Element of Wild ©Stella Body The flash taught me to be calm, not to lose light in the sky, to search inside of myself for the galleries of earth… -Pablo Neruda In the summer night, I find you, perched in a branch above me. Your markings, the subdued gray and white of one who once decorated aContinue reading “Element of Wild”
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The Gift of Solitude
A Light Touch ©Stella Body 2020 Among silvery-nude sumac branches and the sun-bronzed, stemless torsos of coltsfoot, I walk steeply, beautifully alone. So much, that when something startles out of the poplars, my mind receives it lightly, as though it were blown by the wind. My limbs absorb its dance into their own moving, raisingContinue reading “The Gift of Solitude”
Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce
Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce ©Stella Body 2020 Like that of the leaves is a generation of men… Tell me, Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered far and wide . -Homer. The Odyssey Last summer, after Tuesday morning Yoga in the YMCA gym, a group of us wereContinue reading “Who is the Animist? Into the Forest with Kyle Pearce”
The Gift of Soaring:Live class- Animism and how it Heals
I came home from the soaring in which I lost myself. I was song, and the refrain which is God is still roaring in my ears. -Rilke, Love Poems to God The Gift of Soaring Animists in the original sense believe the divine is present in all things, and celebrate that with their lives andContinue reading “The Gift of Soaring:Live class- Animism and how it Heals”
The Nature of You
The Nature of You The body itself is a screen to shield and partially reveal the light that is blazing inside your presence. Each of us is born into Beauty, but we need to be walking in a garden to see it. – Rumi Imagine your body as an eco-system. You marvel at itsContinue reading “The Nature of You”
The Healing Power of Memoir
The Healing Power of Memoir Copyright Stella Body 2020 I feel it now: there’s a power in me, to grasp and give shape to the world. -Rilke There are many ways to remember. Linda Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way, suggests that if we are not yet comfortable with words, we can start with aContinue reading “The Healing Power of Memoir”
The Gift of Flow
The Gift of FLOW ©Stella Body 2020 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy…” –Rumi (14th Century Persian mystic, from The Soul of Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks) I first encountered the adult concept of ‘flow’ when my son was a curly-haired three-year-old with deep, sloe eyes. WeContinue reading “The Gift of Flow”
Gifts from the Trail 