Join me for Braving Your Way through Life’s Daily Challenges, an annual retreat of the Opening Heart Mindfulness Community on April 1st @ 9:00 am to 4:30 pm Eastern Time. Being brave is not the same as being perfect. We build a better world not through striving for perfection but through cultivating understanding, compassion, and peace in action. […]
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Grow Love for Yourself and Others
How do you grow an open heart especially when you’re not feeling open? Enlarging the heart with greater kindness, love, and compassion is a practice. During this year’s Opening Heart Mindfulness Community Annual Spring Retreat on April 1st from 9:00 to 4:30 pm Eastern Time you’ll learn practices to move through life with greater kindness for yourself, forming […]
Untangling the Tangle
I’ve just returned from a six-week, mostly silent wintery and snowy meditation retreat in the mountains of New Mexico, walking in nature and being with a supportive and generous Zen community. This time away from my devices, from the tangle of work demands is one of the hardest and easiest choices I make all year […]
Finding Love on El Camino
Love transforms our lives. It can come in many packages, many shapes and sizes and often in unexpected moments and places. El Camino has brought people together in surprising ways, and I’ve witnessed people meet, fall in love, radically change their lives, shift their way of being and thinking, move from one part of the […]
The Camino is Ready for You!
Experiencing El Camino is a dream of a lifetime but can often feel daunting and inaccessible to many. At more than 1200 years old, El Camino or The Way of Saint James is one of the most ancient pilgrimages in the world. A little known fact is that the Camino is not one route across […]
Walk in Beauty Pilgrimage Celebrates King’s Legacy: A ‘Revolution of Values’
The living legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. remains an inspiration for how I want to live each day. He said that individually and collectively as a society we must “undergo a radical revolution of values.” To bring about this shift in values, he said rapid change is needed from a “thing-oriented society” […]
El Camino is Waiting for You: New Year, New You!
You’ve wanted to do El Camino for many years but hesitated because you’re unsure about whether you can really do it or don’t want to travel alone. Travel should be as unique as you are and Walk in Beauty Pilgrimages are designed to touch your heart and soul, to nourish and support you. These exquisitely […]
A Camino New Year: Tourist or Pilgrim, You Choose!
When you travel deeper, you gain a richer experience. At times this means setting aside travel motivated by Instagram-able selfies and checking off bucket-list items. Instead it means traveling not as a tourist, but as a pilgrim, as someone who has curiosity and willingness to make authentic connections within a local culture while also respecting […]
Welcome Back: Announcing Walk in Beauty Pilgrimages of El Camino for 2023
Join us for a travel experience that touches your soul, that becomes not just a ‘trip’ but a defining life moment. Our kindest and gentlest Caminos ever combine the stunning beauty of northern Spain with spacious time for you to reflect with a caring, supportive community on your inner capacity to lead a more authentic, meaningful, and […]
Welcome Back to El Camino: An Epic Journey Awaits You!
Coming soon…all new Walk in Beauty Pilgrimages for 2023! Is walking El Camino on your ‘bucket list’? Are you in transition and wanting space and time to reflect on ‘what’s next’? Are you celebrating a milestone life event? Are you seeking a travel experience that aligns with your deepest values? Our kindest and gentlest Caminos […]
