September 8, 2008 at 9:10 pm (Back on the Scene, Food Communication, Intentional Community, So called self & so called other, Yoga Practice)
If you want to keep up with food wisdom, slow down and enjoy it over at “sacred living”.
INTRODUCING Sacred Living Bonsai Talk. The new nutrition Blog Here we talk about nutrition, yoga, and massage. Anyone can participate, because it is Universal, spanning from across the country to worldwide.
And by the way, THANK YOU to all the wondeful people we connected with who invited us to stay and do our thing this summer!
It was so good to eat with you, talk story and explore the great city of pdx!
November 23, 2007 at 3:54 am (Art, Back on the Scene, Food Communication, Intentional Community, So called self & so called other, Yoga Practice)
Tags: Being happy, Change, Emptiness, Gatherings, Joy, Meet ups, New people, Practice, Yoga
Whats new with you?
We have a lot of new things happening, new people indamix, lots of events and opportunities to gather and share and help others.
We have been spending a lot of time attempting to reach the conscious music crowds of bellingham, and have found lots of good artistry via and among the Click Pop Records music scene. The Soundings group is a lot older and they do not seem to return our calls. So we have been keeping it moving the best we can with who we can reach. We devoted several hours to promoting music and events this holiday which fell on the 22nd of this month. I put in long hours this week doing weaving and yoga too.
We have also been putting up flyers and emailing lots of people in teh addy book and those who we meet online and via craigslist….
The next art show info is here….
Ten Times Amazing:
A Holiday Group Art Show
When: Sunday, December 2nd from 12pm – 6pm
Where: Firehouse Performing Arts Center 1314 Harris Avenue, Fairhaven
Ten local artists combine their individual expressions for this one-day only celebration. From whimsical, woolly, and wild to traditional, twisted and touchable. The show will delight you and someone on your holiday gift list. Warm yourself by the fireplace at the historic Firehouse Performing Arts Center in Fairhaven, support local artists and purchase an affordable original gift.
Featuring:
Andrea Fackler, pottery & weaving
Cris Pauley, metal sculpture
Dave Crabb, rustic lamps
Donald Larsen, acrylic and oil paintings
Harold Niven, batik banners, batik wear, collage magnets
Heather Smith, recycled wool bracelets
Mary Ann Dupree, wreaths
Michelle Van Slyke, hats
Therese Spaude-Larsen, wildcraft, beaded bracelets
Wayne Hagan, photographs
ONE DAY ONLY! ONE DAY ONLY! ONE DAY ONLY!
More info at Therese Spaude-Larsen, Artist (360) 766-4116
Show will be here:
http://homepage.mac.com/mattchristman/firehouse/index.html
We are also starting a weekly movie night at the new studio !!! Did you know we moved? YES! Into a bigger studio, beautiful hard wood floors and wonderful other benefits/aspects we aim to share…..
Please contact me for directions and to schedule a visit or to confirm you are coming to our first yoga session or movie night at the new place!
October 28, 2007 at 1:22 am (So called self & so called other)
Tags: Annihilation Into The Infinite, Dub, Music, Spiritual family
http://www.higherkey.com/arjunandguardians/
Have you heard of Arjun and Guardians?
Southwest Groove – Arjun and Guardians at the Casbah featuring Marius from Planet Jam on guitar. THe Southwest Tour was extremely successful with support from the Tucson Gem family, BLue Diamond Technologies, the Universal Temple of Higher Consciousness, and the Beverly Hills Kirtan crew, not to mention everyone in Flagstaff, Prescott, and Sedona. Check the video on the artists homepage, its very nice to see Arjun out there doing it!
To feel Arjun is to love the Sufi.
Follow a link in his website and you will first see this, “Fanna-Fi-Allah Qawwali Party
Fanna-Fi-Allah translates as: annihilation into Allah. Qawwali is an ancient practice wherein the fire of divine love (ishq) is ecstatically expressed through the mystical verses of Sufi poets, sung in Urdu, Farsi, Hindi and Punjabi.
Each Qawwali song embodies the mood of the poetry within sophisticated ragas combined with an exultant spontaneity. The foremost expression in this music is through the voice, accompanied by two harmoniums, booming Pakistani tablas, hand clapping and the tampura. Traditionally Qawwali music is performed in Sufi shrines wherein audience participation is integral to the prayerful atmosphere as well as dancing ecstatically to the music’s driving rhythms and passionate chorus. Listeners will usually be immersed in tears of sublime devotion.
Tahir Qawwal and Amena Chisty Qawwal lead the Fanna-Fi-Allah Qawwali party consisting of five to ten rigorously trained musicians. This collection also includes Arjun (Arjun & Guardians) and Deja (Hamsa Lila) from the party.”
So now you can feel the Arjun Spirit.
Its of Qawwali and his song embodies the mood of the poetry.
October 27, 2007 at 11:46 pm (So called self & so called other)
Tags: Communal practice, Essential Rumi, Of being woven
I, this so called me, understands there are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world today, and that one of them dies out about every two weeks. I don’t get into “according to linguistic experts”, struggling to save at least some of them or not….. Who are these experts and where do become one? Grants anyone? I honor them for their efforts and more people should care, I just take the information and run because I do care and talking to you about experts isn’t what you seek. Enough mind, lets feel.
Five hotspots where languages are most endangered were listed by the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and the National Geographic Society.
In addition to northern Australia, eastern Siberia and Oklahoma and the U.S. Southwest, many native languages are endangered in South America _ Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia. The area including British Columbia has a few, and the states of Washington and Oregon. Wow. Oregon and Wa? Yes.
Many of you word turn away if I got into more detail at this point, but Rollins wouldn’t. However PDX has some of the strongest activism and spirit in the states, so the few who stick around would be good friends, very aware people and just the kind I would want to share yoga with.
Later I will return with details for those who want to share in depth. I have a few documentaries for you, one called “Stolen Land”.
I would like to add one language to the list, the language of love.
And we need to get that one back real quick.
In the meantime, we might want to remind ourselves that we are creating with actions of body speech and mind. And speaking should be treated as creation. I see so much mind, mind mind mind…. and too many “knowers”.
So I have turned to untraining these past few months… And its been working out really well.
I would like to share more Dharma and untraining and poetry… And yet, so many just turn away from truth process. In their knowing, they just don’t want to know. hmmmm….
I think an only don’t know mind has no aversion to truth process.
Has anyone read Buffalo Woman Comes Singing?
In her book she speaks of the unworkable: One of the things she lists is – “Never show how you feel”.
Today I thought I would show how I feel, even though it might not have the best flow.
Its just a knock at the door of reality.
If you opened this blog door, maybe you would like to create a new friendship with one who shakes her (Non)thought wings, one who has loosened her shoulders, one who sees green ears everywhere.
October 1, 2007 at 6:32 am (So called self & so called other)
Tags: Biking, Body - Mind - Spirit, Community, Healing, Hiking, Interdependent Yoga, Involution, Subject Object Union Yoga, Transpersonal Medicine, Travel, Yoga as Bodhicitta Intention, Zen
Hello,
Hello this is Drea and I would like to introduce my love, awareness, dedication, wisdom, compassion, joy, art, and a yoga practice based on kind mind.
I would like to establish new relationships with people in portland and share with people who enjoy inner work, community, truth process, hiking and art.
Please communicate with me, and send me any links that I can add to the friends list, people and places of interest, yoga studios, blogs and whatnot.
Thank you and lets talk soon.
Bless
