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What Do Ecstatic Dance and Moving Meditation Look Like? Watch Me to Find Out!!!
Ecstatic dance and moving meditation practices, empower people of all backgrounds, shapes, and sizes to courageously express themselves in a safe container. By engaging our senses and listening to our bodies, we are able to deeply connect with ourselves, others, and spirit.
Come join us in the grass! All current and upcoming events can be found on Coriander Living Collective’s Facebook page. Follow us! Reach out to Coriander Living Collective with any questions. Looking forward to moving with you this summer!
The Wisdom of Grief and Sadness + Easy Ways to Manage Them!
Sadness lets us know we have lost something or someone important to us, or that we need help, and no one is there. Grief is the process of integrating loss. Emotions are energy in the body therefore they are always moving and shifting. As best as you can, allow and honor your emotions. Here are several easy strategies for dealing with sadness and grief.
9 Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Meditative, Free-Form Dance Movement
There are many different styles, philosophies, and names for dance movement practices around the globe (i.e. Ecstatic Dance, Authentic Movement, etc.). We all know exercise and meditation offer multiple health benefits. Essentially meditative, free-form dance movement practices are (cardio workouts + meditation + connecting to self/others/spirit = SO MANY WELLNESS BENEFITS)!
14 Communication Strategies to Use When Having Hard Conversations!
Here are fourteen strategies to support you in leaning into hard conversations and communicating in a way to get the best outcome. PLUS, a bonus video of how this is done!
Part of Living and Loving is Losing and Grieving
It is not always easy to welcome the passing of time because there are things that are so precious, so sweet, that we want to hold onto them forever…Loss, sickness, death, and dying have been swirling around my life and the lives of my family, friends, and clients lately. I notice a sadness that is resting on the top of heart. The awareness that the love is what creates the ache.
How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World
Life is constantly happening in and around us. Certain things we welcome wholeheartedly and other things we resist. One of the great skills of life is learning how to remain steady in an unsteady world. I believe our three greatest resources in this pursuit are 1) body-based movement, 2) nature, and 3) community.
In partnership with Inspiring Actions in River Falls, I’ll be facilitating the workshop How to Be Steady in an Unsteady World on Sunday, April 11th, 2021.
“Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home”
What does it mean to belong? How do we feel when we find a sense of belonging? We all know the pain of not belonging. Belonging is such a core human need. Yet, many of us struggle to experience belonging.
As The World Opens Back Up REMEMBER THIS ONE THING!
As the world opens back up and activities and places become accessible remember to be GENTLE with yourself and others. Being around people and socializing are skills and without consistent use they can become rusty.
We are Human Machines! Lifestyle Series Part III: FOOD
If you are not feeling well, access your nutritional input. How could you improve it? Do you need to educate yourself on nutrition? Do you need to seek the counsel of an expert? Should you purchase a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) membership?
The Benefits of Novelty and My Get Out and Try- St. Croix Valley Podcast Debut!
A few weeks back, I was invited to join a conversation with Katie Axel, founder of Get Out and Try- St. Croix Valley, on her podcast. We talked about Coriander Living Collective, psychotherapy, EMDR, and the benefits of novelty seeking for humans.
Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World by Pema Chödrön
What we put out into the world is a direct reflection of how we feel about ourselves. I have no doubt that the quickest way to heal our world, is for each of us to work on healing ourselves.
In Welcoming the Unwelcome Pema Chödrön shares practical ways to use Buddhist philosophy to greet polarization, failure, ego, and discomfort. She encourages radical acceptance, being in the here-and-now, compassion, and honoring the humanity in each of us as a way to build healthy culture.
Invest in Yourself: Are You Receiving the Highest Quality of Care?
Coriander Living Collective is designed as a private pay for services business accepting credit, debit, HSA, or FLEX funds. We believe as a provider this offers you the highest level of care. For you as the client, this affords you certain advantages over using health insurance or a third party payer: greater privacy, no mental health diagnosis, and complete control over treatment.
Let Go, Let Love & Light!
Our deepest knowing, connections, and most fulfilling experiences are accessed through the heart. Join this workshop to let go of stress, tension, worry, grief, and loneliness. We will move through a variety of exercises including mediation, movement, drawing, sharing, and resting. We will focus on opening our heart centers to love and light.
Ditch the Resolutions! Hello Annual Review!
2020 was a BIG year! What made it challenging, also made it valuable. It called us to expand our capacity for change, individually and globally. As the sun sets on 2020, be intentional about how you step into 2021. Systematically evaluate 2020. Ditch the resolutions. Identify habits and systems to create a life well lived. Welcome the Annual Review 2020!
5 Ways to Not Only Face Winter but EMBRACE IT!
Winter in the North can feel long, hard, and cold. Many folks profess to not like winter. And like so many things, it’s our resistant to the thing that creates our suffering, not the actual thing. So how do we not only face winter, but embrace it?
GROUP & WORKSHOP OFFERINGS: Cultivating Social Connection and Belonging!
Social connection and belonging are core psychological human needs. Come join Coriander Living Collective in getting some of your human needs met as we head into winter and 2021! Practice being steady, in an unsteady world, in the company of others through our workshop and group offerings!
Healing and Pain Come from Lifestyle Series: PART II SLEEP
Sleep is foundational to wellness yet is problematic for so many. There are many processes that only happen while we are in deep sleep, including brain cleaning, memory consolidation, synaptic pruning, bone building, muscle and skin repair, and the flushing of toxins.
9 Daily Ways to Remain Steady in an Unsteady World
Even though many things around us are different, challenging, or undesirable, how do we connect with our sense of center, balance, and calm during unwelcomed times? Here are 9 Daily Ways to Remain Steady in an Unsteady World and a Remaining Steady Daily Worksheet to support you in these daily practices.
Thanks to the Pandemic: Lessons Learned & Unexpected Blessings
After the original fear and stress of the unknown passed, this pandemic has held many lessons and unexpected blessings. It became very clear who and what was most important in life. As human beings, we are meaning-making-machines. How do we make meaning of this pandemic time?
Bibliotherapy: It’s Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance by Tosha Silver
“The power of constant incoming grace, the joy of receiving, the arrival of synchronicity after synchronicity, like crashing waves onto the sacred shore of your life- now that is true abundance.” Let that settle into your bones.