Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
OMG. That was the first thing I said to my workmate Ritu in the locker room after the Bikram yoga class last night. I survived! We all survived!
By the second of the 26 poses I was beginning to have my doubts whether I would. Not due to the heat, which at ...
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
I am looking forward to continuing the story of my first vision fast, as I think sharing my experience might be helpful for people who are struggling with difficulties they have experienced on their own first fasts. Sometimes it is good to hear others' stories.
First, though, I'd like to share ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Continuing with the story of the sweat lodge, one of the elements that was very moving was the praying. As a person who doesn't follow a Christian tradition, prayer has often seemed impossible for me to do. If I don't have a god I believe in, how can I pray?
In ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
As I mentioned earlier, there were four rounds in the sweat lodge: The first round was for calling in the ancestors and spirits. The second round was for praying. The third round was for healing. And the final round was the “going home” round. At the beginning of each round, ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
That about sums it up. The incident I mentioned earlier about the unsatisfactory pedicure had a reverberation through time, namely a $75 parking ticket. The appointment had run over the scheduled time (torture can be time consuming), and my parking had run out. Unbeknownst to me, because the ticket wasn't ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
As I continue to tell you the story of the sacred time in the sweat lodge, I am troubled by a recurring theme that has arisen over the years, about cultural appropriation, or misappropriation. I just came across this article from 1993 in the New York Times, Spiritual Seekers Borrow ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Meeting in Circle with the Wilderness Guides Council
Fire is the element of the east, the direction of springtime. When I first sat in circle at the Wilderness Guides Council, on Monday, April 13, I deliberately sat in the east. This is a part of the wheel that I am least ...
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