Beckoning Paths of Spring + An Invitation to My Free Course

Our neighbor’s pet hedgehog paid a visit to our garden. She’s happy it’s spring too. :)

I found a short piece from Rilke I’d love to share with you today in honor of this seasonal change:

“Harshness gone. All at once caring spreads over
the naked gray of the meadows.
Tiny rivulets sing in different voices.
A softness, as if from everywhere,

is touching the earth.
Paths appear across the land and beckon.
Surprised once again you sense
its coming in the empty tree.”

It reminds me of something a zen teacher once said to me. We were driving and I was admiring Seattle in bloom, all pink and fragrant and luminous. He said, “How can I convey that this is also happening in you?” 
Or as Suzuki Roshi said, “Nothing happens outside yourself.” 
Can you feel this seasonal change resonating in and through your body?

Reading Rilke inspires me to turn his words into a blessing:

Both outside and inside,
may harshness be gone and caring spread.
May softness emerge and touch the earth.
May touching the earth soften you.
May beckoning paths appear.
May you be surprised.

Today I’m very excited to share an invitation for the women in our amazing community.
I hope it’s one of the beckoning paths that appear for you this spring! 
(For our readers in the Southern Hemisphere, may it be a beckoning path for you this fall!) 

For the past twenty years, I’ve been teaching some amazing, potent, empowering courses for women, rooted in my studies of yoga, Feldenkrais, meditation, tai chi, Embodied Life, and all kinds of inner work. I couldn’t love it more. I like to keep the classes intimate, and so at the most, 25 women per year get to experience the work. About 5 years ago I started feeling called to teach this work online. I feel it’s needed in the world. To be honest, I’ve been hesitant – because I care so very much about this work and I’ve been afraid of important aspects being lost in translation through virtual reality. So for the past 5 years (yes, it’s taken me that long!) I’ve been learning as much as I can about teaching online. I’ve taken countless courses to research what works and what doesn’t, and I’ve now taught a handful of my own classes online and learned each time about how to improve the experience for participants. I’ve been waiting to share Women Embodied until I felt comfortable in this new realm because I have such a deep care for the work.
Drumroll please.
Finally, I’m ready.
Today, I am so happy to invite you to join me for a week-long online course in Women Embodied, aka WE Online. Did I mention it’s free?

The class will start next Monday, the 18th of April and run for one week. At the end of that week, I’ll let you know about how you can participate in a longer and deeper Women Embodied online course starting very  soon. I couldn’t be more excited that the time has finally arrived!

Women, I hope you’ll join me. I dearly hope you’ll also consider helping me spread the word so that as many women as possible who might benefit from being more embodied, more mindful, more empowered, more grounded, and more free in their bodies and minds, can also access the course.
You can read more and find the link to sign up below. It’s my gift to you!
(Men, we’ll have something you can join in on soon. We love you too!)

We have another exciting piece of news – this one for our local readers.

We’re honored and thrilled to have been invited to be the presenters for the Jung Society of Utah in May. We love what the Jung Society offers in our community, hosting the likes of Michael Meade, Coleman Barks, David Whyte, and many more amazing speakers. Our topic on May 5th will be The Wisdom in the Wilderness of Your Body. Details are below. If you’re local, please join us! Seeing friendly familiar faces in the crowd would be a huge gift. :) And it’s free. You can also see more about the Jung Society here.

Wishing you the softness of spring,
beckoning new paths,
and the full presence that allows you to be surprised by life.

Warmly,
Erin