Pulsing with Nature
A Seasonal Integrated Approach
For those who are ready for coherence
You may find your way here because what you’ve tried so far is no longer enough.
You don’t exactly know what you’re looking for, but you are not drawn to optimizing your health, fixing your mind, or following another method.
You may be used to thinking your way through things, and beginning to sense that thinking alone cannot hold everything you are experiencing.
There is a recognition that something is missing.
But what’s missing is not just more information, another method to learn or discipline to follow.
Perhaps -
what feels like something missing
is not an absence,
but something that has not yet been met.
Here, we begin with the possibility that nothing is missing.
Things no longer fit into separate parts
Many people arrive here with a subtle but persistent feeling that life has been divided into parts that no longer belong apart.
Body and mind.
Health and environment.
Personal life and the state of the world.
Joy and grief.
You may feel the weight of what is happening around us: the degradation of the living earth, the fragmentation of social life, and the sense that the ways we are taught to care for ourselves are not designed to meet this moment.
You may not have words for it.
Or you may simply just feel so tired of it all!
Pulses and Waves
In this space, we begin from a different orientation.
The body is not separate from nature.
Movement is not separate from awareness.
Health is not separate from the world we live in.
The body carries the memory of all that came before it: animal, plant, and ancient forms of life.
The spine remembers movement older than language.
The breath connects what is inner and outer, visible and invisible.
Everything pulses.
Expanding and contracting.
Rising and falling.
Returning and beginning again.
“Heaven hands down the image and Earth completes the form.” (Huangdi Neijing)
Return to lived experience
These are not ideas to understand.
They are relationships to enter.
Through movement, attention, and seasonal practice, these patterns begin to be felt as something lived in the body.
Gradually.
Through return.
There are programs you complete once and the move on, this is not that.
I hold spaces where way unfolds through repetition, attention, and time.
We return to a movement and notice something new.
We return to a food and sense how it meets our body.
We return to a feeling and begin to relate to it differently.
Like the cycles of the moon, the seasons, or the breath itself, the practice deepens through repetition.
By staying in relationship.
Offerings of Coherence
In my other offerings, each practice can stand on its own.
Through Qi Gong, we work with the body and movement. Through coaching, we work with daily life and patterns. Through relational unfoldment, we work with inner awareness and presence.
But here, these are no longer separate practices.
Movement becomes a way of sensing. Sensing begins to shape how you eat, rest, and relate. Your inner and outer worlds begin to reflect one another.
This is where we begin to shift toward coherence.
Seasonal Journeys
Pulsing with Summer: Heart and Flow
Summer, in many traditions, is associated with the heart, both in terms of physical circulation and our capacity for connection, expression, and vitality.
During summer, I’m offering a guided 4-week journey into balance, movement, and seasonal rhythm.
Designed to support the heart, circulation, and overall balance during the summer season, this experience brings together Qi Gong, reflection, and personal guidance to help you stay connected without becoming overwhelmed by the intensity of the season.
This is one of a series of seasonal journeys, including: Autumn, Winter, and Spring.
Pulsing with the Seasons Calendar
Start here if you want to notice how the seasons already move through your body and life, without committing to a program.
This calendar combines ancient Chinese and traditional European considerations for helping us embody a nature-based worldview in practical ways. I hope you’ll enjoy this guide and will use it help you notice seasonal changes within and around you throughout the year.
Local Gatherings
Join us in person in Western Massachusetts for exploring with like-minded neighbors and new friends how the body, ecology, and society connect. Through group programs like the library workshops or deep time inspired walks through nature, New Moon gatherings and others we begin understanding how personal and societal choices, individual awareness, ecological interconnectedness and health are indeed inseparable.
Seasonal Group Gatherings
You are invited to join these seasonal group gatherings, where we will learn about practices that enhance wellbeing. Each gathering reconnects us with the living world around us, honoring the rhythm of the seasons and the wisdom of our bodies. Drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese tradition we’ll explore Qi-gong based mindful movements tailored to the seasons. The group journey is safely held and welcoming of all.
Autumn Session in September 22, 2026
Winter Session in December 8 , 2026
RSVP on on the Library’s page
New Moons Women’s Circle
The monthly New Moon Women’s Circle is an informal gathering for women locally in Western Mass. We include ritual for the Moon, for the ancestors, rite of the womb, setting monthly intentions, and a supportive circle of connection.
Deep Time Walks
I facilitate Deep Time Walks - experiential transformative journeys through 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history. This is not a typical nature walk. As an embodied collective walk, each meter representing 1 million years, we collectively experience pivotal moments from the formation of the Moon through appearance of modern humans.
Participants: Bring your curiosity, comfortable shoes, some water and an open heart.
The next walk is scheduled for: TBD
Previous walks:
Tuesday, May 19, 2026 (Asynchronous adapted walk at the Playground Institute)
Saturday, April 25, 2026 at 10 am at Forest Park, Springfield, MA
Online Community
From anywhere, join these ongoing practices that reinforce and deepen those connections between human and nature. Through book-group gatherings that hold modernity's collapse with grief and care, we hold each other in embodied awareness.
Otherwise Now- Tending Life at the Edges
A book-centered community gathering where we listen with care and shared resilience at the margins of collapsing stories.
Currently Reading: Outgrowing Modernity by Vanessa Machado Oliveira
It’s more than an online book gathering - it’s a space for embodied conversations, practices of resilience in face of systemic collapse and being with each other in coherence around themes emerging from the books we travel with. Meeting times virtually on Zoom every third Saturday at 10 am EST.
Previous books included: