FREE CLASS DOWNLOAD: Balance in the Flow Jesus’ ministry began in the flow — the flow of baptism. When the flowing begins, the need for rootedness arises. In the pursuit of this rootedness, we feel the need for balance. How do we feel a rootedness within the flow? Just after Jesus found out his cousin, John the Baptist, was executed and before he fed the five thousand, the gospel of Mark 14:13–14 says, “When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a so

My husband and I came out of 2015 with one specific lesson learned — to no longer hold space in our lives for things that do not work for us. We had been struggling through expectations that felt like hope until they became to overstretched, heavy and produced negativity. We had to release ourselves from the ‘what’ and ‘how’ should-be’s throughout our life. This included an emptying not just of material things but our relationships and our spiritual lives as well. Spiritual f

College required no physicality, but there was a state of the gym. It was free to students, and there was a general mix of feeling obligated, enjoying the facility and taxpayer guilt amongst the college girlfriends I used the facility with. So we attempted regular workouts with some of us being more faithful than others. (To let you know who the unfaithful one was, my college girlfriends completed bi-country marathons this past Fall.) It was back in college where I began to t

I began doing yoga back in 2003. I had dabbled with it a bit with videos and such before then, and it felt like the least offensive way to fitness. It intrigued me. I still remember my first class. A friend from work had invited me to a Thanksgiving Day flow. When I got their, the class was mat to mat with very little of the flooring showing and I nestled into a corner beside a sleak, older-looking blond woman who looked like she did ballet in between running marathons plus p