“No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves.”

~ Ojibwa saying

When I read this expression, I had an “aha” moment. It pointed to a truth I had been seeking both in my life and in my coaching…You know when you feel pulled in multiple directions?When your fitness, your desires for your life, your community, your work, your family all seem to be at odds with each other?

So, my mission with “In Aligned Movement” has grown to be: helping people root into their essential selves, and using that as a compass to develop both healthier bodies and joy enhancing ways of living.

Overall, my hope is if we develop the movement rich lifestyles that bolster our true natures on the individual level, we will also foster a new culture that is supportive and protective of the Earth as a whole…

I had a birthday last week! My recent tradition I started a few years back is taking a longer hike on my own for my birthday. Here’s why I love hiking:  It’s an activity that touches on many of my values at once and also provides opportunities to gain insights about myself…

Movement Snacks are an intentional change in position and movement to break up the sedentary parts of our day…

Aside from scheduling more time for exercise, how do we actually get to moving more?

Three strategies I like to use are:

• Activity Stacking

• Movement Makeovers

• Movement Snacks

We know by now that we need "exercise" to be healthy.
We may have even heard the phrase, "Exercise is Medicine."
But when do we need medicine? When we're sick or when something is out of balance...

It's helpful to look at why your system is out of balance in the first place. Otherwise, we end up recreating our poor health outcomes through old patterns and behaviors over and over without ever truly resolving the issue.

     "We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Notice with the actions you take, are you being kind to your body?

Stability is the ability to remain still or in control despite contervailing forces. But in reality, nothing is ever perfectly still or in control…

This is Part 3 to a series where I am exploring the relationships between language, culture, and individual identity. In Particular, I am pondering how the inherent violence contained in many of the words of our language is shaping how we interact with the world, and I am considering how to find another way…

Today I would like to explore how to take a deeper look inside our own programming in order to change the course of our individual lives…

This is Part 2 to a series where I am exploring the relationships between language, culture, and individual identity. In Particular, I am pondering how the inherent violence contained in many of the words of our language is shaping how we interact with the world, and I am considering how to find another way…

“I am NOT a warrior.” What does that mean? Why does it matter? And if I’m not that, then what do I consider myself to be? The words we use reflect our values which guide our intentions and priorities.

In the course of the next couple posts, I’d like to address why language matters for defining the direction of our lives and how we may take the seemingly smallest steps within ourselves to better our health and wellbeing as well as redirect the path our culture is currently taking.

Is exercise a box to check off on your to-do list?

The coolest potential with exercise, I think, is if we use it to become aware of how to move more of our bodies all of the time. What would it look like if we took what we learn on the mat and carried it with us into our lives?

Every adventure needs a moment when you start to think - “Maybe I should go back... Oh no, maybe I made the wrong choice.”

A larger part of my message is to figure out how movement is part of the daily habits, activities, and events that make up the majority of our lives.

…I thought, “I bet there’s more of that underneath the ground. I bet this whole thing is connected.”…

I’m refining my thoughts about the process I went through creating The Crystal Throne as an example of the general process for manifesting our visions in life…

Maybe the contemplation of these things can help us develop a better relationship, a healthier alignment, where moving and walking our bodies can help heal our culture as well…

How you do one thing is how you do everything…

Our habits and patterns tend to follow us everywhere….

“Geography as a shaping force…” The landscape and environment in which we live shape how we think about and relate to the world. They also shape our bodies by asserting forces that affect how we move through the world. Think of the differences between New York City and a farm for example (I’m hosting movement events in b

Back in the morning of a cold, but sunny day in January, I got a crazy idea. I’d seen people do this on the internet (which is a trusted source for wise and safe counsel) and thought, “That looks like fun, I’m sure I can do that.”Sometimes you get an urge to do something followed by a voice in your head that says “Am I going to regret this?”
I’m wondering if there’s a better way to know the answer to that question that’s not totally reliant on hindsight… Let’s continue…

I think we all know the feeling: We intend to do something, but we just can’t seem to make ourselves do it.

Many of us already know what it is we want to do, but why is it so hard to actually get started?

Here’s a few steps I’ve picked up along the way…