not an oxymoron
Posted in On Practices, The Path on Feb 24th, 2010
A salient aspect of Dancemeditation is learning to be receptive inside our bodies. We have to do not doing in order to undo overdoing. We make an effort to let go. Michael Sells in his beautiful introduction, in Early Islamic Mysticism, to Qushayri’s essay on Tawajad (Making Ecstatic), Wajad (Ecstasy), and Wujud (Ecstatic Existentiality), gives [...]
Posted in Of Core Knowing, On Practices on Jan 22nd, 2010
DUNYA:
We invoked you (Urvashi – PhD candidate in neuroscience and Certified Teacher of Dancemeditation) yesterday morning at the Advanced Group here in NYC. I need to describe what we were doing.
We were using the inward Shafi. (Arabic: to Heal, to Cure)
We inhaled, then did a narrow quick breath (breath of fire) for a period [...]
Posted in On Personal Practice, On Practices on Jan 14th, 2010
In Dancemeditation™ practice, there is a point of getting through The Crust. The usual psychological things that impede doing a practice include habits, laziness, resistance, fear, boredom. Those are one type of Crust, but today I encountered The Real Crust for embodied practice—the physics of getting going.
The physics of getting going might mean, for an [...]