Tag: meditation
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Step Into the World of The Savage Shaman
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Join the live AMA!
Beloved Savages! Every Monday I host a livestream performance, workshop, or Q&A and TODAY is the day for the Savage Shaman’s monthly Q&A sesh where members get to ask me anything! Highlights from the last AMA include a request for MORE live performance: AND more in-depth explanation of my practices and process: Livestreaming is a…
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But WHY?!?
I needed a new container to hold all of my wildness, my art, my writing, my research, my dance, my music, the uncontrived expression of my highest potential and my uncompromising aspirations for the world. “The Savage Shaman” became the container that would hold all of that, and keep me accountable, honest, and creative.
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Viral Dancing Nuns
To modern Western culture, the dancing nun is a contradiction in terms, or a merely laughable moment that peaks on social media for a while, and is just as soon forgotten. But I would argue the import of the dancing nun is far more profound.
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Why every temple needs a dancer
Spiritual temples are as ironic as they are awe inspiring: as religious structures that house both the religious hierarchy and the scriptural tradition that give the hierarchy its continuity; yet at the same time these architectural manifestations are the living embodiment of sacred geometry, within which the play of light and sound is designed to…
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THAT wasn’t on the album
One of the pleasures of live performance is discovering new, hidden elements of a well loved and long rehearsed piece. As James Marienthal and I were preparing for the “Good Medicine” house concert he quietly confessed there was originally a rhythm section to “Escondida” that we didn’t record on the album.
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Shinrin Yoku III: The Way of Shugendo
In 1991, 23 year old Ryojun Shionuma, embarked on a spiritual pilgrimage that would take him nine years to complete by running up and down the sacred Mt. Omine in Japan for one thousand days. This unique spiritual discipline was started by “a mountain priest named En-no-Gyoja, who, in the late 600s, meditated for a…
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Shinrin Yoku I: What we have lost
What have we gained, and what have we lost in the relentless pursuit of “civilization?” We have lost our silence, we have lost our darkness, we have lost our peace, and we have lost our purpose. Finally, as we are collectively losing our humanity, we are turning back to our Mother Nature for solace, for…
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Tea Offering
When I was a nun, I learned that my whole life could be saturated with sacredness if I brought my awareness and intention to everyday actions. Full time living in a spiritual community brings this concept to life by creating rituals for everyday activities – eating, sleeping, walking, and serving tea.
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Launching in 2024…
After 10 years of building my nonprofit, The Holistic Homestead, from scratch…I’m moving on to my next bold move. It has something to do with Graduate School in Australia, Buoth in Japan, music making in Colorado and Shamanic trance dance and meditation en motion in Nepal.