The Gift of Surrender ©Stella Body 2020 A man runs back and forth just off the shore, trying to get airborne with a small sail. For hours he submits to being dragged, dunked, wrenched off his feet by the waves. Still he won’t let go. The apparatus to which he clings looks like a GreekContinue reading “The Gift of Surrender”
Tag Archives: Self-Healing
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 Gift of Focus
The Gift of Focus ©Stella Body 2020 You don’t know the one who is right before your eyes, because you don’t know how to search into this very moment. -Jesus, quoted by Stephen Mitchell in The Enlightened Mind The Zen concept of ‘present-moment awareness’ is one that seemed strange to me at first. My earlyContinue reading “The Gift of Focus”
Earth Music
Earth Music “For the kingdom of the Father is already spread out over the earth, but the people don’t see it.” A grey morning. My son and I walk apart, keeping ‘social distance’ from passers-by. Though the weather is a warm 8 degrees C., winter’s freeze lives on in the cold limit of pandemic rules. Continue reading “Earth Music”
Gifts from the Trail 