Today marks the official start of working on my mental discipline training through meditation. Tonight I chose to meditate in Savasana. Asana, translated means "pose", and Savasana is corpse pose. This pose is usally practiced after doing a series of asanas to quiet and focus your mind.
I enjoy practicing Pranayama, which is a practice that you work with your breath. I find it a bit easier to quiet my mind with pranayama, thus helping me to meditate more effectivly. Some days it is easy for me to sink into a meditative state, other times not. I had trouble tonight though. I attempted to use imagery in conjunction with my breath, but my mind was far to busy to saty focused. I believe that I will set a goal to work on holding one image for a short period of time. I think that exercise might help me towards a goal of being able to quiet my mind.
- Location:My studio
- Mood:busy
High Day Ritual Essay: Samhain 2009
“As the evening crept upon us, we began our ritual…” Samhain, or known to the mundane world as Halloween, is a very important celebration to the ancient celts, and the modern followers. A New Year celebration, a time to honor our ancestors, and a time to reap the benefits of the final harvests, those are what is important to me about Samhain.
Our grove chose to celebrate on November 1st this year; at a great park we have called
I know at this time of year, the veil is thin between the worlds, and I offered general sacrifice to my ancestors that I did not know, but I know, the ancestor that I am closest too, my Grandmother, she is with me, so time was defiantly spent with her in meditation. The harvests of this year have been especially grand, due to my business taking off, and things just generally looking amazing! Samhain 2009, excellent.
- Mood:busy
Well fast forward about 5 years or so, and I end up in Arlington, TX. I met some cool pagan folks and became involved as my life allowed me too. Two of these people were Troy and Emily, and Troy, (he's probably reading this!) joined ADF, and expressed interest in starting a protogrove. I decided to jump aboard, this something that had interested me for some time, and is definitely a step in the right direction for me spirituality .
To speak of what my interests and hobbies are, is a twenty five year long story that is still in the process of being written, and I have to explain that background story for it all to make sense. I was born in Syracuse, NY, and grew up in a small town southeast of the city, called Cazenovia. My mom was the bread winner for the familiy, and my dad worked our land, with my help of course! Well the best a small child could do... We had about an acre of land solely devoted to Gardens. We had a potato garden, green bean garden, Squash garden, the list goes on. We were pretty self sufficient, my house was heated with a big ole' woodstove, so we cut all of our own firewood, mostly from the 5 acres will lived on. I credit my love of the outdoors to my dad, I was always outside with him, helping him move firewood from the piles to the seasoning stacks, pulling weeds in the garden, and coming out covered in soil. So lets fast forward a bit, Still living in NY, time to go to college, where do I pick to go? SUNY Morrisville! I have my Associates of Applied Science in Natural Resources Conservation, and by the end of that degree, was accepted to continue onto my BS at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
Well I must be off for now, my stomach is rumbling for lunch.... more to come later!
- Location:my living room
- Mood:
hungry - Music:Ganga Giri, Didge music
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