This is incredible, Faye, thank you for all this wisdom! I especially loved this nugget: "You don’t have to do anything, but if you want my advice: feel it, soberly. Be in a body, unaltered, reckoning with the gravity of things." ❤️❤️❤️
OMG!!! Thank you!!!! And happy belated birthday to you, too, Mohika!!! I hope it was glorious and full of love. Heheheh I'm so glad we connected on here :) Here's to that sweet sweet sensitivity
We really are spirit in motion, I guess that’s why to me movement has always felt like a prayer.
I loved your discussion about spiritual aesthetics. I have found that some of the most “spiritually aesthetic” people have been the ✨meanest✨ to me 😆
This piece was really mind expanding for me. How that “obey my way” has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives. It’s so wild because we have divinity within us guiding us. Our bodies are nature and are always moving in the direction they need to be, like a flower growing from a seed. Thank you for the reminder to return to embodied intuition.
I’m moving back into my day after this read with the words “desire over dogma” as a melody in my mind.
Thank you Faye, I always love reading your philosophical thoughts.
Thank you Jennae! What a beautiful gift to receive your reflections. I can so relate about the meanies. It's interesting to notice just how deep the insecurity is beneath the performance. What a doozy of a lesson, huh?
I love this image of our bodies growing like a flower from a seed. I am currently housesitting and there is a large squash plant being trained to grow on a trellis. Learning to move in a certain direction rather than be blown around by the wind to give it more strength. What a delicate balance, to recognize our inner nature as perfect, and to learn how to support ourselves to strengthen it.
Awesome, Faye. I really admire your curiosity, your relentlessness, your understanding, your willingness to keep changing. It's quite awesome and awe inspiring.
Thank you Mike!! I've never been able to resist change for long. It's been a gift (and sometimes terrifying and embarrassing) to share the process rather publicly, but ultimately, I'm grateful to be learning again and again that perfection isn't realistic and change is the only constant. Now I'm excited for the new challenge of making change simple. Grateful you're along for the ride, as always :)
I believe this is your special secret, this flowing yoga. Yoga has always had a stiffness to it but what you do has the movement of tai chi, dance and yoga. It is something unique.
Yes absolutely this is my secret! Well, that and I’m not doing yoga, just moving. I’ve practiced so many different styles of movement over the years and when I’m in my flow, moving just to move, they all meld together in whatever way feels right. All the shapes I’ve learned that look like “yoga” become structures to explore rather than rigid boundaries. To me this kind of practice is like poetry, and is way different than what it looks like when I’m working out. I have a lot to say about this Wes! You’ve opened pandora’s box, Don’t worry, I won’t unleash it all here.
But I will say one more thing. i've noticed most people are bound to the dogma of one or a couple particular disciplines, and usually do as they’re told by the teacher rather than feeling what arises in their bodies. Listening and moving in accordance with that rather than obeying some arbitrary rule past the point of its usefulness to their growth. As the saying goes, learn the rules so you can break them well. Like in poetry, using mastery of language to transcend the rules.
We will all die on that physical hill, whether we accept or not and most people don't. As a carpenter I lived a physical every day and now I feel like I'm adding more thought to it. thanks, great prose, happy birthday.
This is incredible, Faye, thank you for all this wisdom! I especially loved this nugget: "You don’t have to do anything, but if you want my advice: feel it, soberly. Be in a body, unaltered, reckoning with the gravity of things." ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you Jenna!! What a pleasure to share and learn there are people like you in this community to receive and enjoy it 🍯❤️🍯
first off, HAPPY HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, FAYE! you're my birthday twin!!!!
I was born 9 years and 3 hrs after you on 17th July, 1999 at 10:17 AM! 🧡 I think we're the same person ahahah NO WONDER I RELATE SO MUCH!
OMG!!! Thank you!!!! And happy belated birthday to you, too, Mohika!!! I hope it was glorious and full of love. Heheheh I'm so glad we connected on here :) Here's to that sweet sweet sensitivity
🌹 Happy Birthday 🌹
We really are spirit in motion, I guess that’s why to me movement has always felt like a prayer.
I loved your discussion about spiritual aesthetics. I have found that some of the most “spiritually aesthetic” people have been the ✨meanest✨ to me 😆
This piece was really mind expanding for me. How that “obey my way” has infiltrated nearly every aspect of our lives. It’s so wild because we have divinity within us guiding us. Our bodies are nature and are always moving in the direction they need to be, like a flower growing from a seed. Thank you for the reminder to return to embodied intuition.
I’m moving back into my day after this read with the words “desire over dogma” as a melody in my mind.
Thank you Faye, I always love reading your philosophical thoughts.
Thank you Jennae! What a beautiful gift to receive your reflections. I can so relate about the meanies. It's interesting to notice just how deep the insecurity is beneath the performance. What a doozy of a lesson, huh?
I love this image of our bodies growing like a flower from a seed. I am currently housesitting and there is a large squash plant being trained to grow on a trellis. Learning to move in a certain direction rather than be blown around by the wind to give it more strength. What a delicate balance, to recognize our inner nature as perfect, and to learn how to support ourselves to strengthen it.
Desire over dogma! I love this melody!
I love this reflection about the squash plant! It really relates to this discussion! 🧡
Awesome, Faye. I really admire your curiosity, your relentlessness, your understanding, your willingness to keep changing. It's quite awesome and awe inspiring.
Happy birthday!!
Thank you Mike!! I've never been able to resist change for long. It's been a gift (and sometimes terrifying and embarrassing) to share the process rather publicly, but ultimately, I'm grateful to be learning again and again that perfection isn't realistic and change is the only constant. Now I'm excited for the new challenge of making change simple. Grateful you're along for the ride, as always :)
We all change. Better to be aware of it and swim with the currents of reality rather than pretend they don’t exist or swim against them.
Absolutely. Gosh I bet having kids takes this understanding to a whole new level huh?
Most transformative experience yet. Hardest and best thing in my life.
Happy Birthday Faye, may your day be Awesome
thank you!
yoga dance, Yoga Boogy
Hahaha yes, the song took over my body!
I believe this is your special secret, this flowing yoga. Yoga has always had a stiffness to it but what you do has the movement of tai chi, dance and yoga. It is something unique.
Yes absolutely this is my secret! Well, that and I’m not doing yoga, just moving. I’ve practiced so many different styles of movement over the years and when I’m in my flow, moving just to move, they all meld together in whatever way feels right. All the shapes I’ve learned that look like “yoga” become structures to explore rather than rigid boundaries. To me this kind of practice is like poetry, and is way different than what it looks like when I’m working out. I have a lot to say about this Wes! You’ve opened pandora’s box, Don’t worry, I won’t unleash it all here.
But I will say one more thing. i've noticed most people are bound to the dogma of one or a couple particular disciplines, and usually do as they’re told by the teacher rather than feeling what arises in their bodies. Listening and moving in accordance with that rather than obeying some arbitrary rule past the point of its usefulness to their growth. As the saying goes, learn the rules so you can break them well. Like in poetry, using mastery of language to transcend the rules.
Very good. The trick is to be looking for the flow, recognize it when you feel it and then follow it for as long as possible.
We will all die on that physical hill, whether we accept or not and most people don't. As a carpenter I lived a physical every day and now I feel like I'm adding more thought to it. thanks, great prose, happy birthday.
Thank you, Wes! I have always loved that your writing is so connected to the physical.
Beyond glorious!!! Happy birthday, my friend 💥
Mmmm thank you, my friend 🥰💗✨🦋🦋🦋 lol the emojis took over my fingers for a sec. I’m grateful for you!
Happy birthday 🪷
Thanks Valerie!! 💛💛💛
Happy birthday!
Thank you! :)))
If we put a like here, how will that be used and what exactly are we liking? I thought we weren’t supposed to admit anymore that someone’s hot.