As I sit here, I should be packing, but the anxiety of the trip is keeping me from it. I was nervous about going, staying in a tent and having another intense experience, but now I've surrendered to it and am so excited!
I will get to see people I haven't seen since winter solstice, make new friends with others and have a nice road trip to boot!
We're leaving in the morning and it will be nerve racking until we get away from the St Louis area I'm sure, it always is to me. The first leg of any journey to me is the hardest, maybe because you're still close to home and you could turn around and head back, maybe other reasons that I'm unsure of, who knows.
WOW, I took a beginners trapeze class today and my hands hurt so bad that the typing is hard! lol. I can do a handstand in the middle of the room, hold my arms in the air for an hour while chanting and breathing in a pattern or put my leg behind my head and yet there are almost raw spots on my hands from pulling my own body weight up onto a metal bar!
So this is going to be a very short blog entry, see you all soon, or rather type to you all again after I get back from solstice and process a little bit of the work I'll have done there.
Sat Nam, Peace and Love to all!
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Summer Solstice
I am heading out Sunday to the celebration put on by the 3HO organization with the above name. Its based around said time of year but involves a 3 day course of white tantric yoga (wow!), yes 3 days. I did one at winter solstice and it was intense.
This being the year that the organization is celebrating fire I can only imagine how intense this experience will be. Going deliberately into the fire! Yes I am. In the middle of the desert none the less!
So each year there is a meditation based around the elemental theme and so I just checked on it and its a biggie. Of course, you're just sitting there but your arms are floating with the elbows at shoulder height and the fingers intricately wound up and an intense mantra chanted four times one one breath. I am going to try it in a few minutes for the first time to see the effect it has on me.
I'm curious about this draw to keep going into the fire; the fire of practice, the fire of intense introspection, the fire of life! Its a metaphor of course, but also not. Its intensity is just that for a reason, to pull forth the things that have been buried and are needed to work on to get them gone for good.
But this is my path, to go into those things with intention and draw them out, and allow them their space (sometimes, most times the hardest part of the process) and then let them go through processing. Hmmm, off to do that meditation. Lets see what it brings up and what direction I head in with what comes up!
Sat Nam
This being the year that the organization is celebrating fire I can only imagine how intense this experience will be. Going deliberately into the fire! Yes I am. In the middle of the desert none the less!
So each year there is a meditation based around the elemental theme and so I just checked on it and its a biggie. Of course, you're just sitting there but your arms are floating with the elbows at shoulder height and the fingers intricately wound up and an intense mantra chanted four times one one breath. I am going to try it in a few minutes for the first time to see the effect it has on me.
I'm curious about this draw to keep going into the fire; the fire of practice, the fire of intense introspection, the fire of life! Its a metaphor of course, but also not. Its intensity is just that for a reason, to pull forth the things that have been buried and are needed to work on to get them gone for good.
But this is my path, to go into those things with intention and draw them out, and allow them their space (sometimes, most times the hardest part of the process) and then let them go through processing. Hmmm, off to do that meditation. Lets see what it brings up and what direction I head in with what comes up!
Sat Nam
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