Phoenix, AZ: Create A New Now
< Celebrate the festival of changing seasons by gaining tools to create growth and joy in your life! < When: Wed., May 1st, 7:00-8:30 pm Where: Storm Wisdom, 3375 E Shea Blvd., Phoenix, Arizona May Day is a pivot point of the year for many ancient traditions, marking the tide of rebirth and a time to observe with reverence the changing seasons. On this day, the small star group of the Pleiades begins to rise in the Northern Hemisphere, as they are setting in the Southern Hemisphere. Please join Robin for an inspirational book signing to celebrate a rebirth in your own...
Read MoreDo You Think You Will Break? Book Reading
Please join me for an evening of storytelling, inspiration, and good coffee on Wednesday evening, March 27th, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I look forward to connecting with old friends and new!
Read MoreEl Camino de Santiago
Northern Spain 2010 El Camino de Santiago is one of the world’s great pilgrimage routes and also a UNESCO World Heritage site, with monuments of historical significance all along the way. Its origins predate Christianity, though it is best known as a path walked by Christians and others for over a thousand years to visit the tomb of Saint James the Apostle in Santiago. Once a Roman trade route following the Milky Way to the Atlantic Ocean, it also served as a pre-Christian Celtic ceremonial journey westward to the setting sun in Finisterre, considered the end of the world at the...
Read MoreEnergy Shifts
Costa Rica 2009 Every day, dark clouds consumed the sky for longer and longer periods, and the humidity between heaven and earth grew. Still, the first rain did not come. Jungle trees dropped green vines toward the earth, strange buds opening to suck moisture from the heavy air. Distant rumbles of thunder occasionally shook the pregnant atmosphere, and the town and its inhabitants operated in slow motion. Walking the beach before nightfall, sunset once again hidden behind the dark clouds, the sky rumbled before finally opening its floodgates. Laughing with joy at nature’s dramatic release...
Read MoreCulture Shock & Cross-Country Driving
On the Road (2009) “Excuse me, Miss, are you alright?” I opened my eyes as I came out of a prolonged side twist, and looked up into the alarmed eyes of the pool technician who cautiously crept towards me. Apparently, I’d been too still for too long. After assuring him that I was not in distress, that I was practicing something called y-o-g-a, he left me with a puzzled shake of his head. At each motel, the reaction was slightly different. Across Ohio and Illinois, we found out that the small workout rooms were best avoided. Shortly after we two women in our yoga clothes walked past the...
Read MoreLakota Sweat Lodge
Woodstock, New York 2010 The flap shut and pitch black descended, a faint red glow turning the black to deep brown just above the hot stones. Fear spiked through me, raw panic. Blindness. Claustrophobia. Isolation. Suffocating heat. “Please,” squeaked my little voice, “can’t we leave the flap open just a little crack?” “No, we need to seal the space,” was the reply. “Do you need to sit next to your friend for comfort? Do you need to leave the lodge?” We were buried in the earth, under a small dome structure covered in layers of burlap and skins, circled around a broad fire...
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