Posted in Movement Monastery, Retreat on Jul 2nd, 2010
Home from Summer Movement Monastery, I look back before completely moving forward. I ate like a horse (raw food and plenty of it), and now fit into all my thin clothes, move painlessly, & dream in vivid, Scriabin-esque, Baudelarian color. Our studio was gargantuan, with a lofty sky view over the lyric Columbia County surroundings. [...]
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Posted in Movement Monastery, Poems, Retreat on Jun 7th, 2010
Turning away, turning toward. Whirl clockwise and you’re on your own. Turn counterclockwise, against time, and you’re with the Sufis. Sufis melt fragments into the sky sea, rain them on a desert garden, bloom them in the shape of every Other flower, forgetting the birthright fragrance. Foreheads rest on a warm iron planetary hub and [...]
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Posted in Movement Monastery, Retreat on May 20th, 2010
Summer Movement Monastery always includes food goodness. This summer, I am deeply excited about the honing of our work in that regard and look forward to the learning ahead with live food. We’ll aim to have the diet be 75% living food so those of you who aren’t familiar with this way of eating will [...]
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