The 2022 Awareness In the Sanctuary series approaches the experience of aligning our senses and body with our yearnings.
Session 4: Inner Alignment
A moment to find your center, your alignment from the ground, through your heart and out your crown. With alignment comes clarity and strength.
Awareness Through Movement® is Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais’ life work and gift to humanity. The practice is a form of body-based meditation of simple, small, and extreme low-impact movements. Enjoy these lessons as a gift from Bethlehem Hebrew Congregation to our friends and neighbors.
Offered in the BHC Sanctuary and by Zoom (register here)
Yearning
The seed planted deep.
Guided by an inner vision,
Tuned to a still, small voice,
With the heart as the compass,
And the back’s strength,
The seed, the body,
Seeks its sun.
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Love is the Lifeline - Rabbi Robbie Cahana
Rabbi Robbie Cahana - Love is the Lifeline
From the NYT OpDoc by Kitra Cahana, Peabody Award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker.
Let me dream you into my reality
Longing is an ever-present gnaw
That begins inside under the belly button.
It begins physically, without imagination
But it wants to climb towards the heart.
Oh, my wife,
I belong to you.
I see the skinfold under your eyelids.
I want to be your sleep.
I’ve lived nine years in my bed.
My needs are endless since the stroke.
All the things that are simple are beyond me.
But there’s a holy way of asking for help.
And that’s what I’m learning to say.
I need you. I need your hands. I need your reach.
I need you for comfort.
Holiness happens when the body feels loved.
You perfect the art of longing by knowing where your soul is intended to be.
I spend my time in Karen’s love.
I’m a newlywed.
The world is turning around us because we have found our center point.
I’m lost when I realize I’m here
And not in Karen’s arms.
Now the world is living in lockdown.
Distanced. Separate.
Covid lurks invisibly.
I see my body withered, and I Know
I am susceptible to death.
I’m weak and weakening.
My bones protrude through my skin.
I don’t want to die.
I want to live, deeply.
So I travel though my imagination.
I remember myself unobstructed.
Unchastened.
Karen is my breath upwards. My gravity up.
I’m standing on an obelisk
Calling in the wind that I’m flying home.
My family. My soul’s reflection.
My triumph is waiting for me.
Such is longing perfected.
Longing is always future.
We can smile at the past
But longing is for the memory
You don’t have yet.
So I talk to my body
Hurry home. Arise. Walk out the door.
With so much love, I say
To each body part: wake up. Come out of your slumber.
The world is waiting for you to
Dance again.