by Havi Brooks | Jan 29, 2021 | my personal practice
A request for a Resilient Heart Yesterday before first tête-à-tête aka twelve minutes communing with Incoming Me, I requested a resilient heart. I often ask a question or name an intention before we sit together, but this formal request situation surprised me. And...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 23, 2021 | my personal practice
Noticing During zoom yoga with my friend Cate, she suggested that we try noticing what we’re not noticing. This reverberated in me like the perfect stone skipping across the waters of my consciousness. How do you notice what you’re not noticing? It is a striking...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 17, 2021 | my personal practice
It has been Decided (it’s art!) Do you know the Art Decider twitter account? I am taking an extended holiday from social media which has honestly been luscious and restorative, who knew, other than literally everyone? However, if one must be on Twitter (or if one is...
by Havi Brooks | Jan 8, 2021 | my personal practice
Renewed I had a flash of a desire during my morning tête-à-tête with Incoming Me, something about renewing a ritual. Tête-à-tête is my secret name for the time I take to sit and commune with Incoming Me for twelve minutes, some people refer to this contemplative...
by Havi Brooks | Dec 9, 2020 | my personal practice
Image: Saguaro National Forest (please admire my enormous spiky friends, I like to imagine that they are gathering round for story hour and hugs!) (Burn before reading) This piece of writing feels so raw, unprotected. Maybe because it comes from the heart and is...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 18, 2020 | my personal practice
Image: a pale red-pink long rug where I do my morning stretching in the sun, you can imagine (I do) it is a dragon tongue, I dance from the flames… pre- This is the longest and possibly most intimate piece I’ve ever shared online, long even for me, a winding...