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"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."
Simone Weil
Overview:
Arrive & Settle
Gather & Begin
Sharing: Sharing from our past week of "the tincture of our amazement" -- OL, IL, and DL experiences. Thank you!
Reflecting & Reflexing -- Review of last week's descriptions/definitions...
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.
Opening Somatic Exploration --
Sliding bones through flesh (and feeling the distinctions between muscular effort and bony effort). Hands/arms offer an easy first place to begin this exploration.
Touch sternum (bones of hands & bone of sternum meeting one another). Explore your sternum bone sliding through your flesh; use hands to assist an area that is typically tight.
Rest with hands to sternum, sternum to hands. Experience the exchange of sensation through breathing-being with bones meeting bones, ground meeting ground.
From this anchor/ground of bone & haptic touch, enliven all of your pores into wider, panoramic sensing-perceiving.
Feel your body breathing with and in the space around you.
Can you sense (use imagination as needed) yourself in the fabric, the stream, the flow, the plasma of the substance of the space between things/forms?
Slide your body through this substantive space just as you slid your bones through your flesh. Explore these sensations as they build. Maybe you slide through the space; maybe as you slide, the space follows you just as light trails might or perhaps as if every movement of your body moves the fabric of the space in response. Play in this for awhile!
REST.
POEM/EXCERPT: See below (and for fun, I included another perspective to reflex with the first;)
Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a transformative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, “that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,” instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent trans-formative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of dis-empowered perception.
Terence McKenna
The world of dew
is the world of dew.
And yet, and yet --
Kobayashi Issa
Reflecting & Reflexing, II --
Ways of Seeing-- guided somatic orientation within various persepectives
Inner step back to spine -- experience your spine, the bony structure, its flex and stretch, it's spiral and turn, etc.
Soften gaze and Notice the ways you see-perceive your outer landscape while resting against your spine.
Remain in the ground and fluidity of spine while Exploring ways of gazing-seeing:
OLs -
Panoramic (sensing in all directions in the largest context that feels comfortable/engaging for you -- can sense beyond your current room)
Peripheral (use hands as needed to assist in finding your periphery in all directions)
Focal (explore the distinctions between focusing in on one specific spot in detail (really hone in!), and then what it's like to remain in that focused detail but relax and let the details arrive to you -- instead of going to them. Both are welcome -- this is about feeling the differences in what happens in your body as you shift between and through active focus and passive focus).
Return to spine as primary at any time
ILs - exploring the versions of the above in your inner landscapes, using your spine as a central organizing place when/as needed. Same as previous -- feeling differences between active and passive variations of each.
Panoramic
Peripheral
Focal
Return to spine at any time
REST.
There's a stillness at the center of your heart, a space where you have no enemy, and you are incomperable. Each faith tradition has a name for it, but what matters most is to stop looking for that place and start looking from that place.
-- Alfred K. LaMotte, from Shimmering Birthless
Reflexing with/in Group Intentions, I -- Reflexive deep dive into the group gift
First round (beginnning to end): use any of the above-explored gazes to be in relationship with the images/intentions of the group.
CLOSE EYES: REST & INTEGRATE
POEM/EXCERPT: See above.
Second Round: (end to beginning): using a new way(s) of seeing than the first round, receive the images/intentions from a fresh perspective.
IN BOTH: notice the various ways your body responds as we move through the Group Gift.
REST.
Reflexing with/in Group Intentions, II -- Dive into your body & experience of the above and draw out a shape/gesture that depicts something of your experience (doesn't have to "make sense"!). Share with the group as you receive the other shapes/gestures offered. Thank you!!!
Closing & Moving into the Week:
HERE is the PDF of the Group Intentions Gift. The PDF will allow you to scroll through at your own pace and explore your intention through the lens of reflexing. Please text or email me if you're unable to access/download. A copy has also been sent via email.
INVITATION in all Landscapes includes a Reflection/Reflexion component --
Discovering new ways to play!
INVITATION in all Landscapes includes a Reflection/Reflexion component --
Discovering new ways to play!
OLs
OLs
Choose anything from a previous week, explore again (or maybe for the first time;).
Use the fresh perspective of your now more-enlivened capacities for sensing-perceiving.
What happens?
Note: Please don't let your mind trick you into thinking "been there; done that," and then miss out on a wellspring of opportunities for enlivened body & relationships!
ILs
ILs
What are the conditions that allow your body & heart to rest?
Give yourself this Gift.
This can be in the form of a longer segment of time, and/or mini cycles of rest throughout your day.
The point is: know what conditions are supportive; give them to yourself again and again.
Surprise yourself with how generous you can be in Rest & inner Attention!
DLs
DLs
Choose an image/intention (or few) from the PDF. As you move throughout your day, let the image/intention(s) interplay with your own.
Notice what happens.
If you have the space, record what you notice (journal, draw, move, ____).
Enjoy!
Thank you for your Presence here.
Thank you for your Presence here.
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