Intro Video – Expand & Contract Meditation from Pema Rocker on Vimeo. Audio Energy Meditation, with Rachael Webb This meditation is going to be different from other guided meditations. You’re not going to be sitting alone in a quiet place. In fact, I’d like for you to be in a place where there […]
Archives for April 2015
Purposed to Evolve
On a recent trip to Chicago, I wanted to see the sun rise over Lake Michigan. As soon as I woke up, I opened the blinds. Beautiful shades of orange and pink were a perfect contrast against the bright blues and waves of light over the water. I enjoyed the view so much that I […]
The Universe Of The Creative Right Brain
Acrylic paint on watercolour paper, Suzette Clough 2015 In her book, Visual Medicine – the Art of the Unknown, Suzette Clough describes the experience of finding herself in a profound conversation with paint…and what she comes to call the spiritual creative practice of Visual Medicine: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational […]
Enormity
“All Points Lead Back to Roaming,” 11″ x 17″; India Ink and acrylic on paper, Ariane Nicole 2012 Enormity It was a small price to give over life and limb. Embracing the shadow turned my fear of separation into a playful mirage; what happened next made all else seem like I’d been looking at life […]
Body Is Soul
This is Part Four in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read from the beginning here. What I have come to see in retrospect is that my experience of “remembrance,” in these places in the world, was the interactions between my body and my soul, between my body […]
Close to the Bone
Close to the Bone For a long time, my life was like being displaced in some way, transient and fractured, forever exiled from my own body. I could not be or become comfortable, because at any moment the next evacuation might occur, where the alarms inside the head short circuit and scream ceaselessly even though […]
Nature, Social Justice, Earth Justice
Two different birds have hovered outside the window today, looking in at me for a while before flying off–a hummingbird and a bluejay. In considering this, I hear in my head “I Know Why” as in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, and I think of this because, with the wildlife out there looking […]
Breathing in and Breathing out
Breathing in and Breathing out, 11″ x 17″, Mixed media on paper, Ariane Nicole 2013 Breathing in and Breathing out I didn’t expect this after the bliss of Divine surrender. I didn’t expect the shadows of sorrow to sneak across the floor, to engulf my senses and straddle me between space and time. I […]
Breathing the Divine: India
This is Part Three in a series of stories and photos by Julie Daley for Soul Growth Radio. Read from the beginning here. A Challenging Call This call took me to many places, places I would have continued to wistfully long to visit someday if I hadn’t felt its pull. A call does that. It […]
Confessions of a Free-Range Spiritualist: Dancing For My Life
Flatlines and Faith All alone I have cried Silent tears, full of pride In a world made of steel, Made of stone. Dancing saved my life in my early forties. My marriage was in shambles after a long bout with infertility. The high cost of treatments over six years bankrupted us. The miscarriages broke our […]