New Year’s Eve. A few musings on the past year.

2025 has been a year of cocooning. A year of pulling back. I intentionally took on fewer students, intentionally held zero retreats, and intentionally offered zero in-person events. The only new people that I connected with were students and the Sacred Sound Inner Circle members who showed up for the group calls.

My real-life inner circle became very small. Other than the grocery store, it often felt like I didn’t get out much at all.

I took two trips this year. One to Florida to spend time by the ocean, and one to Virginia to visit family. Beyond that, it was a deeply internalized year.

2025 asked me to be patient, again and again...and then some more. At times it was really frustrating, but I listened. I don’t know that it was a good year, and I don’t know that it was a bad one either. It was quiet. Subtle. Uneventful on the surface. And yet, it feels like something has been shifting beneath it all, like larger changes quietly gathering momentum.

Along the way, I discovered the music of Poranguí and Jonathan Hultén, both of whom have been deeply inspiring to me creatively and musically. In a year that felt understated and contained, these two amazing artists stood out as much needed sources of inspiration.

As the year comes to a close, I’m holding gratitude for the deep stillness 2025 held for me, trusting that what has been quietly forming within this cocoon will reveal itself...

...before I lose my f*#%ing mind. Ha!

Happy New Year.

How was 2025 for you?