Transforming Negativity

In my last blog piece, I wrote about preparing for the most recent women’s retreat I led, Nourishing the Feminine Spirit, and the Ten Steps for Creative Sacred Space. During this particular retreat, there was a lot of emotional weight felt by all the women present. A good friend of the group had recently had […]

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Ten Steps for Creative Sacred Space

This weekend I will have the honor of facilitating a women’s retreat for Columbine Unity Church called “Nourishing the Feminine Spirit.” In preparing for the weekend, many ideas have been floating around.  As is always the case in every women’s retreat I facilitate, creative expression plays a central role. For many years I co-facilitated retreats […]

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The Cost of Harassment for Women

Two news stories caught my eye this week. The first was the story of a local peeping tom dubbed “the potty peeper”, for having engaged in some fairly disgusting behavior at the recent Hanuman Festival in Boulder. After discovered in one of the port-a-johns at the festival, the man admitted to a pattern of spying […]

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The Tender Voice of Spirit

The word ‘voice’ is used in so many ways in our world. Often times we use this word to mean the expression of one self, or the communication of an individual idea or thought. But there is great power in the voice in its most visceral form. There is power in the ‘voice voiced.’ The […]

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May Day

Today is May 1. A good day to begin ‘birdsong’, my new blog. May Day, or Beltane as it was known in days of ‘olde’, is a celebration of life. Seedlings, blossoms, sprouting shoots. A day to dance, and celebrate life’s sensuality. Even in the slow growth of a cool cloudy day like today, something […]

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