Category Archives: nature

The Power of a Poem

By Jovanna | Published: October 31, 2014

Often a client will choose to include a poem in the ceremony they create especially if they’ve invited friends or family to take part. Reading a poem aloud draws a group of people together into a shared experience. The brevity of a poem invites you to slow down and listen. There is importance in each […]

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Listen to Your Dreams

By Jovanna | Published: October 10, 2014

In southern Ontario, the glow of autumn is upon us. This is one of my favourite times of year! I wish you and I could stand together under one of the magnificent maple trees. We could add our “ahhhh” to its orange flash of glory. If we looked down we’d notice another more subtle beauty, […]

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Carrying Peace

By Jovanna | Published: October 3, 2014

I’m visiting my mom this week while she celebrates her 91st birthday. After the long flight, I was desperately in need of the nourishment of nature. I turned onto a country road and followed my impulses to go this way or that. I was so pleased when I found a place called The Iowa Arboretum […]

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This Amazing Day

By Jovanna | Published: August 15, 2014

As a teenager, eecummings was one of my favourite poets. There was something alluring about an adult who chose not to capitalize words, punctuate sentences or even put words in the proper order. My favourite poem was “thank you god for most this amazing”. I learned it by heart. It begins like this… i thank […]

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The Imperfection of Lillies

By Jovanna | Published: July 24, 2014

Having returned a few days ago from my summer canoe trip, I feel that I am still half in the world of the wild. Communing with the water and the trees and the sky and myself, changes me. I couldn’t sleep the first night I returned home. I was deeply tired but I missed the […]

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Pig, Poodles and Paddling

By Jovanna | Published: July 18, 2014

Late yesterday afternoon I was on a farm helping my friend hang a door on his shed. It was dirty work sifting through the piles of boards and pounding back the bent nails. The sky was both threatening rain and streaming hot sun. At one point a rainbow was illuminated over a wide expanse of […]

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A Ritual of Goodbye

By Jovanna | Published: June 27, 2014

I share my stories with you week after week in hopes that you can find yourself somewhere in the telling. I want to inspire you to create your own meaningful rituals that will open the way to a life that feels more free! It’s time to say another goodbye, this time to a place that […]

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The Voice of Inner Wisdom

By Jovanna | Published: June 13, 2014

Do you find it challenging to make important decisions? Once you’ve made a decision do you find yourself second-guessing it, what felt clear begins to feel clouded with doubt? All of us have a chorus of voices vying for attention but it’s up to us to choose which voice gets to be the soloist. When […]

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Green Day

By Jovanna | Published: June 6, 2014

This week when I spent the day with my grandson, it was one of curly haired simplicity. Along with our usual rituals of toasting sunflower seeds (he can’t get enough of their crunchy deliciousness), throwing a handful of felted dryer balls against the walls of my meditation room (this is usually worth a half hour […]

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Find Silence

By Jovanna | Published: April 25, 2014

Sweet silence. I’ve always felt an affinity for it. On weekend nights during my last year in high school, along with cruising around town looking for fun, my best friend and I would make time to stop in at a Catholic church. We both knew that the doors would be open and that no one […]

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