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“teach others to See by Seeing.

teach others to Understand by Understanding.

lead others to Walk by Walking.

but walk Beside them and not in Front.

walk With them as i walk With you.

and we shall see these coming days already in fruition,

in every righteous action resolving inaction,

in every fiery force of Love dissolving fear.”

— THE BOOK OF LEGEND, 2019.

SEEK + YOU SHALL FIND

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Decisions We Make While We Dream (2012)

TRAVERSALS (2014)

WILDLIGHT (2018)

THE BOOK OF LEGEND (2019)

INSTAGRAM ADVENTURES

Feeling. 🌈🌷

particularly apropos wisdom from the lion king on slide 2 for this last day of winter, recorded in my younger yrs ☀️🦁

hallo, this is a 🌟 i have the best bruffr @vegnaroth + i have the best sistr @_back_to_the_garden_ post, the end *tips hat*

it has been three months since i slept here, in my own bed, in my childhood home. i didn't think this was possible. in my body, i feel how i have Changed. the first person i ran into was my dad, on the threshold. Of Course.

i did not get into grad school, to become a dance/movement therapist; my first ever attempt at a masters degree. it was a fantastickal Leap i took last month to get all the materials together, held preciously close to chest, amidst unfolding health concerns.

no one will know the depth of your journey but you. no one will know the difficulty of what you have traversed but you. don't let ⚡️fucking anyone⚡️-- fam, friend, boss, colleague, or partner alike -- invalidate the legitimacy of YOUR story. cuz you're the only damn one who can tell it. and believe me, just like you deserve to be here. your story deserves to be told. XII ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🌈🙏 // 🎥 me quoting 'labyrinth' 😅 while recording my lesson for upcoming @idha_nyc transformative mental health curriculum, 'lived experience through storytelling.' 🧶

what i call 'the legend session' is one of my favorite spaces to facilitate. this work was originally devised and piloted with many groups of friends and colleagues during spring 2020.

LET. YOURSELF. LAND. 🌞

TO SAY YOU CAN'T DO SOMETHING AND NOT OVEREXPLAIN WHY

what it means to dance as This body, This person, in This time. 🌷🌷🌷 on the morning of feb 1 i was given the opportunity to LEAP. the evening of feb 1 brought a big health scare that in its terror and message and Wisdom has been redirecting and leading me fwd. these two pathways-- a Big new choice for my future and investment in my practice, and investigations of bodily symptoms/feelings/past-perceived 'problems' and of course the massive associated Fears therein that have accompanied me since my early 20s, have been happening Concurrently-- there is no such thing as right place + timing, because this in many ways could be viewed as the Most inopportune + inconvenient timing. but it's not. there is only Now. and i have learned in these days more than i perhaps ever have about Resourcing, and the Ecosystems in which we live. ❤️🧡💛💙💚💜🪺🌱

'every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put.' -- emerson. 🖤💜 i put this here so i can help myself to look at what is scary and uncomfortable. to meet my mid or early twenties self still So Deep in so many things, who wore this heart monitor all those years ago. how can i meet her here with my current self? how can i meet this here as Inquiry, Exploration, instead of with panic + contraction? as ever, listening. as ever, Truth + Love. 🪺

i just took the subway by myself for the first time since being in england in summer 2021. you never know what battles anyone else is fighting, what fears and anxieties they are wrestling with on a daily basis. you never know how something so ordinary for others could be such a victory for someone else. be kind. 🌼🦉

it's 2am + i'm researching... the tests i've avoided for years. the gastrointestinal symptoms + diseases i'm afraid of. looking at the diagrams. looking at the organs. recognizing how medicine used to be a poetic science + now so many of us grow up not-knowing what organs look like or where they are or how they work. it's easier to have someone else do it. i'm not accusing; i've done this my whole life. what a Dance between the medical world and the somatic one. the emotional causes and psychological roots and the physical invasiveness also needed for diagnosis, at times. panic overtakes me with routine appts and definitely with bloodwork. but here i am. here we are.

last time i sat in this church was the last time i'd travel from beacon to the city while living there. i was in pain, sat crumpled on the floor behind a pew in front of the spread-winged statue of michael the archangel brandishing his sword. i was somehow there to overhear mass that day, almost 2 months ago to the day-- i was here today after my first ever pelvic floor PT appt, right in time for mass. i let myself sit upright in the pews this time, i stood and heard and prayed, saint jude to my right, my nana's saint, the one i prayed my first ever novena to after i got my bipolar II diagnosis and refused to take the medicine i was prescribed. when i hear the priest repeat how christ said-- whoso loses his life for me will save his own life. i am paraphrasing but i heard, i heard, take up the cross and follow me. // i would not still be alive in This moment without my faith. it can be swirled into spirituality or vaguery but it will always come back to this, to praying and sitting in churches, to lighting candles and meeting the eyes of statues, Trusting, trusting, there is something Greater That Knows why all of this is the way it is. and that we, and i, am part of that, too. // thanks be to god. ❤️‍🔥

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