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My last full asana practice was in July. After 4 surgeries on the chest, back, and armpit and 6 months of intense cancer treatment I can barely hold myself up in down dog, plank is a shaky quake, my hips are like wishbones waiting to split, and my toes might as well be in Long Island. It will be months before I am ‘back’…. And really, what does that matter….I am alive, and I have my breath. My body has…
My ritual practices for closing out this year began on the Winter Solstice. I find it no coincidence that on that very morning, nature as she often does, gifted me with a most magnificent and symbolic spectacle. I was lying in bed and contemplating the nature of birds, my healing, my feelings of oppression. I was imaging what it would be like to leap from the tallest branches and coast along sheer sky or, the sense of freedom a bird…
It has been a while since I’ve posted, and I have been asked by friends and colleagues to update my progress. Over the course of my treatment, I have been reluctant to share the private and intimate details of my struggles. I have never felt so fragile and vulnerable in my life, and it takes a tremendous amount of energy and courage for me to share this painful, scary and revealing process. I have been on a high does Interferon…
As the great Mother shifts into her most beautiful expression of the Fall season we move through the sacred wheel and align our attention to West. The west, as I have learned it, is the home to the bear. The bear can be a symbolic teacher and we can emulate its knowledge and communion with the natural world. As the bear prepares to go into the cave for winter, we too, prepare to step into our own spiritual and psychological…
