Embodied Intimacy, Transformative Inquiry, Creative Emergence

Articles by Shayla

Articles by Shayla

Lifeletter #133: This Changes Everything

Posted by on Apr 13, 2015 in Articles by Shayla, Featured Writing, Lifeletters & Articles | 3 comments

Lifeletter #133: This Changes Everything

To change everything, it takes everyone. This means you. And me. And the woman on the street. And the person next door. Nobody gets to let themselves off the hook.

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A New Offering

Posted by on Jan 18, 2013 in Articles by Shayla | 0 comments

A New Offering

  I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go… (Theodore Roethke)   Last fall I took my family to Peru, to a healing centre in the jungle, and then journeyed with my partner through the Sacred Valley in the Andes. It was a time of radical transformation, especially for my daughter. My intention on leaving for Peru was to allow my old life to fall away, and a new one to emerge. I knew that I could not make that...

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3 Key Inquiries for Evolution

Posted by on Dec 13, 2012 in Articles by Shayla | 0 comments

We are in the middle of a very powerful time. I’m noticing that something radical and challenging is happening with a great many people right now.

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Meditation, Just Sitting & Hanging Out, Article 1

Posted by on Dec 13, 2012 in Articles by Shayla, Lifeletters & Articles | 0 comments

Meditation, Just Sitting & Hanging Out, Article 1

One of the Radiant Mind students from Germany asked me a wonderful question today, on the phone. We were talking about the practice of ‘just sitting’ and allowing everything to be as it is, which is one of the foundations of most nondual work, or the training in awakening to unconditioned awareness. Just sitting is not the same as meditation. Meditation usually has some kind of focus, like the breath, or a mantra, and a goal as well, some kind of state we are trying to reach. Just sitting...

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