There’s a particular kind of compliment that bypasses vanity entirely and lands somewhere much deeper. Not because it flatters you…but because it names something you’ve quietly recognized in yourself for a very long time. In a recent review of From Molecule to Movement — the short film Hanif and I created for the Shulgin Foundation about Sasha Shulgin, MDMA, and the strange, beautiful collision between chemistry, therapy, culture, and consciousness - I was described as a “ Movement and Design...
7 days ago • 2 min read
Read time: ~4 minutes Musing: astronauts, somanauts, and inner space Listen: Sasha Shulgin, 1983 Join: April 25 retreat + May 2 exhibit Over the past couple of weeks, something subtle has been moving through my world. A kind of shared pause. A collective exhale. For a brief moment, many of us found ourselves captivated by the language of orbit—liftoff, a release from the pressure of the known atmosphere. The Artemis program became more than a mission, it became a metaphor. For exploration....
28 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Everyone, I’m in the middle of one of those months. At the beginning of the year, the Universe made itself very clear:“You know now that I make better plans than you do. So don’t F this up by making your own plans.” By March, I got impatient. ( In my defense, Reader… I do have bills to pay down here on Earth.)So I made some plans. And now I’m in it. • Yoga Trapeze workshops this weekend.• A beautiful Somatic Retreat coming up on April 25.• And another large-scale art project being...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
read time: ~4 minutes watch: therapeutic trapeze breakdown includes: free class + workshop details Last week I was down in Laguna Beach taking a Gyrotonic Level 2 course to fulfill my CEU’s. Which is slightly ironic, because as a former Master Trainer… these are courses I used to teach. And I’ll say this — I genuinely love the quality of movement the Gyrotonic method can evoke. But there’s a moment that happens in almost every system like this. Where the choreography starts to eclipse the...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, • 3 minute read — and a quick neck reset you can try today • a musing on agency, autonomy, and the machines we trust with our bodies • mini-workout:UnWreck Your Neck ( 9-minute reset with a band, chair & yoga block) • strength, mobility & decompression — trapeze workshop (online too) Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about agency and autonomy in our bodies. And I suspect many of us have been thinking about it too — especially lately, as a lot of long-standing assumptions start...
2 months ago • 3 min read
For a while there it probably looked like I had vanished from your inbox. I promise I wasn’t hiding — Gmail just quietly decided my emails belonged in a different corner of the internet. (And if you feel like saying hello, hit reply and let me know how you’ve been. These are intense times, and I’d love to hear how you’ve been keeping yourself steady through it all.) Back in January I sent out a newsletter with one of my usual YouTube workout links and discovered the hard way that Gmail now...
2 months ago • 2 min read
If March comes in like a lion, January feels more like a bear after hibernation… or maybe the crusty, mildly confused groundhog, blinking into the light and wondering what year it is. After the inevitably intense “end-of-year slide to the finish line,” many of us arrive here a little slower, a little creakier, and quietly eager to smooth out the internal — and sometimes external — lumps and bumps that keep us from feeling that “new year, new you” buoyancy in our step. Maybe by the time this...
4 months ago • 3 min read
My brother came down from Canada late Friday night with three young children in tow. After loading their suitcases, my two nieces and nephew slid into the back seat and the commentary started immediately. “This car is SUPER messy,” noted my six-year-old niece. “Totally,” I replied. “I’ve been doing a big art project for the past two months and haven’t had any time to clean it.” “I think the only person with a messier car than this is my Dad,” observed Zadie (with all the wisdom her twelve...
5 months ago • 4 min read
Hello friends, I made a short video tonight instead of writing ( because sewing won out) Two brief updates, and then the real reason for this message. First: Iluminado has been open just over a week, and a beautiful review came out in Monterey County Weekly. The piece reflects what we hoped the installation would do — invite people into an experience that’s participatory, immersive, and quietly transformational. If you’re local, I hope you’ll take some time to experience it at the Monterey...
5 months ago • 1 min read