“Every traditional storyteller … has shown above everything else that intense urge to share with others what has already moved him [or her] deeply.” ~ Ruth Sawyer, The Way of the Storyteller As I began to explore my memories of moving from Jamaica to the United States at 6 years old, I also began to …Read More
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“The Teacher” heals me, online storytelling class
“I start off as a nerd in elementary school (I know that’s hard to believe), and then I become the person I am today.” I say with a smirk on my face that my friend could hear over the phone. “What do you think of this as an idea for a story?” She laughed, “Ok, …Read More
How do you find stories to tell?
Jacob wrestles with a dark shadow all night long fearing for his life. Only when the sun rises and first light appears, does he realize that he is wrestling with an angel. In telling personal stories, I have felt like Jacob in this Bible story. There are some stories that are vulnerable and difficult. However, …Read More
Tell Your Story, Transform Your Life ~ Join the storytelling transformation
Tell Your Story, Transform Your Life Storytelling changed my life, and it can change yours. Storytelling is the art of connection. In a touch-deficit world, stories touch us deeply. Stories touch our emotions, change our minds, and inspire our spirits. We do not forget stories because stories make us feel. “I’ve learned that people will …Read More
The day the solar system broke ~ Fatimah Asghar
Today, most of us know what it is like for the world as we know it to shift. You wake up one day, and it’s nothing like yesterday and nothing like any of the tomorrows that you had envisioned. Perhaps, even your place in the world has changed. In 2006, scientists decided that Pluto was …Read More
Somatic Movement Summit ~ Free Online Event
How are you engaging with movement these days? Do you have a healthy movement practice? Explore Your Innate Body Intelligence: The Gateway to Resilience, Health & Wholeness Cultivate Resilience Through Motion Discover Fluid Motion as a Medicine for Body and Mind Discover Motion as Medicine and a Pathway to Wholeness Embody All of Yourself Through …Read More
Like light, we can’t be broken ~ Amanda Gorman
Amid times of crisis, inaugural American youth poet laureate delivers words of comfort and hope. With the powerful conviction of her voice, she recites one of her poems from the Los Angeles Central Public Library. “The question is not if we will we will weather this unknown, but how we will weather this unknown together…. …Read More
One Today ~ Richard Blanco
One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. …. We head …Read More
Pandora’s Box ~ Finding Hope
So we’ve opened Pandora’s Box, now what? The Greek myth of Pandora does not end with the fateful opening of the box that contains “disease, war, pestilence, and all the afflictions of man.” The story goes on with a message of hope. As with all ancient stories that travel the world told from person to …Read More
Meditation: Square Breathing
Learn the technique of Square Breathing to balance the nervous system. When we are stuck in an anxiety state of chronic sympathetic overdrive, breathing meditation can activate the parasympathetic relaxation and down-regulate the nervous system. The breath is always in the present moment. As we slow down to meet the breath, the nervous system will …Read More