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 | Dec 15, 2014 | my personal practice
This year is Shmita year, it is the sabbatical year in the seven year agricultural cycle when you let the land rest. More than rest. You let the land lie fallow. Lie fallow. That phrase used to feel desolate to me, almost a lonely sort of emptying, but now it feels...
by Havi Brooks | Mar 28, 2014 | updates & announcements
Where I cover the good and the hard in my week, visiting the non-preachy side of ritual and self-reflection. It is Friday and we are here. {a breath for Friday} What worked this week? Shorts, weirdly enough. So I have to give some background for this. Whenever the...
by Havi Brooks | Sep 20, 2013 | updates & announcements
Where I cover the good and the hard in my week, visiting the non-preachy side of ritual and self-reflection. It is Friday and we are here. With the glorious (glorrrrrrrrrrrious!) return of the wham boom. What worked? Change your place, change your luck. As we always...
by Havi Brooks | May 19, 2011 | stuff I think about
You know how in cop shows they never stop and take a moment? We’re having a giant fight about how I’m too close to this case and also (subtext!) how we shouldn’t have slept together and now I’m flipping my hair and marching into the...