Meditation: Slow Breath Dance

Meditation: Slow Breath Dance MEDITATIONBegin sitting or standing in a comfortable neutral posture. Find your breathing. When you are ready, inhale with one movement and exhale with the next. Repeat the same movement pattern for a while as you become aware of moving and breathing. Use simple gentle movements, like lifting the arms on the [...]

Meditation: Bone Watching

Meditation: Bone Watching MEDITATIONClose your eyes. Move any way you feel... In a little while, bring your attention to your bones. Watch your bones as you move. Let your soft tissues carry your bones. Let your bones ride along. Thoughts on Bone Watching Bones possess a strong personality, rich with imagery and an innate magnificence. [...]

Lead & Follow

Lead & Follow Following-ness in the Ocean of Dark Space by Dunya Dianne McPherson excerpt from ‘Sojourn the Inner Heaven: Movement Meditations for Awakening’  When I first began to study meditation, I followed my teacher. He taught by moving slowly, meditatively. It was so different, this wordless way of being taken into something new. I [...]

Summer Practice 2021

The shape of exhaustion is different from other times in my life but once I saw it, felt that leaden sequence of a flickering impulse to do a thing followed by absolutely no reserve with which to do it. Though over a lifetime I have cultivated self-care, the way the world leans on us changes and we don’t often see that we need such care.

Meditation: Back Roll

I sit crosslegged and rock forward and back gently on my sitz bones which are like little rocking chair rockers. It is a small motion. My psoas shifts my viscera and buttocks press along the rug under me. I go slowly for a while, watching my spine responsively arc into a curvature, my weighty head dropping forward then righting. I feel like a sailor on a sea swells. The curve prepares itself in me.

Meditation & the Constructed Self

Thoughts on meditating—an oxymoron.  Constructed Self I recently came across the term ‘constructed self’ and felt how well it catches the sense of personal identity we all more or less consciously cobble together. Ego, persona, astrological sign, enneagram type, and any other system of human definition can be tossed right in there. We maneuver through […]