AUGUST 2024 WINGS OF MINDFULNESS: A DAY OF INSIGHT AND COMPASSION Next Sunday, August 11st with Erin Joosse with live...
“Our spirit has an instinct for silence. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we...
January 2025 NEW YEAR Hope lives in the blankness of each new calendar square, the footsteps of a few appointments already scrawled across those pristine, snowy fields. We leap at this chance to hit the reset button on life, to pause here at the cusp and draw a deep breath...
June 2024 PEACE OF WILD THINGS by Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake...
June, 2023 Creativity and Renewal: Summer Retreat with Erin Joosse Harmony Hill Retreat Center July 22nd-24th For more than...
A couple of weeks ago, I returned from a 7-day silent meditation retreat. “7 days of silence?!” people ask, stunned at the thought. Honestly, the silence is not the difficult part. For me, an introvert, it’s quite nice to not have to talk, not have to interact or make small...
TIME FOR A STUDIO REFRESH! Take Note – we will be canceling or moving classes online Memorial Day Weekend for...
FREEDOM OF EQUANIMITY: Finding Calm and Center Amidst Life’s Challenges Fall Retreat with Erin Joosse November 1st-3rd at The Whidbey...
June 2022 REGISTER Contemplative retreat practice offers us the opportunity to pause the doings of daily life, and the chance to tune more fully into our bodies, minds, and hearts. Mindful creative practice offers us the opportunity to play, the chance to express ourselves in new ways, and the opportunity...
July 2023 “You do not have to do just one more thing before you will be worthy of the refuge...
February, 2023 “The heart opens. The heart closes. This is the systole and diastole of human life. We may...
A wise friend recently said to me “there’s a lot of waiting in life. It’s best to get comfortable with it.” It’s true. How many times throughout our day, our week, our year, our life, are we left waiting? Waiting in lines, waiting for a reply from someone, waiting for plans to work...
