not an oxymoron
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 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 […]
Posted in On Practices, Retreat on Feb 25th, 2008
I’m impulsive. (I’m not the only one.)
Can’t stay. Gotta go. Got to eat, to sleep, get away, get more, get noticed, be alone. It’s a speed world, and I often feel that my identity has shaken down into shorthand, a self-understanding so hastily scrawled it’s hard to decipher what my self originally meant. I’m a […]