable and easy to access food and resources. I have personally benefited from Ayurveda and know how wonderful it is!

If you would like to know more, consider attending the four-workshop series I am hosting with my friend, Olive Oconnell fAllLove Wellnessness. The workshops are fun, interactive, and design to develop a strong introduction to Ayurveda. All tFinding Balance Through Ayurveda yurvedic meals and snacks too! 😊😊

Click on Finding Balance Through Ayurveda for more information.

15/07/2025

16/11/2024

22/06/2024

I quietly, mindfully, celebrated International Yoga Day yesterday, as I nursed my foot, still recovering from a pretty intense surgery a week ago. A round of chair yoga with a focus on gratitude for how yoga has changed my life, and for all I have to look forward to once fully recovered, proved to be the perfect celebration for me. As much as I would have loved to celebrate at a festival or with some moonlight beach yoga, the simplicity of my celebration brought me back to the roots of yoga. Simple. Personal. Profound.

22/06/2024

Learning to use my Cricut Maker 3 and this is my first practice project. Can you relate?? 😂

31/03/2024

So many people suffer from chronic pain, especially back pain. In fact, a lot of people come to yoga because of those pain issues. Pain is what brought me to yoga. To be completely transparent, pain has been my biggest nemesis for almost two decades. In the last few years it had begun to define me, to overtake me, to make me think growing old wasn’t something I desired. And that was depressing, so I became depressed. Pain does that.

I know I’m not alone on this path of pain. I know many others are on the same journey. Because of that I want to share my story/diagnosis/treatment in hopes of helping someone else. So here’s the lineup of issues causing my long term chronic debilitating back, neck, hip, and shoulder pain:

I have degenerative discs in all three parts of my spine. I have bone spurs in my spine. I have spinal stenosis, narrowing of the spinal column, which is causing spinal nerves to be exposed. As a result of all the above going on all these years, my back, hip, and shoulder muscles have essentially turned to stone. I am not kidding or exaggerating, they are rock hard, always. As a reaction to the stone muscles, my back has straightened, meaning I’ve lost the natural curvature of my spine, all three curves. Any one of the above issues is painful, put them all together and wowza…so. much. pain.

On my third morning in India the Ayurvedic doctor sent me to a clinic in town for an MRI of my entire spine and hips. By 3:00 that afternoon we had received all the scans and a full report, outlining everything I wrote above. So there we have it, three days in India and we get the answers I’ve been seeking for more than 15 years in the US.

I have a lot of mixed feeling about all this, but mostly I am just grateful for an answer and a care plan. My biggest emotions now are appreciation and relief!

While I’m at Indus Valley Ayurvedic Center the treatments are basically providing two outcomes. 1) The rigid solid muscles are becoming soft and supple again. That’s what is giving me 65% pain relief. 2) I am undergoing a major detoxification of my entire body. This is cleaning and healing my gut, all my organs, and it’s boosting my immunity, my nervous system, as well as all my other systems. (The healing gut is why I am not experiencing heat hives even though it’s ungodly hot here! Ends up skin issues are usually a direct result of an unhealthy gut.)

When I get home I need to see a spinal specialist/surgeon to create a plan to correct the discs and spur issues, and lack of curvature in my spine. Ayurveda can’t fix those structural issues. Finding the right mix and balance of Ayurveda medicine and western medicine seems to be the best path forward for me.

If you have any questions, ask away; someone else probably has the same question. I will gladly post my response and if I don’t know the answer I find it and share it. That’s why I consider this page a learning lab! We have so much to learn and it’s best to learn together.

If you know someone suffering from chronic pain and you think my story may help inspire or educate them, please hit the share button.

Namaste my friends

30/03/2024

I came to India seeking answers and relief that 40+ doctors, specialists, and practitioners, over the course of 15+ years, were not able to give me in the United States using western medicine practices. It was a radical decision, to take medical leave from work, travel half way around the world, to a country whose language I don’t speak, to a continent I’ve never been to, alone, in pain, and more than a bit scared.

My wonderful husband Jonnie and I had reached the point where we would do anything to get answers and for me to heal. And so it was, with the incredibly loving support of Jonnie, my kids and parents, my closest friends, our Lead Coach Robert Bouwens, and all the great people I coach with weekly, I took a deep breath and jumped!

I landed at Indus Valley Ayurvedic Institute in Mysore India. I booked six weeks of treatment and since my arrival I have been doing everything the incredible doctors here tell me to do.

Here’s the GREAT NEWS: It took less than one week to find the root cause of my 15 year old pain, and the reason behind 25 years of suffering from “heat hives.” At this point the treatments have reduced my pain by about 65% and even though I’m in an extremely hot and humid climate, there are NO heat hives! My skin is gloriously clear! My body is healing from the inside out, using 100% natural and whole food, herbs, and external treatments designed to detox the body at the cellular level.

I’ve been quiet on social media since I got here, having fully immersed myself in my healing. (Not to mention recovering from jet lag was something else!) I wanted to post an update and let everyone know that with, and because of, Jonnie’s support and “gentle” pushing, along with my own “never give up” tenacity, we have found answers and that Ayurveda is working!

There is so much more I want to post, descriptions of the therapies, the food, the culture of the incredible people who call this country home, and trips to town that I’ve taken. For now, know that I have a lot more to say and as I can, I will post more.

Namaste, from India

04/03/2024

I’m off to India to experience, learn, and heal Ayurveda style! This promises to be a very personal and profound trip! Stay tuned yogis!

22/02/2024

Yes.

13/02/2024

Yoga teaches us that pain is inevitable; it’s a human condition. Suffering however, is optional. I’ve been rolling that around in my brain and heart for a while now, rumaging around for a deeper understanding.

Last week, during a yoga class at Pura Veda in San Juanillo Costa Rica, Sonya, the yoga teacher, offered a list of mantras for us to choose from while we practiced. “I can find the perfect in the imperfect,” is the one I chose. I mediated that mantra during the class, and have hung tightly to it since.

The other morning, while I stood for 40 minutes waiting for the volcanic mud that I had applied over my entire body to dry, I was feeling impatient. It was taking so long to dry and I started to focus on feeling irritated. And then it hit me, “I can find the perfect in the imperfect!” I started to notice the sounds of the jungle around me, the cool splotchy patterns emerging on my skin as the mud dried, the sheer beauty of my surroundings…and my attitude completely shifted! End the suffering, cue the contentment!

“I can find the perfect in the imperfect“ is the answer I’ve been seeking in how to end suffering! (Or at least it’s a good start.)

When we choose to focus on the negative, we choose suffering. When we choose to not forgive, we choose to suffer. When an expectation isn’t met and we lash out at ourselves or someone else, we choose suffering. When we focus on someone else’s perceived deficiencies and demean them, we are choosing suffering. When we can only see the dark side of life, we choose suffering.

But when we release ourselves from all that and see the perfect in the imperfect, our suffering ceases, or at least greatly decreases.

There are endless applications of this, from small irritations to full on disgruntlements. I’ve started to apply this mantra to every day life, and wow, has it made a difference in my outlook!

In what ways can you find the perfect in the imperfect?