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Intentional vibrations: healing through art and Ayurveda with Veronica Paige
Veronica Paige is a health coach who incorporates elements of Ayurveda, movement, Traditional Chinese Medicine & integrative nutrition to help her clients find balance and love their bodies. When I met Veronica in the virtual world, I learned how much we had in common in the ways we both see art, and especially music, as part of our healing journey! I am honored to share this interview with Veronica, and hope you’ll be inspired by her daily healing practices of movement, art and Ayurveda. There is so much juicy wisdom here! How do you see the relationship between health and creativity in your own life? Does one affect the other? …
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Yin yoga, creative cooking, and the gift of sobriety with Jacqui Marti
Today I’m excited to share an interview with my friend and yoga instructor Jacqui Marti. Jacqui is a certified RYT- 200 teacher through Kindness Yoga, and yin trained by Kari Kwinn Yoga. Although we no longer live in the same state, her virtual yin yoga classes have offered me a beautiful refuge during this pandemic, a way to truly slow down and get quiet. In fact, I loved her classes so much that I asked her to team up with me and teach yoga for our She Who Flows group cleanse this fall! In this interview Jacqui shares what first drew her to yoga and how her life has changed…
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A letter from my Father: musings on “light and death”
This week, in honor of Father’s Day, I asked my dad if I could interview him for my blog. My father, Todd Pinney, is, I think, a writer first and foremost. He is a poet and a songwriter, holds a PhD in American Literature, and had a long career teaching composition, poetry and literature at the University level. Growing up in Boulder, Colorado, I saw my dad read his poetry and even shared the stage with him at the iconic Penny Lane coffee-shop on Pearl Street when I was a kid. Later, as a teenager, I performed songs I had written on that same stage. My dad and I have…
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Special Mother’s Day interview: a life in pursuit of creative connection
In my exploration of the relationship between health and creativity, I couldn’t think of anyone better to turn to for insight than my mom: actor, writer and teacher, Ethelyn Friend. I’ve watched her path as an artist and performer unfold throughout my life, and also seen her face addiction and other health issues as I was growing up. This interview gave me a chance to talk about some of this in a new light and hear how those challenges affected her creative work. When I was a young child, my mother created a one-woman theater piece, Songs My Grandmothers Taught Me, in which she explored the lives of her two…