David Whyte, Poet — Spacious Ease, Irish Koans, Writing in Delirium, and Revelations From a Yak Manger

In the first state of rest is the sense of stopping, of giving up on what we have been doing or how we have been being. In the second, is the sense of slowly coming home, the physical journey into the body's un-coerced and un-bullied self, as if trying to remember the way or even the destination itself. In the third state is a sense of healing and

Use poetry! In our generative somatics courses, we often read poems at the beginning and end of our meditations. Some of my favorites for meditation are: “The Prison Cell,” Mahmoud Darwish; “The Journey,” Mary Oliver; “Yes, We Can Talk,” Mark Nepo; and everything from June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Warsaw Shire, or Nayirrah Waheed.