ashe d. phoenix of Tenderfire Media has envisioned, created and gifted us with a podcast series sharing highlights of our informal...

Peek in the floorboards, move the furniture, check the chink the ceiling, look behind the wallpaper. A good time to find a treasure in...

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...

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....

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...

Wrote a poem today, thank you, world. Even this incessant wind, that throws flower pots across my yard tastes of freedom, and wholeness,...

Below, please enjoy a rough transcription from the inquiry and meditation this morning on the Unscheduled/unwinding retreat. Also, just a...

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...

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...

What if, after all, we still, somehow, have two or three years to be willing to transform? Willingly undergo an evolution where there is...

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...

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...

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...

Another Gertrude... fear less (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2020. less fear more life

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...

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...

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...

On a deep rest meditation retreat, in a tent in a desert The second meditation, the second of January, 2018 (Gertrude cartoon (c) Jaya...

Resmaa Menakem gives us some of the most human and contextualized introductions I have ever come across--into the vagal nerve and psoas,...

Thank you for your practice and thank you for walking your path with honesty and kindness. May we meet again soon. After gathering daily...