“I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone’s heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.” ~Raymond Carver What We Talk About When We Talk About Love This gem was quoted in the film Stuck In Love (so-so) and…
Month: March 2014
embodied wisdom: lessons on chronic pain + yoga postures (with tips via Sequence Wiz)
As a yoga practitioner + teacher who has experienced chronic pain off and on for over 20 years due to a sports-related injury in high school, I know firsthand how vital it is to have an intimate understanding of our pelvis and sacrum. Yoga therapist Olga Kabel of Sequence Wiz (whose vision statement “every yoga practice…
inviting mindfulness in a moment of madness: how I learned to live the meditation when sitting was not an option
Originally posted on dhamma for mama*:
I was pissed! Once again, despite my wholehearted intentions and efforts, another Wednesday evening had arrived and, instead of meditating with my root sangha (Buddhist meditation community), I was at home. Feeling exhausted, out of sync, and in deep need of restoring myself in a place of uninterrupted quiet…
embodied practice: aum + amen | wisdom of the exhale
Early in my asana practice, I encountered difficulty with taking the oft-instructed “deep inhale.” It felt forced and counterintuitive to my body’s wisdom and capacity to draw air into my lungs. What resonated more with me was to develop an intimate understanding of my breath (rather than changing or controlling it through pranayama, specific yoga breathing…
embodied practice: the healing power of community
The energy of a community of mindfulness can help us embrace and release suffering that we could not reach by ourselves… If we open our hearts, the collective energy of the community can penetrate the suffering inside us. ~Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Communicating
embodied practice: a perspective on “engaged” buddhism
It is hard to define engaged Buddhism. But I think it has to do with a willingness to see how deeply people suffer; to understand how we have fashioned whole systems of suffering out of gender, race, caste, class, ability, and so on; and to know that interdependently and individually we co-create this suffering… Some…
HEAR HERE [for deep listening]: The Biology of the Spirit |Sherwin Nuland + On Being With Krista Tippett
SN: Well, you just got the word. I’ve been sitting here on the edge of my seat, hoping, ‘When am I going to get to say this word, wonder?’ Wonder is something I share with people of deep faith. They wonder at the universe that God has created, and I wonder at the universe that nature…
embodied practice: reclaiming the spirit of wonder
Recall the religion you practiced as a child. Not the religion you were tutored in, but the religion before religion, when the vast Heaven and wondrous Earth were truly one… Can you remember what it was like to walk in the midst of a world of miracles? Can you remember ever traveling within a world…
embodied practice: the long, winding journey
This is a journey. The journey is a river. The river is long. Follow the river. ~Lewis Richmond
