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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 24, 20211 min read
In the folds
Peek in the floorboards, move the furniture, check the chink the ceiling, look behind the wallpaper. A good time to find a treasure in...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 2, 20212 min read
loving mothers
Thank you to all my elderwomen... For the ones who went before, and cared, no matter what. Who knew what they knew, and gave it. Who bet...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 19, 20212 min read
Awkward and fresh
On a willow tree by the pond at the Stone House in North Carolina, years ago...someone spotted a cicada, right at eye level on the trunk....
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Apr 7, 20211 min read
Celebration where once there was a person
I was feeling like it was a good day for some Rumi...and came across this interview Tami Simon did with Coleman Barks, creator of modern...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Mar 21, 20211 min read
...and Living
Wrote a poem today, thank you, world. Even this incessant wind, that throws flower pots across my yard tastes of freedom, and wholeness,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 22, 20215 min read
Between an earthquake and a hummingbird: listening to ourselves
Below, please enjoy a rough transcription from the inquiry and meditation this morning on the Unscheduled/unwinding retreat. Also, just a...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 2, 20212 min read
Two butterflies that hadn't been seen before
What are some of the specific things we can learn from lockdown? Let's learn this clearly so we can start to move towards a...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Nourished nourishers
Softening and coming alive in the upper rib-cage, up under the shoulder girdle... A breath or two or three just floating the first top...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jan 28, 20212 min read
Celebrating thoroughly
What if, after all, we still, somehow, have two or three years to be willing to transform? Willingly undergo an evolution where there is...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Nov 23, 20201 min read
Small but mind-blowing
Weird and wonderful life. Just for fun...two different versions of small things being mind-blowing. Here is a poem I wrote in 2008 on an...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Oct 4, 20201 min read
What is it time for?
A good moment to honor with good timing and a smile. Last night, with more than one match, I lit the first fire of the season. What is...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Sep 6, 20201 min read
What to cut, what to breathe, where to wander
A few new Gertrudes and an invitation to join the 3 meditation events I am offering in September... ~A month of 8 meditations on breath...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 27, 20201 min read
Where life wants to go
Another Gertrude... fear less (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2020. less fear more life
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 18, 20201 min read
Here.
Gertrude, (c) Jaya Ashmore, 2020. What if we were all welcome, as we are, already? What does that idea feel like in your body? And...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Aug 15, 20201 min read
Sacred presence in and beyond everything
Just wanted to share a few recent "Gertrudes"--a cartoon that I love making. This month marks 3 years since the 1st Gertrude popped out...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jul 2, 20201 min read
To respond to reality, we need to get in touch with reality
On the first of July, as part of a 3-day conference on finding good responses to Covid19, I gave this talk to a group made up mostly of...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 22, 20208 min read
Without that, nothing else is possible
On a deep rest meditation retreat, in a tent in a desert The second meditation, the second of January, 2018 (Gertrude cartoon (c) Jaya...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
Jun 6, 20203 min read
Fourteen generations: "I’m trying to reclaim the idea that I’m actually a human."
Resmaa Menakem gives us some of the most human and contextualized introductions I have ever come across--into the vagal nerve and psoas,...
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Jaya Julienne Ashmore
May 28, 20202 min read
74 meditations, 74 steps on a journey
Thank you for your practice and thank you for walking your path with honesty and kindness. May we meet again soon. After gathering daily...
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