by Havi Brooks | Apr 8, 2022 | my personal practice
What do we do when the Great Lethargy Strikes Again? This week was sluggish for me, everything extra-heavy (not just me, apparently also key particles), and I had no energy for anything. It was frustrating, because I also perceive a great deal of urgency to solve all...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 4, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: View of a favorite lake in New Mexico where I have never once gone swimming, blue-green water, surrounded by juniper and piñon, I am asking the water to lend its powers of free movement, clarity, and something that is both open and contained. A Chat With The...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 30, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: View from the Gila cliff dwellings, where the Mogollon people made homes over a thousand years ago, a lot more I could say here, but I wanted to share this view of Expansiveness and Striking Beauty, via blue skies, trees growing up the mountain side, also a...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 13, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: Stones & candles the day I celebrated first time doing 444 sun salutations in a row, a small spontaneous festival for Agility Feasts of the small gods He who My grandfather was a public school teacher in Boston in the 1930s. As part of his job, he was...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 10, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: The entry to a favorite labyrinth in Tucson, Arizona SMOPL I wrote about Feasts of Liberations this week, a beautiful and grounding practice for when a day or [time period] holds some extra grief and where there is also some liberation to be marked. What do we...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 6, 2022 | my personal practice
Image: Celebratory chai-flavored mini waffles (gluten-free & dairy-free) with pine needle syrup, halva, a date, nutmeg, flaky salt. A make-shift feast conjured from creativity aka what was left in my tiny trailer pantry aka use what you have. The waffles are...
