by Jessa | May 10, 2016 | Evolutionary Astrology, Inspiration
In addition to feeling passionate about the value of leaving one’s comfort zone geographically, I feel equally passionate about the value of the daring adventure of self-inquiry from right here where you are sitting. One of my most loved and trusted avenues for...
by Jessa | Apr 28, 2016 | Bali, Beauty, Dancing, Earth, Inspiration, Meditation, Retreats, Travel, Yoga
One of the most powerful experiences for my soul on this earthly plane is to commune with human beings who want to continuously evolve and change. Humans who want to risk who they think they are and what they think they know to be surprised, again and again, into new...
by Jessa | Feb 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
My beloved Grandpa finally found his way through that bright door, into the Great Expanse. My partner, Dan, and I sang this song, “Fall Down as the Rain” by Joe Crookston, for my Grandpa’s funeral ceremony on February 6, 2016. It felt only perfectly...
by Jessa | Oct 28, 2015 | Beauty, Fearless Leaders, Inspiration, Poetry, Quotes, Thriving
“What if you knew you’d be the last to touch someone? If you were taking tickets, for example, at the theater, tearing them, giving back the ragged stubs, you might take care to touch that palm, brush your fingertips along the life line’s crease. When a man...
by Jessa | Apr 27, 2015 | Beauty, Fearless Leaders, Inspiration, Music, Yoga
The closing sweet-song moments in Mas Vidal’s Sunday morning yoga workshop at the 2015 Minneapolis Yoga Conference.
by Jessa | Jan 20, 2015 | Beauty, Earth, Inspiration, Poetry, Quotes
by Jessa | Jan 1, 2015 | Beauty, Earth, Inspiration, Music, Poetry, Quotes
Thoughts on the cycles of life… An afternoon at Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in Paris, France… “Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize...
by Jessa | Oct 2, 2014 | Beauty, Earth, Inspiration, Music, Videos
A beauty of a song… Spirit Bird by Xavier Rudd
by Jessa | Aug 18, 2014 | Beauty, Inspiration, Quotes, Yoga
“I do not understand the mystery of grace, only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” -Anne Lamott
by Jessa | Jul 22, 2014 | Beauty, Earth, Inspiration, Poetry, Quotes
Softest of Mornings by Mary Oliver from Long Life: Essays and Other Writings “Softest of mornings, hello. And what will you do today, I wonder, to my heart? And how much honey can the heart stand, I wonder, before it must break? This is trivial, or...