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A Space for Insight and Reflection
Writing that explores healing, practice, and the deeper movements of transformation.



HOLY ENERGY
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
Mar 15, 20232 min read


Winter Solstice
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
Dec 20, 20212 min read


The Love in the Air is Thicker than the Smoke
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
Sep 14, 20206 min read


#MeToo -My Journey into Exquisite Resilience
I have silently witnessed, with gratitude, and relief, the echoes of my experiences of sexual trauma in the words of my sisters. This is...
Jul 6, 20188 min read


We changed our last name to Ayla, here's why ...
Naming our own matrilineal lineage is an initiation of our sovereignty and an invocation of our milk line. My daughter, Nymue, and I did...
Jun 4, 20183 min read


Ida and Water Blessings
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
Mar 13, 20182 min read


Nymue, Acupuncture, and the Tao
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
Jul 11, 20151 min read


Cultivating Wildness
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
May 23, 20152 min read


Marion Rosen
Marion Rosen passed away on Wednesday at the age of 97. She was still seeing clients a few months beforehand. Marion’s work is...
Jan 20, 20123 min read

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