Love your “Tree of Contemplative Practice” BohdiSeed
So - I can split my spiritual toolbox under some of your headings with my popular ones listed first, and those done erratically below them:
Movement
- Wing Tsun Kung Fu (weekly classes and home practice, includes Chi-Gung/Qigong)
- Walking meditation in the woods (1 - 4 times monthly)
- PT bouncer (trampette) including the 4 elemental directions.
- Yoga
- Bellydance
Ritual
- Wiccan ritual format alone (c.4 weekly). Creating sacred space wherever I am,
and following a ritual protocol that includes chants and invokations to select Deities and
spellwork.
Following the Wiccan wheel of the year.
- Wiccan ritual format in pagan groups (once monthly)
- Small rituals daily. Morning and evening chants (like prayers), chants or
ritual actions with or without tools - before and after work (clearing the space, ground and centre). Ritual bath weekly.
- Pagan grace at meals sometimes (in my head - my companions are rarely Pagan - except at group ritual where grace is a part of the ritual protocol).
Stillness
- Tarot card contemplation or path working (weekly)
- Contemplating surrounding sounds or silence
- Listening to recorded nature sounds or sitting still to a meditative track.
- The "slow space" of stroking my cat or playing with her
- Focus on the breath
- Mantra (English and Sanskrit)
- Single object focus
- Visualization
- Loving kindness and gratitude
Creative
- Tarot journaling/diary
- Pen and ink artwork
- Colouring books
Activist
- Attending lectures, workshops and talks
- Support of human rights and animal welfare and environmental causes