New Life through Communities of Practice
When we have healthy Communities of Practice, our nervous system and psyches learn that although we may have experienced…
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Writing as a Tool of Discovery and Transformation
Do you remember your first experiences of using writing as a tool to digest life? When I dream into…
There is a Transformative Way to be With Life
“You’re naive. You’re being an idealist.You’re not in touch with reality.”I these messages came hard at me from my…
We Can Learn Presence
Rumi’s The Guest House is centered in every course I lead, so when I heard it this morning, it…
Staying Aligned with You in 2022
“What is keeping me from being present?”This is a gently and curiously held question that keeps me company through…
Empowerment through Embodiment: Jan/Feb Gathering Dates
Discovering Empowerment Together Through Embodiment It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find spaces…
Moving Forward into the Solstice Light!
This is a time when the sun rises out of the darkness, and we have the opportunity to as…
Safe Ways to Slow Down as we Discern, Connect, and Enjoy the Journey!
Ana Maria from Move and Bloom and I have been recording “walk and wonder” chats, but today our “walk…
A YouTube: Discovering the Possibility of Living from Being after a Childhood of Urgency
Today’s YouTube- Discovering the Possibility of Living from Being after a Childhood of Urgency To live from another way…
Journeying Through Childhood Energies
Journeying with unmet energies of our young years is trippy because we can easily perceive that we, as our…
What Do You Desire?
I desire community and intimate connections that are generative- life giving and life promoting- and are in integrity. I…
I Pray For my Enemies
I Pray For my Enemies I Pray For my Enemies. It matches my desire to serve god, to serve…
The Necessity of Knowing how to Slow Down as we Support Others
The Necessity of Knowing how to Slow Down as we Support Others Slowing dowwwwwn seems to be the theme for…
November and December Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together
November and December Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we…
Discovering Embodied Gratitude
Discovering Embodied Gratitude We’re talking about gratitude in my current 2021 Matrix Integration Exploration. There can be so much confusion…
A Letting Go… A Filling up…
A letting go, and a filling up, are happening simultaneously. A releasing of falsity, as wholeness is remembered and…
Open Your Door to Clarity
Open Your Door to Clarity It’s hard to have clarity when there is withholding/dishonesty/an unnamed elephant in the room…
Through What Lens Do You See the World?
With sustained practice and gentle deepening into uncovering the limitations our trauma-installed limitations, we start to develop an increased…
Re-wiring to Discover a New Reality
If we want something different, then we have to connect to and introduce something new. Old patterning can keep…
A Weekend of Knowing Love: Zoom retreat
Our time together will be filled with spaciousness and creatively designed opportunities for us to slow down, receive, and…
Grief opening up to Possibility: Retreat moving to Zoom!
As I shared this new vision with clients I got immediate positive feedback- they were so excited about being…
Learning how to Include More, to Shift our Reality
For some of us, it’s easier to center fear. But obviously that is no way to live. Just like…
Scarcity and Abundance
Scarcity. Abundance. Phew. I have a scarcity shadow. I’ve been writing about it more and named it in the…
Connecting to Enoughness
Inspired by a client's question, this guided rest mediation invites us to connect somatically to the topic of “enoughness.”…
A Conversation about Knowing Love
Ana Maria Pardo from "Move and Bloom" and I had a passionate conversation. We love the work we do…
2022 Matrix Integration Exploration
This is transformational work, and you will have a community of practice to support you along the way.
dear girl- A Book of Poetry
I don't often recommend books, and when i do it is very intentionally. Survivors, you will be seen, touched,…
Reclaiming mySelf
Part of the journey as a survivor is untangling the stories we had to weave to survive through those…
Taking Off Masks Together
Being with others who are dancing the dance of un-masking makes it hella easier.
Exploring Being Committed without Attachment
I don’t control what is outside of me, but I do have choice with how I engage with life.…
We Can Know Love: Being Together on Zoom (edited)
I’m so excited to tell you about the zoom retreat October 22, 23, 24! But first, let me tell…
Amsterdam Location!
Amsterdam Location! WOOHOOO!!!!! We have secured a wonderful location for the upcoming *We can Know Love!* retreat in…
Connecting with “What’s simple now?” as a way to slow down and regulate
Connecting with “What’s simple now?” as a way to slow down and regulate In this 20 minute rest we…
Stepping into the Unknown, Back Then.
Sometimes a whole lot of something can be created from what seems like nothing.
Learning how to co regulate with ourselves and the present moment
Learning how to co regulate with ourselves and the present moment Inspired by my daughter heading off to college,…
Allowance – connecting with “and/both” Inbox
Allowance – connecting with “and/both” Inbox Inspired by a participant who wanted to learn how to be with discomfort…
Participating in Life through Self-Love
It is my practices (read more here, here, and here) that allow me to STAY IN LIFE, when so…
Upcoming Retreat: We Can Know Love
Upcoming Retreat: We Can Know Love (EDITED: updated post!) My heart is swelling. I was to…
August/September/October Embodied Gathering: Let’s Get Real
In this group we are real with each other. We show up as we are, with whatever is going…
Loving Large in a World that Wants to Control Love
I am enlivened, inspired, and expanded by these connections that take me deeper into the unknown. It is here…
Our shared experience with gravity
Our shared experience with gravity In this guided rest Lisa will invite you to connect with gravity. The rest…
Activism and Integrative Exploration: a Necessary Pairing
We can say we want to dismantle racism, or shift patriarchy, or be inclusive (or, or, or) but if…
Moments of Listening, Slowing down, and Receiving
Life, as busy as ever, continues to open her hand to me, as if to say, "here, come."
You Can Be Yourself
Just a sentence that conveyed so much. My heart swelled, and it transmitted something deep into my being: Just…
June and July Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together
June and July Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together June and July Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together NOTE: Many of you…
Exploring the Perceived Mental and Being Reality
Exploring the Perceived Mental and Being Reality In this 20 minute guided rest Lisa will invite you to curiously…
Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The Collective, and Possibilities through Liberatory Writing
I am so excited to share an upcoming offering with all of you: Our Radical Imaginations: Exploring Self, The…
Being ReBorn
I have so many questions these days: Who am I without the ideas/fantasies that sell me false truths? Who am…
Life Sings Me a Love Song
life sings me a love song, a beckoning from the beyond to travel into the beyond. past what I’ve…
The Day After
I wonder how far back we’ll have to remember, to re-member ourselves as people who co-create futures that honor…
Standing Rest
Standing Rest In this meditation we will try a different form of exploring your body. Lisa will guide you…
Slow Unfoldings
This morning, a scent grabbed me, nuzzling a part of me that had been slumbering all these winter months.…
Life’s weaving as HerSelf
I will be writing a poem per day during the month of April, and will be studying the Kybalion during…
April and May Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together
April and May Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as…
Discovery in Being Lost
Letting myself be lost... staying in beginner’s mind- it is the deepest invitation these days for me. I watch…
A Slow Down, A Wake Up
I feel beginner’s mind especially strong right now, not so much by choosing, but in that it’s found me-…
Supporting Ourselves in Moments of Challenge
Supporting Ourselves in Moments of Challenge This is 23 minute guided rest was done during a Gathering in which participants…
Gentle Grounding
Gentle Grounding Lisa helps us discover how we can gently ground ourselves in that which is supportive, so as…
Using Practices to Survive
I have utilized many practices to survive, and many to thrive. And sometimes they weave together, as is often…
Connecting to our outside and inside experiences
Connecting to our outside and inside experiences In this 30+ minute recording Lisa gently guides us in noticing that which we…
Seeing Beyond the Curtain
As I type this I am reminded of all the spiritual "wake ups" that I have had in my…
Rest Singing Bowl
Rest Singing Bowl In this rest we get intimate with the here and now, consciously cognitively exploring our somatic…
An Empowered People will change the world: January 21st Newsletter
An Empowered People will change the world: January 21st Newsletter To read the full newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/6a0883555cb6/solstice-opening-up-to-you-10865130 **** How you do…
February and March Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together
February and March Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together February and March Embodied Gathering: Discovering Empowerment Together It is crucial, especially…
Opening up to the senses
Opening up to the senses Connecting to our senses may help break our minds free of debilitating thought cycles.…
An Empowered People Will Change Our World.
An Empowered People Will Change Our World. “The hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave.” Buffy, the…
Exploring into Purpose
Exploring into Purpose Purpose came up today in 3 client sessions. What a rich topic to explore! I feel…
Together We Love
Together We Love Many years ago I had a vision that I needed to have a devoted romantic partner…
What Gaze Do You See Yourself Through?
What Gaze Do You See Yourself Through? Have you noticed all the ads about weigh loss? To be honest,…
Intimacy with Me, Intimacy with Life
Intimacy with Me, Intimacy with Life Today is the first day of 2021!!! New Year’s Day Blessings to you.…
Are You Connected with Your Orgasm?
Are You Connected with Your Orgasm? “How do we live, love, suck, f*ck and liberate ourselves? How come we’re not…
Learning How to Regulate our Nervous Systems so We Can Know Well-Being
Learning How to Regulate our Nervous Systems so We Can Know Well-Being I recently read about a client “listening…
Solstice Mediation
Solstice Mediation In this Solstice rest meditation I guide our nervous systems into a state of somatic receptivity and…
The Vulnerability of Depth: opening to new territories
The Vulnerability of Depth: opening to new territories As we have been discovering over the past few months, the…
I am Alive
I am Alive I rolled over this morning, slowly opening my eyes. Snow greeted me a few days ago,…
The Playground of Life
The Playground of Life This is a little area tucked back into the woods that I love to visit.…
Exploring Discomfort: Getting Off the Roller Coaster While Discovering True Safety
Exploring Discomfort: Getting Off the Roller Coaster While Discovering True Safety In this video I read the 4th and…
What Happens when We Explore the Territory of Safety and Discomfort?
What Happens when We Explore the Territory of Safety and Discomfort? Here is my 5th piece in my blog series…
An Interview about Matrix Integration and the upcoming Exploration!
An Interview about Matrix Integration and the upcoming Exploration! What’s the matrix of oppression? How is it in relationship…
December and January Embodied Gathering: Getting Real Together
December and January Embodied Gathering: Getting Real Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as…
Discovering the Territory of Neutrality
Discovering the Territory of Neutrality This is the fourth part in my blog series on discomfort. You can find…
Welcome to Matrix Integration: An On-Line Ten-Month Exploration
Welcome to Matrix Integration: An On-Line Ten-Month Exploration 2022 Matrix Integration Exploration information coming soon (Edited to add: I had…
Simple Amidst Challenge
Simple Amidst Challenge In this audio, led in a group gathering, I explore how we can connect brain and nervous…
Including the Neutral and Simple while Exploring Experience
Including the Neutral and Simple while Exploring Experience In this 25 minute rest you will be invited to connect…
Exploring Discomfort
Exploring Discomfort In this video the 3 recent blog posts about discomfort will be read to you.
Moving through Discomfort
Moving through Discomfort In the first blog piece on discomfort, I wrote about how we often unintentionally conflate discomfort…
Matrix Integration: An online Ten-Month Exploration, January 2021
Matrix Integration: An online Ten-Month Exploration, January 2021 Clients have been asking me for years… why don’t I train…
October and November Embodied Gathering: Getting Real Together
October and November Embodied Gathering: Getting Real Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as…
Feeling Exhausted?
Feeling Exhausted? This was posted on another site, titled as “The Exhaustion of Inner Oppression” Here is the second…
Befriending Discomfort, So That We Can Know Love
Befriending Discomfort, So That We Can Know Love There’s something huge going on right now that is freaking people…
Trust the details of Love
I am not supposed to know details. Where I came from, when she died, what they escaped, what came…
Waking out of oppressive matrixes, inside and out, into Love
Waking out of oppressive matrixes, inside and out, into Love Transform yourself to transform the world… Grace Lee Boggs…
August and September Embodied Gathering: Let’s Get Real
August and September Embodied Gathering: Let’s Get Real It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as…
Respecting our Humanity
Respecting our Humanity In this 20 minute guided rest you are invited to connect with your humanity. The follow…
Earthseed Octavia E. Butler
This is a 17 minute rest from a gathering based on Octavia E. Butler’s poem, Earthseed. Know that in…
Discovering Self-Love through Slowing Down
Discovering Self-Love through Slowing Down Almost daily, I journey with clients who are beating themselves up during these Covid-19…
June/July Embodied Gathering: Finding Safety Together
June/July Embodied Gathering: Finding Safety Together It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find…
Nostril Breathing
Nostril Breathing This simple 10 minute rest guides you into connecting with breathing Audio URL/ID: 820183921
Sacred pause in Love
Sacred pause in Love This 17 minute guided rest allows you to connect with being received and the Love…
Rest as you are
Rest as you are In this 13 minute rest you will be invited to connect with yourself as you…
May Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake
May Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find…
Resting As You Are
Resting As You Are In this 29 minute rest you will be invited to connect to your being in…
Out of Overwhelm: Discovering Self-Regulation, Discovering Self-Love
Out of Overwhelm: Discovering Self-Regulation, Discovering Self-Love “I’m feeling so stressed out these days! What can I do to help…
Journeying with Generational Trauma
Journeying with Generational Trauma 2019 came to completion with clarity that some endings were coming. Historically speaking, it’s powerful…
Learning to Exist, Safely
Learning to Exist, Safely This was previously published elsewhere as “Liar Liar! Our Dumpster’s on Fire” Word is finally…
Rest With Safety
Rest With Safety In this 34 minute guided rest you will be invited to connect with what is safe…
April Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake
April Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake It is crucial, especially in times such as these, that as we find…
March Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake
March Embodied Gathering: Writing Ourselves Awake We live through relationship. In relationship to air and to ground, to form…
What about you
What about you I’m grateful to have the opportunity to share blog posts, audios and videos with others. I…
New Year’s Clarity
New Year’s Clarity ’m not a big fan of New Year’s resolutions, but I do enjoy New Year’s clarity.…
Evolving Through Deep Questions
This is an excerpt from a larger piece… shared the day I graduated from the WWFaC conscious leadership training.…
January Embodied Gathering: Being in the World, and Being of Love, Together in Relationship
January Embodied Gathering: Being in the World, and Being of Love, Together in Relationship We live through relationship. In…
Releasing Strategies, Finding Life
Releasing Strategies, Finding Life ’m driving, and all of a sudden it goes dark, and the road becomes enclosed.…
Our Connective Dance of Fear, Hopes and Dreams.
This was originally titled on the Living Inquiries web site as “Fear, Hope and Dreams… and Connection“
What Shape Waits in the Seed?…..
We experimented in one of the gatherings from last month…. This led to the following rest. Enjoy!
Scholarships
The number of scholarships I am able to provide is dependent upon sponsor donations. If this work has made…
The playground of senseless magic
The playground of senseless magic I watched/felt a wave of sensations arise this morning. I observed the mind try…
Embrace your Dance, Embrace your Life
Embrace your Dance, Embrace your Life I went to a 5 Rhythms[1](5R) retreat over the weekend. If you’re unfamiliar with…
Including our bodies in Social Justice: Voices that Teach
Including our bodies in Social Justice: Voices that Teach What if? Recently I was recently at a vigil to…
Be more available for your life!
Be more available for your life! “Learning more about embodiment practices and the nervous system has really shifted things…
Loosening the Grip of Oppression
Our own internal oppression is linked to oppression that exists in the world, and vice versa. Waking up necessities…
Stories Return Us Home
Stories Return Us Home Stories Return Us Home If I could write a tomorrow, it would be wider than…
Reconnecting with our Bodies: A Journey of Allowance
Reconnecting with our Bodies: A Journey of Allowance A question was sent to me: “I feel I’ve often confused…
Freedom in Honoring Our Stories
Freedom in Honoring Our Stories This was published on the Living Inquiries web site, titled “Our Stories are Sacred.…
Listening to Life
Listening to Life I have been in a deep creative flow for quite a while, spurring my productivity on,…
The Hidden Liberation in Exploring our Shoulds
“Exploring “Should Energy” As A Way To Increase Self-Awareness”
Embodied Awareness: Self Regulation, and Coming out of the Head and into Love
Embodied Awareness: Self Regulation, and Coming out of the Head and into Love First published on the living injuries…
Acknowledging the Racist Within: confronting my white privilege and ignorance
Acknowledging the Racist Within: confronting my white privilege and ignorance This was first shared on the Living Inquiries web…
God, the Thorn in my Side- Unraveling our Childhood Gods
God, the Thorn in my Side- Unraveling our Childhood Gods I have a story to share. This story starts…
Heart-Work; Guiding us Forward
Heart-Work; Guiding us Forward This was first published on the Living Inquires web site as Part 2- Social…
Sleepless Nights: When a Curse Becomes a Gift
Sleepless Nights: When a Curse Becomes a Gift Last night was the first night in awhile where it was…
The Gift of Consciously Connecting to Anger, aka Social Justice, Heart-Work, and Evolution Part 1.5
The Gift of Consciously Connecting to Anger, aka Social Justice, Heart-Work, and Evolution Part 1.5 “Everything’s going pretty well…
Connecting to the Heart While Connecting to the Social Justice Pain, Part 1
Connecting to the Heart While Connecting to the Social Justice Pain, Part 1 In every moment, new life. I…
Honoring Lived Experiences
Affirmations can create more cognitive dissonance, and suffering, when they are not coming from lived truth.
Seeking to Know Life
Seeking to Know Life Seeking from our mind is often an endless ride on a hamster wheel. Seeking from…
Opening the Doors to Freedom
Synopsis: Exploring our psyches reveals our unconscious meaning making with regards to love, greatly impacting our life and our…
Navigating the Process of Personal Evolution: The Death of the Psyche
Along the journey of waking up, there are tearing downs. As we add acknowledgment, we can give space to…
Gravity: a new exploration of surrender
A curious way to connect with and learn about our experiences- and how we habitually and unknowingly hold ourselves…
Aha! Moments: the first steps to sustainable wisdom
Turning Aha! moments into sustainable life enriching expressions takes willingness and readiness. Here’s some useful steps to support your…
Embodiment Through Writing
Embodiment Through Writing A deepening course: Embodiment and Writing. Embodiment is about being fully present with the “here and now”…
Thriving over the holidays
Thriving over the holidays Post election and pre-holidays… people’s nervous systems are often STRESSED OUT!!! This course will focus…
Deepening Course-The Innocence of Love Addiction: exploring our need to be loved
Deepening Course-The Innocence of Love Addiction: exploring our need to be loved Like many of us, I started altering…
Discover your invitation to Re-set, and Rest
Discover your invitation to Re-set, and Rest This is reposted from the Living Inquiries web site: http://www.livinginquiries.com/discovering-re-set-button/ Synopsis: There is…
Healing the Wounds; Pain Body Parenting
Healing the Wounds; Pain Body Parenting “She wants to trap me.” “She’s always trying to control me.” “She’s ruining…
Rest in the Gap
Rest in the Gap When we stop to rest, to see what’s here, sometimes what we find is nothing,…
The Gift of Endings
The Gift of Endings We got in a car wreck last weekend while driving home from a family trip.…
Heart Presence
Heart Presence As I’ve written about, my sweet cat Michelangelo died a couple weeks ago. I found myself deeply…
Our Stories Are Sacred
This blog is about the importance of sharing our stories and the sacredness of this proces. Image: Helena Weaver.…
Bringing compassion, understanding and resources to trauma
Bringing compassion, understanding and resources to trauma Although trauma is becoming more talked about in everyday circles, sometimes it…
Making Peace with Peacemaking
Making Peace with Peacemaking Hi, I’m Lisa and I’m a recovering peacemaker. There’s not a 12 step program exclusively…
Deepening Course- Embodiment: Getting to know and love all of you.
Deepening Course- Embodiment: Getting to know and love all of you. From a past participant: “I deeply appreciate Lisa’s…
Ode to Co-dependency: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for
Ode to Co-dependency: We are the ones we’ve been waiting for “Ode to Co-dependency”, inspired by my last client…
The Beginnings and Endings of Forever
The Beginnings and Endings of Forever July 2017 It seems that there are a lot experiencing pain today in…
Exploring Aliveness- 100 days of exquisite play
Exploring Aliveness- 100 days of exquisite play My passion is exploring my humanity: how this person called Lisa lives,…
Yes’ and No’s
Yes’ and No’s Where do your yes’ and no’s come from? what do you notice in your body with…
Innocence Revealed
Innocence Revealed “Just feel your feelings!” We get told this repeatedly, but if it was that simple then this…
Responsibility to being
Responsibility to being I’m contemplating responsibility this morning. We live in a culture where people take responsibility for others,…
Breathe and rest in the gap
Breathe and rest in the gap When we stop to rest, to see what’s here, sometimes what we find…
Another Way
Another Way I wonder if sometimes we don’t even realize there’s another way? That it is possible to not…
Perceiving never stops
Perceiving never stops Sometimes stories get a bad rap- like they should just be ignored. Rather then bypass stories,…
Safe to be me
Safe to be me There is an ongoing discovery… that it truly is safe to be me, however it…
Self Empathy: loving oneself
Self Empathy: loving oneself Too often we align ourselves with the story, and in effect keep the story even…
Feeling, and releasing, shame
Feeling, and releasing, shame In my own journey and in working with clients I continue to find that shame is…
Sensations are in the present moment!
Sensations are in the present moment! Sometimes we say “i’m not feeling anything (I don’t have any sensations).” If…
Full expression welcome!
Full expression welcome! I was speaking with my last client about the pitfalls of some spiritual teachings. In my…
Women Journey Together
Women Journey Together A deepening course, Just for women. Women often request “women’s only” deepening courses. This makes sense…
Exploration, experiments and expansion!
Exploration, experiments and expansion! When January 1 hit this year, I did the complete opposite of what most people…
Waking up to aliveness: Discovering wholeness
Waking up to aliveness: Discovering wholeness I often hear about the following experiences from clients that go something like…
May the force re-awaken in you
May the force re-awaken in you “May the force be with you” Oh, I love that quote so much!…
Core/head body identification
Core/head body identification In my own inquiry and in working with clients, there seems to be more identification that…
All thoughts are not created equal
All thoughts are not created equal I’m staring out into the forest. It’s a beautiful experience. I don’t know…
100 days of being turned on
100 days of being turned on I took part in a fun experiment over the last 3 or so…