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It’s 30 years since I was a librarian
This year, 2022, is the 30th anniversary since of giving up a career as a librarian to concentrate my life fully on leading dances and sufi events. Although to many at the time it seemed rather foolish to leave a well-paid, well-established managerial position I had...
Cultivating the Heart. Dancing Pilgrimage in the Sacred Landscape of Dorset
Again we had a magnificent pilgrimage to a number of ancient sacred sites: stone circles, neolithic henges, healing wells, hill forts, ruined churches and this time churches still used for worship. Following inner guidance and by listening to the cosmic language...
The Shock of Serious News – To Focus Make Friends with Your Breath
It was three o’clock on a Monday afternoon and I receive a call from Cinda, my wife. She says she doesn’t feel at all well and has made her way to a local doctor’s surgery. Now she is waiting for an ambulance. She puts the doctor on the phone, “Your wife is fine,...
Where is Your Key?
It’s after midnight yet still very hot. There’s no moon and it’s really quite dark. There’s a light in the centre of the street but even so it’s hard to see any of the buildings clearly. Except for this one streetlight still burning there’s no light. A man is walking...
Stilling the Waves of the Mind
As usual I am also going to offer something you can do right now to deepen. We often have a tendency to ignore simple practices feeling that to be of real value something needs to have complexity. Yet most mystics are personifications of simplicity offering simple and...