sit

Half-Day Meditation Retreat with Betsy Fagin & Leslie Joren Wagner The Interdependence Project 28 West 27th Street, Suite 704 NYC Sunday February 4,  9:00 am – 1:00 pm I’m super-excited to meet up with Joren today to talk about the sit this weekend. I couldn’t be more grateful & excited Read more

lifting rocks

Is there a better advertisement for the cultivation of mindfulness practices than the latest Star Wars installment, The Last Jedi? Luke’s final showdown!!?! Brilliant. I haven’t found a clip to share of the part where Rey articulates the truth of interconnection / interdependence and realizes that the Force is about Read more

love more

I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with Erika Kapin, helping out with The Open Photo Project.  She says, “This project offers a look at the uniqueness of human relationships and is an invitation to re-examine preconceived notions of successful, sustainable, and healthy romantic love. Together, let us de-stigmatize Read more

Empire

Age of Aquarius focus is on the group. I guess that’s how I’m so lucky to find myself as part of this amazing collaboration happening with artist Kara Rooney, composer Fatrin Krajka, movers Dylan Crossman and Claude ‘CJ’ Johnson, and poets Marine Cornuet and Laura Henriksen. But for What’s My Read more

reading at Philalalia

I’m super-excited to go to Philadelphia later this month for PHILALALIA, Philly’s small press / handmade poetry and book arts festival. PHILALALIA is a FREE three-day celebration that brings together poets, printmakers, book artists, paper-makers, comics poetry artists, publishers, & arts enthusiasts to showcase, perform, & sell their work. It’s taking place September 14-16, 2017 at Tyler School of Read more

ready to flow

I’m a yoga teacher now! I completed my 200-hour Vinyasa teacher training at Laughing Lotus and am now ready to help folks find their flow. I am officially a yoga teacher now. I’m organizing classes in the neighborhood, teaching friends & neighbors and whoever else is interested. Stay posted (on Read more

sanctuary

I’m very excited to be leading a workshop as part of The Millay Colony’s Sanctuary Series in June. DISENTANGLING– Disaster Has Come from the Outside. Don’t Give Up Hope. June 3, 1 – 4 pm  at The Neighborhood Preservation Center 232 E 11th St, New York, NY 10003 How do we stay Read more

Resilience is human nature

The February/March 2017 issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter is online now.  Issue #250 includes: “Madmen Who Were Poets,” a chapter from The Necklace Without Peer by Ibn ‘Abd Rabbihi from David Larsen Poetry from Sasha Smith, Nicole Shanté White and Jayson P. Smith Art from Rachel Schragis‘ Confronting the Climate: A Flowchart Read more