Quick with a smile, a boisterous laugh, and a light heart, I’m a wellness educator, movement teacher, writer, ceremonialist, and creative activist. My work lives at the meeting place of embodied practice, personal inquiry, earth-based wisdom, creativity, and practical transformation.

I’ve spent more than 25 years exploring movement and more than 15 years teaching it. For more than 20 years, I’ve also studied and worked with earth-based and entheogenic ceremonial traditions. Along the way, I’ve taught and facilitated at places including the Omega Institute, Kripalu, the Nosara Yoga Institute, the Sivananda Ashram, Blue Spirit, and The Source in Peru.

I’m the author of Robust Vitality and Insights Out, and co-author with Amy Goalen of Inside the Warrior: The Masculine Side of Yoga. Movement, writing, ceremony, art, mentorship, humor, and deep conversation may look like different forms of work, but they all point toward the same question: How do we become more fully alive — and participate more fully in life?

TRUTH REVELER

Gotta have something to do around here...

I’m interested in the questions underneath the answers: What is true? What is useful? What helps us become more connected, more alive, more human?

I’m looking & peeking, picking & poking, playing & pondering at/with/for Truth. I’m in reckless abandon for the secret sauce, the one(s) behind the curtain, the winner of the chicken-or-the-egg race, and a chance to peer behind the veil — even if only for a moment.

I’m less interested in arriving at a final doctrine than I am in staying awake to the inquiry. I like looking beneath assumptions, testing ideas against lived experience, and leaving enough room for mystery to keep doing its work.

And it sure seems that the deeper I go, the less I know... and the less I know, the deeper I go.

DIFFERENCE MAKER

My intention is to make difference for the betterment of the world — to be the change.

I care about inner growth that becomes outer action. Personal work matters to me because of what it changes in the way we move through relationships, community, culture, and the living world.

The aim is not self-improvement for its own sake. It is becoming more capable of showing up — with clarity, vitality, responsibility, creativity, care, empathy and love.

By being myself — while figuring out who I am — perhaps a bit different, weird, eccentric and occasionally ridiculous, I hope to leave a mark, impression, imprint in a way that creates a beneficial shift, long-term awesomeness and positivity.  Who couldn’t use a difference maker, an advocate, an ally in their corner?  Someone to cheer us on, listen when things are tough, and lovingly nudge when needed.

HARBINGER OF JOY

This is a goal, aspiration, a course of work and, at times, a reality for me.  Universities need a course on Joy — and most other emotions for the matter.

Seems to me like there are a lot of people rolling around less than joyful these days.  Joy is not a denial of difficulty. It is a way of staying in relationship with life.

I love laughter, ridiculousness, beauty, dancing, good food, play, smiling in the face of adversity and the kind of moments that remind us how strange and extraordinary it is to be here. Serious work can still have a light heart.

So, why not radically outrageous, abundantly present, insanely incredible joy for all?  I'm getting down on that.

SILLY & SERIOUS

I love childlike, playful, silliness.  I also love taking things seriously — with focus, discipline, dedication and intent. Humor and humility, flexibility and fortitude, irreverence and respect, and the ability to laugh when the spiritual path becomes a little too impressed with itself… all crucial aspects of making it through this life thing that we’ve signed up for.

It takes a pinch of clever, a dose of silly and a tad of observation to make it a success.  Silly can be slapstick, clever, sarcastic or even a bit gross.  Serious can be committed intentful, focused, deliberate and disciplined. 

I like taking my seriousness in a silly way and my silliness in a serious one. The tension between the two keeps it real.

SHAMANIC WHISTLER

I tend to experience the world as alive. Land, weather, animals, plants, dreams, symbols, coincidence, music, silence — all of it is part of the conversation, chorus and cacophony if we learn how to listen. It helps me to appreciate the enchanted world we live in, encourages connection & true relationship and invites opportunities for learning and unlearning. 

I find mystical and mysterious tapestry of creation awe-inspiring, magnificent, beautiful, confusing and rich with possibility… so, why not add a little tune? So, yeah, I whistle. Sometimes a lot. Sometimes as prayer, sometimes as play, sometimes to connect with ancestors and sometimes because the moment seems to need a soundtrack.

PHILOSOPHY: KINDNESS

"This is my simple religion.  

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy.  

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple.  The philosophy is kindness. "

— Dalai Lama.

I read this quote many years ago and it stuck.  Kindness is one of the most practical spiritual practices I know. It asks us to become more attentive, more generous, and more human in ordinary moments — especially when it would be easier not to. I'm certainly not perfect at it, but hey, who isn't a work in progress?

INQUIRER OF THE DIVINE

I have always been curious about spirituality.  I'm not sure why, and at this point I’m not sure the why matters…  

I love learning, exchanging, grappling with, and pondering the myriad ways humans have tried to understand the universe, the sacred, the self and how to live.

I have found truth and insight across many wisdom traditions on how to be… how to live… how to navigate life.  I’m less interested in collecting beliefs than in discovering what becomes practical, embodied, and alive.

I enjoy hearing different soulful perspectives, and I certainly love sharing mine. To all the Gods & Goddesses, Spirits & Energies, Illusions & Realities — let us dance.

CURIOUS MYSTIC

This journey of being myself while figuring out who I am has taken me to places I could never have imagined — into the far reaches of my consciousness.., the depths of my heart.., the liminal spaces of my soma.., and more than a few experiences that refuse neat explanation.

For many years I was a spiritual man somehow devoid of spirit, but drawn to the meeting place of consciousness, heart, body, nature, and spirit. My path has moved through yoga, qigong, meditation, somatics, prayer, ceremony, nondual inquiry, earth-based traditions, and direct mystical experience.

As yogi Patanjali offered, abhyāsa, steadfast practice and vairāgya, nonattachment to the results are essential — in other words, do your best and forget the rest.  With this in mind & heart, the journey continues...

I feel blessed to have had such remarkable human and nonhuman teachers.  I’ll keep wandering & wondering with discipline, playfulness, curiosity, reverence and irrevence through the mystical, fantastical, imaginal terrain and perhaps one day our paths with cross.

At the center of all of it is one intention: to help people inspire themselves through embodied practice, honest inquiry, and joyful transformation.

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