Sacred Body: Biology and Soul

Nia student Isabelle Alzado wrote me a few days ago and made this request:
“I love you and ask you to take your turn to listen to your body – the way Nia  shows us – the way you show us [to say], ‘Body . . .’”
So at Isabelle’s request, every night, as I ebb and [...]

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It’s weird to be back on all the asthma meds again — high levels of prednisone and doing the nebulizer four times a day — after all these years baruch hashem of feeling so healthy.  But I bless all these drugs which allow me to live.  There are big differences now, compared to when I [...]

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(First in a series about healing pneumonia and asthma.)
Last night, my friends Sharon and Ronen came over to visit.  They brought chicken soup.  Ronen read this poem.

 
 
 
 
 
Wild Geese
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to [...]

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Every Nia class has a focus.  The focus of today’s class was “Beginner’s Mind,” inspired by Nia co-creator Debbie Rosas’ recent telecourse on that topic.  (You can listen to a recording of Debbie’s telecourse at www.nianow.com/telecourses.)
In his classic book, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Suzuki-roshi tells us, “If your mind is empty, it is always ready [...]

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