Rooting Resilience Retreat | Rescheduled to May 31- June 2, 2026 Due to lower enrollment, we have rescheduled our retreat for the end of May. This timing will allow more educators and clinicians to attend once the intensity of the school year has softened and space for restoration becomes more possible. We look forward to holding it in a way that feels resourced and sustainable for all of us. Info Session Coming! This immersive weekend weaves together nature connection, somatic practices, and community care to support resilience, clarity, and renewal. Set among towering redwoods, this retreat offers space to slow down, reflect, and deepen your embodied practices—perfect for educators, healers, leaders, and anyone longing to reconnect. More information and registration to come!

As we’ve been listening to educators—especially those in OUSD and across the Bay Area—we realized that the original dates landed right in the heart of one of the busiest and most stressful times of the school year. To honor the realities of potential strike, end-of-year events and the emotional fatigue that comes with March, we’ve shifted the retreat to a weekend that aligns better with the OUSD school calendar and gives folks more breathing room. New Dates: May 31 – June 2, 2026 A spacious window to reconnect with your body, with nature, and with community CEUs available for mental health professionals We hope this new timing supports more of you in joining us for a restorative, grounding, deeply needed pause at Alliance Redwoods. Your wellbeing matters—and we’re here to make space for it.

I was talking to a friend @Lisa Hart and realized that I may not be so clear that you are all invited to share your thoughts, ideas and discussion prompts! my hope is that this is a collaborative and generative space. No need to wait on my posts if you have something you want to share or if you have a discussion you want to start or you have a song that is your daily sound track or really anything you feel will serve our community please share bring it! Start posts comment on other's posts. That is what is going to make this a thriving community more than just my voice.

My brother posted this on Facebook and I found it so moving I wanted to share here “it’s never been the written word that’s brought me to believe. Quite the contrary. Rather, it’s the incomprehensible forces of the universe, quantum physics, and not least of all, the mysteries of music. No logic satisfies its definition. Tension and release can’t explain how it brings things out and up in us. It speaks and connects in ways that we all feel, but don’t truly understand. It is divine, if anything ever was.” It is why I do the daily soundtrack and why I do the Rooted Spotlight. We need to be looking for the magic, it is the way forward for us all!

Hi All! I woke up with a poem in mind that really resonates with where I am presently and wanted to offer it up to other as inspiration and a gentle reminder: You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things. ~Mary Oliver