Breanna Morandi

In support of & in solidarity with the challenge this week I will be on mute from posting original content in an effort to de-center whiteness and my personal narrative.

What I will be doing this week is continuing to share and amplify the work, words and perspectives of black creators, artists & activists whose lived experiences need and deserve to be centred.

For more information on this challenge and it’s intent please see it’s originators: & .msrd

*A quick note to begin or continue your journey of unpacking white supremacy/racism:
Google. Type new terms you are unfamiliar with or uncertain about into search engines. There are tons of good articles written by people whose lived experience qualifies them to tell you about this. This should alleviate any need to seek free emotional or educational labour from any of the many activist/educator accounts on this platform or from your BIPOC friends/colleagues/community members.

What if, rather than being seen as opposing forces, we saw the whole spectrum of polarity in the way that it is a marriage of two halves of a whole, two faces of the same energy?

What if instead of dividing we unified them, seeing the way diverse ends of any spectrum breed the richness of a whole lived experience?

What if, rather than a battle between one and the other we could lean into the ebb and flow of polarity as a form of harmony rather than dissonance?

You play, I play, we play, in a polarizing reality, often seeking for extremes to help us feel alive and yet rejecting other extremes trying to select for comfort only. What if we practiced the embrace of the swing not so that we can be permanent edge dwellers in one extreme of polarity or another but so that we can dance across the whole spectrum, taking it all in & never losing the thread of how it all connects.

Two halves of a whole.
A whole made greater by the sum of its parts.
A richness found in uniting, not to transcend the polar, but to integrate and connect through it.

What if?



pc: irene kredenets

“This or something better for the highest good of all involved”.

These words, gifted to me by , so many years ago now, are the end note of every intention set at moments both auspicious & mundane. They are, in a way, their own little prayer, both linked to the wider intention being set & a reminder of how foundational trust is to that process.

Lately, with so much change and disruption unfolding, I’ve been reminded that the heart of this invocation is the trust that we don’t always, or even often, know what the ‘something better’ is for ourselves or others connected to our intentions.

To me, intention setting is more akin to prayer than it is to goals. Not because it doesn’t contemplate direct action on our part, but because it calls on the divine (/source/the universe/whatever synonym suits you) to be a part of the process. This requires us to suspend limiting beliefs & our need to control or micromanage the outcomes.

I’m reminded at these times to stay open enough to see that it’s utterly perfect not to know or be in charge - to ‘let go and let god’, as it were. Not because we are not immensely powerful, which we are, but because we are not alone in conspiring towards our highest good & thank goodness it is not all on our shoulders, that there’s some wiser force at work & we don’t have to rely on our own intellect & force of will alone to get where we are growing to.

When we’re not busy trying to force an outcome to fit into the narrow confines of what we think it should be we can stay open enough to receive what actually is - the creative, unexpected versions of its expression. We are course corrected not always in the way the machinations of the mind want us to be, but in the ways that are directing us purposefully towards what we need most. Learning how to lean into this is what “trust the process” really entails. Certainly, it’s not always easy, but true trust requires that it hold and be renewed, like a vow, across times of contraction just as much as at times of expansion.

I hope these words & this prayer/spell/invocation (again, use what word feels best to you) serve you as well as they’ve served my heart & understanding.

Currently preoccupied with where practices of release marry with conscious curation of our energy current.

Where we practice letting go, alleviating ourselves of all things for a time in order to be tuned into quiet emptiness the potential container for any choice of energy current to run is made available.

If in this process we release all things that arise, without judgement, regardless of what our typical systematic binary labeling would assign each thought, emotion or sensation (good/bad, pleasure/pain) we are brought to a threshold of being able to play in the realm of choice.

Let go. Empty. Choose.

What comes next is the play – what current of energy do you want to play with in your system. Where can you identify it already living and amplify it out until you are, even if just momentarily, solely being fed by it? Play with love, with joy, with gratitude, with stability, with grounding and safety - or any other kind of energy that feels needed to your body-mind-spirit system.

It is good practice to teach ourselves capacity to feel and be present to all things. But it is equally good medicine to play with the power we have to be in conscious choice. There are moments for each medicine and we build them by interacting with them, playing with them and personalizing our understanding of them through this kind of direct contact that practices of presence give us.

This is why after almost 15 years of practice I trust that the vast treasure trove available to mine is never ending. There is always another layer, another optic, another angle to approach and to play from.

Once upon a time when we could move and breathe and brunch together all cozy like.

Can’t wait for the fog to lift so we can have another yoga & brunch soon.

Nominating my loves at for ♥️

How do we know gratitude?

We can articulate it, we can feel it when something sparks it within us and we can invoke the feeling deliberately but how does gratitude express itself in action?

Embodiment grounds gratitude from the conceptual or subtle feeling state into our way of being. It is love made concrete.

Acts of savouring, slowing down to enjoy and process the whole of what’s being presented to us in each moment begin to solidify gratitude into the tangible. It is in acts of reverence to self, to others and to our environments. It’s in the way we actually treat the people and things in our lives, not taking them for granted but showing up in presence when we interact with anything - ourselves; our hearts, minds and bodies, our physical space, our work and all of its accompanying tasks, our rituals and ceremonies of honouring.

Embodying gratitude occurs in all the ways that we care for what we have been given, not out of habit or expectation, but out of deliberate intention to cherish. Embodying gratitude shows up in the actions we take to directly tend the gardens of our lives, choosing them exactly as they are in this moment. It occurs in both the magic and the mundane, when both are treated with attentive loving kindness. It is a form of presence, creating deliberate opening in us to receive fully whatsoever is being offered in each moment without judgement. It translates into embodiment in the actions we take, the practices we engage in and the intentionality behind them to remain curious, open and willing to meet everything. Gratitude is ultimately an open position of the energetic and emotional aspects of the heart but this requires practice and tending to in order to maintain that state & to return to it when we are pulled away from that alignment. Embodiment is what keeps that alive and tangible grounded into more depth than the theoretical mention of it.

What are the ways that you are embodying gratitude? What areas of your life might benefit from closer tending in this way?

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art: .potter.art

𝚁𝙴𝙵𝚁𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙶 ⌑ As the weeks in quarantining count up and the weeks left in my pregnancy count down, there is a lot of necessary inner work going on. While much of it was inner work I anticipated doing at this time, pregnancy in the time of corona has inevitably brought up a lot more to the surface to be seen and processed.

While this tiny box doesn’t have space to hold all of it, overall it has required a dedication to grieving past identities much sooner than I expected and processing and accepting unmet hopes and expectations. The result has been learning a much deeper experience and practice of gratitude that is grounded deeper into the way I embody what I am thankful for.

In the simplest way it comes down to a deliberate reframing of perspective and the inner dialogue around both the meaningful and mundane things that have changed. Freedom right now is, as it always has been, largely a mental experience that is rooted in remembering choice - first and foremost that we have it still.

For example: As the weeks tick by we also get closer to the reality that we will likely become a family of 3 living in a little over 500 sq ft. While this wasn’t what we hoped for when we listed, it has become an opportunity to reframe from “got to” to “get to”. We get to be here, to live in this safe little space and grow our family here. We get to find out what’s really essential in becoming parents and caring for ourselves and this little bean. We get to take up this space and get creative about it. We get to meet new versions of ourselves both through this initiation into parenthood and through whatever unique challenges small space will make us confront. We get to find out just how true it is that roots don’t necessarily need a lot of room to grow and thrive.

This is the work of the moment and it’s taking up more of my time and energetic resources than I could have predicted and while that has been its own challenge as it takes energy away from my work, I’m grateful for this too. And I’m also grateful for all of you that keep reading, connecting and meeting me in the offerings I am so honoured to keep sharing with you.

Loving you all.

In this time, as things are eroding and falling away, we are being worn down to the essential, to the bones of our being.

There’s a temptation to resist and struggle against that which can arise as the old way of being and knowing tries to perform some act of self-preservation.

And yet the invitation still is to be the witness of what has been made possible for us to shed in order to reconnect to what is true and essential, what really holds value and deserves to receive the currency of our attention.

Certainly, that process is not always easy or painless. As we move collectively through this there can be so much pain and heartbreak that has to be met through it. When this comes up we’re asked again and again how we might like to meet it – to choose to see and engage with it, or to resist and fight back against the tide.

In the moments where it feels impossible and insurmountable to stay open enough to meet that pain, be gentle and patient with yourself until you can craft a time and space in which it feels safe enough to re-open and resolve it.

In the times where you are able to make another choice, to meet the loss and the grief of this disassembling in full presence - either in the moment or by choosing to return to what has been stored or siphoned off in moments of distraction - be just as gentle with yourself as you allow the processing to occur.

Reach out and lean into your pillars of support in good community and through sound practices that create a safe space to be bare and vulnerable, to be at home in your body and the intensity of the felt state of the energy and emotions moving through.

This is how we find the right mixture of being and doing, how we uncover the balance point between avoidance and allowing ourselves the necessary time to rest, between showing up to the inner work and forcing it out of a sense of obligation to the cultural narrative that conflates our value with measurements of productivity.

Wherever you are at – in joy, in despair, in heartache, in gratitude, in fear or at peace, or some unpredictable and ever metamorphosing combination of the above, is already the perfect wave to ride back home.

I love you.
I’m sorry.
Please forgive me (us).
Thank you.

The mystery, the unknown and the dark can leave us feeling disoriented, unmoored and rudderless. And yet, it is this exact same state from which all good beginnings arise.

We easily forget that everything we bless and revere most once started in the liminal space of the unknown and unknowable. All of it was made from the potential space of the unknown, assembled in ways we could not have calculated or predicated. All of it was once a mystery that demanded our presence over our strategizing, our surrender over our striving.

Our entire existence is predicated on this state of mystery from which we were originally constructed. The call of the times is to meet ourselves fully in whatever the mystery is dragging up to the surface to be witnessed.
The long standing invitation to see ourselves whole, bare and unfettered has been made an imperative.
It is not a question of whether we will answer this call, but rather of how we will answer it.

How will we respond to the parts of ourselves, long lost and longing for our attention, now rising?
How will we meet the unknown and the turbulent emotions that uncertainty provokes?
How will we meet the mirror of the crumbling structures around us where it shows up as the crumbling of inner structures and beliefs we have constructed and maintained?
How will we collect and listen to the stories coming forward within ourselves to be heard?

How we acknowledge or refuse that call is the implicit choice of how we answer it.

We can anchor to the practices that allow us to develop and root into both clear seeing and calm abiding.
We can use those practices to put us back in touch with our own deepest presence, with the part of ourselves that is able to trust that there is medicine everything.
We can root into the ways of being that hold us steady when we are facing ourselves whole and alleviated of our facades, the ones that allow us to look with love on everything we see.
We can remember how to surrender just a little more to the mystery itself and embrace the experience of living within it.
We can allow this to release the unnecessary and reorient us to what is sacred and what truly matters within us and around us.

** First class will be LIVE today at 12pm MST via Zoom. See instructions & troubleshooting tips below:

• see link in Instagram bio for zoom meeting room code / to open webpage

• click on link at specified date & time of class

• when I log on the meeting room is opened & you’ll be able to take the class automatically, no need to have an account of any kind

• you can use the link in your web browser or download the Zoom desktop/phone app if you choose. Either way is perfect.

• when you enter the meeting room, please make sure the audio is off/muted on your end so that there’s no extra input of sound.

• give a couple minutes leeway from the start time of the class and if it still says the meeting room isn’t opened yet, close down your browser window or app and restart. I will do my best to make sure the meeting room is open right on time but as Zoom’s free side limits meetings of more than 3 participants to 40 minutes max, I want to make sure I save as much of that time for class as possible.

• this is an experiment, let’s give it a whirl together and we’ll tune it up as time goes on. If you have feedback related to the streaming process following the sessions please reach out via DM or email

• and that is it, see you on your mats so soon ♥️