The Practice

my practice: a perfectly imperfect experience

The Fall

  As yang bleeds into yin, each year, I find myself going through feelings of grief. It is not unwelcome – for this water woman, the tears bring nostalgia, cleansing. I shed the tan of summer and replace it with cloaks to keep in the feels. I quiet. I await the first fall virus that

Stillness

  In stillness comes the most (positive) internal activity I’ve had in so long. In expecting nothing, I am reconnected with everything I thought was gone. And where am I finding the stillness? It is amazing to me that I have created extra time from nothing just with a shift in mindset. Just from a

Take Time Challenge: Weeks 6 and 7

What IS the Take-Time Challenge? Read about it here. So I messed up a little. Here we are coming into week 8 (today) and I haven’t written a post for neither weeks 6 OR 7 yet. I hope you have all been continuing to take time while I’ve been searching for time. It’s not necessarily a bad

Take Time Challenge: Week 5

I apologize to those waiting for our soul challenge this past week. Hopefully, you have found some time for your soul, in whatever ways that resonate with you, over the last week. Our soul challenge (and that which you can use for the next week) for week 5 is: Take time for your intuition. This

Take Time Challenge: Week 4

Apparently, doing nothing is a good theme for me. I achieved my highest score yet, this past week… My total: 28 (out of a potential 35) On analyzing this week’s successes (and challenges), it becomes clear that it is no coincidence that we Canadians celebrated our last long weekend (until the winter/Christmas holidays). Thanksgiving. A time

Take Time Challenge: Week 3

A day later again… I must have been practicing this week’s mantra: Take Time to do Nothing. Can’t blame me, I was busy doing nothing. Before we get into this week’s soul challenge, I suppose I have to report my results of Week 2. Week 2 was regrettably a little worse than Week 1. Yes,

Take Time challenge: Week 2

Tuesday marked the end of our first week of the “take time challenge”… and I was afraid to tally up my results. As a teacher, a naturopath, and a potential role model, I am acutely aware of the importance of “walking the talk“. Authenticity is for what I strive every day – and, when there

The 10-week Take Time Challenge

Take Time. What does this mean? I considered the title “Make Time”, but let’s be honest: in order to insert time for “x” activities, we (as the busy people we are) have to TAKE time from other activities. Time (as energy) cannot be created or destroyed. But it can be repartitioned (like space on your

More on Inner Posture: Self

It may be argued that these days, our society is much too focused on “self”– the self has become the important idea, and community has been forgotten. However, in contemplating this, one realizes that self-esteem and self-confidence– or what I like to refer to as strong inner posture – is far beyond “selfishness”. These ideas