Mindful Movement (2026)

01/02/2026

🕯Happy Imbolc dear friends✨️

Doing my darndest to orient to the returning light, no matter how tenuous it seems in this fraught moment.

I've been working in the shadows for a while and nourishing my IRL community - which has been deeply replenishing and good - but lately I've been feeling a little pull to step back into this broader space.

(We'll see. Keeping my eye on the emergency exit too.)

🌾What tender shoots are rising within you?🌾

17/08/2025

A questa bella mia età ho scoperto che ho bisogno di occhiali speciali anche per fare la pulizia 🤓

Ho ritrovato un paio presi anni fa per leggere, ma ora perfetti per vedere tutti i dettagli/dittali/ragnatele/polveri in giro 😅

Virgo season has started and I am right there with my detail-y sun sign ♍️ 🧹👓🔎

21/06/2025

In occasione della Giornata Internazionale dello Yoga, vogliamo prenderci un momento per celebrare i profondi benefici che questa antica pratica continua a offrirci. Allo stesso tempo, riconosciamo anche le complessità legate al modo in cui il mondo occidentale si è appropriato dello yoga commercializzandolo in molti contesti.

In questa giornata, desideriamo ricordare e valorizzare il modello TCTSY (Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga), che si radica nella tradizione dello yoga come strumento di restituzione, guarigione e consapevolezza. Un approccio che rifiuta sia l’appropriazione culturale che svuota lo yoga delle sue radici, sia la repressione religiosa che, in alcune aree del mondo, continua a colpire chi pratica o trasmette queste discipline.

TCTSY onora le origini dello yoga e i suoi principi fondanti: non violenza, rispetto e condivisione del potere.

Per approfondire questi temi con voci autentiche e competenti, vi invitiamo a seguire alcuni account sudasiatici che portano avanti riflessioni preziose su yoga e appropriazione culturale:

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26/12/2023

A most lovely Christmas walk in our gift-knitted hats 🧶🤎🩷

🧶Did you receive or give a hand crafted gift this year?

🧶Are you working on a project at the moment? Been wanting to start one but haven't found the time or gumption?

🪡Knitting in community is a great way to get started or get back to a project that has been sitting around for a while (like the one on started in the 90s when I was traveling around New Zealand and has been in my knitting box ever since 😅). Want to join me for a cosy knit-chat later today?

🪢Meet me in the Knitting Nook today at 15:00 CET/9:00 am US Eastern for some soothing and supportive stitching time together💕 Check out my newsletter in the Bio for all the deets or DM me and I'll send you the link.

You are most welcome to come along even if you don't have anything to work on yet. I can help you cast on or you are welcome to just come along for the chatting part 😄

I will guide a short restorative practice to start to give our hands some TLC, which will be resourcing for all hands, whether they will be knitting ones or not. All hands welcome! 🙏🏼 👐

In the meantime, check out this sweet doc op-ed from today's NYT all about the healing powers of knitting:

Knitting Helps Us Embrace Life’s Messy Imperfections https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/opinion/knitting-healing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I00.wvQJ.oekddrTpy2WF&smid=nytcore-android-share

A resounding YES all of that and the adorable knitting mouses 🐁

Hope to see you in the Knitting Nook later!

24/12/2023

Holidays can be hard. Be gentle and kind to your good selves.

Sending love and ease to you and yours...and wishes for peace in this world.

Thank you for sharing this year with me and here's to a hopeful, peaceful, heartful 2024 ❤️

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Le feste possono essere momenti difficili. Siate dolci e gentili con voi stessi in questi giorni.

Vi mando tanto amore e serenità... e auguri di pace in questo mondo.

Grazie per aver condiviso con me quest'anno e ci auguro un 2024 pieno di speranza, di pace e di cuore ❤️

21/12/2023

Come join me in the Knitting Nook on Wednesday, December 27th, at 15:00 CET/9:00 US Eastern for some mindful & heart-full co-movement 🧶

We'll move our hearts and hands in communion as we knit (or crochet or sew...) to add some coming-together energy to this fragmented world moment...and knit-chat in the quieter post-Christmas days.

Check out my latest newsletter (link in bio) or DM for more details...and add a comment below with the word 'KNIT' to receive the sign-up link.

And happy solstice to you!
May the darkness of this longest night bring some peace to this wounded world and may we welcome the returning light into our hearts 💕
・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜・。..・。.・゜✭・.・✫・゜

Vieni a trovarci nel Knitting Nook mercoledì 27 dicembre alle 16:00 CET per un po' di Mindful Movement creativo e festivo...🧶

Porta i tuoi ferri (o uncinetto o ago) e ci muoviamo le mani in comunione mentre uniamo i nostri cuori in questo momento di grande frammentazione globale.

Scambiamo più di die chiacchiere e ci salutiamo prima della fine dell'anno, con una tazza di te davanti e la lana in mano...

Vai alla mia ultima newsletter (link nella bio) o mandami un DM per maggiori dettagli... e scrivi un commento qui sotto con la parola "KNIT" per ricevere il link di iscrizione!

P.S. Buon solstizio a tutti 🌟 Spero che il buio di questa notte lunga possa portare più pace al nostro mondo sofferente...e che possiamo accogliere la luce che ritorna nei nostri cuori per nutrire la scintilla di speranza.

27/11/2023

Mindful movement can look like…knitting!

🧶I’ve picked up my knitting needles again after a long hiatus…basically since my girls outgrew the last mom-made ponchos they agreed to wear.

In the midst of a muddly middle moment where life strands seem in a bit of a tangle, knitting has been a way to unwind, detangle and begin weaving threads into a new design.

I feel old motor patterns reawaken, muscle memory kicking back in.

Dropping a stitch, picking one back up a few rows later, unraveling back to a new starting point …course-correcting along the way but also the relief of letting some of the ‘mistakes’ just be there. My daughter says that way she’ll always know that was my unique contribution that makes her hat a one-of-a-kind.

I have also been knitting with friends and in a therapeutic context and am once again amazed at the power of moving together, making order of our individual and collective warp and weave, yoking our strands into new combinations of stitches and color, while we talk through the winding paths unfolding in our lives.

There are so many ways to move together, through change and challenging times... in the mat, out for a walk in the woods or with a ball of yarn in hand for some soothing knit-chats.

🧶So I am dreaming up more ways of moving together, planning more collective walks and also opening up an online (for the moment) Knitting Nook.

💪🏼And of course you can always meet me on the mat Tuesdays and Thursdays for some Embodied Strength, my mindful somatic strength & resistance program for all bodies who want to feel safer and stronger in their movements through this challenging world.

🪡Let me know if you would like to join me in a knitting circle, even if you’ve never ‘knat’ before. I’m no expert, but I can cast you on and show you the basics and together we will weave our way into new creative and nourishing spaces. If you are already an expert knitter/crocheter, please come along and share your wisdom!

I have ideas for days and times, but want this to be a co-created space so will post more details as they unfurl… so stay tuned!

In the meantime, I hope your Monday moves you in supportive and nourishing ways 💫

23/11/2023

Awaken to the mystery of being here
and enter the quiet immensity of your own presence.

Have joy and peace in the temple of your senses.

Receive encouragement when new frontiers beckon.

Respond to the call of your gift and the courage to follow its path...

May your outer dignity mirror an inner dignity of soul.

May you take time to celebrate the quiet miracles that seek no attention.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

From the blessing, 'For Presence,' found in Benedictus (Europe) /
To Bless the Space Between Us (US)
Ordering Info: https://johnodonohue.com/store

Killarney National Park, Co Kerry, Ireland
Photo: © Ann Cahill

23/11/2023

Playing with rhythms in today's Embodied Strength class...speeding things up, slowing back down, little hops and boings and soft landings.

Embodied memories of hopscotch and Double Dutch popped up in our hearts and minds and bones.

Giving our tissues something from the past that feels new as a way to invite gentle change and growth.

Checking in along the way to feel how it is all landing in our bodies, as we then choose our next moves.

We have been building up to impact over the past months, strengthening our feet and readying our joints and bones for more input.

And finally, winding down and giving ourselves much gratitude for showing up for ourselves and each other today and every day we are present to the marvels at work in our amazing body-mind-hearts.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate, acknowledging the complicated and painful histories of my birthplace and other wounded lands around the world.

In the midst of all our movings and doings today, may we also find stillness in our hearts and make room for the deep listening that is so needed in this jangled world.

18/10/2023

Ti invito alla mia pratica di Embodied Strength!

🍕Martedì dalle 10:00-11:30 CET in italiano

🥓Giovedì dalle 18:00-19:30 in inglese

🐯Sopra un'altra delle mie creazioni digitali
(un super 🙏🏼 alla favolosa
per il suo workshop)🐯

Ho chiamato questa immagine ‘Can’t Resist (the Resisting)’...tradotto a modo mio, non posso fare a meno di resistere.

È da un po’ che sto resistendo tante cose. Poi cerco di resistere la mia resistenza. Ma mi stancava troppo tutta sta resistenza e quindi ho deciso di entrare in un dialogo con essa per trasformarla in un’energia più generativa e creativa.

Grazie alle leggi della biomeccanica, sappiamo che la resistenza è il seme della crescita e della trasformazione. Resistere un carico è ciò che irrobustisce le nostre ossa, fa crescere i nostri muscoli e dà resilienza al nostro tessuto connettivo.

Possiamo impegnarci in modo più concreto con le forze della resistenza, incontrandola sul tappetino. Una pratica di forza e resistenza (‘strength & resistance training’) può aiutarci a sentire più sicuri e più forti nel proprio corpo e nei nostri movimenti nel mondo.

Proprio in questo momento il mondo non sembra affatti un posto sicuro. Troppa sofferenza, troppa violenza. Potremmo sentirci bloccati in uno stato di ipervigilanza, sentendo e vedendo minacce ovunque.

Muovendo insieme ed esplorando come reggere i nostri carichi con maggiore resilienza è un'enorme risorsa.

Troviamoci sul tappetino per impegnare la resistenza, ritrovando più fiducia e forza insieme.

Mandami un messaggio o lasciami un commento sotto e ti do tutte le informazioni e il link 🙏🏼

16/10/2023

I've been playing with digital collages this year (shout-out to 🐯! the fabulous)

This one is called 'Push & Pull'. It's all about the dynamic between the forces at play within and around us.

Pushing and pulling are also foundational moves in a strength & resistance practice.

Purposefully engaging with these forces can help us feel stronger and safer in our bodies as we move through the world.

And the world feels pretty overwhelming right now. Many of us might be stuck in a hypervigilant state, feeling and seeing threats all around.

Moving together to explore how we can bear our loads with more resilience can be a huge resource.

Come move with me & let's explore how moving mindfully, with resistance as an ally, can help us feel safer and stronger together.

Meet me on the mat for my Embodied Strength practice:

🇮🇹Tuesdays at 10:00 CET in Italian

🇺🇸Thursdays at 18:00 in English

Send me a DM and I'll send you the deets and link🙏🏼

13/10/2023

October is Menopause Awareness Month and since I have been in the messy middle of my own (peri-meno) PAUSE for a while, I thought this would be a good moment to finally pop back into this space for an overdue 👋

I’ve had resistance on my mind and in my body for a some time now...resisting lots of things that used to come more easily but now feel like bigger feats- like sending out my newsletter, which I FINALLY got out the door the other day (link in the bio), writing social media posts like this one and talking about new offerings that I have been quietly sitting on for a while.

So I’ve decided to try to observe and be with my resistance, exploring the ways I can work *with* it rather than flail against it and transform its dense energy into a generative curiosity and increasing sense of resilience.

We all feel the laws of biomechanics at work in our own bodies when we use resistance as a force for transformation and growth. 🏋🏼‍♀️Working with load is what builds our bones and muscles, and gives our connective tissue its resilience.

So I'm pushing against my own internal forces of resistance around promoting the work I love to do (I feel the bristles of resistance popping up even as I type the word ‘promoting’) and coming right out to say that I am opening up a new program: Embodied Strength a strength & resistance practice (with a somatic twist) for

💪🏼chronically challenged bodies like mine or

😬anyone who cringes at the idea of going to the gym or avoids more ‘intense’ practices like strength training because they feel that their body isn't cut out for it

🤨 anyone who feels that they don't fit into the more ableist 'fitness culture' memes and images that get lobbed at us by the algorithms that be

🤸🏼‍♀️...and yet wants to feel stronger and safer in their body and movements in the world

✨️Come join me on Tuesday Oct. 17 to start feeling stronger & safer as we face our resistance together 💪🏼

I'm offering the program in both Italian AND English: every Tuesday at 10:00 am CET in🇺🇸& Tuesday or Thursday (still TBD based on demand) at 18:00 in 🇮🇹

📮Send me a DM or check out the link in the Bio for more deets🤓

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