EMILY PERRY:: ELEMENTAL

the kula is the heart

the kula, or community, is the heart of things.  where do you nourish your heart?

 

give away your distractions

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.  Samaya means not holding anything back, not preparing our escape route, not looking for alternatives, not thinking that there is ample time to do things later.

                         -Pema Chodron,

                          from When Things Fall Apart

So lets give away our distractions

Climb down from our wheels

And be in the world.

::creativity::

 "Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous."

~Bill Moyers, via this wonderful book

 

**still**

::let standing still be your ceremony::

 

unmoored

And what he said next dislodged something inside me, like a coracle stuck in the sand, some not-yet-shaped thought that lifted up in me unmoored: "We did it for each other."

 

-Ellis Avery, The Tea House Fire

 

:::

I love how hearing, seeing, or reading something that speaks to our personal truth unmoors something within us.  It liberates something authentic, something we have always known but could not put words to.

 

what has unmoored something within you?

NEST

while visiting treebones, staying in our sweet yurt, we discovered they had a nest in a tree.

for people.

 

 

 

this nest held space for me while i visited:: it looks out to the Pacific, with a wonderful view below, and a sky full of stars.

this place is holding space for you, too. 

can you feel a field of possibility opening before you?

 

at the beach walking {video post}

a walk at the beach from Emily Perry on Vimeo.

the rocks at Big Sur

it was hard to see through the mist and fog

but through it we found clarity beyond what the eye can see.

 

::three hearts::

 

::if you look, you never know what you might find::

Mandala Mapping

over the years, i noticed that there was a process through which patients and i would be exploring our lives.  although in my practice this was through the lens of classical chinese medicine, i have found that this process, so to speak, can be aligned with our creative journeys, our life journeys, our meditative journeys.  I have taken to calling this process Mandala Mapping^TM.

 

 Mandala Mapping Technique ^TM 

the process of mapping is an important one, i think.  through it, we can see where we have been, and where we care going.  we can make room for what we want to invite into our lives.  looking back, it seems i have been inspired by mandalas ever since i started studying tibetan buddhism in 1997.  from then on, i have loved the way mandalas can not only hold a scared space for us, acting like a map themselves, but i have also been fascinated with how they represent the cosmos and our manifestation in it.  

in the above image, each of the spaces in the mandala describes a process, it's own mandala, that leads you and connects you to the next phase.  in the future, i will be posting more about the MMT in this space, and also teaching about it in the workshops i facilitate.  

Click here for more on Mandala Mapping.