Dear Dancers of Light, I hope this finds each of you doing well in whichever season it is in your heart. Maybe you’re feeling like hibernating and contracting like winter in the morning and warm and expressive like the summer in the evening. Maybe filled with enthusiasm and the sparkle of possibility like spring when [...]
Know the places that recharge your spirit. Know the people who inspire your life. Know the movements that refuel your soul. If I asked you the three places in the world where you feel the most like you- would you know what they are? The places where you feel deeply grounded? The places where you [...]
Happy New Year Darling Dancers! A quick note to wish you a magical New Year. May the blessings that you put into the world boomerang back to you a million fold. Here’s also an invitation to join me in my New Year’s ritual this year. I sat down and wrote my top 11 gratitudes for [...]
My holiday gift to myself this year is a one way ticket to paradise. I’m talking about paradise literally AND figuratively. Literally, I bought a one-way ticket to Hawaii. Starting January 2nd, I am leading the New Year’s Qoya Kauai Retreat. After that, I’m still open to the universe/spirit/god/goddess/my intuition to guide me. Figuratively, I [...]
I am a wild woman who thrives as she creatively expresses herself, offering her unique essence and gifts to the world. So are you. My vision of a wild woman is a feminine creature with a strong life force. She knows what she loves and makes it a priority. She can light up a room [...]
One of my last nights in Costa Rica I was lying in bed distraught, despondent and, in a way, delusional. I was beyond upset. There was no logical reason for me to be under the covers at 7:30pm (while in a warm beautiful tropical country in December while my contemporaries were snowed in during a [...]
Some get strong. Some get strange. Sooner or later, it all gets real. Walk on. -Neil Young Some get strong. Three years ago, I moved to New York City. A 20-something idealistic young woman from Minnesota with no job leads, no big savings account, no permanent place to live, nada. What I did have was [...]
Welcome to wisewildfree.com. My name is Rochelle Schieck and I am so glad you’re here and grateful for how you got to this page. Last month I met Carolyn Garcia, who was the wife of Jerry Garcia. Jerry Garcia’s voice and music that he played with the Grateful Dead was an anchor to many people [...]
Yes, it’s true. I’m quoting Earth, Wind and Fire. But, stay with me. I recently heard Barbara Biziou, author of The Joy of Ritual, speak and she said something along the lines of, “Our lives have become a series of run-on sentences where we are so busy, we’re not taking time to stop, to slow [...]
a: Quechan word for Queen, a female manifestation of higher consciousness
b: the art of reveling in one’s femininity through movement;
c: rediscovering the woman that is wise, wild and free
