Field Notes

Field Notes

A collection of reflections on alignment, nature, attention, and the art of returning to yourself.

These are not instructions. They are observations — things I've learned through movement, motherhood, nature, healing, and paying closer attention. Some begin in the body. Some begin in the mountains. Some begin while watching my daughter explore the world. Each is an invitation to slow down, and experience yourself — and life — a little more clearly.

A full backbend, spine and legs organized into one continuous line

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The Frayed Rope

There's an exhibition called Body Worlds — real human bodies, preserved, every layer of tissue exposed. I studied the bodybuilder for a long time. Something about the muscle looked strange.

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Rita with arms raised on a mountain road, wind in her hair

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The Last Hundred Meters

There's a specific kind of pain in the last hundred meters of a four hundred. What happens there isn't calm. It's something stranger.

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Rita laughing on the beach, wind in her hair

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The Pull-Up Bar

Inside, the boys were seeing how much they could bench. Outside, I'd jump. Why did this feel so easy?

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A child kneeling in a field of dandelions, examining the flowers

Field Note 10

The Dandelion Comes First

Most people pull dandelions. Ecologists see one of nature's first restorers. I've been wondering if our practice is much the same.

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A woman in a headstand on the beach, legs open toward the sky

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Presence, Practiced

Gravity hasn't changed. The earth hasn't changed. Only the conversation has.

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A woman hanging upside down from playground monkey bars, laughing

Field Note 08

The Body Remembers How to Play

Cats always land on their feet. Children move the same way, before they're taught not to. The body remembers, even when the mind forgets, how to feel safe enough to play.

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A woman blowing the seeds off a dandelion into the mountain wind

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Effortless Effort

Every pose asks for real strength. And yet the goal was never strain — strength becoming buoyancy instead.

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A woman standing alone at the edge of an alpine lake, surrounded by open mountains

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Structure Creates the Space to Respond, Not React

It's through our structure that a built-in spaciousness starts to form. When there's a pause, you can respond.

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A woman leaping joyfully from a cliff toward the beach below, arms raised

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Support Creates Freedom

Freedom doesn't come from doing more. It comes from being supported well enough to become fully yourself.

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A woman sitting quietly on a rock at the ocean's edge, eyes closed, listening

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The Body Knows the Way

Your body has been speaking all along. Each pose becomes a conversation instead of a correction.

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A wide-legged forward bend, an image of quiet surrender

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The Art of Returning

We are not here to become someone else. We are here to remember who we've always been. Not adding — returning.

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A woman paddleboarding on a still mountain lake at dawn

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Create the Conditions

For years, I believed healing was something we had to chase. Life taught me something simpler — it already knows how to organize itself.

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A woman standing barefoot at the ocean's edge

Field Note 01

Trust Begins Where You Meet the Ground

The body learns trust before the mind does. Trust begins where your feet meet the earth.

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