Posts by Erin
This Brutiful World + Offering Blessings, Tasting Tears
a note from Erin: One of my favorite things about living in my neighborhood is walking in the nearby graveyard. It exists on 120 acres and is dotted with graves from the 1840s onwards. A fantastic bird-watching spot, it is filled with abundant trees sheltering old and new graves. I’ve walked here regularly over the past…
Read MoreListening Liberates
a note from Erin I’d love to share with you an excerpt from one of my favorite books of recent years, called Seven Thousand Ways to Listen, by Mark Nepo. It’s so gorgeous. It reads like poetry. It’s one of those books where I’ve dog-eared at least 100 pages and filled my journal with gorgeous quotations.…
Read MoreYour Raw & Tender Heart
a note from Carl: We heard about the tragic shootings in Orlando on the last day of our recent retreat in California. There is a particular rawness in taking in that kind of news after a week of working with meditation and embodiment practices – somehow it seems more viscerally heart breaking. When my heart…
Read MoreFlourish at the Speed of Life
I thought I was ready to finally teach my wonderful Women Embodied work online this summer. In fact, I loved doing my free taster course earlier in the spring and I got so much amazing feedback, it’s a surprise I’m not doing it. (Yet.) As I sat with myself and did some inner listening about…
Read Morea note from Carl: “Sometimes the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” -Wallace Stevens I have been reflecting on and deeply appreciating this line from Wallace Stevens on morning walks recently. On one of these mornings I almost didn’t leave the house because there was a sink full of dishes, a long to-do…
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