From now until Sunday, August 9, you can take 50% off a Strala Annual Membership (or switch your current membership to the annual plan). If you already have a great rate, you're all set. We don't like raising rates on people. We'd much rather keep things sustainable by welcoming more wonderful people into our community.

Use the code SUMMER26 for 50% off an Annual Membership.

Use the code SOFTEN26 for 50% off our Online Intensives, including my favorites: The Art of Sequencing, 100+ Hour Shiatsu, 30+ Hour Healing and Teaching Support for Trauma, and more.

When you soften, let your breath move you, notice how you feel, and respond with care, you are including yourself. And when you include yourself, you naturally create a safe feeling for others around you. It feels like magic, but it's a practice available to all of us.

A few kids adopted us at the county fair yesterday, and somewhere between the rides, a conversation about engineering, and a whole lot of laughter, I was reminded that softness has a way of revealing the best in people. Maybe our greatest strength isn't becoming someone else, but bringing more of who we already are into the world.

A friend asked me what I have been up to lately. It was a great question, but one I strangely enough had a bit of trouble answering, and I'm thanking my softness practice for that.

This week I surprised myself with how much I'm capable of and how calm I can be at the same time.

I'm not a superhero or anything more special than anyone else. I think believing that everyone has something special to offer is one of the things that has sustained my wellbeing through moments of excitement as well as moments of real challenge.