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Travel & Adventure

Japan, Nepal, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Malaysia, the Philippines, Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, the Czech Republic, Amsterdam, Moldova, Ukraine, and Mexico, plus multiple drives across the USA.

I’ve also lived in Maui, Australia, and India.

Went to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, and to Tacloban, Philippines, after Typhoon Haiyan.

In Tacloban we were the first Americans to arrive, and paved the way for the relief efforts that followed by converting a ransacked hospital into a distribution warehouse.

Two men throwing shakas at night in front of glowing red lava on the Big Island of HawaiʻiTree pose on a limestone pillar in the Pinnacles desert, Western AustraliaSitting on top of a limestone pinnacle in the Pinnacles desertWorking on a laptop in a beach café in India, under a hand-painted menu boardSitting on the stone floor of an old pillared temple in India, legs stretched out in the shadeTwo friends sitting in a niche of a carved stone temple façade in IndiaSitting cross-legged on a brick wall beside a stupa in NepalRiding a decorated camel with two young men in a desert valley, the camel stretching up to eat from a treeIn a captain’s hat in a train compartment, talking with a fellow traveler through the open windowA windswept selfie in a paisley shirt and bandana on a wide high-desert plain, hills behindA selfie with a companion on a grassy headland above the sea, sea stacks behindA faded print: shirtless in jeans on a wide white beach, a shirt over one shoulderTwo travellers in wide-brimmed hats, grinning, on an overgrown trailLeaping from a sea cliff into the waterSitting out at the end of a wooden boom, high against a clear blue skyA paramotor under a yellow wing, high in a clear blue skyStrapped into a paramotor on the snow, propeller cage behind, about to take offThe relief team on the steps of R.T. Romualdez Hospital in TaclobanThe team in scrubs with backpacks beside a C-130 on a rain-soaked runwayVolunteers with a resident beside a storm-damaged house marked FEMA in New Orleans
Acro yoga silhouetted against the sunset on a beach

Yoga, Spirituality & Personal Development

Yoga has been a pillar in my life since I was 18 years old. Beyond the physical benefits of asana, yoga has provided a foundation of community, health, and spiritual growth.

With a focus on Patanjali’s eight-limbed path to enlightenment, I’m currently enrolled in eighth series Ashtanga, aka parenting.

I pay homage to the many teachers who have crossed my path, given generously of their wisdom, and paved the path for what is to come.

During a six-month pilgrimage through India, I stumbled upon a Sufi community in Rajasthan. That planted the seed for what would later lead me to my life partner, Mackensie, and my initiation into the Ruhaniat lineage of Sufism, where I received my spiritual name. You can hear more about this in the podcast, hosted by a dear brother of mine through the ManKind Project (MKP).

MKP has also played a pivotal role in my development since my initiation in 2012: I have joined and built men’s circles, participated in and facilitated trainings, and cultivated a fascination with circle dynamics that would later lead to my work with Heart iQ.

Recommended reading

A deep squat on a mat on a stone patio, a dog lying alongsideAcro yoga under the palms: balancing on a partner’s feet, hands joinedAcro yoga silhouetted against the sunset on a beachLaughing with a friend on a wide beach at sunset, the tide outA yoga group seated cross-legged on the sand as a wave breaks on the rocks behind themA handstand on the sand among the limestone pillars of the Pinnacles

My life partner has an incredible practice as a yoga teacher, medical intuitive and massage therapist. Her offerings can be found here:

Intelligent Embodiment

My life partner, Mackensie Grant, practises intuitive massage and bodywork in Charlotte, Vermont. Specializing with women, she draws on craniosacral therapy, polarity therapy and Temple Lomi, and three decades of yoga, qigong and teaching. Her sessions meet physical tension and pain, and often lead to insight about its deeper roots.

I designed and built intelligentembodiment.com for her.

intelligentembodiment.com

I built this site for my Sufi community:

The Sufi winged heart, a crescent and star on a red heart, over a blue tiled mosaic

SamaSangha

SamaSangha is the Sufi community in Western Massachusetts where I was initiated with Abraham and Halima.

I designed and built samasangha.org for them.

samasangha.org

A HeartWise circle: some thirty people piled together, smiling, on the floor of a studio after a workshop

HeartWise

HeartWise is where I bring Heart iQ to people. Heart iQ starts from a simple observation: some parts of us only appear in the presence of other people. Most personal growth happens alone, reading and reflecting, yet the places shaped in relationship stay hidden in solitude and return when someone comes close. A circle that is held well enough, for long enough, becomes a place to be met rather than to perform or be fixed, and the group can reach places together that none of us could reach alone.

I have been leading exquisite circles of healing and transformation since 2016.

A HeartWise circle: some thirty people piled together, smiling, on the floor of a studio after a workshopA HeartWise group standing together under the beams of a timber hall after a workshopA circle on a patterned rug in a bright room, snow outside, one person standing to speakA HeartWise circle in a heap of hugs on a living-room floor
getheartwise.com

I’m currently looking for men to start a men’s group with.

Join a men’s group
A bear-shark sculpture, half polar bear and half shark, suspended from the ceiling of an Airbnb office

Stories

Foreside Fiasco

The Golden Berry

A bear-shark sculpture, half polar bear and half shark, suspended from the ceiling of an Airbnb office

The Bear Shark

The family on the beach, the girls riding on our shoulders and waving

Family

Memories archive

  • Take a nap0:38
    Transcript

    “Because I don’t have any stories when my nap comes up.”

    “Are you going to take a nap every day?” “Every single day.”

    “What if you don’t want to take a nap? What should you tell yourself?”

    “I should tell myself I have a very short nap.”

    “Okay. Even if you don’t want to?” “Even if I don’t want to. Do it anyways.”

    “Give us one story.” “Deal.”

  • Have to clean up0:24
    Transcript

    “So, whenever we do something like Magna-Tiles, we have to clean it up.”

    “And when we do something like a pillow fort or anything like that, or even anything, we have to clean it up.”

The family on the beach, the girls riding on our shoulders and wavingJaya and Fiona in red dresses, side by side

Projects

CommunityOS

A community portal for groups that organize with circles, as in sociocracy: a directory of members and the circles they serve on, with open seats; proposals a circle consents to at a meeting, with who was there; shared documents, a forum, a calendar, a loan library and the skills neighbors offer.

I built it for the Common Pastures community, and any other community is free to use it. If you’d like help setting it up for yours, reach out.

The code on GitHub

Percentage Allocator

A small calculator for dividing a total: drag a slider and the other items rebalance, lock an item to hold its share, link items so they move together, and share the result as a link. It installs on a phone like an app and works offline.

Open the app The code on GitHub