Summer turned on a few nights ago here in Boulder as the nights took the days warmth to bed. I love the warmy-spot of summer and how it makes my muscles feel so loose and so free. There’s an inherent ease with these warmer months. I am loving the evening walks, the evening sends, swinging [...]
I don’t know about you, but when I do too much thinking and not enough breathing, all that mental tension makes for some crazy-dreamtime-journeys filled with an equivalent amount of anxiety. I wake up feeling not-so-refreshed.
One of my favorite quotes to help me get unstuck, and one I use in The Inspiration Book, is: ”If something [...]
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” - Sophia Loren
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“When someone quotes the old poetic image / about clouds gradually uncovering the moon, / slowly loosen knot by knot the strings / of your robe. / Like this.” [...]
I was thinking earlier this week how life is but a collage: a collection of fragments and memories and lyrics and photographs that we hold together in the story of our experience – drawing meaning from the pieces and their juxtapositions. I think collage is an apt metaphor, and also the next trend in art.
I [...]
“What was that amazing dream you had a few weeks ago, Schultz?” the famous artist Johnny Lace asked.
“Oh, the floating chicken lantern dream? It went like this,” I said as I closed my eyes and channeled that vision again. “I found myself outside in the freshness of air at the top of the Sanitas Valley Trail in [...]
Last weekend was a turning point of epic proportions for me as I learned to really let go, trust and sink into the moment. In my mind it makes perfect sense, and I’ve witnessed it from working with so many horses over the years, but it was time for me to EMBODY that as a [...]
Yesterday I awoke from the most amazingly chillaxed day in the history of Ali: I had 4 hours of yoga with Seane Corn and Kathryn Budig at the Hanuman Festival over on the BHS lawn next to the rushing creek on Friday, and found myself at dinner that night, draped in the patio chair like [...]
I revised The Inspiration Book a bit this morning – edited some copy, added in some brighter images, had some fun. Be sure to check it out, send a copy to your pops, and tell all your besties. It’s still very free, just more rich in vibrance.