Embodiment

The body is the basic ground of direct experience. Feeling the body in health, peace and in its natural flow establishes the ground for fulfillment. Your physique and the presence emanating from it reflects your movement through life, the quality of your intention, actions, their ease, power, flexibility and sensitivity.

The body is the canvas where all your experience leaves its trace. It is also the feeling and the being of the experience. The rarified states of consciousness even the ultimate realization has meaning when you are embodied.

In Stillness Moves

We invite the attention to the processes of our body, mind and emotions in guided and free explorations that stimulate your curiosity for discovery. You don't experience your body from an outsider's point of view looking at an object that has to be put through all kinds of manipulations to be maintained or changed. The body is not a means to an end, it is the experience.

The quality of your intention, your emotions and their fluctuations are as important as the quality of your tissues, the rhythm of your breath, and the flexibility of your joints. You observe how you travel through dullness, surges of activity, excitement and a sense of relief as you move. Observe how these relate to your physiological processes and how these processes propel you into movement and adjustments.

We employ a great variety of techniques and methods without getting lost in their execution or expected results alone. It is of secondary importance how perfectly aligned you are while you move or remain in a certain position; yet it is essential to sense how you are trying to get there, since that is where you may find the key to arrive in that perfect alignment. This is the bridge between physical movement and movement through life, the bridge of mind to body to spirit.

When your own movement takes over you free yourself from physical restrictions and psychological burdens. Even when applying a particular technique, the process is the same: the technique just brings you to a point when your own movement can emerge and unwind you from restrictions and allow you to claim the strength and fulfillment you seek.

Authentic, Simple, Profound, Touching the heart

The next step is always within reach, it speaks with clarity in the words of the calling, inspiration you feel and/or the suffering, challenges you experience.  It is simple, profound and sober. Listening to it, is touching the heart.

Learning the essence of many ways

In the search for fulfillment you may hear and find out about many ways, some simple, some complex, some leaning against ancient tradition, some against scientific authority, none may relate directly to your experience. Your direct experience is the only true guidance no matter what you practice, it is the source of all knowing.

Finding how the essence moves you

Listening, past the noise of your intellect and unburdened by the pull of the instinct you will feel how the essence moves you. You will know that your search is part of this movement, this understanding brings relief, trust, strength, flexibility and alignment.