Words With Soul

Walt Whitman July 7, 2010

Walt Whitman, a fav poet of mine, is experiencing some what of a renaissance. A poem about a meteor shower in ‘Leaves of Grass” has been researched by Texas State astronomers http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/3512/the-walt-whitman-meteor-mystery for some time now to reveal the exact rare meteor shower that inspired the poem and many other pieces of art at that time! [as if he just made it up, peeps.... come on now!]

Walt’s poetry, which was controversial and ground-breaking for its time, touched on issues of spirituality, sexuality, sensuality, nature, politics and human rights, definitely hallmarks him as a divinely inspired writer.

I recently watched an ABC doco on walt which confirmed for me the divinely inspired nature of his writing, where just prior to the writing of leaves of grass, his writing reflected a loss of self/ego, and complete resurrection creatively where his on soul was his muse… profound and interesting… (more…)

 

absence makes the heart grow fonder… July 7, 2010

Q. how can one be certain that one will not see a task through to the end…?
A. promise to blog about it for a
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I know, I know! if there is one thing this blog is a testament to it is my ingenius ability to look like a piker, breaking promises left right and centre…But I promise, cross my heart, that I have continued my month of meditating 30 mins per day. Unfortunately what I did not factor in to this experiment, despite my amazing prediction power, was that I would fall in love in the month of june… june 9th to be exact… right about when the blogging subsided… www.EGG-ON-FACE.me!

hence, each spare moment has been spent musing with my long distance lover and not documenting effects of said meditation. Suffice it to say, the experiment bloomin’ rocked! without my 30 minutes each day, [not forgetting my long distance love chats] i probably would have ended up not-very-namaste… thanks to full moon eclipse [actual astrological event, not the movie - although did see that last night, twas twi-mendously four stars] of past weeks my life was equal bits hell, equal bits [insert LDR and affected sigh...] heaven…

one thing is for sure, my daily meditation practice has made LDR possible, due to time difference sleep deprivation. My healthcliff is working over in the U.S currently, so this little cathy has been tapping at the skype screen till the wee hours in the morn!  You know, “its me cathy, let me in, i’m in melbourne and its F___ing cold outside!”

i’m fairly sure buddha would condone such use of mindfulness, non?!

So meditation workshop on july 19th will discuss some of my little meditation tricks for serenity and sanity in our modern world, minus pretentious, ungrounded B.S one is sometimes fed under the pretense of “spirituality” or even worse [voming just a lil as i type this], “new age” – sorry, that IS v-non-namaste, but each is entitled to one’s personal opinion, and that from experience, is mine…

so please come along, just prior to my leaving to the U.S for ‘wuthering heights v.2010′

xo

 

meditation workshop July 7, 2010

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Its been a LONG time coming!!!!

but finally…

as per request…

a mindfulness meditation workshop which will focus on:

  • simplified, unpretentious meditation techniques
  • calming, grounding and centring exercises totally designed around breathing

includes take home notes so you can begin daily practice

Monday July 19th

7pm-9pm

check out http://www.somapilates.com.au/download/Workshop.pdf

for more info

 

 
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