by Havi Brooks | Jan 18, 2020 | my personal practice
This essay is for Waverly.I am so sad to convey that the world lost Waverly Fitzgerald, a marvelous human, among my favorite humans & writers, possibly also yours, last month on Friday, December 13. Some of you met her at Rally at my former retreat center, and if...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 18, 2019 | updates & announcements
This beautiful light! Pic taken on my phone from the front porch of the dome in the desert… It’s been a year huh. I have been here but not here (definitely not here), and there were reasons for that, though they are not particularly interesting. Examples of...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 17, 2019 | my personal practice
I have a bobcat (or a bobcat has me), and he naps on my porch at the dome in the desert A secret (or maybe not?) I’ll just say it. I have never really connected with the word ‘retreat’. Is that an unlikely-approaching-preposterous thing for me to say, given that I am...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 16, 2019 | calm techniques
I have been sharing my favorite buffer phrases with a number of clients lately, and you might need this too, so here it is. A very brief primer and some ideas to play with. I’m only going to talk about one particular buffer phrase today as an example, but some day I...
by Havi Brooks | Aug 12, 2019 | updates & announcements
Sensation I am on the floor, listening to the glorious soundtrack that is monsoon rains pouring onto the skylight. The dome is filling up with filtered light, muted monsoon glow, sunset approaching. I am in love with this periwinkle sky of messy watercolor stripes....