Weekly Updates

Welcome to Week 4 in Fire Month!  I love framing our months by elements in nature because we have so much to learn from the world around us.  I always find myself pointing to the natural world to teach lessons to my children, about where their greatest power lies and how to connect with it. […]

In this week’s blog, I want to break down the illusion that some of us have things figured out in life, and some of us are still working on it.  I think we create this illusion because we really want to have it all figured out already!  So, we look at others and say, I

This season, we are leading a few workshops to motivate and inspire you on a deep level.  We jump in with seeing how the body can be a guide for us to get our needs met.  We begin with one of the most basic needs – safety.  And then we explore how the same principles

Isn’t it so easy to look outside ourselves?  I’m talking about focusing on others as a distraction from the inner work we might need to do.  We do it in different ways, from blaming others to giving them all the credit.  We might think too much about what we can get from them, or too

Do you ever feel lost?  Or like you’re just going through the motions of your life, but not feeling really present in that life?  I believe we all are meant to feel incredibly powerful and fullfilled, just as we are.  Without trying to be anything or do anything that might be expected of us first!

This may sound crazy, but we encourage our top adult students to try out other martial arts. Doing so is strictly forbidden at some schools, while others are open to it and some schools, like ours, actually require it to before a student achieves Black Belt in our dojo.  Our perspective it this:  We are

What’s been on my mind this week is how totally stuck we humans can get to feeling.  There are so many ways a life can wind its way towards a feeling of immobility, of helplessness.  And I think this is one of the most dangerous places for us to be.  Stuck may be the one