Thank you for the memory of the joy that can come with dizziness and for reminding me of my childhood high holy days when I would accompany my father to a nursing home in our neighborhood where he would lead services and I would blow the shofar at which many patients would often startle into lucidity. He is now a 92 year old who still reads poetry out loud to his best friend for a couple of hours a day although he can no longer remember having done so by nightfall.
Sophie! I was just editing my chapter on honeysuckle vines and their tendrils. ❤️ Love how you have spiraled this and your life into a jubilee novena! 🌹✨🌹💃
Sometimes my heart’s desires are already filled when the circle of the 54 day novena turns to a new beginning. Thanks for giving a name for that, a jubilee.
Thank you for sharing this practice, Sophie. ✨ I remember this vaguely from my childhood living in the catholic faith, they were typically started to end on holy days. When do you start yours? I love this idea of moving around the lunar cycle.
Beautiful, as always. I've come into a deep gratitude phase of my life and that has changed everything. I will write about that soon. I am excited for you.
A few years ago I was in the live class you did for Science and Nonduality, I think it was your original workshop for The Body is A Doorway. It was the first time I felt fully believed in my body, my experience of decades of pain. I remember you asked us what we most wished we could hear from people around us. I said, “you’re good and I believe you.” You said “oh Ava, you’re good and I believe you.” I can still hear exactly the tone of your voice as you said it. It was such a relief to my body, and I think of that moment often. 🖤
I too have chosen gratitude and joy after years of twisting. Tomorrow I hope I will choose the same again; and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
On a side note, when I was very briefly a 7th grade science teacher, I was required to teach twelve year olds the concept of thigmotropism, and I brought in vines from my yard for the kids to wrap around objects and experience the fragility of upward growth.
I've been practicing something similar in my morning shower: doing the Triangle asana, bending left and right, the stretch very like coiling, holding to the point of dizziness in the showerfall, and release. Prayerfully.
Thank you for the memory of the joy that can come with dizziness and for reminding me of my childhood high holy days when I would accompany my father to a nursing home in our neighborhood where he would lead services and I would blow the shofar at which many patients would often startle into lucidity. He is now a 92 year old who still reads poetry out loud to his best friend for a couple of hours a day although he can no longer remember having done so by nightfall.
Wow !! Thank you for sharing Steven!! Amazing about your father 🥲💙
Sophie! I was just editing my chapter on honeysuckle vines and their tendrils. ❤️ Love how you have spiraled this and your life into a jubilee novena! 🌹✨🌹💃
Wow I love that synchronicity Mary and somehow I’m not surprised we’re in sync/spiral!!
Couldn’t have been said any better, Sophie!!!
I miss you.
Miss you Mee Anne ❤️🔥
This was my favorite part and I will hold this question for a while. Thank you for sharing this practice Sophie.
“How can we be grateful for whatever weather arrives to rearrange our core longings?”
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Love
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My hair, the coil, the kinetic energy.
Sapped of all life for a time, bent to the inclinations of empire.
In recent years, a coil will rest on my forehead calling down all the lineages in a glorious chorus, “Look! We’re still here, movin and groovin!”
Sometimes my heart’s desires are already filled when the circle of the 54 day novena turns to a new beginning. Thanks for giving a name for that, a jubilee.
Thank you for sharing this practice, Sophie. ✨ I remember this vaguely from my childhood living in the catholic faith, they were typically started to end on holy days. When do you start yours? I love this idea of moving around the lunar cycle.
Beautiful, as always. I've come into a deep gratitude phase of my life and that has changed everything. I will write about that soon. I am excited for you.
A few years ago I was in the live class you did for Science and Nonduality, I think it was your original workshop for The Body is A Doorway. It was the first time I felt fully believed in my body, my experience of decades of pain. I remember you asked us what we most wished we could hear from people around us. I said, “you’re good and I believe you.” You said “oh Ava, you’re good and I believe you.” I can still hear exactly the tone of your voice as you said it. It was such a relief to my body, and I think of that moment often. 🖤
I too have chosen gratitude and joy after years of twisting. Tomorrow I hope I will choose the same again; and tomorrow, and tomorrow...
On a side note, when I was very briefly a 7th grade science teacher, I was required to teach twelve year olds the concept of thigmotropism, and I brought in vines from my yard for the kids to wrap around objects and experience the fragility of upward growth.
I've been practicing something similar in my morning shower: doing the Triangle asana, bending left and right, the stretch very like coiling, holding to the point of dizziness in the showerfall, and release. Prayerfully.
TY Sophie.