Perhaps the reason it can be somewhat of a conundrum to define what consciousness is, is that … we are trying to articulate something that the mind must grow into in order for it to be able to perceive it! Definitions are by their very nature an expression of what the mind perceives. And so if we are discussing something which the mind does not yet perceive, how can we define it? How can we express it? Continue Reading
The First Wound
There never needed to be a first wound. If we had the skills, and the consciousness tools, and the support to stay present with our experience, in the moments that it was occurring, there would never have been a first wound. The reality to this day has been that children have been born into a world of adults who have not healed their wounds – adults who are not conscious of healing, the path of healing, the benefits Continue Reading
What Is Consciousness?
Awakening our consciousness is the whole point of healing. It is only when we are 'asleep' that we can suffer. Awakening our consciousness is rising to a higher level of vantage in our own mind. It is spiraling upward, like an eagle into the Sun. It is waking up to our full potential. It is awakening into a recognition of and a sensitivity to the whole. When we are wounded, we are Continue Reading
Cracking Open the Shell – Part 2
Is ‘fighting against’ the only way to access your true strength? Is it the most efficient one, the most powerful one, the most ultimately successful one? Or are there options? (There are. Look around. Not everyone fights against.) I’ll give you an example. In 1988, at the so-called ‘height’ of my dancing career (I was touring internationally with highly respected dance companies, and beginning to have high profile solos Continue Reading
‘What Tension Am I Holding That I Don’t Need?’ – Part 2
I’ve been asked numerous times over the thirty-five years I’ve been practicing daily Yoga if I would ‘teach’. (It’s a ‘cosmic joke’ that I’m apparently chronologically forty-nine. I feel perpetually like I’m twenty-eight, and sometimes like I’m fourteen!) For years I adamantly, though graciously, replied ‘No’. Yoga was my private, cherished companion. As a performing artist who was transparently visible onstage, it was my Continue Reading
Cracking Open the Shell – Part 1
What will it take for humanity to rise above reason – the current crowning achievement of the mind? To be even more precise, what will it take for humanity to pierce the veil of thinking … and open itself into the vastness of its pure potential – its access to omni-consciousness via intuition, telepathy, insight, and beyond? What I’m speaking of here is the ultimate exiting of the Wheel of Time. Continue Reading
Wander Time, Empty Time
So many people have asked me to write a sequel to “Savasana – The Deepest Rest Around!”. Inspired by the rejuvenation and refreshment that Savasana invites, here is its ‘sister’ … Most people in the western world – and millions if not billions in the eastern world, too – are standing both feet fully planted on the rapidly accelerating conveyer belt of ‘busyness’. Caught in an ego warp of ‘the busier you are, the more valuable you Continue Reading
Stepping Up into Our Genius
When I was at the 1992 UN Earth Summit, the era of thinking was that, to curb the global climate crisis, we would have to fall back to simpler, less evolved ways. We would have to 'give up' so much of what we've gained since the advent of Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution. We would have to become 'primitive' again. Hmmm. This mis-perception arose from a singular angle of logic – one that apparently was the Continue Reading
The Solution – Applying Our Brilliance to a Larger World View
Firstly, we have to care enough to change. We could, of course, let the natural world collapse beneath us and around us, and witness ourselves suddenly slip away - like watching our own mass death. (Who would want this?) Or we can have faith in ourselves. We can – through our healing, individually and collectively – rediscover our self-empowerment, tasting the exciting energy of possibility Continue Reading
Healthy Humans = Healthy Relationships – With Each Other, With Nature, With Self / Source
It is only when we are healthy that we can be the core – the center – of something else which is healthy. Our relationships cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationships with Each Other cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationship with Nature cannot be healthy if we are not. Our relationship with God, Source, All That Is cannot be healthy if we are not. What is Continue Reading