Spirituality Can't Be Taught Only Caught

I am at the 10-day Winter Movement Monastery. I have completely gone blank. That is part of my experience -- nothingness may be more appropriate.

This retreat has provided me with the opportunity to recognize the healing process is not only about understanding but release, understanding is the easy part; release is where I want to run away. This experience taught me to just sit and wait with my understanding. It provided me the space to explore that understanding until it brought me to the place of release.

This retreat  intoxicated me with the divine wine and love.I’ve been able to recognize and name metaphors, images, and symbols in my dreams, in both my waking state and dream state. It’s given me a state of the mystery of the divine. Spirituality is so sensual.Spirituality and sexuality are no different.Spirituality can’t be taught only caught.This space provides safety, challenge and unconditional disciplined love.

I’ve gotten in touch with parts of my being I didn’t even know existed.The retreat has opened my heart and made my hips pretty sore.What is difficult is only bringing me closer to my goal.

Rest. I need to honor that more. Over-extending gets me nowhere. In all this chaos, my path to the divine is the best I can do. Gentle is a good approach to everything in life. Gentleness doesn’t exist without patience.

I have an entire new out look on connective tissueI am surprised at how much I learned here. There is so much information I can pass on, incorporate in my massage practice.What a blessing Gratitude is! I get that now, and not just gratitude for everything that is groovy, but gratitude for everything on both sides of the coin. Thanks, Dunya, for showing up in your life and teaching us how to show up in ours.

Kacy Curtis, massage therapist, Arcata, CA