by Rebecca | May 10, 2017 | The Creative Cycle
The greater the force of your creativity, the more robust structures we need to support it. Sometimes that force of creation requires us to go back and recreate or reinforce those structures for ourselves.
by Rebecca | Feb 16, 2017 | The Creative Cycle
Wind and Waves, and the Earth beneath the Snow The energy of this week—and my energy—is finally starting to even out, after what feels like a tumultuous first 6 weeks of the year. It’s bright white and packed in snow here. The wind whipped and howled last night. It...
by Rebecca | Jan 9, 2017 | The Creative Cycle
What is hibernating within you? We begin anew. We’ve just emerged from the darkest part of the year. The decayed fruit of last year’s experience is sloughed off, and we’ve traversed the night into the first breaking of the dawn, a thin, cool sliver of light guiding us...
by Rebecca | Jan 2, 2017 | The Creative Cycle, Trust Your Inner Wisdom
Embrace Nothingness This—this practice, this time of year—is liminal space. The space in between. The gap, bardo. If you look, if you listen, there is a gap, a moment of still silence in everything. Between the mantra is the breath. Between the mantra and the breath...
by Rebecca | Dec 4, 2016 | The Creative Cycle
Twilight When we drove into New England from our cross country trip, I had a visceral recognition of being home, in a way that no where else can be home. I’m a New Englander. My body, my being knows this: New England is in me. I was happy living away. Happier even....
by Rebecca | Jun 11, 2016 | The Creative Cycle
The adventure, the landscape is carving away at me.