Comments on: May Day-ly Practice 8

By: Karleen

Karleen — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:45:02 +0000

Your words are silk. I have been attempting daily practice this month. There are days when I simply cannot carve the time, but I am trying not to let more than one day go by before I pick it up again. I notice the calm attention I seem to have as the practice accrues…….seeing others, their distress or other emtion, more clearly, but not catching it……..interesting….more daily practice also keeps my center more cleared out……let clogged with my fretfulness and distains and small, petty angers……

By: ann

ann — Thu, 15 May 2008 07:43:15 +0000

“Flesh is the only destiny”…I can relate to that protagonist in my life now as I watch my father, a man who once enjoyed many personal freedoms, gradually lose hold of them. His body is no longer able to continue in these arenas…Not really a betrayal, but a destiny. Some would say lifestyle and age prepared him for this time…”there are two things in life that are sure, death and…”
I couldn’t agree more about the comfortable support that dancemeditation provides in daily life. Not that the practice itself is always that way, but the result is. The after effects. It brings me back to the ‘certainty’ of connection with my Self. There is a rich fullness inside that empowers, protects and guides. Keeps me company, inspires wellsprings of joy. Unless it facilitates an emotional release I need to look into…
I find daily practice certainly easier to drop into, anything less than 3 longer practices a week harder. Sometimes I need to consciously schedule in recovery time following, so that I can return to a state that supports my function in daily life. I have been amazed lately at times I have not felt like moving at all, and yet my body automatically will reach for my mat and place it down, and I start whereever I am at.
Lately for me the practice has been providing me with a tether. It keeps me from going off into the future where unknown things have not and cannot happen yet. Through the wind and falling rocks of life I am able to feel solid ground, have a grasp on something real and certain with one hand as the rest of me feels the force of the gale winds. Sometimes pretty, always useful.

By: SONIA

SONIA — Wed, 14 May 2008 14:32:54 +0000

I love your words…… Brilliant.
” I agree in my heart. Flesh is the only destiny, the only real challenge, the house of hope, the Reign of Terror, the prison, the ecstasy, the doorway.”
I totaly understand you Dunya! Yes!” Flesh is the only destiny”….. to me it rings true; A true form of communion.”
The body has been my daily challenge, my prison, holding me captive in game here on earth, when all my heart wants to do is soar and bask. The ecstasy and doorway…… yes, total communion, marriage of flesh and spirit……
I have to wonder why I am so inconsistant with daily practice.