by Cheryl Pallant | Mar 27, 2013 | Buddhism, contact improvisation, dance, poetry, somatic practice
Begun in Australia, The Next Big Thing is a campaign that has spread around the world. Authors answer several questions that introduce their next project. Then they tag another author to do the same, a type of web chain mail. I’ve been tagged by poet Joe Harrington....
by Cheryl Pallant | Nov 9, 2011 | Buddhism, impermance, presence
The poet sits at her table to write. She must do so. She is compelled. Words lure her to the blank page like a beckoning lover. Sometimes the lover welcomes the meeting with complete attention. Other times the hoped for embrace disappears. Perhaps the meeting was a...
by Cheryl Pallant | Apr 27, 2011 | body awareness, Buddhism, enlightenment, somatic practice
I continue to flip through Reginald Ray’s Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body after completing it several weeks ago. Ray is a Tibetan practitioner in the lineage of Chogyman Trungpa Rinpoche, the founder of Naropa University. His book on the...
