Meaning Full Followers, Teachers, and Guides, Happy March! Are you celebrating Spring and the equinox? All up in the March Madness Still buried in snow and hoping Winter lets you loose soon? One of my favorite March traditions is asking myself and others, what are you going to do with this extra light? How are you going to dedicate your precious energy this Spring? And then the universe sends me a sign universal sign of seeming darkness, The Spider.... At my house, I have

Should is a word that has dominated too many of my decisions and a word that I am working to break up with, however, I am regularly asked about my planning process and the time it takes to create a great class. More often than not, I hear this from teachers spending HOURS planning one class and feeling it "should" be easier/smoother/more efficient than that. I also am aware that many teachers walk in to teach and make it up as they go along. If this process is working for y

A couple of weeks ago I spent the morning with The River 200 hour teacher trainees. My role involved helping brand new teachers thread a theme into a sequence. We had a lively conversation and we all learned so much from one another. Toward the end of my time with this group, one of the trainees asked a question I have considered many times, but never answered aloud, "How do you feel about stealing another teacher's ideas?" At first, I wanted to be sure I understood, so I