Past Blog Posts

Silent water is an example of simple, practical, and profound Grandmother wisdom from the Balkans and Greece. Here’s a story of drawing inspiration from this tradition and receiving a special healing for the spirit.

Winter doesn’t easily give way to spring, and our hardships generally don’t just melt away either. While the transition from winter to spring is volatile, if we learn to dance with it we increase our capacity to navigate difficulties in life.

Realizing our mutuality gives tremendous fuel to the movement of giving and receiving. It widens our generosity and receptivity. These past few months have given us all a glimpse of what living in greater mutuality could look like. And we could live into it even more.

Connecting with the waking spring energy in nature can help you find spring inside of yourself. The pulse of a dancing circle to beautiful music during the Earth Day Celebration is my favorite way to align deeply with the healing energy of spring.

There are ancient embodied maps to guide us in harmonizing conflicting energy, restoring mutuality, and balancing energy. Refresh your soul and get your bearings by exploring this guiding wisdom at the coming Healing with Community session of Grandmothers’ Garden.

The unexpected, contagious power of kindness gives new meaning to the idea that kindness is the best protection. Here are 4 questions to integrate the recent swelling of kindness in our communities. 

The kukeri are a winter dance tradition that can help people find the inner force to drive out the frozen energy of division and scarcity and activate blessing and prosperity.

We must never lose compassion, our ability to see ourselves as relatives with all of life. It is especially important that we cultivate powerful roots in our interconnection while facing dehumanizing and harmful situations.

The energy of 2026 both has it’s challenges and has tremendous healing potential. Here are ways to calm you body, reset, and tap into the powerful healing support available to us now.

What do you want your New Year Reset to feel like? Read about upcoming January events in Minneapolis in case any of them might help you reset things slowly and intentionally.

How to turn bitter cold into cozy cold, especially on the winter solstice? Dance, move meditatively, and make meaningful connections. Join us for a winter solstice dance celebration in St Paul on Friday, Dec 19, 2025.

Three key ingredients for your sleep and sanity. Process and discharge extra energy, especially as we approach the darkest three months of the year.