Sacred Life Sunday: Sacred Dance
February 3, 2008Thank you, Sacred Dance.
Body
stretches
open
freeing
song
inside
Movement
voices
feelings
follow
inner
map
Remembering
choice
composts
grief
into
healing
Archive for the 'Inspirational Writings' Category
Sharing the wealth, another dancing Jewel
January 30, 2008Have you ever experienced a poem so profound that it satisfied something inside you didn’t know was missing? That’s how I felt when Darcy’s Spiritual Blog Reviews pointed me towards Grace over at The Wild Pomegranate who gifted my soul with Jewel Mathieson’s poem We Have Come To Be Danced . Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I immediately purchased Jewel Mathieson’s [...]
What’s your intention for 2008?
December 31, 2007I’ve been having an email conversation with a mentor friend about a word for the New Year. For me this word is an intention that helps guide me in 2008. So many are in the running: transformation, integration, and actualization top the list. But the one that most reverberates at this moment is commitment. So in the spirit of the [...]
Movement is my medicine
December 15, 2007While I appreciate the importance of cultivating stillness through meditation, body movement is my central spiritual practice. As I listen and respond to music, I feel simultaneously free and at home. I can wave my hips and arch my back spontaneously and yet inhabit myself. Each movement is a chance to follow, receive, connect, and express.
What makes moving spiritual for [...]
Dear Journal
December 10, 2007Dear Journal,
Thank you for your presence. When I was 11 you arrived as a gift. You awoke my writer within and then you two became a team, creating a safe place for me to be real. You held me with integrity and heart through so many beginnings. From teenage angst to true love, from the [...]
dark light
November 20, 2007Marianne Williamson’s poem took me to a slightly different place. I would like to move away from the competitive duality of light versus dark. For me, darkness is home to the unknown, the place possibility also lives. I don’t think it’s an accident that seeds grow inside dark earth like a baby in a mama’s womb. Light is [...]
