For the second year in a row, I was on the four-person team assisting Steve Schwartzberg at the Body Electric retreat for queer male-bodied folks called “Touching the Heart of Stillness” (which I enjoy calling “Touching the Tuchus of Stillness”) at the Bodhi Manda Zen Center in Jemez Springs, NM. This exquisitely led program integrates silent meditation with mindful erotic touch rituals – a combination that exists nowhere else that I’m aware of. The participants spent 18 hours a day in silence, including breakfast and lunch as well as morning practices of sitting and walking; after breaking the silence in the afternoon, we would conduct our touch sessions, have dinner, meet in small “reflection groups,” and then return to silence, which was a blissful way to enjoy star-gazing in the hot springs on the property under the wide Southwestern sky.
God! The Bodhi keeps calling to me! I definitely want to go for this next year. I used to wander around that space--sometimes with not many people around--and wish for time to be there in silence and also to engage in mindful touch before returning to silent solitude. What a lovely rhythm. And Hosen is lovey also. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
God! The Bodhi keeps calling to me! I definitely want to go for this next year. I used to wander around that space--sometimes with not many people around--and wish for time to be there in silence and also to engage in mindful touch before returning to silent solitude. What a lovely rhythm. And Hosen is lovey also. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Come!
I'm glad to hear what you had planned to say but didn't, and couldn't agree more.
We come to wake up!