Balanced Mind With Julie Potiker

Sit back, close your eyes and feel your connection to everything around you through this guided meditation led by Julie Potiker. Julie completes the meditation with a reading of the poem, "Speaking Tree", by Joy Harjo U.S. Poet Laureate. (Tu'Bishvat is the New Year for the Trees in Israel)   Speaking Tree, by Joy Harjo Some things on this earth are unspeakable:Genealogy of the broken—A shy wind threading leaves after a massacre,Or the smell of coffee and no one there— Some humans say trees are not sentient beings,But they do not understand poetry— Nor can they hear the singing of trees when they are fed byWind, or water music—Or hear their cries of anguish when they are broken and bereft— Now I am a woman longing to be a tree, planted in a moist, dark earthBetween sunrise and sunset— I cannot walk through all realms—I carry a yearning I cannot bear alone in the dark— What shall I do with all this heartache? The deepest-rooted dream of a tree is to walkEven just a little ways, from the place next to the doorwa