On creativity, happiness and spirituality
Posted in Creativity, Dance, Meditation, Spirituality on Mar 7th, 2011
I recently attended an Ecstatic Dance workshop in Gillingham, Kent. Ecstatic Dance is an active meditation method using movement, music and breath. This is my second session. There are ten participants. All women. We’ve been through the warm up and the shake and are dancing to music that sounds almost tribal, with drumming and rattles [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity, Dance, Meditation, Spirituality on Jan 20th, 2011
A two-hour Ecstatic Shake and Dance Meditation event took place this weekend at the Howard Memorial Hall, near Gillingham, in Kent, not far from where I live. I call it ‘Trance Dance’. There were eleven participants plus Evi, the teacher. I’ve attended a few trance dance and 5Rhythms events before, in Central London, and it [...]
Posted in Meditation, Spirituality on Nov 5th, 2010
I began a daily meditation practice last year and currently meditate for an hour every morning. Below are ten tips that have helped me keep going. If you have any tips of your own, please leave a comment below. Remove tight clothing and jewellery. Try sitting in different places. Experiment with facing different directions. Find [...]
Posted in Meditation, Spirituality on Aug 30th, 2010
Meditation today. One hour. Silent. Started off slipping straight into somewhere warm and snug. Then feelings of frustration and an urge to move. Trying to locate where in my body these feelings come from. Seem only to be connected to tension. Feel my trouser leg is tight. Shift position slightly. Memory of a dream from [...]
Posted in Mantra, Meditation, Spirituality on Aug 28th, 2010
I had an empty house early this morning, so decided to chant mantra for an hour, instead of silent meditation. It’s a while since I’ve chanted aloud for this length of time. It began to feel like hard work quite quickly and I had a lot of resistance to the process but I knew if [...]
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