Fur on the New Frontier: Letter to Dee

Dearest Dee, Your package with the sheepskin rug arrived safely on Tuesday, or that’s when I went into town to fetch it, and in the nick of time. The past two nights have been cold and the fur kept me toasty. It is also the best, non-electrical heating pad for my sore, over-worked muscles after […]

Do the Not Doing in order to Undo the Overdoing

My fluids resonate with the bay’s fluids and the scent of brine cleans my blood. Three distances hold my view–near, the leafy glade; middle, the bracelet of blue water; and on the far horizon, a spiny sea monster of Outer Green Island–mix their visual melodies in my eyes’ understanding. I’m able to write this because […]

Witnessing Expanded

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 […]

Spiritual Bellydance at Kripalu

"Art is not an end in itself. It is a medium in service of sacred understanding." --Rasa, Rene Daumal I just returned from presenting this year's 5-day Program at Kripalu. We are a mixed-level group of 20. Many were beginner dancers, or new to bellydance, and were unfamiliar with my methods, yet by the end [...]

Veil Dancing

Veil DancingA veil is a swath of lightweight silk, 3 ½ yards long, 45” wide that acts as a ‘feeler’ expanding us beyond our body’s skin edge. Morning Veil Dance by Dunya Dianne McPherson I stand looking at my closet. Behind the closed wooden doors are veils; I see them in my mind’s eye. I’ve [...]
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