A Space for Insight and Reflection

Reiki is based on ancient healing wisdom that transcends time and culture. It is instinctual to put our hands on what hurts. It is common to observe children doing this when they hurt themselves. Likewise, when someone has a headache we put our hands there in an effort to make it go away. For as long as we have been sentient beings it is likely we have used our hands to heal. Reiki systematizes this innate healing art into a format which enables a deepening of this tenden

In aligning ourselves with the seasonal cycles, we are wise to take our cues from nature: The animals are in hibernation. The plants are goi

How can we let the transformative quality of fire move through us in a good way? It is tempting to focus on the dramatic evidence of loss al

I have silently witnessed, with gratitude, and relief, the echoes of my experiences of sexual trauma in the words of my sisters. This is not my first attempt, by any means, to write about what happened over the years. My many attempts have given me even more respect for the women that have spoken up in the #MeToo movement. These women are fierce warriors of a cultural revolution. I am a white, immigrant women from South Africa. Women of color face a disproportionately higher

Naming our own matrilineal lineage is an initiation of our sovereignty and an invocation of our milk line. My daughter, Nymue, and I did not have the same last name for the first 5 years of her life. We both had the last names of our father, who had the last name of his father's father's father's father... etc. You get the idea. Nymue and I have been looking for a name we can share for a long time. It has been a big prayer of mine to shed an old skin that got too tight and

Last week, I was blessed with a visit from Ida Resi Alit, the High Priestess of Bali for a water ceremony. Ida is a Balinese priestess who, as a teenager, emerged from a near-death experience channeling mudras and speaking several ancient languages - none of which she'd had any prior experience with. This extraordinary woman then went on to be named High Priestess of Bali on her twenty-first birthday. To date, she is the youngest woman to hold the post, with her predecessors

Nymue has been into receiving acupuncture lately. When she sees the tables set up she often asks me to put needles in her- even indicating to me where she wants me to put the needles. I appreciate her clarity of knowing what she wants: when to put the needles in, when to take them out, and where she wants them put. This intuitive and effortless wisdom is something I aspire to in my own life and practice. Marion Rosen used to talk about this as well. She said in earlier years

One of the biggest sources of dis-ease I see in my practice comes from people not listening to their inner truth and conforming to how external sources tell them they “should” be feeling or behaving. In my process of preparing to give birth I am receiving endless – and often conflicting – recommendations that lead me to question which advice to trust. I find myself returning again and again to the wisdom of listening and responding to the impulses of my body. To develop self

Marion Rosen passed away on Wednesday at the age of 97. She was still seeing clients a few months beforehand. Marion’s work is revolutionary. She calls on us to listen to our own inner authority rather than relying on what society tells us, or our partners, or our teachers, or our religions. She demonstrates a simple sitting with the self and being with what is as being enough. I began studying her work in 1999 and received my Rosen Method Practitioner license in 2003. It ha