The Body Knows: Honoring the Primal Wisdom of our Animal Skin

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

It was just a voice, on the phone in the other room. I sat straight up, heart pounding, whole body on alert.  The burning in my gut started right away. It was fire. Consuming. Churning. Right in the white hot root of me. There was no information. No logic. Just the...

claim partnership with the divine

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

  Wisdom from yoga class.  My entirely divine teacher Mary Bruce at Urban Yoga paraphrased Rumi in class a few weeks back.  The perfect reminder to stay in tune with our own divinity.  So go ahead, you exalted goddess, you.  Shine on.

no matter what

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

  No matter what…I will continue to live from the center of my wide open heart. It is mantra.  It is promise.  It is prayer. It is not a choice at all. It is all there is.  

The View From Savasana: Whispers from Yoga Class

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom, Love Letters + Permission

The mind says ‘mistake. regret. punishment’. The heart speaks ‘long. ache. grieve’ The body pulses ‘want. want. want’
 Yoga answers ‘you are nothing but your breath. exhale’
 The legs scream ‘go. run. escape’ The ceiling fan whispers ‘you are still here. be present’...

i am rooted, but i flow

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

    Dig deep. Sit still. Root Down. Open.  Accept.  Surrender. Discover Grace. It is from this space that everything flows.

Life + Running: 12 lessons learned by lacing up my shoes and hitting the road.

by Jeanette LeBlanc | | Body + Wisdom

Every summer I run several times a week along the country roads that have known me since babyhood. I can read them with my eyes closed. I know where I have to dip my head to bypass low hanging branches and where I can count on a breeze from the incoming tide. I...