Refuge For Healing

01/29/2026

Price reduced and deadline extended! Please email me at refugeforhealing@gmail.com to register!

01/28/2026

Early Bird discount ends this Saturday, Jan 31st.
After that you will still have one week to register at full price.

Email me at the address in the flyer to register! I hope you'll be there!

01/17/2026

Two weeks left for the early bird discount! I hope to see you there!

01/08/2026

01/05/2026

I hope you'll join us!

12/11/2025

Don't miss this wonderful online retreat!
There will be some time to work on projects by yourself, as well as time to connect with others. There will be learning, and poetry, and music. Nobody will be required to do anything they don't want to do, sharing out loud, for example.
Sign up soon!

12/04/2025

Befriending Yourself Online Retreat
January 17th and 18th, 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM MST
$100 per person.
One of the first steps toward feeling at home in your own body is learning how to befriend yourself.
Join me for a safe, comfy online retreat where we will talk about how to stop being unkind to ourselves and how to accept ourselves with love and respect.

11/03/2024

If it feels difficult to smoothly take a deep breath, if it feels like something is catching or blocking your belly from smoothly expanding as you breathe, try this.
Put your hands on the sides of your ribcage. Now, as you take a breath, try to expand outward against your hands. It should feel like you are expanding your ribcage toward both sides, left and right.
Try that a few times. Try it several times throughout the day. See if it helps loosen your diaphragm for easier breathing.
I would love to hear about your experience with this technique!

10/31/2024

Take a deep breath. There's a lot of stress in the world and breathing better will help a little.
Slowly let your lungs expand, and also allow your entire belly to expand. Gently. Don't take the deepest breath in history, just nice and filling.
Does that feel easy? Can your whole belly expand smoothly? Or do you feel a catch or tightness somewhere?
Just notice. Don't judge it.
Comment and tell me how that feels for you.

The diaphragm is a muscle that runs from side to side between where our abdominal organs are and where our lungs are. Our belly expands when we breathe correctly because when we take a breath our diaphragm contracts and moved downward. That creates a suction in our lungs to draw in air and it also crowds our abdominal organs a little bit so that they make our belly expand outward. Most of us breathe very shallowly out of habit and stress. It's helpful to practice this deep, easy breathing.

09/28/2024

Right now, stop for a minute and think about what your feet feel like.
Can you feel where your shoes are touching them? Or are they bare and you can feel the air on them? Can you feel the weight of them on the floor? Try pressing them into the floor for a few seconds. Are your toes tight or relaxed? Do you notice anything else about your feet?

In our busy world we can easily become disengaged from our bodies. We're out of touch with our own selves until something screams for attention. Learning to be aware of our bodies helps us be more integrated, and can be an important step toward better health.