Dear Ones,
As someone who has a tendency to interact with the world through my mind, the invitation to inhabit the body more deeply has been life changing. When I first experienced conscious ego-transcendence decades ago - all form disappearing, the true formless nature of everything revealing itself - somehow the mind co-opted realization and turned it into “insight”. Very beautiful and true insight, but it seemed to stay safely in the mental realm and did not include the body and emotions. There was a sense of separation between “me” and “body” - a doubling down on “I am not my thoughts, emotions or body”. Yes, this is true, but over time this true realization turned into strategy of avoiding emotional energy and uncomfortable sensations in the body, a way of trying to control what is fundamentally out of control, a way to attempt to stay safe by maintaining the illusion of duality. A way of avoiding true intimacy, and this was painful.
It was the young people I work with who invited me out of this survival strategy and into my body, into a deeper experience of presence. They did not care about insights or inquiry - the “who are you without that thought?” Their presence called me to stop mental activity, drop more deeply into the embodied experience of this moment. In order to be present with them, I had to be present in myself - fully experiencing sensations in the body, waves of energy that get called emotion. I had to develop the capacity to open to everything arising in myself to be able to open to everything arising in another - to fully meet these precious apparent others who were coming to me for relief from their suffering. In this presence, any sense of “me” and “them” fell away, past and future revealed themselves as imaginary - nothing but unnamable, vast, endless, love. Silence that is empty of separation and completely full of everything.
You are all welcome to join me dropping more deeply in - experiencing the body as a portal to presence. I don’t know what will be discovered, but I welcome you in to experience for yourself.
We plan to gather by zoom on Saturday March 1st from 10am to 11:30am Mountain time & all are welcome.
9am Pacific Time
5pm/17h - London
6pm/18h - Amsterdam
If you would like to join us, please contact me here: embodied meditation sign up
The gathering is free and donations are accepted here: