Mindfulness Workshop Join Ana Johnson Author as she leads a mindfulness workshop that explores awareness.

Chickadee Sadness, lost forever at the beach, toes digging into the hot sand, tears shedding onto the keyboard letter by letter, no, not...

In the Garden You’re a woman in the garden  entwined in the ravine  of grape leaves. You become one with the plants No, not like...

To Joy well polar bear, i finally feel i can talk to you. i'm thrilled you're frolicking in the snow, at least one of us is. let there be...

The Elastic House of Life May it be peaceful before me, May it be safe below me, May it be nurturing behind me, May it be joyful above...

Plenty of Breathing Plenty of breathing into my belly filling my alveoli and yours, diaphragm enlarging, bringing in oxygen. Feather...

That Voice You recognized that voice. The voice that asks about awareness. Are you aware that you are aware? Are you aware that you have...

Punctuation Body stance relaxed as the pen slides across the page flowing freely, unencumbered. Alliteration, punctuation as anchors for...

Healthy Being: Podcast with Ana Johnson Check out Ana's podcast interview with Orli Rich and Victoria Koczynazs from Queen's Health...

Field of Dreams Possibilites are infinite in the field of our dreams. A Johnson

Unconditional Love Is benevolence the other side of evil? From whose eyes,  whose lenses,  the right lens, or the left lens? From the...

Poem: New Year In this New Year, you might contemplate the source of all beginnings and the beginning of all sources, of your essence, in...

Churning In and Out Churning noises inside of me. Oh, the pressure! Outside, the August sun setting behind red and white oak trees.  ...

Shakespeare

Shadow I rest a little under the magnolia tree casting my own shadow, so that it may be still, and not steel from my joy, anger, and...

Leaping Oh, I wish I could leap out of this identity, run away towards the body of bright azure lake water, drawing me like a magnet as...

Embracing the Unknown As you make your way along the dark hallway of the unknown under the twilight sky, stars above wind on your cheeks...

In the Night The fanned failings of others, sieved through whirling thunderstorms are a mere reflection of my own unresolved steel plated...

Stirring Your face captures a glimpse of the snow covered mountains. An instant momentum comes to fore, quandary lurks, borders settle....

Eclipse As I sit in my room, lights off, I visualize an open verdant temple in a jungle, mysterious and burly. Like a resemblance, amidst...