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Articles written by Shayla Wright:

Riding the Wave

A student and friend of mine went surfing in Oregon over Christmas. We has a conversation, a very brief one, when he returned. “You can’t half catch a wave,” he said. “You have to commit to ...Read More

Just Washed Clean

spent some time yesterday with a longtime friend of mine, who is also a teacher. We were talking about how we used to think of the movement of evolution in our lives in terms of ...Read More

Meditation, Just Sitting & Hanging Out

One of the Radiant Mind students from Germany asked me a wonderful question today, on the phone. We were talking about the practice of ‘just sitting’ and allowing everything to be as it ...Read More

The Human Clown

One of the participants at my ‘Effortless Being’ retreat asked me to write this down for him. Since it’s about all of us, about our human condition, here it is. One evening at the retreat they ...Read More

The Flow of our Own Being

Sometimes, when I’m speaking or working with a group of people, I fall into a deep bodily sense of being held by a current of energy. This current is not like anything I could imagine ...Read More

Tough Grace

A friend of mine is taking a big step in her life, leaving her home town and all that is familiar to her. “I’m really scared,” she said to me, “It’s so hard to leave ...Read More

The Soft Way

While I was preparing to facilitate a Radiant Mind weekend here in Nelson, a man called me up one day and asked, “What is Radiant Mind? What is this thing called unconditioned awareness?” I never know ...Read More

Celebration

At one of my writing workshops over the weekend, we were writing in response to a picture. In my picture a beautiful dark-eyed woman was celebrating at some kind of party- blowing a streamer, with ...Read More

The Glory and Difficulty

The work of the dervish community was to open the heart, to explore the mystery of presence… and to celebrate the glory and difficulty of being in a human incarnation. -Coleman Barks, speaking of Rumi’s community When ...Read More

Sacred Anxiety

Beyond living and dreaming
there is something more important: waking up (Antonio Machado) A man I work with was telling me about how he spent the Christmas holidays with his family. He went back home to the big city ...Read More

The Homing Instinct

I was working with a beautiful group of women this spring, exploring what it is to listen and express from the heart. We were opening to the simplicity of just being present for whatever shows ...Read More

The Movement of Love

I spent five days in August at a retreat in the mountains. Our theme was Everything Changes. We engaged in a number of different contemplations, meditations and inquiries. One of my favorite questions was, “Do ...Read More