Humility

October 9th, 2024

By Bonnie Tarantino When I was 24, I began studying with a medicine woman who lived in Woodstock, NY. Each year, a Lakota shaman would visit her, and she would rent a house and hold a workshop for a long weekend. There, we would build a sweat lodge, meditate, walk the woods, and facilitate the […]

Peace

October 1st, 2024

By Bonnie Tarantino When Lucia was 5 and Jack 3, we headed to Storrs, Connecticut, where we once lived for two years. I was to attend a Karuna Reiki workshop. While in the workshop, one of the participants invited the group to join her and 50+ other women to disrobe and lay in the middle […]