Wellness
The Body is the Teacher
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“The wisdom of the body is a good place to start
rethinking and re-feeling our conception of nature.”
~~ Starhawk
Greetings to all my precious people!!
The Fire Horse year is here. It arrived four days ago on February 17th and you can feel it—the quickening, the intensity, the demand for authentic expression.
For the past two weeks, we’ve been preparing:
Week 1: INTUITION – You learned to trust your body’s knowing before your mind can prove it. You practiced listening to your three centers: head, heart, gut.
Week 2: OBSERVATION – You learned to see clearly, to discern YOUR truth from the conditioning you inherited. To recognize when you’re seeing through someone else’s eyes.
This week, we go deeper into the body itself.
Not the body as culture sees it (something to control, judge, fix, optimize).
Not the body as you were taught to see it (object, problem, liability, betrayal).
But the body as TEACHER. As wisdom keeper. As sacred text.
Observing: Discerning Truth from Conditioning
“Thinking is only a preamble to seeing.”
~~ Rudolf Steiner
Greetings to all my precious people!!
In three days, the Fire Horse year officially begins (February 17, 2026). The energy is already shifting—you can feel it. The deep interior stillness of Water season is giving way to Wood’s upward, outward movement. Spring is stirring beneath the frozen ground.
Last week, we explored INTUITION—your body’s capacity to know things before your mind can prove them. You practiced listening to your three centers of intelligence: head, heart, and gut.
Many of you wrote to share what you noticed: how often your gut said one thing while your head said another. How your heart knew the truth, but your thinking mind overrode it with logic and fear.
This is the work. This is the awakening.
This week, we go deeper into OBSERVATION—the spiritual practice of learning to see what’s actually here, not what you were conditioned to see.
Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most of what you think you’re seeing isn’t real. It’s projection. Conditioning. Stories you inherited from your family, your culture, your trauma.
You’re not seeing with your own eyes. You’re seeing through someone else’s.
And until you learn to observe clearly—to discern YOUR truth from the programming you absorbed—you cannot trust your intuition. Because you can’t tell the difference between your body’s wisdom and your conditioning’s fear.
This is the practice that makes everything else possible.
Intuition: The Body Always Knows First
“The only really valuable thing is intuition.”
~~ Albert Einstein
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We’ve crossed the threshold. Imbolc has passed as of February 1st, marking the first undeniable stirrings of light returning. In ten days, the Fire Horse year begins on February 17, 2026 — a rare, intense energy that arrives once every sixty years, bringing passion, creative force, and the demand for authentic expression.
January was about building SANCTUARY—creating the internal conditions where your true self could finally emerge. You learned to return to yourself, to create safety in your nervous system, to tend daily practices, to build resilience from restored reserves.
Now, in February, we explore what LIVES in that sanctuary:
Your intuition. Your body’s wisdom. Your direct knowing that doesn’t require external validation.
This month’s theme is SCIENCE MEETS SPIRIT—not as opposing forces, but as collaborators. We’re exploring what happens when neuroscience validates what mystics and healers have always known: Your body knows things your mind hasn’t caught up to yet.
And we’re beginning with the foundation of all embodied wisdom: intuition.
The Seed Knows What It Will Become
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“Because true belonging only happens when
we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world,
our sense of belonging can never be greater than
our level of self-acceptance.”
~~ Brené Brown
Greetings to all my precious people!!
We have arrived at the final Friday of 2025. The space between years. The liminal time when one cycle has completed and another hasn’t quite begun.
This is the deepest winter when Water season is at its peak. Maximum yin. The darkest dark before the light slowly returns. And our culture desperately wants to rush through this. To skip the fertile void. To jump straight into New Year’s resolutions, vision boards, and “New Year, New You” transformation programs.
But the soul knows better.
The Soul that Arrived Here
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“We shall not cease from exploration.
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
~~ T.S. Eliot
Greetings to all my precious people!!
This is Thanksgiving week in the United States – a time traditionally set aside for gratitude, for gathering, for acknowledging what sustains us.
It’s also the final Friday of November.
The completion of our HOMECOMING arc.
We have cleared physical space, honoring the body as sacred vessel.
We have released ancestral patterns, choosing what to carry forward.
We have quieted the mental noise, creating space for deeper knowing.
Now we arrive at the deepest homecoming of all: returning to the soul that arrived here.
Not the self you’ve become through adaptation and survival.
Not the person you were taught to be.
But the essential YOU that existed before all the conditioning.
T.S. Eliot understood this: we explore, we journey, we search – and eventually, if we’re fortunate, we arrive back where we started and know the place for the first time.
We come home to who we’ve always been.
