Sit back, relax, and enjoy this audio version of the Preface to the book I published last year: Soul Healing & Spirit Dancing: A Seasonal Journey to Embody the Balance, Peace & Joy that is Your Birthright. P.S. No elephants were harmed in the making of this book. 1. Get the book: ask your local bookstore to carry the book, or find it everywhere books are sold online. 2. Join the newsletter: at moondancecoaching.com 3. Review the book: wherever you purchased your copy, or at Goodreads . T...
Mar 27, 2024•29 min
During this festive and busy season, take a moment to slow down with me, breathe deeply, and reflect on what's been going on. Cup of tea and cozy fireside spot optional (but always recommended). Episode Resources: Bookshop/IndieBound Book Listing Barnes & Noble Book Listing Amazon Book Listing Get on The Waiting List Subscribe to the Newsletter...
Dec 13, 2023•29 min
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance." -Japanese proverb Long enjoyed as part of Winter Solstice traditions across time and culture, dancing can truly be the soul-healing medicine we need to shift our energy during this darkest time of year. Whether we choose to celebrate the solstice with lit candles and fires burning all night, we can dance as a way to keep our own inner fire stoked and our inner light alive. What is your relationship to dancing? What fears, self-con...
Dec 21, 2022•34 min
"After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Dumbledore What if death wasn't the terrible, absolute worst-case scenario that we spend our whole lives fearfully trying to avoid? What if discussing death could actually make us feel better about life? Autumn is the perfect time for discussing such dark things - the season that ushers in and embraces death in nature's yearly cycle. And by the end of this episode, you'll have 10 useful, bizarre, and meaningful prac...
Nov 19, 2022•32 min
"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men." - Roald Dahl As children, we don't need to define what playing is - we just go outside, let our imaginations take over, and get weird with it. But, somewhere along the way, it seems we stop knowing how to get weird with it. Listen along to re-define play as an adult, create your play to-do list, and re-infuse your life with the driving force of play! May you unleash your creative side and find JOY in playing once again. Happy froli...
Oct 29, 2022•28 min
Within every cell of our bodies, there is both yin and yang energy. And yin and yang balance each other, support each other, keep each other in check. But if balance is written into our very cells, then why does it always feel so elusive and impossible to maintain in our lives?! Just a few days past the Autumn Equinox we are in a state of near-perfect balance of yin and yang energies. And we can use this to our advantage as we finally learn the trick to achieving that illusive sense of balance: ...
Sep 29, 2022•25 min
Every year as the summer begins to wane, we look back and think, how time flies! Our most common sayings about time are speaking to our relationship with Father Time - also known as 'chronos' time, a Greek word for time. But unlike us, the Greeks also had a second word for the concept of time: 'Kairos.' "In a Kairos moment, the world stops...and it opens." -Robert Moss, Sidewalk Oracles If Chronos time is the more masculine/yang aspect of time that maintains order in our lives, it is the more fe...
Sep 02, 2022•25 min
Instead of trying so hard to “be spiritual,” what’s the most spiritual thing you can do? Be your true authentic self. I believe your soul chose your personality to help you carry out your life mission here. It’s a tool for you to use - but you have to know how to use the tool. When we rediscover who we really are at our core and give ourselves permission to live in alignment with that - underneath the conditioning of our wounds, defenses and expectations...we heal our bodies and we change the wo...
Jul 31, 2022•29 min
This week we celebrate the Summer Solstice! It's a time of celebration, culmination, and basking in the light. But life isn't just about thriving in the good times, or feeling joy and gratitude when everything is going our way. The real secret is knowing HOW to find the sweetness during the hard times, the dark times, the times when things aren't going the way we would like them to. With hummingbird as our guide, this is the perfect time to start honing your sweet-seeking radar. Because life is ...
Jun 23, 2022•24 min
When the world is awash in springtime abundance, but you're just not feeling it? It might be a reality check about how you're living your life, and how out-of-alignment you might be with the messages of your soul. Learn to connect with your intuition - the inner compass that will keep you forever soul-aligned, plus discover the 8 barriers to trusting your intuition that are tripping you up and keeping you from feeling the joyful abundance of YOUR life. Mentioned in the episode... Listen to the W...
Jun 01, 2022•18 min
We tend to think our purpose here is to make money, or make children, or build a business, or make a name for ourselves, or change the world in big systemic ways. But do we consider that it might be our purpose to be JOYFUL? How drastically would we have to alter our lives and our jobs and our aspirations if every day our main goal was to be joyful? Learn to heed the call of your Soul, have the courage to recognize what is no longer serving you, and find joy in new beginnings this spring! Spirit...
Apr 22, 2022•19 min
"The world is a weave of energy and every human being is a thread on that Great Weave..." -Amantha Murphy, The Way of the Seabhean: An Irish Shamanic Path The Spring Equinox really marks the beginning of Nature’s New Year, so this is an excellent time for planting seeds of intention; it’s a time to know what we really want! So with the right energetic conditions in place around us, let’s do some tending to our inner conditions – on an energetic level that allows us to get up close and personal w...
Mar 25, 2022•20 min
"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear." -Daniel Defoe Consider for a moment that, like a diamond, you too start out in a 'less-polished' state and it is only through the application of extreme pressure, a bit of heat, and the passage of time that your true brightness really begins to shine. But, unlike the diamond, we have the added responsibility of free will and the option to completely get in our own way and stunt the...
Feb 24, 2022•21 min
If you peel back the “NEW BEGINNINGS” overlay that we’ve put onto January and pay attention to the energy of the season beneath the expectations, you’ll find that we’re smack dab in the middle of the dead of winter. And winter…is a time for deep rest, restoration, healing, quiet, solitude, stillness. Not exactly New Year resolution energy, eh?! So here's what we can choose to do at this time of year instead - that still honors new beginnings - but is more in alignment with the energy of this sea...
Jan 25, 2022•15 min
"There is a crack in everything...that's how the light gets in." -Leonard Cohen No matter how much our lives become a whirlwind of chaos or uncertainty, the Winter Solstice arrives every year on schedule in the darkest time of year bringing us a tiny shred of light - imperceptible at first! - to each and every day - bringing us the reminder of HOPE. But may we first wisely use this much needed season of darkness, quietude and restoration to see and begin to repair the cracks in our systems, our ...
Dec 21, 2021•13 min
Do we truly understand this? In the society we've created, with the cultural values we uphold, you being sick/unwell/unhappy makes sense. That's messed up, right? Who wants to live in a world where being unwell and unhappy is the norm? May we as a society one by one awaken - and dream a bigger dream for our health and happiness. Explore Moondance Wellness services here: www.moondancecoaching.com/coaching...
Oct 24, 2021•16 min
"You don't know who they will be, the ones who open your eyes to life's wild magic..." How do you perceive the things in your life? Before judging something in your life as being very very bad, can you leave a little space for the possibility that it is also very good? It’s hard to know how life will unfold when viewed from our zoomed-in vantage point. But trust that when you zoom out and look down below, there is a plan in place. New services here: www.moondancecoaching.com...
Sep 29, 2021•19 min
When a caterpillar enters the chrysalis it becomes a liquid soupy mess before eventually becoming the stunning butterfly or moth. The Chrysalis is a phase in our lives that ushers us into our next Becoming. But we have to allow the time and space for it to occur. Otherwise we remain stuck in Caterpillar Land forever. Let's use this covid time/enforced-chrysalis-phase in our lives to wrestle with some fear and pain and emerge into a bigger dream. www.moondancecoaching.com...
Aug 08, 2021•23 min
After the dark of winter (and this past YEAR) comes the rebirth and awakening of spring. Learn the art of Inner Gardening and write your new chapter - to awaken at the deeper level of the SOUL. For virtual Yin & Mindfulness class details: www.moondancecoaching.com/events
Mar 22, 2021•16 min
FIRE-AIR-EARTH-WATER: No, it's not Captain Planet. It’s a Myers Briggs Personality Types/Elements of Nature Mashup! Are you a snail like me – burrowing into the deep? Or perhaps instead of burrowing, you tend to swirl, or ignite, or stabilize? See if you recognize yourself in the following four descriptions. Written version of the types: https://moondancecoaching.com/whats-your-elemental-type/ Personality Discovery Info: https://moondancecoaching.com/coaching/...
Feb 10, 2021•29 min
How do we close out the year we can't wait to forget? Wizardly advice for a new kind of holiday season... Plus practices and rituals to release 2020 - using the energetic support of the Winter Solstice, the December 29 Full Moon, and the New Year! www.moondancecoaching.com
Dec 27, 2020•21 min
Take out your trash, play is healing, be careful what you ask for, surrender to what is... Meet Elanor, the beefy four-legged with some important life lessons to teach us to not only survive 2020 - but to come out better on the other side. Because when we look beneath the surface of our struggles, sometimes there is magic. See Elanor here! moondancecoaching.com/lessons-from-a-tiny-hippo/ Yin + Mindfulness Virtual Classes Nov/Dec HERE Email angela@moondancecoaching.com for your Free 1st Class thi...
Nov 17, 2020•21 min
These days we so deeply understand physical hygiene to support our health and the health of those around us. We’ve gone to great measures on this front. Masks are becoming more fashionable. Hand sanitizer is at the front of every store. The social distanced air-hug is the new awkward goodbye. We are physical hygiene warriors. But what about the health of our spirit? Are you also practicing your spiritual hygiene? Don't be that kid. Make your hygiene a priority for the benefit of yourself and eve...
Oct 04, 2020•17 min
...yet everything is accomplished. What has happened to our lives that we move so fast we can't feel this pace of nature's divine perfection? That we fill our lives so full to the brim that we can't accomplish everything and instead end up feeling overworked, overburdened, overwhelmed? We have a love affair with nature because she offers externally what we can't bring ourselves to create within. On this official first day of fall, the Fall Equinox, what wisdom can we glean from the divine perfec...
Sep 22, 2020•10 min
Just by being human, sometimes you're gonna find yourself smack dab in the middle of a wtf phase. It’s been one of those years where every time I start to experience a deep-seated and long-awaited feeling of ‘ahhh everything finally seems ok and I feel at peace in this moment’ then BAM something exceedingly strange happens and I’m thrown back into that ‘extreme wtf phase.' Here's to trusting in the process and wholeheartedly embracing the wtf phases of life. Fall Virtual Yin + Mindfulness Classe...
Sep 02, 2020•20 min
So which of these 'wisdom-producing' practices has this global pandemic forced you to experience - maybe even appreciate?! Do you find yourself slowing down more lately? Staying grounded in one place? Appreciating your quiet time? Practicing - by force or by choice - the art of surrendering control? Is it possible this global pandemic has the ability to make us all more wise, self-aware, and content human beings?! Probably not. Or does it..?? Mentioned in this episode... Yin Yoga & Mindfulne...
Aug 05, 2020•25 min
2020 is definitely a year of changes, and it can be about starting over in a fresh new way. This can be an exciting time that feels good with the promise of a new world on the horizon. We can learn to break the cycle of disconnection, destruction, and division that tears at our personal and worldly relationships by bypassing 'otherness' and tapping into an empowering empathy. It's time to throw out the stale templates of division. So here's to reaching out across the divides with open hearts and...
Jul 08, 2020•21 min
My husband and I exist in very different experiences of the world. I'm a personal growth coach into healing and spirituality, and he's a police officer who has to deal with some pretty scary situations and interact with people who aren't always pleased to see him. Truly we don't always see eye to eye as our world experiences have shaped us so differently. One day a couple months ago, exhausted after a fight and stuck at an impasse, we came up with a manifesto of sorts and we both signed it - her...
Jun 22, 2020•11 min
When I wanted to change my life for the better, I asked for one thing: to feel a sense of peace and ease. But I’m going to bring you in on a little secret: Peace and ease are NOT dependent on your external circumstances. You can change the container you're in hoping that you'll feel differently on the inside - and you will feel better temporarily! But if your sense of peace and ease is based entirely on external circumstances, you will forever be stuck in the pursuit of happiness. And if you're ...
May 26, 2020•15 min
As we continue to plod our way through this challenging time, perhaps you’re coming to the realization that things will never be exactly the same. I, for one, am ecstatic. A crisis is a call to change and there IS a big change long overdue in our world and in our selves. Continuing to explore the tools, practices & mindsets that can help us through this time, today I present to you The Great Imbalance! And One Sacred Act of Rebellion you can take right now to re-balance your soul and literal...
May 11, 2020•17 min
