Dance Like No One is Watching - an Exercise in Listening
I think of Winter as the perfect time to embrace much needed quiet, a time for inner work, slowing down, and making space for deep meditation. If I get down to the basics, however, of why I would do any of those things, I believe the most important practice of Winter, is Listening.
Prevailing culture teaches us so much about action and logic; we think our way through things, or at least we try, inefficiently. Perpetual action, and loops of thinking cannot take us where we want to go if we don’t make time to experience our life on a deeper level. Perhaps that sounds funny. It should seem automatic that we know what is happening in our life. Life moves fast. Our electronics, entertainment, and myriads of distraction, make it feel like it is moving even faster.
Listening, deeply listening, is a lost art. I’m not talking about communication skills, or the kind of listening we do in relation to another person. Although those are important, I’m talking about the...
Syncing with cycles
From the beginning, when I set out to create the FTML membership program, I had the intention to not only help people connect to nature but to the cycles in life. Understanding the cyclical aspects of nature, day into night, the seasons, phases of the moon, the greater life cycle, and more, give a beautiful opportunity to learn from the innate wisdom of nature.
As you may know, the major purpose behind my business is to help you find home within yourself, as well as within the greater context of where you live, locally /nationally/ and globally at home with the Earth herself.
Man or woman, plant or animal, mammal or amphibious, if you are alive you are effected by cycles. This happens both on a physiological level, such as the way lunar cycles effect the feeding and mating habits of fish, but also in a way that leaves a deep impression on the unconscious as Winter Spring Summer and Fall, symbolically illustrate the life cycle.
Whether symbolic or physiological,...
