by Cheryl Pallant | Nov 11, 2013 | creativity, dance, writing
News: I received this year’s Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts! I am honored to be among fellow esteemed writers and artists. Richmond Magazine included an article about the award in their November issue, which you can read here.
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 | Jun 21, 2011 | body awareness, buddhist poetry, poetry
After years of writing and meditating, I’ve reached the point when it’s unclear when I’m doing which. It’s not as easy as sitting on a cushion versus sitting before a computer. The similarities are endless. In both, I am attending to my breath, subtly shifting my...
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...
by Cheryl Pallant | Apr 1, 2011 | beauty, Buddha, nirvana, S. Korea
A picture may be worth a thousand words but a Buddha statue may be worth many thousands more. I was delighted to recently find this pic of Seokgoram online. This Buddha, built about 742 AD, is about a mile trek up the mountain of one of Korea’s most visited temples,...
