Part Four: Leisure as a Practice in Detachment to Time

This week's post is the fourth in a seven-part series of excerpts from our soon to be released companion video to the book, Awakening Somatic Intelligence: The Art & Practice of Embodied Mindfulness.

^"When we engage our somatic intelligence, we awaken to our true nature as the embodiment of luminosity and spaciousness.   This awakened mode of perception dispels the curse of mis-identification with image/object bound experience.  You are already home, expressing in the world all the juiciness of this ecstatic union with the beloved. 

Let’s begin by exploring how we relate to the idea of “practice” to enter into  dimensions of experience unlike anything you have ever done before.

Your practice is the time you create for yourself to give birth slowly. It is an embodiment of leisure, or timelessness, the way you detach from the pressurized field of time. 

As my friend, Brother David Steindl-Rast defines it: “Leisure is the expression of detachment with regard to time.” He goes on to say that “leisure … is not the privilege of those who can afford to take time; it is the virtue of those who give to everything they do the time it deserves to take.” 

This is one of the best descriptions of practice I’ve heard."