Beneath the surface of our lives lie deep oceans of story, myth, and legend, moved by currents often beyond our conscious awareness. Across cultures and throughout time, human beings have turned to myth as a way of understanding these currents and finding their place within the greater story of existence. Joseph Campbell called this enduring […]
What’s in a walk? Your whole life. Where you came from, where you’re going, what you’ve been through, what you carry, what you shed. Every step, every posture a vignette of your unique path of evolution. Every act has the potential to become devotional. I practice the “andante” meditative walk as a way of re-connecting […]
Isadora Duncan, the mother of contemporary dance, was a pioneering American woman and free spirit, an artist of soul ahead of her time. In her short life from 1877 to 1927, she revolutionized dance during an era when Victorian morals and aesthetics left little space for movement arts beyond the rarified, stiff ballet, ballroom dance, […]
When a performing art becomes the expression of the performer’s spirit and their personal prayer joins the performance, it becomes Prayerformance. The song or dance or play becomes infused with a numinous quality that inspires, blesses and heals us all. For those who’ve ever heard a soulful rendition of “Amazing Grace” for example, the mere […]
Medusa, the Sister Wound, and the Flight of Pegasus The mythos of Athena, Greek Goddess of Wisdom, inevitably stirs the shadowy waters of the sister wound. In the old stories, we meet Medusa as a monstrous Gorgon — once a beautiful priestess of Athena — “cut off” and demonized, condemned to a gaze that turned […]
