Author: sitalisa108

Once change comes, it often comes in multiples, ranging from easily handled small changes, to the great ones that can become unwieldy. When this happens it can scatter our forces, making it harder to achieve order & staying power. There is, however, a calm center to everything. Even a tornado swirls around a calm eye. Most calm places are very small, but even a small cell of tranquility can become a seed for greater peace. Utilize this choreography, to find the still point that revolves with you, wherever you go, & in doing so, turn toward wonder, & the quiet formation of contentment. Explore the way you move when you are woven into the web of being. Measure out as much balance, as you can, for yourself, by caring for the qi you have inherited, and qi you are consciously accumulating through the practice of clean living. Thich Nhat Hahn spoke about the human manic tendency to avoid the painful places in our lives. We avoid, avoid, avoid, and if we can toggle into the polarity, which is embrace, embrace, embrace, then we can hold space for the healing and transformation, that is housed in the practice, and embedded in the terrain of daily life. The holding of this inner space, is what allows us to know grace, even when things are immensely imponderable. In the movement from personhood to presence, we get to the truth of who we really are. Through somatic inquiry & investigation, an alloy is developed in the spine, malleability of mind becomes available, & a deep feline-like quality of contentment is embodied. These techniques are expanders, that create a coherence between head, heart, hand, and Hara. When these connections are alive, then victory is your creation, and joyful living is your reality. Get to the why, under the dance. Use your practice to get very clear about what you must fulfill, before you leave this life, so you can then behave accordingly. Thank you for being part of this community of practice, wherein our aloneness becomes at-oneness… we are remembering together. There are very few things that will give us such abundant returns, as to take this daily time, to tune into the body, to iron out the irregularities of mind, and to continuously create anew.

Molt all of the non-necessary add-ons we unwittingly carry around. Enter your tiger body: articulate & sinuous, with a character of virtue & calm courage. Relax into the spaciousness that is your body unburdened by thought, for when your mind is quiet, it is like a castle that needs no protection. Soak in your inherent fluidity: like water, which nourishes without even trying. As distractions blow away, we recognize our essential nature as truth, and the drive & desire to feed our focus elevates, thereby, stabilizing every inner system. Hold double: prowess & willingness, fluency & precision, receptivity & right action, and watch your ability to perceive the miraculous grow. Let your breath come as the wind, to awaken a fire, that makes you whole. Use the somatic talisman of this practice, to begin as many times as you need, again and again, and again. Take your stand in a field of grace, which is always here, in you, for you, as you. Feel the untroubled fabric, that cannot be removed, that wraps you in connection, in every moment. It is as it is, allow this, in your heart of silence.

We are at the starting line of a new year, a season for declarations verses resolutions, and a time for breathing into new narratives. In this gathering we feel through the fray of misunderstandings and distractions. We drop underneath the personal, into the space between; thoughts, each other, between breaths, & into the space that reinstates an innocence of embodiment, & that protects us from cynicism, so we can notice the life-force that’s alway supporting us. As life long lovers of learning, we clean the system regularly, so our self knowledge and the excellence of our human depth define the order of the day. Practice is the North Star, that lights a way inward, and a way outward toward bringing as much awareness, forgiveness, and participation, to a planet in crisis, like Pros, beyond excuses. We have all been sitting with grief, ours and that of others. When we have known misery and then come to know silence, we bring light to the world, like a moon free of clouds. Breath work can be a silken thread, or a compassionate clap of thunder, for getting into your panic superhighways, and into the radiant body, so you can consciously finess every good beginning, every vibrant sustain, and every meaningful completion. It’s an immune system booster, a stress reliever, an energy elevator, a digestive supporter, a self care activator, an anti-anxiety tool, and a restorative sleep aid… to name but a few of its magnificent capacities. Let the cloudy water settle and see what it is you are really choosing into, for the road ahead. Open to this new cycle, in the beauty of a single breath, at the intersection of here & nowhere, form & formlessness, as a monolith for change, in the willingness of the wind.

Welcome to this year’s first (published) Qigong gathering. Use this somatic satsang to create the conditions for an upsurge of vitality in the heart, where life’s inconsistencies can straighten out. Part the curtain and soften every iteration of caughtupness. Emerge from indifference, as you simmer in your aliveness, to move beyond burden into intrinsic spaciousness. In this set we explore the power of gentleness by reducing the kind of force that we are accustomed to cutting and pasting into any exercise endeavor. This is poetry in motion, a fluid meditation that can draw us from dissociation and into dexterity where the miraculous lies, & where supra-fulfillment awaits. Reimagine the maps of your body, so the feelings of awe, compassion, reverence, wonder and gratitude can power up, within you. The song of the earth is coming up, through your feet, poising you to notice every opportunity to practice the smallest kindness.

This time of year is rich with blank slate energy. It is hyper-charged in a way that can lead us into limitlessness, and expand our mental freedom. We are preparing to transition into the year of the yang water tiger, a spectacular cycle for holding and molding visions, taking liberation aligned risks, & creating activations around your commitments. This is a time for inhabiting your skin and creating deeper grooves of meaning, purpose, & usefulness on the path. It is a time for telling the truth not only with our tongues, but in every gesture; in our bigness, our darkness, our tenderness, our excellence, in our exuberance, & in all the ways we are still half-baked, & growing in belief that the impossible can be possible, if we start tending the embers now! Be a student of what is moving through your body and your life, ride the winds of change with flexibility and grace, and set your eyes upon your own innovative blooming. Take your old mind to the graduate school of the universe, echo forward with all your inner goodness and visceral perception, letting the sound of joy be heard in your un-struck heart. Use this set to recycle restlessness into composure, & to couple endurance with determination, so to be a human who is in harmony with eternity.

Tune into the Magnum Opus of your life. The ultimate project of living full power, sensitized, receptive, generous, participatory. Get a glimpse of the grand panorama of your journey. Why you came here in the first place, what you are doing, why you are doing what you are doing, and how what you are doing is impacting the integrity of your core commitments. Use this practice to engage the timeline of right now, and to mobilize your 3-6-12-2-5 Vision. Be the ace of your own fire. Witness the sophistication of your attention, when you fast from gossip, complaint, comparison, and lack language. Each of these behaviors slam shut the iron door, separating us from our inside out power system, original medicine, and native genius. Mirror neurons are real. What you are thinking, doing, and putting out, into your family, into the workplace, into the scrolling & swiping community, the universal algorithms will return to you. Your emanation is defined by the sound codes continually found on your lips. In the journey of IP, it is less about resolutions (which so commonly fall into dissolution), and more about the solutions that are already alive within us, waiting for us to notice, and co-mingle, and co-create. We use radiance technologies to neutralize our own inertia, to multiply our stamina, and to generate growth in all three roots, of body, mind, and essence. It’s about getting out of our own way, closing the loops, opening the doors, retrieving the curriculum of soul, and turning up the energy efficiency dial, so to carry it all forward. Action orientation is the ultimate procrastination buster, and procrastination is the A#1 vision repressor. Stay engaged in the endeavor, every day. Ask yourself, what am I doing today to move the ball forward, and what am I doing today that’s deflating the ball itself? What you are seeking is seeking you. Practice is always a kick-starter for fulfillment impulses. Send every sensation through the feeling mechanism of the brain. Stay in conversation with your vital force, notice the pulse of your vision, moment to moment. An acorn is coded to become an oak tree, a rose seed is coded to become a rose, a caterpillar is coded to become a butterfly and you are coded to become you. Only we can do this for ourselves, and the process can be full of aliveness. Re-instate organic innocence, integrate, and luxuriate in the sensations bringing it all together. Each of us have an unsung song, that is under the old stories that block us. A song that wants to and needs to be experienced and expressed.

The complexities and chaos of these times are calling for a new kind of responsiveness and leadership, new ways of thinking and being and doing. This is a time of social transformation like never before, and the stop gap solutions of earlier eras are no longer working. We are the developing humans who are eager to serve, and activate, and enhance our every skill and potential. We are seeking innovative solutions to troubling conditions, we are intrepid, life-long lovers of learning, ever hungry for insights, imaginative ideas and a deeper understanding of present-day issues. We are liberating and uplifting new levels of self-esteem and cooperation, so to carry out our goals, and to pulse the new vision. These times call for efficient measures, when it comes to elevating above the communal malaise. Our commitment is to attain and sustain better health, better clarity, and better focus so we can bring new mind to ferrying us all across the abyss that separates a dying era from a borning one. We are hospicing out the old ways, as practitioners, we are social artists, and our medium is the human community. We are each being called to bring our unique and meaningful contributions to the canvas of our collective reality, from a place of existential eros, with the same skill and passion that an artist brings to his or her work. It is the teaming up of inner realization with outer actualization, for there is something more than rational within our bone memory that recognizes the diagram of the atom within the map of the solar system, which is sequestered at the center of every tree, and that is informing the core of you and me. The stakes are high, every millisecond counts, and therefore, in our professional community, we want to bring that kind of vocational arousal, that creates relevant, resonant, and unshakable impact. If you are reading this, you are part of this circle, thank you for the good work you are manifesting. It is a great opportunity and a great responsibility to wake up, at any time, wherever, whenever, and to take the action steps to give the gift. Stay sensitized enough to see with 10,000 eyes, to see yourself in the eyes of every other. Be: unencumbered by the fever of identification, listening with the ear of the heart, and in touch enough to be touched by everything, for the long haul.

The ability to adapt has never been more relevant than it is now. It has been said that the first birds were originally fish, who, following the chirp of instinct, flew from the waters that were no longer hospitable, and evolved with life. Every time you move, one of two things is happening, either you are deepening what is already routinized, structurally and psychologically, or your are potentiating the higher centers of the brain, to transform, transfigure, and transmute. Matching this age and stage of life is our responsibility as practitioners. In this gathering we build bone heat, floss the fascia, and cleanse the marrow, in a slow design that uncovers the movement inside of all movement. Link in with your somatic intelligences, and begin to identify all of the self-charging core gestures found at the foundation of your every functional movement. Give yourself the gift of flow, following the kind of dexterous nuances that are the building blocks of essential life.

Pull out of the fast lane, and take a turn onto the slow roads, opening to the gentle places that bridge the heart and head. In IP, we utilize movement to communicate with the brain, in the way it was built to be communicated with. In even a brief practice, the conditions are created, for make billions of spontaneous neurological connections. Explore nuanced variations, that initiate a revolution of elevating hormonal shifts. Even in subtly, elite upgrades occur in the lymphatic & nervous systems. The brain is a quantum information system, and when partnered with, it potentiates, giving one a leg up on evolving wisdom.

Between stimulus and response, there is a nano-second, wherein the master’s touch can enter the room of your mind. It is an open space through which universal and fundamental truths come flooding through, so existence can play us more beautifully. On either side of the head are temple doors to access this caliber, and the key to the door is that which you adore. In this session we empower the oxytocin to flow, by measuring the breath, for what gets measured, gets managed. We elevate out of the quicksand of addiction, rising above the enemy that is the cocoon of gossipy thoughts, or self-sabotaging behavior. The technique inside this session introduces variabilities that increase sensitivity, to wake and train the brain. It doesn’t matter how long you have been on the path of inquiry, there will always be shadows to integrate. This is good news, because real growth is always sprouting from the compost pile of our imperfections, rage, and every incongruency we wrestle with. The medicine we are mad thirsty for is found in the mature yoking of all opposites. There is space underneath our big tent, for everything you might be feeling, working with, or actively transforming.