Posted in witness dance on Aug 17th, 2010
I lay belly down on the deck of my cabin, rolling my thighs on warming wood, smelling the day. I watched a small brown bird hop from blade to blade in the grass. All of sudden my breath opened deep. I felt my body melt into the wood, and my back absorb the blue sky [...]
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Posted in The Path, witness dance on Oct 26th, 2009
Several of you have asked about my guest teaching at Princeton. My task was to present a taste of Sufism within the context of Dance and the Sacred. The professor, the illustrious Ze’eva Cohen, had, as preparation, given the students (but not me) a paper discussing the Whirling Dervishes. The over-arcing inquiry for the course [...]
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Below is from Stephanie Rudloe. She is very pregnant. I love the witness aspect… I have started doing my daily practice again, in the afternoon, in the sunlight that streams through the balcony doors. I disovered that itunes radio has a fabulous Iranian radio station in the classical section––never any talk, just a continuous stream [...]
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