Author Archives: Amy Miyamoto

Trusting the Inner Voice and the growing seeds of the Graceful Warrior

There is definitely something afoot that feels a bit different from where I have been for quite awhile.  Perhaps it is all of the signs of Spring swirling around me.  The blossom buds on the trees, the baby ducks following their mother around the pond, the new shoots that are springing up from my flower…

Fire Walking Anyone? Anyone?

Photo Credit: davida3 via Compfight “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough…

Diving in deep with the Many Faces of the Goddess

Photo Credit: Shannon Kringen via Compfight The current stage of my life is about continuing to deepen my reacquaintance with the powerful energies of the Goddess.  This has been the most exhilarating and terrifying journey of my life.  For many decades, I was almost completely cut off from her life-giving power.  And although that part…

10 things you probably don’t know about me

Photo Credit: Chrystian Guy via Compfight I have an uncanny knack for remembering faces. I have had a celebrity crush on Johnny Depp that goes all the way back to his 21 Jump Street days (and I am not afraid to admit it.) I wish, during my senior year of high school, I had chosen…

The road to an Amazing Technicolored Life is paved with Shame

This morning I experienced a physical “click” that I was finally “getting” the concept in my bones of enjoying the Journey of this life, rather than being so focusing on the Destination. The last two years have been a roller coaster of unfolding that I would certainly define as “challenging”, yet when I look back…

How To Change The World With A Circle

As I peer out my window, the sun is rising in the East, ready to warm my patch of the planet on this Halloween morning.  As children eagerly await the darkness to fall, in order to don their costumes and collect their candy treasures, I am left reflecting on the vitalizing power of another aspect…

When Things Fall Apart

I have been observing the inner and outer landscapes of my world and it is fascinating to see how mirrored they have been.  With the falling of foreign regimes, the growing backlash against the financial establishment on Wall Street, and the repercussions of bottoming-out local governmental budgets… it would appear that things are indeed falling…

My Stories Are Calling Me To Tell Them

The pull of my stories is really ramping up. I think about all the possibilities.  Powerful resources for transformational story-telling keep floating leisurely across my path and there is a bubbling up of courage within me to reach in and claim the value and wisdom of my stories, not only as a source of satisfaction…

What Big Story Are YOU Committed to Telling?

I am feeling more strongly than ever that I am hear to be courageous and tell my own stories and the stories of others who are diving deeper into their own path of self discovery in order to bring more love into the world. The content of the film, Miss Representation really hit home for…

August 4th – St. Bernard Beauty

I took a number of photos today of the beauty I saw on my morning walk. I chose this one because: 1) I was struck by the ironic beauty of the St. Bernard happily out and about during our San Diego heat wave. 2) For the intense joy that sprang up on the face of…