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Sacred Body: Biology and Soul

Encountering the Mystery as it manifests in the biological and spiritual life of the body.

Rachael R. Resch

Nia Black Belt Teacher
Physical Therapist

Entries from February 2009

Shakespeare and “Hair”

February 20th, 2009 · 5 Comments

Just as it says in the song from “Hair,” at dawn on February 14, the moon was in the seventh house and Jupiter aligned with Mars — all in the sign of Aquarius.  In honor of that planetary configuration and in honor of the play “Hair,” we danced to the entire original soundtrack of the [...]

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A Love Letter

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments

A Love Letter
Within a circle of one meter
You sit, pray and sing.
Within a shelter ten meters large
You sleep well, rain sounds a lullaby.
Within a field a hundred meters large
Raise rice and goats.
Within a valley a thousand meters large
Gather firewood, water, wild vegetables and Amanitas.
Within a forest ten kilometers large
Play with [...]

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Lost

February 11th, 2009 · No Comments

Lost
Stand still.  The trees ahead and the bushes behind you
Are not lost.  Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes.  Listen.  It answers,
I have made this place around you. 
If you leave it, you [...]

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Poem of The Week

February 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

 
 
 
 
 
 
Her Longing
Before this longing,
I lived serene as a fish,
At one with the plants in the pond,
 The mare’s tail, the floating frogbit,
Among my eight-legged friends,
Open like a pool, a lesser parsnip,
Like a leech, looping myself along,
A bug-eyed edible one,
A mouth like a stickleback, –
A thing quiescent! 
But now [...]

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