“The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I’m not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I’m talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.”—Gabrielle Roth Ecstatic dance …Read More
Category: Spirit
The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer
The Invitation —by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool …Read More
Love in the Moment – Poetry of Rumi
Rumi is celebrated for his poems on ecstatic Love. As a Persian poet and Sufi mystic writing in the 13th century, it is surprising that his words can still speak to us nearly 800 years later. However, he is one of the most popular poets in the English-speaking world today partly because of the beautiful …Read More
Life Purpose in 5 minutes?
A secret to happiness is … knowing your life purpose. What is your life purpose? Adam Leipzig says that we can figure it out in 5 minutes. (His questions are so simple and yet so profound that I’m re-posting this to my new blog to start off the new year.) Ask yourself these 5 questions. Who …Read More
Finger Pointing at the Moon
“It’s like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.” ― Bruce Lee In the movie “Enter the Dragon” (1973), Bruce Lee encounters a young student walking around the temple. They begin to spar, practicing their martial arts training. After sparing, Bruce …Read More
The Power in Vocal Communities
Last summer, I spent a week with my friend Ysaye Barnwell in her annual workshop “Building a Vocal Community” at the Omega Institute. In this workshop singers and non-singers (like I used to be) learn to sing in the oral tradition. (No music to read. No words to read. We learn by listening and repeating.) …Read More
Celebrating My Celtic Year
Guest Blog Post by Janis McCall: In my Native Scotland, any reason to gather together and celebrate is a good reason. My last blog described the eight major festivals of the Celtic tradition. In my own life, I still honor them in my own way, sometimes with a group and sometimes with something deeply personal. …Read More
Lessons From Geese
This wisdom from the animal kingdom describes how we can come into greater Presence with each other. What does it mean when someone is there for you? How can we come into deeper relationship with each other? These inspiring observations from the lives of geese demonstrate effective teamwork, community, and leadership. According to one source, “Lessons …Read More
This is Water – David Foster Wallace
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What …Read More
Celtic Traditions – The Wheel of the Year
Guest Blog Post by Janis McCall: Hello, my name is Janis McCall, and I live in Scotland. I have recently returned from a wonderful class in Sedona, Arizona. I attended a workshop on using the metaphor of the Native American Medicine Wheel co-taught by my dear friends Joel Ying and Suzanne Scurlock-Durana. In this annual …Read More