Good Clean Reads

I live in a rural area of Oregon, so when storms hit as they do here in the Northwest, it is not unusual for my home to be disconnected from the grid for a week or more. It’s a weird thing to live in the middle of the grid, but not be connected to it. In some deep ways your life can’t really go forward. You are in your home, but unable to take advantage of living in it. My memory of it is a form...

Wendy shares her final Lunch with the Loveologist program with her yoga teacher, Caitlin Young, who is a wealth of knowledge on integrating the life of the body, mind and heart. Combining the power of our attention with our breath creates life changing results. Learn a couple of simple daily practices and gain insight into how opening our bodies impacts our relationships. Don’t miss this sweet and...

“Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.” –Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We live in conscious universe. I spent the weekend immersed in The Science and Non- Duality Conference, exploring the depths of the ultimate truths of existence. It was quite heady and surprisingly reassuring. The conference featured...

Enlighten your perspective on the meaning of your days with Deena Metzger, author, healer and sage.  Each one of us is
living a story that is both a path of healing and a universe that defines us.   Looking at the central questions that define
our stories and our lives is the process by which we come alive and embody our soul.  The purpose of your life is within the grasp of your
story; take this...

“Tantra loves, and loves unconditionally. It never says no to anything whatsoever, because everything is part of the whole, and everything has its own place in the whole, and the whole cannot exist with anything missing from it.” ~Osho

“Faith is where you hold your heart.” This is what one of the master teachers shared when he was translating the ancient practices of Tantra yoga into a modern...

One of the most rewarding projects I have ever created began last year in the wake of the tragic deaths of two boys at the high school my kids attend. They were on a school outing at the Oregon coast when a wave came up and sucked them into the ocean. Several others were there too, helpless to save their friends who perished in front of their eyes. It is a jarring image to consider even several...

Having sexual conversations, even among adults are perhaps the most challenging discourse to engage in, no wonder most parents dread “the talk” that they often don’t feel competent or confident to give their children. Don’t miss this honest and authentic conversation with Deborah Roffman, award winning sex educator and author of Talk to Me First for the strategies and confidence you need to not...

Largely, this is a misleading and fruitless focus for our collective attention because what matters more than the moments of fleeting glory accompanying the win is the courage to play. If we could re-focus our attention on the beauty and spontaneous interaction which makes the game, we might come to value the strength of character that every athlete brings to the game. It is in fact, the discipline, vision, and devotion to wanting to play that makes winning meaningful. But it also makes losing meaningful. These are life lessons through sports that shape us. And in the grand scheme...

“There are moments in moist love when heaven is jealous of what we on earth can do.”  -Hafiz

Moist love, as opposed to dry love, is a container where the partners adhere to each other. Think of garden soil and how fecund moist soil is literally the root of anything that wants to be cultivated. Any gardener will tell you that water alone is not enough to heal dry, cracked land and will instruct...