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 […]
Entries from October 2009
3: Body, I Love You
October 31st, 2009 · 3 Comments
Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Lungs · Ongoing Nia Classes
2: Grief and the Lungs of The World
October 30th, 2009 · 9 Comments
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 […]
Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Lungs · Poem of the Week
1: Breathe, Pray, Love
October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment
(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 […]
Tags: Dancing Through Life · Essays on Self-Healing · Etymology · Lungs · Poem of the Week
Beginner’s Mind: Love
October 6th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]