As I prepare for a new spin on life I will be posting here to share the journey with friends, and family.
Last year I went to Colorado for Rocky Mountain Song School in beautiful Lyons, Colorado. It was one of the most endearing and profound musical learning experiences I've ever had. It re arranged me and opened my heart in new ways that surprised me.
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| Sweet Welcome in town |
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| Playing at the RM Song School open mic. So fun! |
After Song School was over, I rented a car and drove to New Mexico to cap off the week. The drive was exquisite and as I got closer and closer to New Mexico something came over me. It was so over whelming I began to cry, and I still don't know what kind of tears they were. I think maybe they were the tears of longing but I'm not sure. The wide open expanse of the west has always had profound effect upon me and the week at Song School was so amazing, I may just have been having your general, garden variety heart-opening experience all around.
Once in Santa Fe I landed at my friends' Shar and Vinny's place and commenced tooling around Santa Fe. I felt grounded, light, free and something else....I felt like I was home. I went to massage school in New Mexico back in the 90's and loved it, and I've been back many times over the years to visit but this time it was different, this time my heart ached at the thought of leaving. I realized I never really meant to leave New Mexico for very long, but, life had other plans --which were all good! The past twenty years have been rewarding and fulfilling in so many ways and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.
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| The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts, where I went to massage school |
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Shar and Vin's dog Stormy and I hiking in the hills outside Santa Fe 2013 (photo by Vinny!)
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I came back to New England after graduating massage school, and it was like my bodywork practice grew out of thin air. I started taking more and more classes in continuing ed and honing my skills. It felt really good to be doing massage full time, so I decided to stay a little longer. My roots are in New England, my family, friends and a thriving body work practice. Before I knew it twenty years went by.
But last summer something existential occurred. Something in my bones cracked open and I knew it was time. It was done, the decision was made although I struggled for the entire year to make it go away. I am comfortable in New England, why would I leave? I love my work, friends, family and things are safe and predictable here.
Nice try...it didn't work, safe and predictable will only get you so far in life but then the lid must be lifted off. (for me anyway) Things got put in to motion after I applied to The University of Natural Medicine to commence another life long dream of becoming a Naturopathic Doctor. Although much of the training for this is distance (online) learning, the school had its head quarters in Santa Fe.
As far as I can tell, when New Mexico requests one's presence - no mortal soul can resist.
So here we are just about a year later and my house is rented out to a sweet friend who is also a fellow body worker, my lease is up on my office, I've got a new car, my book is published, I am working out class details for school, my stuff is packed and some time in the first week of Nov, Paloma the cat, and I will be hittin' the road west. I'm gonna try this on for the winter and see how I do. I can't make any solid statements beyond that. This is a serious trial run. Only time will tell.
A little note on the book! You can find it on my other blog:
The Human Restoration Project: Restoring Health and Resiliency in the Chaos of the Modern World
It is a collection of my years of observation and clinical experience offering sound advice and inspiration around regaining health and sanity in the fast paced modern world we live in.
But I digress! The Noesis News Blog will be primarily photos
of my cross country trip to New Mexico. I will keep the text to a minimum.
I hope to see visitors if anyone wants to come and explore the Great American Southwest!
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Paloma and her fav toy, I do hope she takes to the road
as well as she balances on her back legs! |
