santidevi

Soaking in hot water and rosemary, my mermaid self disappears beneath the water and I am once again my aquatic self. It is the sixth day of a seven day fast.  As always it is though I am waking from sleep, aware of the cessation of time, lightness of Being.  Listening to the hush move [...]

My feet are wide, high arched, and look like feet not prone to shoes. They have carried me up mountains, across slick rock, through Paris streets, and Indian temples. They have climbed trees, dug deep into sand, crossed rivers, and held squealing children dangling in the air. They like to feel the ground beneath them, [...]

i bow deeply, breathe slowly into the quiet of my stilled mind.
the mantra forms in my belly, an embryo of it’s own making.
dissolving once again and the soil beneath me slips away.
tethered  to this world only by the beat of my heart.
i am scraped clean, and splayed into the freedom of nothingness.
the gypsy north wind [...]

What is truer than love?  There is nothing truer than love, my beloved.  Your your soft lotus feet that carry me across the thread of my longing.  Nothing truer than the caress of you while I sleep in the river of my body, unconscious, and breathing…
There is only you, and you in this little inhale [...]

In the presence of the holy there is a lightness of being that radiates…
People from all walks of life have come to be in the presence of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, to listen to his message of a stress free and non-violent global society. A simple man dressed with a smile, and robed in white. [...]

The Gleninchaquin Park is a short drive from Kenmare.  It is a privately owned and working ranch that has been opened to the public, the Inchaqin waterfall is the most striking feature that can be seen for miles.  The neolithic Uragh stone circle is nearby.  I take a walking trail that begins in a sheeps [...]

The Dingle Peninsula is breathtaking, and the day is brilliant!  I sleep soundly at the Castlewood, an immaculately kept guesthouse. The Irish are consummate and instinctual host’s. Your pleasure and comfort take precedence over all else. While attentive, they are sensitive to your privacy appearing only when you require something. I feel entirely nurtured.  The only [...]

I sit at the Heuston train station in Dublin.  I wait for the 2:30 train to Galway.  As it is with traveling, the unexpected is my most intimate and interesting companion.  A blizzard in Chicago has delayed my departure in Denver by more than two hours, my connecting flight to Dublin will be air bound [...]

A student of mine yesterday told me that whenever she thinks of me, in her mind, my name is Faith.  How perfect, that in someone else’s internal world I am synonymous with faith! This is exactly what has returned to my patient and awaiting heart, faith. It was as if the Gods were confirming that [...]

I need to know that something is happening, as NOTHING appears to be.  My heart sees through the deception of illusion, and knows otherwise, despite my trepidation. I have planted the seeds for growth and renewal, and on a deep level I trust that they are germinating somewhere in dark and fertile soil.  I know, that [...]