Every Odd Wednesday 5pm
Roger Williams Park Temple to Music, PVD RI
If you would like to join in Spring 2026, please contact dom
that combines meditation and movement, created by Barbara Dilley.
Bring a blanket, yoga mat, and your own cushions to be comfortable on the ground. When you arrive, arrange your cushions around the edges of the space. This is generally a non-verbal practice, please become familiar with the following score before you arrive (or don't, and feel the wonder of it all!)
ding, ding, ding, ding (bell)
• 20 minutes—Personal Awareness Practice (could be considered personal warm up; you are listening to your body and letting the body lead. You could be near your cushion or anywhere in the space;
writing and singing are also possible. You could bring an instrument and play it too.)
ding
• 20 minutes—Open Space (sense of community; short bow to enter and to exit the space;
it's practice not performance)
ding
• a few final moments of sitting
ding, ding, ding, ding....group bow
THE END
the above language was adapted from the preliminary instructions I received from Nancy Stark Smith before joining a sangha led by her in Florence, MA. For more details and more of my own ideas, please visit this page.
There is no fee to participate in this practice.
Gifts of appreciation are welcome at any time, in any increment, and not expected.
Stevia Daddy is your alternative sweet father figure, in the House of Andy, Providence RI. Appearing here as Han Solo/Aladdin with the best copilot king, Arthur Honeyseer, as Princess Leia/Jasmine. Stevia has also appeared as a fire-hot dragon and as Lizzie Borden's dad in various Randy Andy productions.
(2023-24)
at Long Wharf (2022, 24)
As a creative collaborator with NWD and Elm City Dance Collective, I co-led teams of performing artists in the city of New Haven to bring awareness to water issues along the
Long Island Sound at Long Wharf.
(2022, 23)
The Underscore, a long-form dance improvisation structure created by Nancy Stark Smith, incorporates Contact Improvisation (CI) into the broader arena of improvisational dance practice. Global Underscore (GUS) centers around a yearly event in which the Underscore is practiced simultaneously for a 4-hour period by people all over the world near the summer solstice (northern hemisphere). (from https://globalunderscore.com) A practitioner of the Underscore since 2017, I have served as a site coordinator/facilitator in Providence and New Haven.
(2020)
morphing mazes -- same four walls
live to eat to live
