Mind-Body-Spirit
Creating in Community
Something happens when we get together to create. What could otherwise remain static begins to evolve organically. A co-mingling that forever alters the recipe. Chemicals react. There is a sense of something building, bubbling. The unpredictable. That which cannot entirely be controlled. Nor should it.
Read MoreEmbracing Intimacy: Conversation with Sexuality Coach Kelly Rees, Portland, Oregon
Just as every element in a dream can be seen as reflecting a different aspect of the dreamer, so also Kelly Rees feels that fantasies can work the same way.
Read MoreA Poet Talks About Fatherhood
It happened quite naturally. I liked to quote lines of poetry for them. Once when we were visiting the Atlantic coast and watching the waves crash and the sea spray spouting up, I quoted a favorite line from Hart Crane’s poem, “The Dance”: “what laughing chains the waters wove and threw.” My children never forgot that. Several years later when looking at another wild body of water, they would remind me of that same line.
Read MoreBodyVox Celebrates Fifteen Years of Innovative Dance
“I think the key is to pay attention when those ideas do come. If you ignore them, they don’t come as quickly the next time. They say, ‘You’re not friendly to us.’ So then you have to spend time rebuilding the universe’s trust. With creativity, just like everything else, you have to keep working at it. There’s ability, and then there’s craft. Craft involves homework. And just doing it. And doing it. So we work a lot on our craft.”
~Jamey Hampton, dancer, choreographer, co-founder with wife Ashley Rowland of BodyVox
Dorianne Laux: “All Poetry is Preparation for Death”
“Poetry allows us access to the quotidian mysteries. It allows us to revere the miracle of our lives as we live them, so that when death comes, we’ll be grateful.”
~Dorianne Laux, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Maureen Manley: It’s not about being better than everyone else. “We are all extraordinary.”
“Feeling sadness for what you’ve lost is necessary and important. But you can get stuck. That loss can become a story that perpetuates itself. There is more to you than that.”
~~Silver & bronze medalist, Maureen Manley, talks about what makes us truly special, which no one can take away.
Read MoreLinda Arkelian, ballet dancer, instructor, Vancouver, British Columbia
“Our culture now has become fixated on technology and materialistic goals that entice our sons away from the arts. The question is: How can we wean our boys away from computer games and keep them engaged in relationships and authentic communication of emotion?”
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