by Havi Brooks | Mar 4, 2020 | my personal practice
sunset views from the kitchen at the dome in the desert Entering the entering. Ah sweet friends, I have so much to say (and I just wrote up many thousands of words about alter egos and channeling incoming selves, and somehow still have even more to say?), but the...
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 | 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 | Jul 1, 2019 | my personal practice
Photo of The Wild Wild Nest by me! If you come retreat at the center, this is the bonus writing nook / napping nook, and this is your beautiful view! What is possible? What comes after possible? There is an absolutely remarkable concept in Feldenkrais that never fails...
by Havi Brooks | Apr 10, 2019 | my personal practice
Capers? Capers is the name I have given to anything in the category of “things we might try when things feel stuck”. Or when I find myself deep inside of the perception that Everything Is Stuck. Things We Might Try is a big category (and should be) because Hey Let’s...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 14, 2019 | my personal practice
Yes, that’s a bobcat outside my window… It showed up at Rally! More about that to come. First some breaths for the quality and superpowers of Devotion! Questions of Devotion What am I devoting myself to? (And why?) (And is this my yes?) (And is this current?)...
