Are you feeling contracted physically, like your body has lost flexibility in its healing capacity, or overall resilience. Does your body have an exaggerated or insufficient or dysregulated response to pain, injury or illness?

• Are you feeling contracted mentally or emotionally? Like your nervous system is on high alert? Finding yourself more reactive than responsive? Feeling stuck?

• Would you like to be able to move with ease and flexibility in body, mind and emotion, fully embodied and sharing your gifts with the world?

• Do you struggle with feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world and unsure how to use your gifts?

• Would you like to expand your capacity for skillful human-ing?

Did you know that you have a chemical within your body and brain whose job is to support harmony? Endorphins enable you to respond rather than simply react to life’s demands with resiliency and adaptability. They give you the capacity to stay curious, to make wise choices, to do the hard things, to support flexible healing and regeneration, and to support skillful, courageous, creative action. They are the physiologic pathway for flourishing! 

Life graces our senses with beauty every day offering us the tool for nourishing resiliency!   Through a practice of attention, we have the power to cultivate greater endorphin capacity through beauty! 

We are living in a world where we need more capacity: capacity for joy and wonder; capacity to flourish in our own bodies as well as in the expression of our unique gifts in benevolent service. 

I would love for you to join me as we spend six weeks cultivating a practice of attention, exploring the science of endorphins, the wonder of beauty, and engaging with our senses to support more capacity! This a journey full of joy with rewards lasting a lifetime! 

JOIN ME FOR A 6 WEEK DEEP DIVE, CULTIVATING A PRACTICE OF ATTENTION TO BEAUTY AS A PATH FOR BUILDING ENDORPHIN CAPACITY: A POWERFUL KEY TO RESILIENCE AND FLOURISHING! STARTS SEPTEMBER 1, 2022. Sessions will be held via Zoom!

Over the course of six weeks together, we will explore: 

• The science of Endorphins and how they support mind and body flexibility and harmony.

• The five senses: gateways for experiencing beauty and pleasure and their connection to endorphins

• Beauty: the science and philosophy of beauty and the gift of beauty both available to us and created by us.

• Attention: the power of disciplined attention and its role in receiving beauty in order to support endorphin activity.

• The Individual Self (You): how the practice impacts you, and how life shows up through you, uniquely and beautifully expressed. Using the practice of attention to beauty and the ensuing endorphin capacity to examine your values and unique skills.

• Service: endorphin capacity and self-knowledge providing the foundation for sharing your unique beauty with the world.

Each week, there will be a short meditation, an exploration of science and philosophy specific to each topic, a time for sharing, and a beauty filled practice for the week. 

It is my hope that over the course of this six weeks together, you will receive: 

• A sustainable practice of attention to beauty that nourishes and delights you daily grounded in physiology and experience.

• An awareness of the capacity this practice builds within your body and mind, and a deeper alignment with yourself, your values, your gifts and what you share with this world.

• The gift of capacity and resilience that invites being fully alive, and courageously powerful with a tangible awareness and practical application in your day to day life.

Why am I offering this? 

Through my work with patients experiencing chronic pain, anxiety, depression, autoimmune diseases, cancer, endocrine disorders, and other forms of dis-ease, over the past 20 years, I have been reminded over and over again that we are connected to life, we are an integral part of nature, and that life both flows through us and gives us the tools we need to thrive. I have learned that when we are stuck in contracted spaces, with a loss of perspective, flexibility, options, or spaciousness, we lose sight of our own needs, and we have limited or even distorted capacity to meet our needs or bring our gifts to those around us. We become contracted, reactive in both body and mind, and we experience suffering. A depleted endorphin bank, a constant demand on endorphins to manage adaptation in the face of extreme suffering, limits our capacity to flourish. And, I deeply believe we are meant to and need to flourish! And, life gives us the tools to rebuild and nourish our endorphin bank. This gift is given freely, through beauty.  It is my joy to bring this practice, developed over years of personal and professional exploration to you! 

JOIN ME! SEPTEMBER !, 2022 and every following Thursday for 6 weeks!

7-8pm Pacific Time

Sessions will be held via Zoom! You will receive a link in advance! Recordings will be available for you to return to after our sessions.