by Nicole Havelka | Mar 2, 2022 | Antiracism, Community, Faith Formation, Mindfulness, Ritual, Social Justice
I’m nervous about my next yoga series. That’s a good thing. I just started a yoga series for the Christian season of Lent that explores Christian prayer practices, yoga movement (asana) and breath (pranayama), and some of the teachings of yoga (yamas/niyamas). It’s a...
by Nicole Havelka | Nov 16, 2021 | Advent & Christmas, Community, Mindfulness, Self Care, Social Justice
I’m conflicted about the holidays, but not for the reasons you’d expect. I’m not stressed out about holiday cooking and shopping; I gave most of that up years ago. I’m not anxious about holiday travel; I’m not doing that anymore either, thanks to COVID. I’m not...
by Nicole Havelka | Sep 8, 2021 | Antiracism, Change Leadership, Community, Mindfulness, Social Justice
In recent social media posts, you may have noticed that I recently started a part-time job at Starbucks coffee. The position offers me benefits and a little steady income while starting this coaching, training and organizational development business. (Being a single...
by Nicole Pickens | Feb 26, 2021 | Change Leadership, Mindfulness, Organizations, Social Justice, Yoga & Church
They started talking about Julian of Norwich. As people do. In a casual conversation one day over Zoom, Rev. Nicole Pickens reminded Rev. Nicole Havelka about Julian of Norwich – a 12th – 13th century monastic and mystic who lived in times shockingly similar to...
by Nicole Havelka | Dec 16, 2020 | Advent & Christmas, Community, Healing, Mindfulness, Ritual, Yoga & Church
Leading up to the third Sunday of Advent this year, I kept thinking about the 2006 movie “The Pursuit of Happyness.” The movie stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, an aspiring entrepreneur and sales person who gets an opportunity to do an unpaid stockbroker internship...
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