The Selver Awareness Leadership Training Institute was established in 2019 with the intention of educating and ushering new leaders into the Sensory Awareness community. This two-year hybrid (online and in person) program meets year round and accepts applications on a rolling basis. Since its inception, the institute has graduated several cohorts of leaders, all of whom continue to utilize sensing in their everyday lives and lead others.
Classes are twice a month online on Sundays.
Sensory Awareness is a practice that invites the individual into a deeper relationship with themselves and the world they occupy. This work invites the "sensor" to experience the present moment through simple explorations and experiences. The goal of SALTI is to support Sensory Awareness practitioners to become leaders (guides) of the work.
In Sensory Awareness classes, we learn to shift our attention from our ceaseless thinking to our embodied experience. The teacher or leader suggests experiments for the participants to investigate and explore. She asks questions, and reminds everyone to continually return to their immediate, tangible experience. The task is usually an ordinary event, such as lifting a small stone, bringing a hand to one’s head, touching another person, lying on one’s side, walking backwards, etc. The activity can be playful and interactive or quiet and inward. The experiments are non-conceptual, non-intellectual and generally non-verbal. They are an invitation to arrive in present time, with fresh responses to the particular situation. They point us to ourselves. - adapted from Terry Ray