Category Archives: Practices

Meet the Enemy Part 6: Harboring

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the sixth installment in a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 5: Combat

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the fifth installment in a  weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 4: Agenda

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the fourth installment of a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 3: Recognition

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the third installment of a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 2: Habitat

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the second installment in a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Meet the Enemy Part 1: Taking Stock

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is the first installment of a weeklong intensive, with one or two exercises per day (which are bolded). Please, if you follow this series in full or part, share your valuable experience and reaction to the enemy. And of … Continue reading →

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Year’s End Benedictions: 2011

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Adena Atkins

Note: This is an updated repost. Year’s End Benedictions have become a tradition with me–please join! I find New Year’s resolutions fascinating–several of my obsessions converge in them. Tradition–The creation and maintenance of shared ritual is so powerful. Culture–Culture shapes … Continue reading →

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Shift into Winter: Six Steps

Posted on December 21, 2011 by Adena Atkins

It’s a pretty day.  Sunlight is backlighting big soft clouds, and the shadows are purpled and crisp. I’m sitting by a fire, drinking tea, and my heart is finally quiet. Time to make a shift. As we entered fall, we … Continue reading →

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Downsizing the Alarm

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Adena Atkins

Over the summer I stopped meditating in the mornings. It was a deliberate decision–a friend and I were working our way through Julia Cameron’s artist workbook, Finding Water. Cameron suggests writing three full pages of freestyle freehand each morning, a … Continue reading →

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Repost: Beyond Turkey

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Adena Atkins

Hi all! It’s almost Thanksgiving again and I wanted to share this post. I still haven’t sent out all of  last year’s thank you cards, but they are waiting, patiently, along with a host of unwritten thanks for this year’s … Continue reading →

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