This weekend contains many holidays from Halloween to the Day of the Dead to All Soul's Day. October 27 was one of many Days of the Dead in which departed pets return home to be with their people, and as I walked among the horses this morning and noticed that Firefly was acting a bit…
Recent events had me thinking about trusting my body and trusting being able to move my body. This led me to thinking about how non-human animals move with complete trust in their bodies and how my yoga practice plays a role in helping me to regain trust in my body.
What happens when Wild Spirit…
Welcome to a new audio/video series here at Feathermane Soul: Wisdom from the Wild. Each week I'll share with you some thoughts, an oracle card pull, and some contemplative movements.
The theme for this week is connection. How can we support one another? Who are we loyal to and why? How can we strengthen the…
Help me choose what community offerings I bring you.
I am wanting to do some community offerings. I'd like your help in helping me decide which ones to offer. They primarily come in two different options.
Community Calls: These would be Zoom calls where I would speak on a given topic maybe for as long…
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I've talked a lot about why I don't use the word healing. And in the changes it's making to its guidelines, Yoga Alliance has been extremely clear that they do not want yoga teachers to use the word healing or anything that would relate directly to therapy, therapeutic work, medicine, or…
Dogma Fear Change What do these three words have in common? Last episode I talked about dogma and the wild. In this episode, I expand on that, talking about where dogma comes from (fear, especially fear of the unknown or fear of change) and how playing mad libs as a youth can be a metaphor…
It was almost exactly seven days ago when I stood by the fence, watching the four members of the herd, even the timid rescue Holly who is probably close to my heart mare's age, express their grief and I would argue even anger at the loss of my heart mare, the oldest horse in the…
What does the Tower tarot card, the wild, and our current poly-crisis situation have in common? Dogma. The unwavering belief that some humans have that things should not and could not be changed because that is how they were always done.
And yet, dogma is a very human construction like a lot of other things.…
I did an earlier episode about the spiritual care buffet, but lately I've been thinking about just how the different things I do go together and why I offer all these different things. So today, I want to speak a little bit about that and why having so many options can be beneficial to those…
Radical acceptance is a powerful tool that can help ease anxiety and stress. Drawing upon the Buddhist belief that attachment/desire causes suffering, radical acceptance allows us to see things as they truly are and then work from there to make any desired changes.
This episode references Tara Brach's work including her book Radical Acceptance.
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CW: This blog post will talk about anticipating euthanasia. As of this writing, the mare is still with us, but I am expecting her passing before the end of the month.
Note: There may not be a blogcast/audio for this post because I'm not sure I can read through it without breaking down. However as…
There's wisdom in cultures that learned how to adapt to their environment rather than force their culture to ignore or control their environment. In hot locations there is time for an afternoon rest, a siesta. Many countries including Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, most of Latin America, and the Middle East and rural parts of China…
This is a topic I hope to talk more about in the coming weeks and months, because how we perceive others’ experiences says a lot about how we view our own.
- Quote from last week's blog post.
I've been thinking a lot about how as humans, both collectively and sometimes individually, we state what…
We're continuing our journey through grief by talking about three types of grief that aren't really discussed by most grief coaches or even therapists. These types of grief are very common among those who are neurodivergent, queer, chronically ill, or disabled. Listen to find out what they are and how changing the conversation around grief…
The work I do is spiritual care. Make no mistake about it. Though I talk about grief, the wild, our stories, nature, our planet, yoga, meditation, and talk less frequently about spirituality (which as a reminder, I'm referring to a connection to something larger than ourselves), I am talking about spirituality when I talk about…
We're in the middle of the dog days of summer, and I tell you, I suspect if someone asked the dogs they wouldn't like this either. We've been in an "excessive heat warning" since Wednesday, and it's due to expire tomorrow evening. We're almost through it. My job is to keep the water troughs filled…