A gold coin slipped to each of us ©Stella Body, 2021 Those for whom light is blood … -quote from Tim Bowling Today, as I step into the morning kitchen, my arms leave me to lift and stretch outward – my own body surprising, involuntary, sibling-stemmed as a young plant. Single andContinue reading “For Siblings Day”
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Birds Fly Up
Birds fly up (Sketch for a new paradigm) ©Stella Body 2021 A New Year and a nearly new pair of hiking boots– hand-me-downs from my son, who is growing up–startles me when I look below. Birds fly up from where my feet have been –some skilled scorer of soles has set sky-creatures in the ground —Continue reading “Birds Fly Up”
Alone under the Moon
Alone under the Moon ©Stella Body 2020 Lover of loneliness and wandering, of upcast eye and tender pondering… – Keats A day twice-wintered, by season and by long lock-down… All my antidotes – the brief fureants I dance from kitchen to front hall to set my blood coursing, the huge desk, fashioned to the shapeContinue reading “Alone under the Moon”
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”
A Mindful Way to remember Mother’s Day
Today it is Mother’s Day, 2020. There are red-winged blackbirds singing, and apple blossoms to to see with my family, but I have something else on my mind. I’m wondering how long my family will continue. I want to alert Canada’s mothers to a situation which is threatening to destroy the future of every oneContinue reading “A Mindful Way to remember Mother’s Day”
A Mother, the Sea
A Mother, the Sea ©Stella Body 2020 Nine months. That’s how long it has taken for my house, brimming with family for over twenty years, to change to an empty nest. In just that time, our terrier has died, my daughter has moved to the opposite side of the country, and, just yesterday, my sonContinue reading “A Mother, the Sea”
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”
Did you miss Yoga for the Mind? LIVE REGROUP 2:30pm today Sunday Apr.19
We’re sorry if you missed Yoga for the Mind yesterday. Many early-birds meant that Zoom sealed our class right at start-time. Some latecomers may have been left out. For you, we’ll opening a live Regroup 2:30pm today(Sunday Apr.19). Email thenaturespath28@gmail.com by 2pm today to confirm and we’ll send you an admission link. How to getContinue reading “Did you miss Yoga for the Mind? LIVE REGROUP 2:30pm today Sunday Apr.19”
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”
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 