Overview:  
Arrive & Settle
Gather & Begin

Reflecting & Reflexing:
Reflecting: taking a look from another perspective, whether a mirror reflecting back or a good friend listening to your story and echoing your images/phrases back to you.
Reflexing: Enter deeper into Reflection and arrive in Reflexion. When the image/person/idea is received by the other in such a way that both giver and receiver are changed through the exchange. Through this consciously participatory process, the space between becomes alive with co-creative potential (more on this next week!).

Reflection dive: journey through the past 4 weeks leading into this one...
Jeni highlighted various aspects of each week and invited everyone to follow along in whatever ways might activate their reflecting-being: moving, drawing, writing, resting.

I. Orienting to Home:
Haptic touch in the personal dimensions of body-breath-heart.
Haptic proprioceptive awareness orienting to ground-space-dimension through the sphere of directions (4 cardinal directions, above/below, heart). Gravity has a place for you, and it is here. Breath and Heartbeat give us life and relationship.
This is the week where we asked questions like: What is a quality/qualities that you always carry with you? Who/what makes you smile -- what happens in your bodily response?

II. Sensing-Moving from Heart:
Expanded our haptic & proprioceptive touch sensing (outer landscapes) into the inner haptic touch of sound-vibration & interoception (inner landscapes) through the three Hums Explorations -- low hums (ground/belly), whispered hums (meandering/carving pathways), lunar hums (spherically spacious). Rest in Heart (absence of hums, sensations circulating, attention resting).
We asked, What does it feel like to be: tender, gracious, trusted? (notice bodily shifts-sensations in response to each)

III. Let Go - Let Be - Let Come:
Before the actions & inactions of letting go, we affirm what stays/what we claim for and as ourselves.
Tending to the Biology of Survival & WellBeing
This week we named/explored rhythms-textures-shapes-sounds of letting go (see wk 3 site page)
Our primary exploration was Furl/Unfurl, with pauses along the way, turning towards (and being turned towards): heart-belly-pelvis-space between legs-ground. Root to rise, maybe even open heart/face/gaze to sky (sense beyond the room).
Adding a new layer of sequencing to Furl/Unfurl: diving under all you know/perceive/understand > furling in and with your heart and leaving the rest to itself, breathing-being here > root to rise > as you unfurl, part the air with your newly emerging form, shedding whatever is ready to release. Go through this process several times. 

IV. Breathing-Being With:
Explored pathways of breath, inside and out: Fountain & Pool, Gather & Pour, Being With, Wind Breath.
Explored Exhaling into Emptyness and No Thing; Inhaling into Fullness and No Thing; the gathering and turning from one into the other (exhale-pause turning into inhale, inhale-pause turning into exhale). Explored traversing the space between the bottom and top of the breath, pausing where we experience tenderness and breathing with that place.

I - IV, and continuing...
Each week the site page contains within it: 1. summaries of our group gathering; 2. invitations into further exploration through OLs, ILs, DLs; and 3. small little gems of extra material to find along the way.

And always, the poems! 

Reflecting & Reflexing, diving deeper:
Choose an element of the above and reflect-explore in a new way (move, draw, write, rest, ___).

Sharing -- phrases to encapsulate elements of our time together thus far -- Thank you!
stop, listen, feel, move

opening to sensation, opening to pleasure 

all things meant for me come to me

surrender, receive, rest

listening to/with intention

melting rock I am

feel, open, release, love

inner aliveness

sensing can be trusted

Closing & Moving into the Week: poem excerpt by John O'Donohue (see below);
Enjoy your Outer Landscape, Inner Landscape, & Daily Life Invitations (OLs, ILs, & DLs)!