I was at the studio yesterday. Moving. The music I was listening to was Hungry Ghosts. And it brought out a particular contemplative and connected type of movement in me. I enjoyed it. It inspired very lovely movements…
I was at the studio yesterday. Moving. The music I was listening to was Hungry Ghosts. And it brought out a particular contemplative and connected type of movement in me. I enjoyed it. It inspired very lovely movements…
Curious how clarity and presence come to us when we measure ourselves next to the scale of life in the universe. We are small in comparison, but something happens that wakes us up to our vastness in the moment. Time…
A long tradition in literate cultures, commonplace books (as they are known in England) point to the human need to acquire and notate life as it happens. Writers are heavily weighted in the world of commonplace books. Their love…
Inspired by Karl Cronin’s Somatic Natural History Archive, this past August I stood on the shore of Lake Michigan in the late afternoon creating my own somatic archive. The wind was blowing roughly in from the north, the waves were…
For a New Beginning By John O’Donohue In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched…
Don’t worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come? –Rumi Rumi, so wise, so funny, so prescient. So ancient. Often I’m not…
Foolish People just posted this great blog: Dig deep, they say, feel the burn and power on through, break on through to the other side. As if there is an infinite store of resources to draw upon. As if you’ve…
Last week I decided to go to a dance class. When I decided to go my mind started spinning out this low level hum of “Should I go? I don’t know. Should I? I’ve missed all the other classes and…
This little idea has been occurring to me lately. It happens when I’m doing something I don’t usually do. Like go to a restaurant by myself. Or make a call I would usually be afraid of. Or choose to be…
This isn’t a story about dancing, though. It’s about having a dream and not knowing how to get there — but starting anyway. –Karen X. Cheng Last week I came across a video titled “I learned to dance in a…
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