@wambuinjugunagmail-com I know the Canton NY area pretty well and spent a lot of time in the "north country" as we called it while growing up.

What comes next? This seems to be the question for me. Prior to Covid an organization I helped start here in Alaska had seven regular service classe...

@wambuinjugunagmail-com thanks for the thoughtful words. Upstate is a hard culture, lots of despair there. There are islands of culture in college tow...

How to take care of myself? Well, isn't that the million dollar question? After years of being a social conscious yoga instructor and before that a sc...

I just love rubbing the stomach and humming with exhales. It is soothing and so simple. Already I started sharing this with my students both in the st...

@nicole it is sad and very weird how much of the upstate NY is connected to the prison industry. My grandfather too was a high ranking CO and although...

@nicole yes I experienced that too, when I would try to do something light or just a different sort of thing afterwards my experience from inside was...

This was an interesting little exercises. What came to mind is how simple they are. Both of them offer nice little tools when things start to inwardly...

@nicole yes the prison industry is a weird thing. I knew both family and non members who worked in the prisons. Very depleting work. Funny that in the...

@nicole for me it’s really about the breath and my intention before stepping into the facility. Back when the prisons were open it was a two and half ...

pg. 141 Thanks for the chance to go through these. I like how visceral they are in my body. It seems that folks could use all of these depending on wh...

Also, the article was very helpful. Growing up in upstate NY where the prison system is a huge employer I have family members and people I knew person...

As I reflected I began to realize I have never really seen a black person arrested in real life, but I have observed numerous incidents where native A...

1. Interesting experience. As I practiced this exercise I felt very constricted in my upper body and found my breathe shallow. Lots of heaviness in my...

1. I grew up in a small upstate NY town. If you know anything about upstate please know some things. First it's poor. Many of the towns out in the hil...