I recently had an interesting experience taking a Butoh movement/dance class. My novice reporting of the class is this: it was made up of exercises that focused on energy currents moving through the body and the embodiment of various states. I found the whole process revealing as it asked me to be present in the discomfort of ...
In a recent yoga class I secured myself in a stable tree pose; standing on one foot with the other leg bent and the bottom of my lifted foot on the inside of the standing leg. I love tree pose, it makes me feel so strong and balanced in my rooted single foot. That is ...
I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with an ache in my belly. I used to think the feeling was hunger after not having eaten for six or eight hours. But as I get older I recognize the sensation as “different appetite.” At times it is easy to identify in connection with ...
A mama duck and her eight little ducklings spend their days on an aceqia ditch close to my house. When I stop to watch them, I notice how nervous and aware the mother is, swimming around her babies and keeping a close eye on them. If I move toward her, she gathers them together and ...
As this year seems to moving at an extraordinary pace, I am pondering the notion of acceptance. What I find interesting about the idea is the challenge to really just be with my experience, regardless of the emotional charge. It does not mean I have to like it or agree with it, but it is ...
On this in-progress property I call home, a posse of four feral cats hang out at the top of the chicken coop. One chills out in the shed. The initial four were part of the buyers’ contract; we got an unsafe electric stove, an as-is fixer-upper house and anything that moved in the backyard. The ...
As the finale push of 2012 approaches, we are moving toward the solstice the longest and darkest day of the year. It feels appropriate to go inward and take some time for reflection. Why not open to darkness and feel into what it might hold? Darkness is literally absence of light, a space where most ...
Studying visual art as an undergraduate, I found myself really wanting to be proficient at drawing and having no talent for it. Yes, of course you can learn to draw after hours of sitting in front of still-life arrangements configured of things like bicycle wheels, wigs and faded plastic fruit. And the challenge was not ...
I find that living intuitively can be filled with magical coincidences that continues to open me to healing. In these moments, I am able to align to life as a joyous experience. I am able to find center easier, trust the path and my choices. Connecting to infinite wisdom feels incredibly freeing that helps me ...
It seems like many of us have heard the reference of walking “the middle path” as a lifestyle choice, as the path of moderation or the path between two poles of opposition. On the middle path we avoid the extremes and work to find balance. For example, doing a moderate amount of exercise, eating a ...