Hi, what are you up to? I text Tom on a Monday. Working late, he responds, as he does sometimes.
Another friend who occasionally claims to enjoy my company said he’d be in town Monday evening. Hi, wanna meet for a drink after my assisting gig? I text him. Sorry, no, he replies, I’ll be too far still.
And so I stop by a store, have a snack alone, go home alone, go to bed alone. Except I am not. Continue reading “Monday Evening Company”
I told Amber, I would like to learn how to sing with the voices in registers different from mine. And that I would like to learn how to sing so it is enjoyable and inspiring for me and others. I told her that I often couldn’t tell if I was on pitch. Continue reading “A Voice Lesson”
Sing with me, call and I’ll respond
Play your drums
Dance with me in close embrace
Dance slowly into my open spaces, and I’ll dance into yours Continue reading “Summons”
My roots extend from the heels, from the fronts of the feet, through the mat, through the floor boards, through the concrete foundation, through the dirt, through the bedrock, through the crust, through the mantle, all the way to the hot molten core at the center of the Earth. The Earth’s gravity pulls me down. With equal force, I pull it back up, through the roots, through the heels, through the tailbone, through the back of the heart.
Dr. Eric directs us to open the eyes to a soft gaze and begin to move around the room, roots and all. Continue reading “Seeing. Grounded”
(Image from the Yoga International article commenting on this sutra)
This sutra opens the second book of the Yoga Sutras. The second book is about the practice. This sutra describes “yogic action”. In the few commentaries that I’ve read, “tapas” is translated as “discipline” or “austerity”, acknowledging that the root means “heat”, or perhaps “energy”. “Svadhyaya” is “self-reflection”, or “self-study”, or “going inside oneself”. “Iśvara” is too often translated as God or Lord, which is unfortunate, because it makes it too easy to dismiss (for me and a few folks I know anyway).
This sutra came up a couple of times in our teacher training. Continue reading “2.1”
Love letters understated 