Add meditation, visualization and movement to veterans, children, teachers, healthcare professionals and leaders, and what do you make? Stronger communities. Living more fulfilled lives. In healthier bodies and minds. This is the mission of the Mindful Nation Foundation, a “pay it forward” non-profit that partners with local leaders, mind-body service providers and visionary donors to […]
A Right to Rage, Part 2
-Read Part 1- Let the fury fly For the first time, one after the other, I see people rage, scream, rant, rave, stomp, kick, cry, make sounds and move in ways I haven’t seen before. This is the individual process work we each enter into, as the Shalom Retreat weekend progresses. We all do this […]
A Right to Rage
**Trigger Warning: This beautifully told story relates childhood physical abuse, and a journey to healing and power. If this is a trigger for you, please skip past the italics to bypass explicit scenes.** My mother’s cold grip yanks me from my makeshift schoolhouse. She places me on my twin canopy bed, where I stand arms […]
Sensitive Self, Sensitive Beast
When you face a powerful prey animal it tells you about your relationship to your own prey animal: your living body. When I first had the opportunity to understand and experience natural horsemanship, it was as if everything I knew from my extensive work with sensitivity materialized into a moment. My work is with people […]
Body Is Soul
This is Part Four in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read from the beginning here. What I have come to see in retrospect is that my experience of “remembrance,” in these places in the world, was the interactions between my body and my soul, between my body […]
Breathing the Divine: India
This is Part Three in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read from the beginning here. A Challenging Call This call took me to many places, places I would have continued to wistfully long to visit someday if I hadn’t felt its pull. A call does that. It […]
Ripening: Wild Self, Wild Earth
This is Part Two in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read from the beginning here. Wild Home My first time in Hana, on the wet side of Maui, I felt I’d arrived home. The flowers, the moist air, the warm wind all conspired to welcome me in […]
Of Soil and Soul: A Call to Remember
This is Part One in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read all of her series here. Of Soil and Soul As we entered into the area of Western Ireland known as Connemara, I began to feel my body respond to the land. The beauty of the land […]
Part 4 – Road from Perdition
[Part four in a four-part series, delivered weekly. Click here for part one, published January 03, 2015] “Tomorrow morning, the Earth will come directly between a full moon and the sun, creating a full lunar eclipse,” my local weatherman tried to describe this anticipated and rare astronomical phenomenon. But for the first time, I wasn’t concerned about […]
Part 3 – Road from Perdition
[Part three in a four-part series, delivered weekly. Click here for part one, published January 03, 2015] photo by Floyd Rocker “I’m afraid he’s going to kill me one day,” I pitifully told my son’s psychologist. After his five-day stay in the hospital, we’d spent the next three years doing what I call chasing rabbits down rabbit […]