Light Body School at Joshua Tree Retreat Center, CA

I'm back.  Not all the way mentally, but physically I'm here.   I'm sitting in my meditation chair looking at the rain and the surface of the Pond and the Labyrinth - coming back slowly to this world.  I'm stuck this morning on two lines from my daily prayer of opening sacred space:  to Father Sun:  Thank you for bringing us together and allowing us to Sing the Song of Life.  That's what I've been doing all last week at Joshua Tree Retreat Center east of Los Angeles in the High Desert.  Sixty of us from as far away as New Zealand and Sweden, Canada, Texas, New York, Gainesville, GA and Ninety Six SC.  And, of course, California and Colorado residents and others.  For seven days my friend Todd and I sang the song of life along with so many beautiful men and women.    We began our stay at 5:30 a.m. with a walk up the nearby mountain (well, actually just a hill) to watch the sunrise while the moon was still bright.  (At 8,000 feet it felt like a mountain.)........Our leaders were superb, their messages divinely inspired, and our lives enriched beyond words.  We were cleansed of no longer useful stuff and refilled with light at this West module of the Healing the Light Body School.  A spectacular full and nearly full moon graced us all week long.  At our final  Fire Ceremony on Friday evening, we watched a huge yellow moon rise while standing in a circle surrounding the fire.  Now, we are eagerly awaiting our drumming circle here at the Yogatorium on December 21.  Plan to join us.  You won't be sorry! But even before that, an all-day Yoga Retreat, Novembe 17.   (Find more details soon at www.yogatorium.com.)