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Welcome to the Journal.
My name is Sonja and I am a healer, erotic educator, and writer of magic words.
Here on the journal, you’ll find posts with inquiries and practices that guide you into your body so you can get in touch with the life force within it. I write about topics like eroticism, intimacy, practical intuition, embodiment, relationships, sex, and non woo-woo spirituality.
Check in each week for new posts. If you like what you read, check out my 1:1 work and group programs.
What Ayurveda Taught Me about Creativity
Ayurveda is the best writing teacher I’ve ever had. The world of mung dhal, dinacharya, and five elements seems like an odd place to study my craft, but the moment I began to study Ayurveda I began to write daily – in my morning journaling practice, my public journal...
The Protection of a Daily Routine
(audio version below) I probably don’t need to tell you what a dinacharya is. After all, there are a million Ayurvedic practitioners who have devoted blogs to this. I’ve ghostwritten some of them myself. So I’m going to tell you what Ayurveda's teachings around daily...
The Wisdom of Protection
(audio version below) I never knew what protection meant until I became a mama. I’d lived a pretty untethered life until I got pregnant at 37. Some might even call it selfish. I traveled where I wanted, when I wanted. I never questioned taking a 90-minute yoga class...
What Medusa Teaches Us about Protection
What if everything you know about the story of Medusa is wrong? You know that she turns men to stone. You may know that Perseus the great hero killed her and used her head as a weapon to gain his glory. If you’re really up on the story, you might even know that...
Howl
(audio version below) If you’re confused, pause and listen. The wolves are calling you home. Like you, my understanding of the nature of wolves first came from childhood readings of Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Little Pigs, and other smear campaigns. Things were...
Endless Summer
It’s damn cold, isn’t it? Good, it should be this time of year. I lived in the tropics for four years. Winter meant wrapping a light sweater around my sundress. On the coldest days, I wore closed-toe shoes. People often look at me in awe when I tell them about my life...
December Awake in The Nest: Confusion
December's Awake in The Nest recording is live! (Available to all Nest members at the Silver level and higher. If you signed up for the free pass, check your email for your link) Our theme this month is confusion. While I value the sacred pause confusion brings, it's...
The Body Oracle: An Intuitive Meditation for Clarity
When we are confused about how to act, we should seek clarity over certainty. Clarity comes when we tap into the oracle that lives inside our bodies. This is the inner knowing that is available to guide us at any time. By doing this guided meditation, you’ll learn to...
The Heartbreak Cure
I have found a cure for all that ails our hearts. It’s called living with a broken heart. Give me a minute of your time -- it gets better. The History of Your Broken Heart Anyone who is living wisely will have their heart broken -- regularly, routinely, effectively....
BodyStory: Hunger Ayurvedic (Un)Recipe: Brown Rice Risotto
I have a strong desire that anyone who is in my home leaves well fed. We haven't been together in person for BodyStory: Hunger, but I still want you to eat well. I’ll do the next best thing: share my (un)recipe for Brown Rice Risotto. The Italian grandmother in me...
BodyStory: Hunger Week 6
It's our final class in BodyStory: Hunger. The fire we've been gathering around has turned to soft, glowing embers. But before it dies out completely and we return to our lives to integrate and apply, let's invoke a new deity. A goddess this time -- a distant cousin...
The Wisdom of Confusion
(audio file below) The world is very dark where I live this time of year. By 4:30, it’s nighttime. The sun doesn’t begin yawning its way up until close to 8:30 the next morning. It’s disconcerting to live this way all winter -- It’s a sudden blanket thrown on the day...
How to Act
If you believe that laying down arms is the only way to surrender, you're not getting the whole picture. We get this concept confused when it comes to others’ behavior. Their behavior may be wrong, unethical, criminal, unjust, or simply not what we would do. Humans...
The Secret to Good Sex is Not What You Think
My husband and I once spent a very hot winter together. Not quite like that. Then again, it was exactly like that. I wrote a bit about it here. It was a hot winter because we were living in the tropics. It was a hot winter because we were fighting like cats and dogs...
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“On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure.”
The Bhagavad Gita 2:40