not an oxymoron
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 On Personal Practice on Mar 3rd, 2008
Thinking about friend Karleen’s (Koen––a marvelous writer!!) comment on the frustration of making time for practice. I know this is THE most difficult aspect of Personal Practice––just shoe-horning it into the day. I don’t even think the word ‘resistance’ applies any more, the way it might have two decades ago when there really was a […]
Posted in Movement Monastery, On Personal Practice, Retreat on Jan 16th, 2008
I’ve been feeling the spaciousness of retreat inside me since getting home. If I keep the practice going––not in an overwhelming way, but in a moderate, easy way––I keep panic at bay. That big wave of never enough time or money or recognition or whatever is bugging me at the moment doesn’t build up and […]