“Refuge and Restore” Yoga and Meditation Retreat Boca de Chavon, Dominican Republic with Shawna Emerick & Amy Soucy April 12-19, 2025 SIGN UP NOW Ki-Ra

By Thich Nhat Hanh   “Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.”-Thich Nhat Hanh When I read that quote for the first time last week, I

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This is the mantra that popped into my head as I was feeling down, embarrassed, and ‘less than’, about the fact that I did not

The way that Amy and I run retreats is truly like no other out there. I’m not bragging, but drawing from my experience from this past

We started with what mindfulness and self-compassion are, then explored what it is not and what blocks us from acting in self-compassionate ways. We then

This is the first year I am creating this container and I intend to make it a yearly sabbatical each August.  It is for those

When starting each gathering in my “Mindfulness as a Path to Self-Compassion” course, I did something VERY different.  I centered us with a piece of

Within this blog, I will write about: -Why do we resist offering ourselves compassion? -5 misconceptions of self-compassion. -Why we get stuck and why we

Hello Dear One, I hope you are well.  What do you need right now?  What one small thing can you do right now to ease

What is mindfulness?  I’ve been thinking about this a lot, wink wink. That’s probably not even a mindfulness joke, but I thought the winks would

“God willing.” Long ago, a client of mine used that phrase whenever I was leaving her home after a private yoga session.  It would always

Down, down, down we traversed.  Down into her womb. Into the womb of Mother Earth. Down, down, down we cautiously, quietly walked.  Aware and careful,