Since 2019, I have been offering Guided Meditations by donation at noon Pacific on Tuesdays. For a while, during quarantine, I was also offering them on Thursday evenings. Interest has been dwindling, and I am trying to decide if my attention is better used helping people in other ways. For now, here are the next…
Category: Classes
What is DBT and why is it on my calendar?
Sometimes I offer classes, like DBT, that don’t seem like they belong with the rest of my offerings. There’s always a reason though. [Also, to be clear, this is not me leading a class so much as holding space for a peer-led group. I am not a state-licensed therapist and anyone in the group also…
About Reiki Healing
A lot of people are Reiki practitioners, but what is it, what can it do, and what goes into the training? It is the form of energy healing that has been studied the most and has the most evidence to support its efficacy. Many hospitals use it, and nurses can receive continuing education credits for…
What the heck is a sacred gyroscope?
A Sacred Gyroscope is a shamanic way of looking at and interacting with your world. It helps you see where you are in the world. It enhances your strengths and bolsters your weaknesses. It can show you your path. It can protect you. It includes the relational directions like left, right, up, and down, as…
Communication from the Heart Center
The heart is the switching station in the body, that which connects the physical to the spiritual selves, and it’s also operating system from which we connect to everything and everyone around us. The heart has a very different sort of knowingness that our usual operating systems. It will lead us in different directions, and…
Inclusivity in Service – reading for people with a different lived experience than ours
I’m part of a lovely, intimate book club focused on witchy and queer literature. A few months ago, we read a book called Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow. Brilliant book. From the blurb on the back: In Queering the Tarot, Cassandra Snow deconstructs the meanings of the 78 cards, explaining the ways in which…
Looking toward classes for 2021
Good grief, it’s mid November already. Still feels like March. How odd. As I tend to do around this time of year, I’m weighing and evaluating my offerings for the next calendar year (actually, looking through the archives, I may not have made a post like this since 2017). It’s going to be at least…
September, and then October: Ancestors, Grief, and Stillness
I feel like we’re in wrap up and catch up energies currently. I’m sure part of it is the fact that we’re coming up on October, which is a grief month for me, so my own personal energy is more sluggish. Not to mention everything that’s going on in the world. You’ll remember, a few…
Connecting Pursuits: A Reading from the Tarot Playshop
I have been reaching Tarot in various forms for a number of years. I currently have a monthly Tarot Playshop, where we focus on the practical aspects of reading; it’s good for any experience level. Anyway, in the course of teaching, at least while we were in person, I always ask my students to submit…
Feminine Divine and the Soul (repost)
This post on the Divine Feminine was originally published on March 13, 2015. I’ve updated some links. I was talking to a colleague about the difference between the energies of the Feminine and Masculine Divine. The connection with the masculine is directed, linear, and outward; it has definable points. The connection with the feminine is…
Expanding Kabbalah
I’ve been teaching Kabbalah for almost 10 years, I think. It’s a universal system that transcends belief structures, but most of the information out there is based on Abrahamic tradition. I’ve got some Gnostic in me, so that part isn’t completely dissonant, and I still strive to find a way to present the information in…
Cycles of the Goddess
In 2020, instead of doing a Full Moon Women’s Circle, I will be offering an online subscription program of Goddess-centric devotional material. All live sessions will be available via video conference and phone. The program will still incorporate some of Lasara Firefox Allen‘s work on the fivefold goddess model, as well as aiming to elevate…