Yoga Hour Podcast with Laurel Trujillo
How can poetry open up new ways of thinking, feeling, and being in the world? Author, teacher, and poet John Brehm shares how we can enter a poem, allowing its power to be a gateway to experience a deeper sense of wonder and mystery.
Listen here.
Review of No Day at the Beach
John Brehm’s pilgrimage began in Nebraska and took him to Brooklyn. There he honed a rather sharp edge which now, as he seeks illumination in Portland, Oregon, he sometimes deprecates as an obstacle to compassion for other people...
EXPLORING GRIEF, GRATITUDE, AND REVERENCE: Santa Sabina Center, May 4th – 8th
with Alice Boyd and John Brehm
In this five-day in-person retreat, we'll take a deep dive into the nature of grief, gratitude, and reverence. We’ll explore the relationship between these powerful emotional states and learn how cultivating gratitude for everything, even for our pain and suffering, can lead to reverence, and how increasing our capacity for reverence can enhance our lives and heal our planet.
We’ll use three related practices—Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons, guided meditations, and mindful poetry discussions—to deepen our understanding of these three themes.
In our time together, we’ll practice:
—finding safety in the present moment —cultivating gratitude for all that life offers us —creating stability through awareness of the body —recovering our sense of wonder and reverence through poetry —and more
May 4 - 8, 2022
Santa Sabina Center
San Rafael, CA
Livestream talk on The Dharma of Poetry, hosted by Annie Bloom’s Books
John Brehm in Conversation with Heather Sellers on The Dharma of Poetry.
Podcast on The Dharma of Poetry
Interview with Wisdom Publications publisher and CEO Daniel Aitken.
April 9th, 2021