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By Rebecca Farr on
11/3/2008 5:34 PM
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How to describe this time... being with my father in the bardo of dying.
I've been going to see him every week for the past three months or so. This is in contrast with having NOT gone to see him for the past 20 years or so, other than running into him at family gatherings at my brother's house six or seven times during that 20 years. It seemed like my turn, events conspired and all that...
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Strings Attached |
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By Rebecca Farr on
10/24/2008 4:15 PM
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It is like living in two worlds.
I guess for most people there is some duality... between work life and home life ... real life and vacation life ... school life and between semesters life ... dance life and everything else life ...
For me, there has always be ...
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The Big Dance |
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By Rebecca Farr on
8/30/2008 1:14 PM
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For the past three-ish years, I’ve been really enjoying the Big Dance.
Before that, I had a lot of fear in the dance at Body Choir, not understanding if somebody bumped into me, not knowing how to keep my boundaries in all circumstances, things like that. Back then I preferred the small dances. I confess I still feel most comfortable at Body Choir on Monday or Friday nights when the dance is smaller.
But there is just something about the Sunday morning dance and some of the really crowded Wednesday night dances... the energy of ninety or so other dancers all moving at once, all supported by the same music and the energy of self and others, all of that bl ...
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Board Running |
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By Rebecca Farr on
7/17/2008 10:17 PM
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I keep thinking of topics to write about for my new blog. But it seems like I need to push them all back for now and write something about running for Body Choir Board of Directors.
First, I would say that the more you put into something the more you get out and I find that lately my dance is enriched and deeper than it has been for a while. Thinking about why...
The more days of the week I dance, the more of a practice the dance becomes. The more of a practice, as in daily practice, it is, the deeper I am able to go with it both physically and mentally. In the rest of my life, inner chatter is diminished and I have more moments of feeling peaceful and content. I become embodied more often and I feel better in general.< ...
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Shared Center of Gravity |
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By Rebecca Farr on
7/11/2008 4:41 PM
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Shared Center of Gravity
This week I've started to notice gravity pulling on me more than usual.... I think it started at the Tuesday night CI jam dancing with Fritz Blaw of Motorblade fame.
Somehow the shared center of gravity thing worked for me and I was finally able to have a sense of myself as the combined entity with four legs, four arms, two he ...
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Expansion and Contraction |
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By Rebecca Farr on
7/9/2008 12:15 PM
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As so often happens, Dunya’s words seem spoken just for me. I am surprised again after all these years… How does she do that?
I am in a period of contraction now in my life, feeling squeezed from all sides. Reading this post (Dunya’s blog post on ‘Journal Crafting & Expansion’) gave me some space inside and I was able to take a deep breath and find some peace in remembering… hey, I’ve been here before and I remember it and I also remember how good the expansion feels. So I need to just be with my discomfort for a little while. I long for the expansion phase, but I will wait for it.
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By Rebecca Farr on
7/5/2008 1:07 PM
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Outside at the last Winter Movement Monastery
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Summer Movement Monastery |
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By Rebecca Farr on
7/3/2008 12:16 PM
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Wishing I had been there! The SMM was in New York state this year. The dance space is in The Mill and people stay in The Mansion. I have not been yet. Even though I had lost consciousness of the exact date it happened, after the fact I realized I had a compulsion to cook retreat-stye red lentil soup and eat it for dinner with a salad several days that week. I also cooked some kale and roasted roots. Then noticed it was SMM time. I tried to move a little more that week and was comforted in my personal practice when I would close my eyes during the slow movement and everyone was there with me.
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