This image feels like the rich slough of sensory experiencing material I have been steeping in all week at the Body-Mind Centering Association conference at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. This is only my second BMCA conference, and I am hooked. It is an immersion in bodily wisdom and mindfulness via the visionary work of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and those who have studied, appreciated and expanded her teachings. The collegial breadth and depth here is stunning, delicious, inspiring. Feeling met, held, welcomed and taught by this community is a most precious gift.
My post-conference body carries the many traces of shared dances, sounds and questions. It also carries a hunger to deepen those inquiries, to nourish these friendships, old and new. As we ready ourselves to leave, I feel a slight panic and a more than slight sadness. I want these connections, I want to be included here. I want more experience of these lovely faces, bodies, minds and the tremendous integrity and devotion they embody.
Thank you one and all!