January 2025 NEW YEAR Hope lives in the blankness of each new calendar square, the footsteps of a few appointments...
AUGUST 2024 WINGS OF MINDFULNESS: A DAY OF INSIGHT AND COMPASSION Next Sunday, August 11st with Erin Joosse with live...
August, 2023 I’ll keep this short and sweet, and I promise not to talk about fall too much yet – we still have several weeks of summer left! In fact, I invite you to savor summer with Lori’s upcoming Lavender Farm Day Retreat, and…file away in the back of your...
July 2023 “You do not have to do just one more thing before you will be worthy of the refuge...
December, 2022 “Doing those deeply unfashionable things – slowing down, letting your spare time expand, getting enough sleep, resting –...
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...
February 1, 2022 Happy New Year! February 1st marks the start of the Lunar New Year, celebrated by more...
January 2022 “Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.” –...
I realized today that my morning meditations have been a bit more grounded than they were in the summer months and my mind has felt more settled than it has in quite some time. This might have to do with the return of my kids to school, after a year and a half...
I hope you are taking moments to pause and take in the last days of summer. I can sense fall...
Good news – we are in full-on summer cleaning mode in the studios, getting ready to welcome you back to in person classes for...
January, 2021 . I know it’s been a dramatic start to 2021, but I‘ve been napping. Let me back up. I usually don’t set a New Year’s Resolution, because I know it won’t last, and it has always reminded me of the striving nature of most of us, trying and trying to be...
