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DANCEMEDITATION
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not an oxymoron
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Inversion
In yoga, inversion means upside down. In dance, it means taking the way a dancer characterizes a motion and doing its opposite: my arm reaches high in the front, so perhaps a leg might reach low in back.
This sounds dull. Today I played Bach and did inversion upon inversion, and it was not at all [...]
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SMM Return
Mogadra. Kale. Chard.
Happiness. Wide gaze. Full breath.
Home now, eating ripe mulberries from the trees in the park, watching ducks silhouetted against the low tide mud flats I realize that when I am happy, I am embodied. Embodiment is the fundmental element in happiness.
In the day’s waning light, a fox with her dinner–– [...]
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Forever Shifting
A dancer friend just wrote to me that, at 60, she is rewiring herself.
Rewiring––a good way of putting it. It seems to happen every decade or so––I search for my new body, and that new body is truly new…The sense of my mind stays the same, but my body moves right along. Is this why [...]
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Preparing for retreat
Years ago someone noted to me that a retreat begins a month before the retreat. She was so right. This awareness has stayed with me since.
Sometimes that means, blissfully, a heightened state of intentionality; I go through my day with greater awareness of my eating or physical connection––breathing, body mechanics, etc., and feel so [...]
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Dust and Light
I lie in bed after reading Mary Oliver’s Winter Hours, close my eyes, let what I’ve read––and how that reading has woken life and feeling and sensation and contemplation––stir around me, settling the way dust blown up by passing footsteps re-settles in a spot beside where it had been.
I lie in the morning gloaming. The [...]
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