Lucy May Constantini

LATEST ARTICLES ( 30 )

• Stories from the Kalari Resumed and Concluding

  

  photo by Malgo Witter In December I spent three weeks away from the kalari, mostly in Tamil Nadu. After visiting some friends in Chennai, I took part in a rathe... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Of Grief and Grace and Arising and Passing Away

  

  The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you who must raise your sails. ~ Rabindranath Tagore Coming up to midnight on winter solstice 2014, I wrapped... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2016 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Tales from the Kalari

  

  Here I am, back in south India, after a near-three year gap that feels much shorter - and at the same time too long. I've been composing a blog for ages on my... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Footprints

  

  In this time of transition, I came across these 25 minutes of continuous writing from 23rd April, 2011… My fascination with footprints, walking and leaving no... Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• On Tong Len and Toilets

  

  Following my acceptance last year that the usual celebrations really aren’t for me, I resolved to spend the recent Christmas and new year holidays on some form... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2015 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• On Arising and Passing Away - and a Lot of (attempted) Meditation

  Not so long before I started writing this blog, I was coming to the end of my two-year yoga teacher training. We were studying the Shiva Sutras, one of the... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2014 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Hope Love Flow Passion Softness Sea Kindness Earth Gratitude

  

  These are the words that form my new solo, Rituals of Faith and Imagination. Here’s the trailer to it: For those interested in such... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Underscore-Score-Bangalore

  

  Pretty much as soon as the kalari puja at the end of Navaratri was over (towards the end of October), I was on a train to Bangalore. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Listening Properly

  

  My training grant from the Arts Council of Wales is to support my study of kalarippayat but also to learn Sanskrit. So a few days after my arrival in... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Looking For Things That Are Not Visible

  

  “It often seems to me,” said Sathya, “that we are looking for things that are not visible.”touching the gurrukal's feet and receiving his blessing at... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2013 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Southern Comfort

  

  Well here I am writing about Chennai, where I was three months ago and from which I wrote my last post. Yes, the last three months have been rather full,... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Rishikesh (You Can Never Step in the Same River Twice)

  

  Feet in the Ganga - you can never step in the same river twice.Hari Om!I remember being charmed, on my last visit to Rishikesh, when a swami from the ashram I... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Tantric Tibetans

  

  We finally arrived in Dehra Dun after a particularly filthy series of bus journeys. The worst was probably the overnight leg to Chandigarh, where Samuel, Susie’... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• In Shiva's Mountains

  

  Hello God! I'm here! Ringing the bell at the Shiva temple at VashishtI was glad in the end that the bus trip to Manali took place the next morning. I sleep... Read more

  Posted on 06 September 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Continued Lessons in Gratitude

  

  Sitting on a grimy if fairly comfortable bus, about to embark on my third night of travel since Sunday (which on planes and buses for me means pretty much no... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• La Blanche (third Time Lucky)

  

  The solo that first saw the light one January evening in Bangalore in 2010 is in the process of being dusted down and life breathed back into her. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2012 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• More Water

  

  My friend Helen Tennison and I have recently begun working on a new piece. So far, all we really know is that its theme, starting point, call it what you will,... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2011 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• On Pain

  

  Pain, suffering: something I have been mulling over for a while. Perhaps I am more Buddhist than I thought.I spent the first half of August in London, doing som... Read more

  Posted on 09 September 2011 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• There's a Crack in Everything; That's How the Light Gets In.

  

  Yes, it's a long title (as Ieuan, Jane's ten year old son tells us). So if you can’t make it to see our film on Sunday, July 3rd in Cardiff, here’s a preview.... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2011 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH

• Be Like Water

  

  I can’t say I underwent any great epiphanies at Kirstie Simson’s and Adam Benjamin’s workshop in Plymouth a couple of weeks ago. But it was affirming and I was... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2011 BODY, MIND, SPIRIT, HEALTH