Wildly Embodied

Wildly Embodied

To be wildly embodied is to experience your true nature through every cell of your body – and at the same time – experience your embeddedness in the natural world, in all that surrounds you. The wild, creative, improvisational divine is arising in every...
When . . . slowly she rocked me in her arms

When . . . slowly she rocked me in her arms

29 years ago I experienced the presence of the living earth for the first time, as mother and as a part of myself. This blog and my website In Conversation with the Wild, grew out of the ongoing conversations I have had with the earth and the beautiful beings that...
The Bushmen Perspective on Embodied Interconnection

The Bushmen Perspective on Embodied Interconnection

Reposted from AwakeningTheDreamer How the Bushmen of southern Africa explain the human relationship to God: “When one acknowledges the presence of a small bird, a tiny thread is formed. After many encounters with that bird, the thread becomes thicker until it...
Embodiment is Interconnection

Embodiment is Interconnection

Embodiment – living in awareness through your body – is also the way to feel interconnected to everything and everyone.  As I turn my attention within my body, beyond my skin into my tailbone for instance, and I begin to explore how my tailbone moves ever so gently, I...
Fun in the Moment

Fun in the Moment

As every child knows, there is nothing like an unexpected thrill, the surprise you hadn’t even imagined that takes you to a new place, the place you never saw coming.  The punchline of a great joke, the surprising turn in a new trail, the thrill of hiding and never...
Wonder and Whales at the Beach

Wonder and Whales at the Beach

On a hot day in early May, I went to nearby Limontaur beach, an isolated strip that borders on Drakes Bay on the south side of the Point Reyes peninsula.  As I began walking east I noticed a lone whale, first seeing her spouting water, then the sleek curve of her long...
Dances with Wind and Tree

Dances with Wind and Tree

Walking through the wetlands on a windy day, I encountered a tree growing horizontally towards a nearby stream.  While the trunk stretched out sideways, many of its branches grew vertically.  I was easily able to reach my hands up to grab the vertical limbs, climbing...
Allurement and Creativity

Allurement and Creativity

What if movement is the language of the Universe?   Since I first read The Universe is a Green Dragon some 15 years ago, I have been fascinated with concepts such as allurement and the creation of community, becoming love in human form, becoming beauty to ignite...
The Way We Move

The Way We Move

                      The way we move reveals the way we feel.  Each of us broadcasts a multitude of information about ourselves through how we move our bodies through space.  Through the language of our bodies we communicate with our own species  – and we have...