not an oxymoron
Posted in On Personal Practice, On Practices on May 3rd, 2008
Shadow and Light practice is now very active. The right half of my body continues to feel dense, but brewing…
One exercise in formal dance composition is to create symmetrical designs with the body. These are rather static as it is difficult to locomote in symmetry. With two of four people, symmetry is more lively […]
Posted in On Personal Practice, On Practices on May 2nd, 2008
Here begins my month of daily practice with accompanying posts & reflections.
Practice: Shadow & Light
Stand, sit, or lie down.
Close your eyes.
Imagine a line down the center of your body.
Put one side of the body into shadow and the other in light.
Move the lit side of the body watching, with your inner gaze, the lit side.
I’ve […]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Personal Practice, Retreat, Spiritual Bellydance on Apr 27th, 2008
I woke this morning from dancing hard, and hard and long, for six days in a row, and though I’m sore, I feel as full of intense energy as the busy spring birds.
I was at Kripalu, teaching, the past five days. Five hours of focused moving each day, plus tramping speedily down the very […]