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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.
My life partner has an incredible practice as a yoga teacher, medical intuitive and massage therapist. Her offerings can be found here:
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.
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).
I built this site for my Sufi community:
SamaSangha is the Sufi community in Western Massachusetts where I was initiated with Abraham and Halima.
I designed and built samasangha.org for them.
The ManKind Project (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.
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.
“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.”
“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.”
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.
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.
