Pulsing with Nature

A Seasonal Integrated Approach

What are you looking for? You are not drawn to optimizing your health, fixing your mind, or following another method.

And yet, it feels like 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.

Let’s begin with the possibility that nothing is missing.

Things no longer fit into separate parts

Many people ‘these days’ experience a subtle but persistent feeling that life has been divided into opposing parts:

  • Body and mind.  

  • Health and environment.  

  • Personal life and the state of the world.  

  • Joy and grief.  

The weight of what is happening around us: the degradation of the living earth, the fragmentation of social life, the collapse 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

What if 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

There are programs you complete once and the move on, this is not that. 

I hold spaces where a way unfolds through repetition, attention, and time.

  • Return to a movement and notice something new.  

  • Return to a food and sense how it meets our body.  

  • Return to a feeling and begin to relate to it differently.  

Like the cycles of the moon, the seasons, or the breath itself, these practices deepens through repetition.

Always staying in relationship.

Seasonal Journeys

  • This program supports the heart, circulation, and connection, helping you stay grounded and expressive without becoming overwhelmed by the intensity of the season.

    I’m offering a guided 4-week journey into balance, movement, and the seasonal rhythm of Summer.

    This journey is open during the Summer months.

  • This program supports the lungs, breath, and immunity, helping you recognize what is ready to be gathered and what is ready to be released as the light recedes.

    I’m offering a guided 4-week journey into balance, movement, and the seasonal rhythm of Fall.

    The Fall Journey opens on Sept 23 (Autumn Equinox)

  • This program invites a season of rest, depth, and inward listening, supporting the kidneys, our reserves of energy, and the quiet work of dreaming and restoration as the year turns dark.

    I’m offering a guided 4-week journey into balance, movement, and the seasonal rhythm of Winter.

    This journey is open during the Winter months.

  • This program supports the liver's work of renewal, helping what has been dormant find its way back into movement, vision, and new growth as the light returns.

    I’m offering a guided 4-week journey into balance, movement, and the seasonal rhythm of Spring.

    This journey is open during the Spring months.

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.

Get the Pulsing Calendar

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: The Watching Words by Peter Kingsley

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: