In the 50s, deeply immersed in a modern dance career, performing with Martha Graham and Anna Sokalow and other groups, I experienced a spinal injury that cut off my future professional future. At that time in the late 50s early 60s, not much was available for treating this condition other than chiropractors and orthopedists.

And out of the blue through the mysterious workings of the universe, I was introduced to a process that completely changed the direction of this life. There were two teachers, both from Germany, where this training had been going on for some time. Carola Speads called her work physical re-education, and Charlotte Selver called her approach sensory awareness. This investigation of the organic nature in each of us of body, mind and spirit was the beginning of the unfolding of my lifes' work. This is the subject I will be sharing in this presentation.

To what extent can we, through awareness, live in more harmony with ourselves?

Producer : Dorothy Friedman

I received a BS from NYU and Masters from Columbia on dance and movement exploration.

Through a series of circumstances, I was led to Insight Meditation Center around 1980. They had only been open since 1976. It was the continuation of earlier explorations into the spiritual worlds, and with growing intensity I entered the Buddhist way.

I had experimented for many years before searching for a way that might feel like home to me. In this course, I had become a Sufi and practiced with two Hindu gurus before I found my way to Buddhism. After what feels like life times of practice I am now designated as a monk, priest and sensei in the Zen tradition.