A teacher & coach of authentic relationships I'm working with men and couples to make their lives happier. I'm also a certified Life-Cycle Celebrant™ (weddings, funerals, the rituals of this life).
Apprenticeship to Love, March 20, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who do you claim to see you? To hold and know and love you, just as you are? And whom do you claim to see, to hear, hold, and to love just as they are? * Today's suggested practice: Day
Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you? What frightening step forward that seems to welcome your annihilation? And what ritual can you prepare, to offer yourself as the gift you are to this moment of diminishing? * Today's suggested practice:
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 13, 2024 * Today’s questions: What habits close you to life? What rituals open you to life? How important is it, to be alive, to feel the joy —and the terror!— of life coursing through you? * Today's
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 9, 2024 * Today’s question: Where in your body does the will to perservere, to push through and against your fear, where does this power lie? * Today's suggested practice: Day 9 of this month's practice,
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: What happens when the conversation goes silent? What feelings come up? Are you afraid? Do you feel rejected? Angry? Curious? Grateful? * Today's suggested practice: Day 1 of this month's practice,
Chapter 47 of this Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 16, 2024 * Today's playlist: Silence... * Today’s questions: What small (or large) rituals do you have, that help you break open and pay attention to this moment, your opening or closing in this
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 44, February 13, 2024 * Today's playlist: Spiegel Im Spiegel (Arvo Pärt) https://apple.co/42E6XM8 * Today’s questions: How are you resisting love? How are you not holding yourself close, tenderly, with deepest devotion? * Today's
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 42, February 11, 2024 * Today's playlist: The memory of the roar of the trees, the river, the traffic... * Today’s questions: Can you feel yourself being pulled in strange and uncomfortable ways? Confused? Struggling to feel the
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 40, February 9, 2024 * Today's playlist: Bach Transcriptions (Mao Fujita) https://classical.music.apple.com/ca/album/1712466829?l=en-CA * Today’s questions: Do you have a practice, that you may feel the burn, that you may
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 5, 2024 * Today's playlist: Listening to the noise of household appliances, robotically heating my home, cleaning my air, and other things that I take for granted... * Today’s questions: Who do you choose? And why do you
Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 1, 2024 * Today's playlist: The throbbing hum of the machine that pumps concrete into the forms across the alley... * Today’s questions: It's the transitional season, Imbolc. Can you feel the sometimes-confusion of winter-becoming-spring in
Dear students and those of you who've expressed an interest in joining us, I'm sorry if this catches you at short notice. Due to a (minor) injury I'm not in good shape to teach this evening's class, February 1. I thought I