Bhutanese prayer flags • Honolulu Academy of the Arts
When I talk to someone for the first time about TaKeTiNa, often that person claims to be “rhythmically challenged” or have “no rhythm.” How can that be? Your heart beats. Your breath flows in and out. Cycles of moons and seasons regulate your life. Your world is a symphony of vibration, pulse, and pattern.
We are rhythmic beings and being in rhythm is our natural state. When circumstances interrupt that state, when unnatural or artificial rhythms are imposed upon us, we feel dis-ease. We suffer.
A TaKeTiNa circle is a place to re-connect with our natural state. There is no agenda, schedule, exam, or grade. We don’t know how far we will go—the journey itself is the goal. In that, there can be no failure: We always achieve our goal.
