Compassion
On Turning 52
“May this year bring you well-being, joy, and limitless opportunities to grow. Let’s be fierce in our commitment to value and utilize even the most challenging circumstances as a way to deepen our understanding and cultivate compassion for others (as well as ourselves.) Let’s continuously find creative and skillful ways to serve living beings and…
Read MoreOur Biggest Announcement Yet: Refugia!
10/31/25 our biggest announcement yet, & You’re the first to hear about it!! Dear beautiful human, We are thrilled to invite you to join us for a transformative 13-month training program: Refugia. This apprenticeship has been years in the making and is a culmination and distillation of our decades of practice, study, teaching, and cultivation. We…
Read MoreA Plenitude of Resources
A note from Erin Oct. 2, 2025 In the midst of so much that is heartbreaking and exhausting, I want to share some beautiful opportunities and resources with you. Some are classes you can sign up for with me and Carl and with dear, wise friends of ours, and some are inspiring links you can…
Read MoreA Tender Story: “We’re Doing It!”
A note from Erin: Dear beautiful human, I’m sending warm greetings your way from our linden blossom-scented porch. The intoxicating, fleeting scent! I wish I could send it along with these greetings. I hope you are finding many ways to keep returning to your vast and tender heart and grow intimacy with the…
Read MoreWorthy of our Welcome
A note from Erin: I hope you’re finding lots of sustaining beauty moments during these epically strange and stressful times. The world is agonizing and heartbreaking in so many ways these days. It’s also glorious and offering up its myriad gifts at the same time. In our yard, it’s that time of year when the…
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