It started during Covid. Literally, right before the lock downs. Were we truly in lockdown? Wow. Crazy when you think about the control that was put on us. Anyways, I was blessed to go back to Costa Rica for a second retreat to the beautiful Imiloa Retreat Center. When I’m in Costa Rica, I feel the most high vibe I’ve ever been. The beauty of nature is breathtaking. There are blue butterflies dancing about, and you’re in the greenest lushest paradise ever. Imiloa makes all ayurvedic and plant-based meals that are gorgeous and absolutely delicious so your body and mind are aligned. You get to spot frogs, lizards, and look out from our hilltop retreat center to the ocean in the distance. Tranquil moments surround you. So while I was there doing mindful movement every morning, eating well, resting at times, and then enjoying playful community upleveling activities, I saw all that is and was possible for me in my career and life. 

NIA. It’s the first healing form as a dance form that healed and moved stagnant emotions out of me, allowing me to cry and release. While this morning I didn’t have tears to release, we danced Britta’s ‘Ocean’ dance that she choreographed and created and I was on the verge of crying several times from the love of feeling like I was in the ocean, and the desire to protect earth.

Nothing is a waste. I too started something that I worked on for nearly 4 years, and then felt like I threw it away. I knew it wasn’t a waste of my time, but I did hold onto shame about this for many years. In fact, it was only a few years ago that I finally let go of all my shame around it.

Happy Lunar Eclipse Yang Fire Horse New Year! :D Today is the new moon and we are bringing in the Yang Fire Horse 🐴🔥energies with celebration this day and week throughout the world. 🎏🎐This is a horse that brings insight, clarity, and courageous but needed ✨ momentous changes, as well as an ability to take things in stride if we are balanced. 🙏

February is heart health month and it will be necessary to focus on our heart for the whole coming year, as a horse year is associated with the heart time of day. Of course I’m speaking about this in Chinese Medicine/Astrology terms. Our heart is related to the emotions of joy, excitement, or overjoy, conversely with lack of joy or anxiety.