, so many of us live indoors, on screens—strangers to our own bodies and sense experience—and this leaves us uneasy. We’re homesick, for a deep sense of place and belonging, so we try to fill the void the only way we know how: with rational thought. “But thinking is part of the exile,” says Insight teacher Rebecca Bradshaw. “The answer is in the embodied heart, that untamed territory of feeling and sensing.” In Bradshaw’s debut book, (Shambhala Publications), she teaches us how to live through our senses, which, she asserts, greatly supports meditation practice. Bradshaw explores what she thinks of as a feminine paradigm in practice—embodied, receptive, intimate, and noncognitive. To address the problems in our troubled world, she
Where The Path Leads
YEARS AGO, MY DAUGHTER heard that remote Pollet’s Cove, Nova Scotia, was the summertime home of a herd of semi-wild horses, and she’s dreamt ever since of paying them a visit. This year, with her about to launch into high school and a new chapter of