Pulling threads
Notes and news from the present moment, on its swift way to becoming past.
Autumn Comes: Monday Meditation & A Walk in the Park
A new time! Meditation Mondays at Mosaic — 7:30pm for a joyful mix of chanting and breath work to smoothe our nervous systems.
On Sunday, September 22 at 4pm we mark the first day of Autumn with a walk through the labyrinth at Hawk Hill, in High Park. Practice outside in the elements is such a beautiful way to connect to the seasons unfolding. Join us!
Summer Solstice: A Walking Meditation in the Park
Saturday, June 22, at 2pm
Join me to mark the turn of the season with a walk through the labyrinth at Hawk Hill, in High Park.
Walking meditation is a wonderful way to enter a different state of mind, with the repetition and meandering lines of the labyrinth giving us a form to shape the practice. Movement in community and in the elements, all work together to help us move toward a centred state of ease.
Smrti: Present Moment Remembering
Mind gets carried away with things. It is the nature of mind to forget it is mind, and to see thought as reality. So this question can be helpful — what is going on in my mind right now? With patience and compassion, remembering the simplest thing is not so easy.
October Retreat
A balm for difficult times — let us rest into supported community practice together, for one week of morning practice in the last week of October.
Happy Thanksgiving
What would an authentic practice of gratitude look like for you? Can we nurture natural gratitude without burying “non-gratitude”? Let's play with this idea!
Riding the Wave
Many feel this season and the next will be long ones. I hear resignation and some dread. I feel these things, yet, I also experience a glimmer of excitement for the deep inward turn that will come with winter. A time to dig deep into rich material, dream-time, integration and quiet creation time.
Working with the Weather
This week I am thinking about the weather, and what a beautiful metaphor it is for the nature of mind.
Like the Garden Grows
My northern garden grows with such intensity in its short summer season, the transformation is so dramatic, winter seems like a story someone told long ago. I would like to learn from this nature…
Inclining toward Justice
Meditations on compassion, non-violence, courage, and transformation in the third week of global protest against racialized injustice.
Inclining toward Compassion
The work of antiracism is an inside job. It requires compassion-in and compassion-out…
Ever Beginning
In my ongoing exploration of meditation practice I return again and again to the buddhist concept of “beginner mind.” Forever and always, we are new to this moment. There has not been one just like it, ever before. This is true now, was yesterday, and will be tomorrow.
Can we remain curious and open to newness, and to our inexpertise?