Apprenticeship to Love

CHAPTER 124: YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR ATTENTION, YOUR HOLINESS (Part II)

Apprenticeship to Love, April 25, 2024 * Today’s questions: And again, What happens when you slow down, almost to the point of being still? What changes? What doesn't change? Now, slow yourself a little more. Notice what begins to open, to move, within and without. Are you willing

CHAPTER 123: YOUR PRACTICE, YOUR ATTENTION, YOUR HOLINESS (Part I)

Apprenticeship to Love, April 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What happens when you slow down, almost to the point of being still? What changes? What doesn't change? Now, slow yourself a little more. Notice what begins to open, to move, within and without. Are you willing to allow

CHAPTER 121: A BURNT OFFERING

Apprenticeship to Love, April 21, 2024 * This is your invitation to the first Apprenticeship to Love "Community Call". FREE to all of you on the "1000 Early Readers" list. Please register here * Today’s questions: How are you offering yourself to what life and love bring

CHAPTER 115: WHEN SHE HOLDS ME

Apprenticeship to Love, April 15, 2024 * Today’s questions: Consider: everything you are doing to do things right by another is also be being done by them, for you. What happens now? Are you BIG enough to hold that, too? * Today's suggested practice: Day 15 of this month&

CHAPTER 114: SHE REVEALS HERSELF THROUGH SACRIFICE

Apprenticeship to Love, April 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are you protecting, holding tight, afraid to lose? What has it cost you, this thing, to have in your hands or heart? And what is costing you, to hold onto it? * Today's suggested practice: Day 14 of this

MASTERS OF TIME & SPACE (& INTIMACY)

Dear Men, This is addressed to all the men on my mailing list. Some of you are familiar with the work I do with men and women and couples around the themes of intimacy, sex, and marriage. Some of you, not so much. A few of you were part of

CHAPTER 99: REMEMBERING CROOKED WAYS

Apprenticeship to Love, April 7, 2024 * Today’s questions: What are your goals? What is your purpose? And, —and this is so important— are you ready to sacrifice these for what is most important in your life? * Today's suggested practice: Day 7 of this month's practice,

CHAPTER 92: FOOLISH KNOWING

Apprenticeship to Love, April 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: It's April Fools' Day: How & where & when do you feel foolish, knowing something in your heart, but your mind —and your friends, your family, the culture— telling you this is madness, foolishness? * Today's suggested

CHAPTER 91: HUSBANDRY REQUIRES BLOODYING

Apprenticeship to Love, March 31, 2024 * Today’s questions: If you are a husband or if you are a wife to a husband, who blessed this husbandry? Who led the way into and through a ritual of becoming worthy of this trial and its treasures? * Today's suggested practice:

CHAPTER 89: MARRIAGE. BLOOD. SACRIFICE

Apprenticeship to Love, March 29, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you to obliterate yourself, and are you willing (you can never be ready for this; it really is too much) to step into that dark unknown? * Today's suggested practice: Day 29 of this month's

CHAPTER 88: WALKING & LISTENING TO THE SILENCE

Apprenticeship to Love, March 28, 2024 * Today’s questions: Have you slowed enough to feel what’s true for you? Do you know how quietly you will have to walk, to know? * Today's suggested practice: Day 23 of this month's practice, to pause and feel the

CHAPTER 83: MARRIAGE + GRACE (& TANGO)

Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 23, 2024 * Today’s questions: What does it mean, to your body-mind, to "follow the follow?" Have you slowed enough, become patient enough, to feel into that energy or that person who would follow you, if you allowed yourself to be

CHAPTER 80: RETURN/AFTERCARE

Apprenticeship to Love, March 20, 2024 * Today’s questions: Who do you claim to see you? To hold and know and love you, just as you are? And whom do you claim to see, to hear, hold, and to love just as they are? * Today's suggested practice: Day

CHAPTER 74: DIMINISHMENT, SEX, & RITUAL

Apprenticeship to Love: Towards Authentic Relationship, March 14, 2024 * Today’s questions: What threshold invites you? What frightening step forward that seems to welcome your annihilation? And what ritual can you prepare, to offer yourself as the gift you are to this moment of diminishing? * Today's suggested practice:

CHAPTER 73: RITUAL AND MARRIAGE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 13, 2024 * Today’s questions: What habits close you to life? What rituals open you to life? How important is it, to be alive, to feel the joy —and the terror!— of life coursing through you? * Today's

CHAPTER 69: COURAGE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 9, 2024 * Today’s question: Where in your body does the will to perservere, to push through and against your fear, where does this power lie? * Today's suggested practice: Day 9 of this month's practice,

CHAPTER 61: PAUSE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, March 1, 2024 * Today’s questions: What happens when the conversation goes silent? What feelings come up? Are you afraid? Do you feel rejected? Angry? Curious? Grateful? * Today's suggested practice: Day 1 of this month's practice,

WRITINGS & RITES & PASSAGES

Chapter 47 of this Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 16, 2024 * Today's playlist: Silence... * Today’s questions: What small (or large) rituals do you have, that help you break open and pay attention to this moment, your opening or closing in this

PATIENT PREPARATION (AKA "SLOW DOWN")

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 44, February 13, 2024 * Today's playlist: Spiegel Im Spiegel (Arvo Pärt) https://apple.co/42E6XM8 * Today’s questions: How are you resisting love? How are you not holding yourself close, tenderly, with deepest devotion? * Today's

APPROACHING VALENTINE’S DAY (A DIFFICULT SEASON)

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 42, February 11, 2024 * Today's playlist: The memory of the roar of the trees, the river, the traffic... * Today’s questions: Can you feel yourself being pulled in strange and uncomfortable ways? Confused? Struggling to feel the

I TRUST THIS FIRE

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, Chapter 40, February 9, 2024 * Today's playlist: Bach Transcriptions (Mao Fujita) https://classical.music.apple.com/ca/album/1712466829?l=en-CA * Today’s questions: Do you have a practice, that you may feel the burn, that you may

IT'S NOT EASY, TO DANCE THIS MOMENT

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 5, 2024 * Today's playlist: Listening to the noise of household appliances, robotically heating my home, cleaning my air, and other things that I take for granted... * Today’s questions: Who do you choose? And why do you

IMBOLC. CONFUSION. HUMILITY

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, February 1, 2024 * Today's playlist: The throbbing hum of the machine that pumps concrete into the forms across the alley... * Today’s questions: It's the transitional season, Imbolc. Can you feel the sometimes-confusion of winter-becoming-spring in

Tonight's Yoga+Tango for Lovers cancelled

Dear students and those of you who've expressed an interest in joining us, I'm sorry if this catches you at short notice. Due to a (minor) injury I'm not in good shape to teach this evening's class, February 1. I thought I

THIS SLENDER THREAD

Apprenticeship to Love: Meditations on this Path to Authentic Relationship, January 31, 2024 * Today's playlist: the silence of the forest after this morning's deluge, before the next * Today’s questions: How do I choose to stay present with what I've chosen, with what has