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FREEDOM OF SPINE & HEALING FROM WAR

1/4/2022

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An excerpt from my book Sacred Passing.  The book is about healing from war and co-creating paradise-earth.  It is part biographical, part a guide-book.  Here is a little story, contained in a bigger story.
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Freedom of Spine - elbows

背骨の自由-肘

Findhorn, 2018
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    I was born to live the freedom in my spine.   In my yoga class, I am learning to get deeper into my spine, finding the relationship between my spine, shoulders and hips.  The deepening frees me up bit by bit, in an indirect way.  A gentle, subtle, beautiful breath arises from below my rib-cage, penetrating every cell.  My body hums with lightness.  I am learning to discover the polarity of intensity and ease, at the same time.   I am observing the delight of the vastness and narrowness of the spaces inside.
    Louise demonstrates how the freedom of spine relates to the freedom of hips and shoulders.  P and G, she calls them out, then posts them on either sides of Anna.  Anna, you are the spine.  P and G, you are the hips.  I am the dictator in your head, Louise says firmly.  “P, G, bring Anna to me,” she commanded in a terse, cold voice. As if spellbound, P and G, like two dutiful soldiers grab hold of Anna’s arms.  They start to move her towards Louise.  They are not looking at Anna.  They are just marching straight onward.  Like a prisoner, Anna walks, bounded by the two guards on either sides of her.  They deliver Anna to Louise in a straight, humourless way.  End of Story.
    Now let us change the story, Louise said.  “P, G, you are going to look at Anna.”  They do.  They smile at each other.  A bond is forming between them.  “P, G, bring Anna to me.”  P and G hold  Anna’s right and left arms, but they don’t move.  “Bring her here,” Louise said again.  They start to move, the three of them.  But they are smiling at each other.  Their steps are joyful and light.  P and G cannot walk so straight and rigidly.  They waltz forward, the three of them, and come much slower to Louise.  A bright smile on their faces.  “This is the freedom of spine.” Louise said.  “It is in relationship to the hips.”
    The simple act of looking changed everything.  Lightning struck my heart as I watched this scene.  Had they but looked at me, we would have learned to waltz.  Maybe we would have moved slower, maybe faster.  But they did not even look.  They just grabbed me, delivered me to the dictator, and cut me away.  Onward they moved, joylessly.  They delivered statements to the UN, to their universities.  They missed the point, altogether about peace in the self, peace in the world.
    What if they did look at me?  What if we learned to smile at one another and start to waltz?  Could we move onward on freedom’s way?  All we need is daring to look at each other and see.  Our bodies are signifiers of our liberation.  I was born to be free, to fly like a carefree bird in the open skies of life.  And so do you.
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Photo by : Alan Watson Featherstone 
Gannets on a clifftop at Troup Head Reserve, Scotland
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New Year 2022, Polar bear swim in the north sea

1/1/2022

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Polar Bear Swim is a tradition started by the Greek immigrant, Peter Pantages to Vancouver, Canada in 1920.  Since then it has grown around the world.  By now thousands of people plunge into the sea, or a body of water near them on New Year's Day.  It is a way of greeting the New Year with bravado and good cheer.
So here in Findhorn we took to the North Sea in mid-day.  We had a balmy New Year at 12 degrees centigrade.  I've never had such a hot 1st of January this far north.  There was no wind, and the tide was high.  An ideal condition for our brave plunge into the ocean!
Alan led the attunement and did the precautionary preparation for the people who were taking to the sea, at this time of the year for the first time.  I led a brief warm up exercise to wake up our joints and spine.  Then we were taking our clothes off (with our swimming costume underneath) and running to the sea.  The sea was welcomingly pleasant today.  It was cold yes, and it felt lovely to meet it.  I had prepared myself mentally before taking to the sea today.  I knew I wanted to meet it softly and allow myself to embrace the sea, and be embraced by it.  I had shared this intention with Alan earlier in the morning before we left our home.  What happened when I was in the sea was a little gift from the ocean.  I saw Ruby nearby me.  I went up to her and said 'Ruby I need a little hug.'  There we embraced in the ocean ~ a warm lasting hug.  
We walked back to the shore, embraced by the sea.  This was my 9th Polar Bear Swim in the North Sea, and Alan's 40th.  What a great way to start the year!
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Love & Fear

12/18/2018

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There are only two feelings.  Love and fear.
There are only two languages.  Love and fear.
There are only two activities.  Love and fear.
There are only two motives, two procedures, two frameworks, two results.  Love and fear.
Love and fear.

A Common Prayer, Leunig

The Soil Alchemy, a project to transform our food waste to compost in Northern Iran, is on my mind.
This quote by Leunig sums up my experience with our project.
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