The Waning Light: Practices, A Meditation & New Consciousness
The Waning Light: Practices, A Meditation & New Consciousness As the long days of summer disappear, we find ourselves on the cusp of Autumn, which can create a spike in anxiety and restlessness. Betsy knows this challenging transition well, and in this month’s Wisdom Wednesday she will share what she is doing to not only […]
Teacher Training @ Heartland Yoga
I am excited to announce Heartland Yoga’s first yoga teacher training. Although Heartland has been open almost 18 years, we have never offered a teacher training. I have taught several of these trainings in Cedar Rapids, but never felt drawn to start a program in Iowa City. My reasoning for this was that there were already so […]
Are you still practicing hope?
Tend Her 4.0 – Hope It’s been over 2 months since we finished the Tend Her Hope Experience. How did the teachings land for you? Are you still practicing hope? Admittedly I crashed a little bit after the ending of Tend Her 4.0. The experience is always both exhilarating and exhausting for me! I felt […]
Trust Your Intuition
“The only real valuable thing is intuition.” -Albert Einstein I sat at a conference with Deepak Chopra, my meditation teacher, about 10 years ago as he talked about how intuition gets stronger the more we meditate. He said that the skills of people like the New Jersey Psychic would be scientifically verifiable in the near […]
Trusting Your Own Intuition
I just returned from my first silent meditation retreat. I’ve been a long term meditator, but never in full silence for extended periods. After the first night of introductions and settling in, our instructor shared with us we were going into “Noble Silence”. This meant we would not only be refraining from speaking, but also any […]
Tend Her Hope Recap
Tend Her 4.0 – Hope Tend Her Hope is officially done, but you can continue to access this course and I am incessantly curious about the workings of the human mind, particularly during these deeply turbulent times when hope can feel very far away. It appears many of us have lost our hope in humanity […]
Tend Her 4.0
Tend Her 4.0: HOPE Free self paced workshop with course material and recorded practice. Tend Her is a course, a community, a healing space, a podcast, an in person event and what feels like a bigger collective movement of women rising. Register for this program, click here.
A message on Hope
A message on HopeMy 16-year-old son recently admitted to me in an off-hand way that he sometimes worries the planet won’t be here by the time he is an adult. I had never heard this deep fear he carries so it caught me off guard. When I asked more questions, his teenage brain was focused […]
Do you know what spreads faster than lies?
It is well established in the scientific literature that lies spread faster than facts. Six times as fast. We are inundated with information in this new Information Age which keeps us all constantly sifting through data. It can be very hard to know whether what you are reading, or what link you have clicked on, is actually […]
Heroine’s Journey Q & A 2025
ReClaim Program: The Heroine’s Journey “Listen, are you breathing a little, and calling it a life?” – Mary Oliver I have always resisted winter. The lack of light and cold temperatures throw me into a a funk. This changed after embarking on the Heroine’s Journey. For the last 2 winters, I worked with about 100 students […]