Your Practice

The Root System Check

Think of a gardener returning to her plot mid-month. She doesn't come with urgency

Preparing the Inner Ground

Five days before the New Moon, the sky is still dark. Not empty — dark

Sitting with the Fertile Void: A Practice for the In-Between

Find a place to sit where your feet can rest flat on the floor. Let your spine settle — not forced upright, not slumped

What the Light Finds

Find a place to sit where you won't be interrupted. You don't need candles or ritual objects — you need your body and ten quiet minutes

The Weight of Attention

Sit down somewhere you won't be interrupted for ten minutes. Let your spine find its natural length — not rigid, not collapsed

The Voice That Knows

Place one hand on your chest before you read another word. Not to feel your heartbeat

The Weight of Right Now

Put both feet flat on the floor. Feel the pressure of the ground pushing back — steady, solid, indifferent to whatever you were just thinking about

Yesterday, Rewritten

Sit somewhere you won't be interrupted. Feel the chair or floor beneath you — solid, real, holding you

The Open Hand

via Florence Scovel Shinn

Find a chair. Sit down

The Space Between

Place one hand on your chest, right now, before you read another word. Feel the warmth there

The Friday Practice: Come Back to Now

Set a timer for ten minutes. Sit somewhere you won't be interrupted — on a chair, on the floor, wherever your body can be still

The Practice of Coming Back

Put both feet flat on the floor. Feel the weight of your body in the chair, or against the ground — the actual pressure of it, the solidity