2019 Offerings

Good morning! Are you sipping a cup of java, matcha or chai? I imagine matcha will be my morning selection. I’ve been enjoying it with macadamia nut milk and coconut butter.

Today’s blog is a rare treat, as it is an announcement of the two remaining offerings for 2019 from Radiant from Within. In 2013, I completed yoga teacher training at Indie Yoga in Ocean Beach with Jen Richardson. That experience was the complete opposite end of the pendulum from my time at UCSF Pharmacy school, which I had just left behind before beginning yoga teacher training. I was in the midst of Saturn’s Return. We were just coming out of the recession. The world felt confusing and I rarely felt safe. It was in that time and space that I began to cultivate safety and a sense of home in my own body. All that to say, the name of my yoga business came to me while practicing at Indie Yoga. I felt a sense of radiance from within - a felt sense of the guna, sattva (luminosity).

Fast forward six years to 2019, I had a dream that these women in my life - friends and space holders - came together in community to create sacred space for movement, art and inquiry. Upon waking from this dream, I wrote it down and a few days later invited these women to join me in creating my vision. We did just that earlier this year for the first Tending to the Whole Self event. Sarah Clark and Tess Meissner collaborated to offer yoga and Shamanic drumming - it was lovely. I was left with a felt sense of harmony. I recently learned the Japanese word for harmony is “wa”. It’s a Japanese cultural value to promote “wa” or harmony - the taking in of other views.

Tending to the Whole Self events are created for the community and by the community. My hope is that your experience will be one of spaciousness, receptivity and connection with self and others. San Diego folks, join us Friday Oct 4 and Saturday Oct 5 for an exploration of “cyclical creativity” - we will engage in inquiry, movement and art. Join me online for a six week course, the Polyvagal Theory for Yoga Teachers - enroll by 11:59pm Oct 3. Details here.