storyteller within

In 2020, what if you...

Prioritize your self-care. Do the things that center you now, rather than waiting for when you are centered to do them. 

Say “yes” often but only when you actually wan...

I could write you a million words about the January 3-11, 2020 New Year's Journey Into Sacred Expression Women's retreat offering at Villa Sumaya.

None will matter as much as what any wom...

Her story is a deep urge for union yet being bound in relationship struggles that hold her apart from the love she seeks.

In Juno lies the invitation to commit to our relationsh...

The new moon in Scorpio visited us at the beginning of the week, and we may have felt more deeply pulled into the cycles of transformation that have already been at work within us. For many of...

 
I've met women who feared to love, because relationship had fallen apart in their arms before. And even the thought of receiving love brings the fear of losing it.

I see Juno in thes...

Remember that time when we disappeared into the Smoky Mountains during the stirring transition between seasons? How by day we could feel the heat of summer and by night the coming whispers of a...

Dear loves,

Have you been feeling the intense energies of these past months - things getting shaken up, life feeling at times like self-reflection in a funhouse of mirrors, swirls of confusion...

Do you know the difference between a labyrinth and a maze? ⁣


Here’s one. With a maze, you can go down the wrong path. You can get stuck on a dead end. You can get lost and have to backtrack. A...

This art appears in the house of a trail angel named Laura along the Pacific Crest Trail, whom my friend Heather stayed with in the long hiking journey she is currently on.

Magi...

"I see the Feminine defined as a reconnection to the Self, a commitment to the wildness within - our instincts, our capacity to create and destroy; our hunger for connection as well as sovereig...

“And by you, of course, I mean me. And by me, I really mean all of us. Because that’s how these things work. That’s why we tell stories, ‘cause we’re all more the same than we are not, and it h...

I often ask retreat women what colors they are most drawn to wearing on their skin right now.⁣
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Maybe it’s a color that has always felt signature for you. Maybe it’s an old childhood favorit...

I spent my 42nd birthday in the forest beauty-bathing with these dear ones, enjoying homemade sublime and heartwarming pizza and apple tarts made with so much love and beautifully gifted mocha...

 aimeehansenpoetic

Women are ocean. You can't plant a flag in an ocean.

Nor would I dare to, not in you and not in myself. 

When we gather, we honor that anything a woman expresses is her way of t...