not an oxymoron
Posted in On Personal Practice, On Practices on May 9th, 2008
Shadow & Light again, only this time I cast the front of my body––her ventral plane––into shadow and illuminate the back, the dorsal plane.
She is iridescent, as if covered with fine rain-bowing scales. A reptile. An upright fish. I feel how I was once a fish, my belly mostly facing the pull of gravity while […]
Posted in Movement Monastery, Retreat on May 8th, 2008
I’ve been thinking about doing intensive work at Kripalu in comparison to doing it at the Summer Movement Monastery. Kripalu is such a cushy place, wonderfully supportive, with all the cooking and cleaning being done for us. The day-to-day living never brings people into conflict. It is by nature a much easier place to […]
Posted in On Personal Practice, On Practices on May 6th, 2008
Perpetual Motion Practice
Use any music that has a steady rhythm (different tempi are fine) without silences at a sustainable pace.
Keep moving as much of the entire body as possible for a minimum of 20 minutes. 40 minutes is best.
What I’ve been liking is that, though I generally begin with a sense of obligatory gloom, […]