Mind Body Mindfulness

03/10/2025

Spring 2025 Mindfulness Opportunity -

You work with what you are given,  the red clay of grief,  the black clay of stubbornness going on after.  Clay that tastes of care or carelessness,  clay that smells of the bottoms of rivers or dust.  Each thought is a life you have lived or failed to live,  each word is a dish you have eaten...

01/02/2025

Drop-in Mindfulness Meditation January 2025 -

We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we ar...

06/21/2024

Drop-in Mindfulness Meditation New Zoom Link! -

We begin so aware and grateful. The sun somehow hangs there in the sky. The little bird sings. The miracle of life just happens. Then we stub our toe, and in that moment of pain, the whole world is reduced to our poor little toe. Now, for a day or two, it is difficult to walk. With every step, we ar...

04/16/2024

Drop-in Mindfulness Meditation Returns! -

“Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we've spun, the tasks we've assumed, the problems we have to solve. They'll be there when we get back, ...

03/22/2024

Spring 2024 Mindfulness Offerings -

Growing up raised by my grandparents,  I was fortunate to be surrounded by wealth of wisdom and love.  My grandparents embodied qualities of mindfulness and self-compassion in their daily lives,  and their influence shaped my own journey and profound ways.

07/13/2023

Summer 2023 Mindfulness Offerings -

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffe...

03/28/2023

Spring 2023 Mindfulness Offerings -

You work with what you are given,  the red clay of grief,  the black clay of stubbornness going on after.  Clay that tastes of care or carelessness,  clay that smells of the bottoms of rivers or dust.  Each thought is a life you have lived or failed to live,  each word is a dish you have eaten...

09/30/2022

Fall 2022 Mindfulness Offerings -

We’re all carrying a load, including tasks, challenges, worries, inner criticism, mistreatment from others, physical and emotional pain, loss and illness now or later, and everyday stresses and frustrations.

03/14/2022

Spring 2022 MBSR and More! -

If you have just one, one can spiral into a thousand in a halo of gold. Where will you hide it in the earth so every seed may declare peace for a survivor’s knees at a brother’s grave? Kim Stafford

01/05/2022

Thoughts on the new year -

12/19/2021

Winter 2022 Mindfulness Offerings -

In my journey along this path of mindfulness practice, I have been unraveling and exploring my conditioning over the course of my life. In one of those explorations, I bumped into untangling this thing called ‘loyalty’. I found ‘my’ brand of loyalty to be a maladaptive behavior that has bro...