It can often feel as if the dazzling and exhausting world that we live in is something unique to us as people of the 21st century.
But Meister Eckhart, although writing more than 700 years ago, has enormous empathy and great guidance for us that’s still very relevant today.
I’ve been working with Meister Eckhart’s writings for the past 30 years. I am now chair of the Eckhart Society. And our first chair Ursula Fleming combined her own love of Eckhart, her own experiences of how helpful he could be in enabling her to find her own peace with physical practices that she called the Fleming method. These she used with people who were often at the limits of pain medication in the situation of palliative care. Her practices have much in common with yin yoga, a very still and restorative practice that I use in my own work as a yoga teacher.
…and have certainly brought me back again and again to Eckhart. He’s always been for me much more than intellectual excitement. He has been a great spiritual solace… so I’m hoping that together we’ll be able to share those. And find whatever your suffering may be a place from which you can turn, find integration and continue.
Phylosophy and physical practice in one retreat
The Still Point of the Turning World: Finding Rest Amidst Suffering
