Ready, Set, Slow
Slowing down changes the gravity of your life.
Spirit and Soul
The Resilience of Pleasure
Resilience means internal strength. The strength to allow pleasure in life in a myriad of circumstances.
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Full Participation Living
All of the issues we face as a culture come down to how we participate with life.
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Don’t Want It, Have It
Shift the power of your imagination from wishing to living as if.
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The Guest House
When we reduce emotions down to energies — as efforts to anchor or expand — we won’t be afraid of their intensity. We won’t deflect our pain. Instead we will see that each big emotion, as Rumi describes in his poem The Guest House, has been sent as a guide from beyond. They are directing us towards places inside of us where our energy is dispersed or fragmented — cluing us in to an aspect of our Soulful Self that we’ve not yet awakened to.
Othering and Belonging
We stand with those rightfully demanding justice, equality, and transformation. We stand with anyone perceived as “other” or “different” everywhere.
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The Color of Belonging
Poetry helped me find words for all that is unfolding in the world right now. I invite you to paint a new canvas of belonging from your heart, instead of just your mind.
The Color of Belonging
by Astara
The canvas of belonging
in our culture
is painted with invisible ink.
We squint to find a key, cue,
or pattern
for how to belong
and where we belong.
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Soul Mirror
Soul Mirror is a playful way to describe the reflective learning we undertake as humans.
Earth Day Turns Fifty
No matter our conservation effort, no matter our incredible solutions, if we don’t see ourselves as connected and a part of nature, we will not evolve, implement, and scale our best strategies. We have gotten lost. Are your ready to be found?
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