Copyright Lance Kinseth, Calling Down Moon, 48"x48, 2002
IN THE NORTHERN hemisphere, the lessened activity of deep
winter perhaps offers a provocation for slowing and relaxing that can carry
forward into any season and, by doing so, opening a wondrous gate into a sense
of the world that is real, but from which we can be distracted.
Relax and be drawn
into an intuitive sequence of movement,
as if rafting effortlessly downstream.
Drift and be open
to the possibilities evoked by each pose.
Allow this
practice offer a provocation, a trigger, to be no more than a cat-waking
stretch,
far more than an answer.
Be outward
bound—opening, surrendering—and seed an inner fire.
Allow breath to
become a soft rain of waking light.
Suddenly, wake
inside a landscape of delicacy and power.
----Paraphrased from Lance Kinseth,
River Eternal, [NY: Viking, 1989,
p. 6]
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