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Shoji screens  are made of translucent Japanese paper panels that lightly separate spaces. The screens form a thin divide between the outside and the inside world, yet intimately connect the spaces by transmitting light and shadow, sound and air. And, just as the glow of a candle, , and the smell of the rain is felt through the translucent Shoji screen,  so death flickers its shadowed light onto life. 

This story is about how magicians loosen our grip on how we perceive the world, and about endings.

One afternoon my husband and I were greeted by a robed, toothless, wild haired monk under the tall arches of a crumbling monastery. He hugged us, again and again, would not let go, pointed at my eyes, then his, then the sky: azul, azul. Blue, blue.

Buen Camino is about walking the long road to Santiago.

"Trees warp time, or rather create a variety of times: here dense and abrupt, there calm and sinuous ." John Fowles

Temagami Time is about our relationship with time.

This Yoga Nidra has you observe the rising and falling of awareness.

Cold Cellar is about flat coke, woolen socks and our habits and hankerings for more.

This Yoga Nidra practice takes you down a steep path to the edge of an ocean (accompaniment by loud spring birds).