An Experiment: "I Love This"
Here’s an experiment to try. No matter what is happening, whether pleasurable or deeply unpleasurable, pause, breathe, relax and say to...
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Amelia Perkins
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Feeling It All At Once
For months people would ask if I was ok and I would reply, “I’m ok not being ok.” But recently something else is happening. There’s a...
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Transformed By Generosity
After this year, I feel transformed by generosity. As some of you know, my husband, Erik, died almost a year ago. And the ride since then...
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An Experiment in Mercy
Grief is a great teacher of radical yin. When our life is shattered or we experience an earth-shaking loss or profound disappointment,...
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The Beloved Body & the Imaginal Realm
I went to Manhattan to see a very beloved Medium. I dressed up. I felt like I was going on a date with my husband, Erik. I knew from one...
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Making Love With Reality
For about two years before Erik died, I’d occasionally hear a voice that said, “When Erik dies, go to ISTA.” This was strange — not so...
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Death, Love & Tantra
Erik and I had been preparing for the day when he would no longer be so embodied. With a 21 year age difference, we knew that someday he...
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Re-imagining the Stages of Grief
Mirabai Starr reimagines Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s fives stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance) as stations...
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The Face of the Other as Revelation, as Epiphany
The movement to know another is an endless task and an endless work of love. I am thinking of Emmanuel Levinas today, and of Erik, and...
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Loving Each Other in the Cosmic Erotic
I keep thinking of one of the vows Erik and I made when we married that went something like: Let’s love each other in the Cosmic Erotic...
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A Love Story in Fragments
A friend began to send me little poems out of things she heard me say since Erik died. It was a gift to have something created out of the...
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Prayers for Dark Nights
Recently, I got to witness something truly beautiful. One man counseling another on how to pray. These men are dear friends. One is going...
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Creating a Circle for the Numinous
I’ve been thinking a lot about the miraculous world. Feeling into and being grateful for the wild threads and moments when a little...
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An Experiment to Inspire Juicy Dreams
If you want to have strange, interesting, revelatory dreams, try this: As you are laying in bed, ready to go to sleep… Imagine a little...
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Two Practices for Grieving Hearts
Revitalizing Water Ritual: You need: Water, calm energy, a moment of your time. Take a drinking vessel and fill it with water. Hold the...
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A Gentle Technique to Get Unstuck (Plus a Story)
Recently, one of my teachers reminded me that gratitude transforms us, liberates us, and is one of the best ways to increase our radiance...
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Hungry Soul, Free Soul, Naked Soul
One of my teachers, a big-hearted wild Sufi mystic, noticed that there are three major ways a person relates to the universe. The first...
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Tantric Experiments for the Holidays
Photo from Giphy.com A key tantric idea that Erik and I play with a lot is “Everything is an Experiment.” Erik likes to say, “Doing the...
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I AM as Self-Blessing (I am one bad springtime bitch)
“I am” is such a powerful statement. A kind of self-magic. Here's an invitation: write, beginning each sentence with “I am”. Write it as...
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Experiment: The Wild Eroticism of the Forearm
After Divinity School, I spent a year in a convent in Greece. By the time I left, I had worked to quiet my erotic energy so much that I...
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