~What is important? ~How are you doing? ~What are you doing these days that is new, whether because of the outer circumstances, or for any other reason? ~Wha...

Several places to go for inspiration and information that can help us connect, with no cost: Jin Shin Jyutsu on yourself, just simply placing your hands and...

With sudden and unexpected changes in the last week especially, many people have found themselves in touch with deep, grungy dynamics and conditioning...fear...

Thanks to Sanda Spasic for sharing this beautiful fable about smallpox, from Living Fearlessly by Sri Paramahamsa Yogananda. As we follow the practical daily...

" 'You know, Colonel, there’s absolutely nothing you can give me. I don’t want your money. You can’t give me my husband back. All I’m looking for is a signal...

(Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2020.) I am grateful to the ways my friends and students continually enrich my ways of experiencing and noticing the world...

Going beyond the beliefs and habits of lack that helped bring us to this current situation... from the "Wilds Beyond Climate Justice"~ a wonderful story, ma...

Tami Simon interviews Micah Mortali about his workshops and writing on Rewilding (link below). Mortali shares key ideas from the field of diagnosing and heal...

Dr. Kristin Neff on self-compassion in an interview with Jason Marsh, chief editor of Greater Good at the University of California at Berkeley. Here is her w...

Call and response with David Whyte's poem Self Portrait--thank you to Annette Valentinji for sharing it with me this week. What interests you? Do you feel w...

I invented this storytelling game last summer while hanging out with my family in a cabin where there were games about brand name trivia and other mind-numbi...

Have you noticed small, practical things that help you fall more swiftly into meditation--or into insight or connection or prayer or no-nonsense honesty an...

A page of notes and doodles from a conversation with Odelia Weinberg Peri. She remembered something in meditation, that is hard to find words for...but she a...

Thinking can't even quite touch love. But loving is a taste of how big we are. Photo by Jaya Julienne Ashmore (c) All rights reserved.

dissolving obstacles between the heart and mind of people in power

Drawing by Jaya Ashmore, all rights reserved. We are allowed to take time to rest, to meditate, to dance. It can also be said: we have the responsibility to...

Restorative Justice Circles at schools in Oakland, California, (through the Mindfulness in Education group)--"what is hard about being a teenager; what would...

Joy Harjo: We keep our hearts open no matter what happens, and act with integrity, even when we are in the most chaotic of shifts Photo copyright by Jaya Ju...

by Jaya Julienne Ashmore all rights reserved (c) 2019

Photo (c) Jaya Julienne Ashmore, 2019. Things are hard, and there is mystery we cannot speak, and who knows what we are. Poem below by Kathleen Raine, with m...