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When desire is not enough

I had a phone call this morning from a dear friend telling me that Prapto, the Javanese movement artist and teacher who has had a...

A poem to share (not mine)

Go to the Limits of Your Longing by Rainer Maria Rilke God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us...

Opening the Gates, Part 2

I wrote about Inanna having the gates opened for her to descend into the underworld in my last post.  My own journey through gates has...

Opening the Gates, Part 1

Very early on in my enquiry into desire – 3 years ago – I found myself drawn to the story of The Descent of Inanna...

The desire behind the journey

The journey is a much used metaphor for the trajectory of life – as well as for the different phases, aspects or particular experiences of...

The desire for freedom – from what? to what?

A strong human desire that is expressed, as far as I can see, in all places and at all times of our history, is the...

Going deeper to be loved.

When I declared in my Longing is not desire post that I wanted “to touch and be touched by everything”, I knew that this required...

Why do I want to be witnessed?

I’m exploring here my desire to be witnessed in movement practice and what seems to happen when I experience being witnessed.  I acknowledge that the...

Desire as Life

  It is possible to view, and to feel, desire as an expression of life force: the desire of each alive being to have its...

Lemon Desires

Desire is everywhere.  I was recently presented with a number of items and invited to choose the one I desired – I went straight to...