A Garden of Practice

Last week about 70 of us gathered to listen to ourselves through the lens of Audre Lorde’s poem “Stations.” We wrote about what we are “at the heart of” in this moment, we remembered what we need to remember and we reaffirmed or generated practices to help us remember our power and interconnection. In a time when the dominant strategy is to trigger and destabilize us we are grounding in a power older than any fascist regime. If you missed it and you want to learn more about Audre Lorde’s message to her students (and the beautiful ways they carried this poem forward), or just to benefit from a supportive space to affirm and evaluate how your own practices line up with your intentions for this year, the replay is available here: https://sangodare.podia.com/the-heart-of-now-audre-lorde-and-practicing-transformation

And here is our group poem:

 A Garden of Practice

by the participants in “The Heart of Now”: Audre Lorde and Practicing Transformation

I am planting a life of balance

I am planting my hands in soil

I am planting seeds of wonder

I am planting a body that grows love

I am planting communities of care and resistance

I am planting seeds of regeneration of love and connection

I am planting hope again. Belief again. A little more joy again.

I am planting gorgeous self-trust

I am planting play inside of my practice

I am planting songs of love to travel to you after we win.

I am planting perspectives based on knowing our goodness

I am planting soft and generative touch

I am planting seeds of joy and relations

I am planting my feet on new ground, whenever needed. If I make even one step, I give myself the

opportunity of a new vision.

I am planting belonging, trust, and breath.

I am planting a spark.

I am planting understandings of power

I am planting reminders in my life of what I already know

I am planting stability in self

I am planting seeds of culture of care in play, imagination, pleasure

I am planting love, boundaries and prayers for a ceasefire and justice.

I am planting whispers of trust, grounding, and transformation

I am planting alchemical offerings

I am planting a garden of change

I am planting a future big enough to hold us all

I am planting a love for scattered seeds from packages that promise butterflies and wild flowers

I am planting bodies of flowers

I am planting spaces where ancestral knowledge is revered

I am planting seeds of presence, to accompany the power in and around me, that remembers cracks,

as illegible paths toward life and freedom

If you want to learn more about our online practice spaces to support you in deepening your creativity, listening multi-generationally, and accessing the diving power of every day check out the following:

Stardust and Salt: Daily Creative Practice

Repetition is Sacred: Practicing Seven Generations

and

The God of Everyday: A Week of Practice