Still Running

I recommend this book not because the author runs, as do I, but because she connects the physical body with freedom and insight. She has felt the stillness during movement. You are fully in the moment and everything is one. I met Vanessa Zeuisei Goddard, by chance when my husband and I visited Zen Mountain Monastery where she was practicing and where Ed had practiced years before. The retreats were between sessions, on a break from silence, so she and I were able to talk. To speak with someone who is both on the meditative path and who meditates while… show more.

As a long-time meditator, any book which combines running with meditation speaks to my heart. In this gorgeous book about her passion for running, her long-time Zen practice, and the workshops she teaches on Zen and running, Goddard has created a tight, lovely, primer for how to infuse movement with meditation. In these pages, she shows how running can be about so much more than exercise. It can help end suffering.