Gratefully Rooted

in my element

cooking for intimate groups of women

leading yoga, offering self-care practices, prompting journaling, & inviting creativity

inspired by the season

I was so lucky to live this slice of existence & blossom these experiences in my WV home

my garden party day retreats were nourishing ways to say thank you to life & for being alive together

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Women’s Retreats + Gatherings & I are conspiring to open these day retreats for private events

you gather your people for a particular celebration — we organize & enliven the rest

think moon gatherings, birthdays, anniversaries, rites of passage, & other thresholds to celebrate & honor

let’s design a day to focus attention, embody delight, & nourish our desires to connect & play, in ways that encourage each of us to live more awake in the world

It’s been just over a month since we bought our first together home and overall I’m handling the transition to this new “together all the time” life quite well.

We’ve been together for 5 1/2 years, living 100 miles apart — so far it has been a super charmed beginning to this life-school of marriage, home, and family tending.

Boxes are almost fully unpacked & our rhythms of family are finding their way in a new place, with new conditions, and new responsibilities.

I’m proud of us. Greg, against A LOT of odds, we made it happen. Cheers to the next decade in this home. I love that we are both willing & committed to our individual, partnership, & familial growth here. We will continue to fill our lives with love, color, warmth, & deliciousness.

We found a beautiful funky home in a quiet and sweet neighborhood backing up to glorious woods. We wake to birdsong and a rooster after evenings visitations from a magical bard owl who enjoys listening to Greg play music from our screened in porch.

Ryan T. Rust Redfin swooped in & revived our home search & made our buying experience a breeze. Ryan & his partner Rob were a joy to work with and really made this home happen for us. We are wildly grateful.

Chicks hanging chickens — cackling & clucking warmth into my new home. 🔥🐓 💚✨💃🏽🤌

The movement of time is wild. Thank goodness for humans who remind me to dance with it.

10am ONLINE ONLY Vinyasa Sunday June 14 ✨💚

Join me for some super loving balance play that will anchor your focus, clarify your mind, & uplift your kindness.

Saucha ✨ Purity

Cleanse the mirror of the mind

Cultivate peace within the temple of the heart

Tend the altar of the body to make space for a more authentic broadcast



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Local-ish Retreat!!

An extended weekend in the early days of autumn with a group of women saying YES to slowing down, growing quiet, and restoring in connection.

I know, it’s not even summer yet but payment plans are so reasonable if you start now.

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“.. interpretation is the preferred escape from immediacy.” - Bruce Tift

Very rarely are we simply experiencing reality in a direct way.

What we experience is filtered through our senses, emotions, thoughts, and feelings.

And what we perceive is heavily influenced by our preferences, our worldview, our past & our conditioning, and our environment.

And then we almost immediately make interpretations about what we are experiencing.

It happens so naturally that we get tricked into believing our stories over the truth of our immediate experience.

The practices of yoga help to cleanse the lens of perception & widen our scope.

We practice creating an atmosphere of openness, a non-judgmental awareness, & returning to the immediacy of what’s actually going on in the present.

We practice a greater awareness of our proclivity for inner commentary and kindness when we catch it.

We practice simply experiencing without interpretation, and in this modern world of over-thinking, ego-identification, assumptions, and widespread division, it’s freeing.

And in that state of freedom, we make more unencumbered, impactful, & authentic choices in how we engage & participate with what we experience.

this week Wednesday, Thursday, & Sunday 💚✨🙏



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Saturday I got to be at Beloved Yoga ALL DAY. I taught 9am vinyasa, saw folks I hadn’t had the pleasure of hugging in YEARS, enjoyed tea & some quiet in the lounge, and cheered on my mentees in the YTT.

Being back in the Beloved fold feels good. I know I never left, but there was literal distance and other challenges to my capacity to show up.

The man that I fell in love with kept me close enough for a time and has now called me back to the area of my yoga-home.

Thank you for this wholehearted keepsake made from my wedding bouquet - it feels like a token honoring this current confluence of the wild circles & cycles of life & my 13 years at Beloved.

Gratitude to you & our sangha. 🙏✨

More to come…