Clara Miller

A sneak peak into this month's newsletter: Dear ones, I’m sure you are all reading, hearing, and seeing way more than your brain is equipped to handle so I’ll leave you with just a few short paragraphs this month. If there's one thing I've learned from my time attending births it's that the beginning of life is inherently linked to letting go of what went before, what was familiar. And pain, sorrow, fear? They're all inherent parts of the deal. When you walk into a birth space, whether you...

As we enter into the last moments of winter and the light begins to return, balancing the increasing brightness and business of our daytime with continued quiet and deep rest in the evenings becomes important to maintain our sanity.  Tending to our sleep hygiene and dream life can be a beautiful way to do this. One of my solstice activities this year was sewing these lovely dream pillows. They were so easy to make and it has been such a soothing delight to smell the mugwort, lavender, and...

Phoebe Wahl's Winter Queen, nourishing the bellies of the forest Winter is a time of quieting, moving inward, and softening: doing less and dreaming more. Many of you are probably feeling tingles of your animal instinct - a desire to get into bed earlier, a lack of motivation to do too much. Winter is a time where we are invited to connect more deeply to our felt senses and intuitive knowings. For us modern mammals winter can feel discordant because something within us knows we need to dive...