Tag: knowing
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Kumano Kodo
Spending the past two weeks in Japan, walking 150 km through cities, villages, mountains and forests in the Sakura season, brought reflections on the nuances of walking, experiencing and building paths. Walking along the Kumano Kodo – a Japanese pilgrimage trail built over a 1000 years ago – reminded me of how much we are Read more
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Forest bathing
A few kind humans spent last Saturday morning forest bathing, guided by the gentle Arya Padey. Most of us were looking to slow down, connect with nature (out and within) and for an embodied experience. As I was trying to collect my reflections, rocked by the soothing sway of the train taking me home on Read more
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The Awakened Brain
I’m trying out a new thing – a sort of written highlights of great books currently on my mind – to help: This learning highlight is about the wonderful work of Dr Lisa Miller (LM) – professor in the Clinical psychology program at Teachers college, Columbia university, founder and director of the Spirituality mind body Read more
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Integrity and integration
I spent the summer with great minds and this is what is now emerging. The Way of Integrity I was re-reading The Way of Integrity from Martha Beck – which I highly recommend reading if you haven’t yet – and I was laughing at how much this book had, without me consciously knowing it, been Read more
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Where is the edge of me?
“Where is the edge of me?“: Nora Bateson’s provocative yet elusive words are often on my mind. They felt particularly alive lately when I was reflecting on what I/we know and how I/we know it in preparation for RM’s first learning summit. Why? What were these words waking up as I was attempting to unpack Read more
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Bird moments
Magpie; Barrawarn* (*in Woi-Wurrung language) Your only vague points of connection to them were the numerous swooping stories, by either their bird-selves or Collingwood supporters. Until one early morning, after a Dawn Service in January in St Kilda, this relationship changed. It became personal. Barrawarn Barrawarn Barrawarn, it said. Barrawarn Barrawarn Barrawarn, you said. Barrawarn Read more
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In service to life
Something beautiful is unfolding… That was the strong gut feeling I sensed as I was enjoying reading Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass. What a treat this book is. An incredibly rich coming together of ideas, words and stories giving texture and grounding to concepts that often live separate lives. Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the Read more
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Miracle
The miracle that life is Something sitting on the edge of the appreciation of life and grief of its loss A very fine line that only a funambulist could master the balance of Without falling on either side, of hope or gloom The balancing act might be the work that keeps us alive The dance Read more
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Rivering
Following the edge of your river Following the edge of your river takes you to your knowing the edge becomes blurrier the edge becomes the river no edge you are the river following your inner river You find the edge of your understanding yet your knowing has no edge the edge only exists in your Read more
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Liberation
Liberation Listen to your body Where wisdom lies Where truth is known Attune to your freedom You are enough You have enough Resist Rest, unlearn Slow down, say no Lean into your humanity Widen the healing portal Acknowledge what was stolen Care through the opening of your heart Liberate your community through your falling in Read more