The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All

Wildhouse Publishing, Boston, MA

Released February 20, 2025

Sometimes the most ordinary object can open a door to life’s greatest mysteries. For Paula Sager, it’s a wristwatch—one that takes on a life of its own after her father’s death, prompting questions concerning synchronicity and the nature of relationship. Paula walks alongside her father to the threshold of life, bearing witness to every step. Time is the landscape. Contemplative practice spreads out the crumpled map. The Watch delves into the mystery of time as lived experience, and to the possibility that every moment can be a portal to the invisible realm beyond time.

Insights from the author’s own well-developed paths of practice shed light on new ways of perceiving, new ways of knowing and being. Cultivating embodied presence, intuitive insight, and the capacity to bear witness can enhance our most essential relationships: that of parent and child, teacher and student, doctor and patient, and even our human bond with nature and the numinous.

With the aperture of the lens keenly focused on the final year of a life well-lived, The Watch offers a compelling perspective, bringing new questions to important conversations about life, death, and relationship beyond death.

About the Watch: A Message from the Author

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Intimacy in Emptiness: An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness

The collected writings of Janet Adler, edited by Paula Sager and Bonnie Morrissey

Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT

The Discipline of Authentic Movement, grounded in the relationship between a mover and a witness, connects us directly with the inner wisdom of the body. In the emptiness of the movement space, a mover’s inner experience—feelings, sensations, images, and thoughts—become outer unchoreographed gestures. Seen by their inner witness in the presence of an outer witness, the mover steps into the intimate mystery of who they are becoming.

Sharing vivid examples from founder of the Discipline of Authentic Movement Janet Adler’s 50-year inquiry, Intimacy in Emptiness brings her essential writings, including new and previously unpublished work, to a wider audience, guiding readers through the multiple layers of this experiential and innovative approach to embodied consciousness. Her writings illuminate the path of the developing inner witness, transforming toward compassionate presence, conscious speech, and intuitive knowing.

Audio Excerpt from Intimacy in Emptiness: An Evolution of Embodied Consciousness