Author: sitalisa108

Whether we are in a building together, working virtually in the same city, working across state lines, or across continents, we are a collective– which is where the individual and the whole intersect. Like geese flying in formation, we are woven together with an invisible thread, connected to every other, and drawn powerfully forward. Geese fly 75% faster and further when in formation, working the journey together. We are the transition team, the flight pattens are underway, and the aliveness that each of us brings, matters– as we overcome, heal, and sew new pathways in the story of our future. May this story be one of transpersonal sentience, of supreme thoughtfulness, ensouled sensibilities, and radical empathy. May we re-imagine the whole as we deconstruct the rampant symptoms of isolation, and find fresh angles for holding our fragility and growing our aspirations. May we listen to the oracle of our own hearts and feelings. Following the GPS of a loving awareness, that informs us as richly human, incandescent trailblazers.

This is a beautiful set of gentle practices designed to remind you that you are a renewable resource, that you can capacitate captaincy, and that you can raise the energy of freedom, from within. These are Wei Qi Practices, which have to do with the energetic flow that guards your life-force, and your life at large. This is most certainly a time for ramping up that frequency. When we feel sufficiently resourced, inwardly, and can identify our axis, then when life pulls us off center, which it will do, consistently so– we find we have the skills to drop back into our nucleus– faster, and more effectively. When you have this kind of self esteem, self command, and self exhalation, you can more consistently hold the attitude that everything can be re-programed, from your metabolism, to your skin, to clarity, productivity, & joy. Everything is moving, and you are the captain. Even if the current program that is running inside you, was written in a less than optimal way, it can be re-configured. This year has held countless transitions for each of us, and each transition has left a kind of transit line or pattern in our perceptions, on our faces, & in our beliefs about what is possible, or what lies ahead. The clarity that practice grants you, will always be your helpmate, so life’s transitions won’t haunt you, rather, you become the creative carrier of transitions, holding them as formative lines in your destiny design. Enjoy this conscious injection of Focus: for piercing through subconscious, collective, and epigenetic programs around your health, prosperity, and fulfillment.

The big F word we are throwing around in this session is: FOCUS. Tune in for these efficiency practices that are designed to help you get out of the fog, stay out of the fog. Shine the light on your psychological fitness and energetic hygiene, through this accessible mandala of micro-practices, & feed the meter of the brain, so it can be your sentinel. To be a regular practitioner of this kind of work is to arm yourself with some of the best techniques for repair, protection, acceleration, & transformation. The fruit of this work is self knowledge, and deep self knowledge is one of the most powerful self-help tools around. Focalizing practices get you set to do what you say, and say what you do, & to have enough energy to follow-through with what it is you know will grow your life, and lift up your destiny. Develop a fusion, in your complex and intricate internal ecosystem, and adjust your magnetism so what you are emitting is of benefit to one and all. Let this fusion power you up, physically, & alchemically, and let it re-spirit your inspiration to stay clear. We are living and working in the Information Age, which is designed to keep us distracted. Your attention is the currency of this age. let these few minutes pull your attention inward, out of the scrolling, out of the device, out of the hyper agenda, out of the news, and into your life, and the exquisite reality of what is happen within, capacitating your captaincy, so you can steer with sovereignty. We know that 21 days is the minimum threshold, in neuroplasticity, and so when you find yourself resonating with a particular practice, give it your all for 21 days, do the thing for 7 minutes a day, ( or more if you can!!! ) for 21 days, and see how it clears you out and cleans you up, and cultivates a refinement of skill. May you experience a quiet confirmation of your heart’s sublime perfection. May you get a glimpse of a fog-less, focused, deeply wakeful state of mind. May you experience shapelessness within the shape of your body, formlessness, within the form of your being, timelessness, within this time of practicing together. During this time of year, when the setting of intentions and resolutions is pervasive, let us remember the good clean advice of Benjamin Franklin, when he said: ” Be at war with your vices. Be at peace with your neighbors, and let every year find you a better human.”

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: optimize the heartbeats you have left here.

For the first qigong gathering in this new year, our muse point is FLOW, which is key ingredient in attaining and sustaining health and optimism, physically & mentally. These practices will cultivate a vibrational fitness that will turn on the lights of your mitochondrial integrity, & mainline vitality and life-force all the way down to your smallest baseline. Be a student of flow and lift your frequency into transparency. Lauch, Repair, Rejuvenate, & Accelerate, as you Floss through the fascia, chainlink the qi, and connect everything within you, to everything. This fluid form of movement poises us perfectly to free fall into the present moment, in the same way that we fall asleep, or fall in love, we can free fall into the flow. All of life is about frequency. It governs how you catch and apply the opportunities and revelations that show up in your life. If there is any presence of resistance in the body or in the mind, it will effect your frequency, & reduce the way in which flow can inform your life. The good news is, that as our bodies mature, through the aging process, and as our essence ripens through practice, we rarely become more rigid, almost always we get softer, and thereby more powerful, because of our competency in navigating the flow. Many of the subconscious, collective, and epigenetic patterns that keep us feeling stuck begin to dissolve, as we flow and grow. When we offer our bones to the flow, we get to the original genius underneath the mantel of distractions, we can take refuge in our authenticity, & we can re-create ourselves, at all kinds of levels, that feel relevant and right. There are some stellar one liners, extracted from centuries old Chinese medical teachings, that illustrate the necessity for this flow. Lines like: “The reason the teeth are falling out, but the tongue is not falling out, is due to lack of movement and movement.” The teeth, which don’t move, are prone to decay and loss, however, the tongue, which is our primary muscle of communication, is always moving, and therefore, doesn’t decay and fall out. Another old pointer goes: ” You will never find a worm in the hinge of a door, but still water cultivates poison.” Both of these teaching simply put, are telling us, that if our aim is longevity and vitality, we must stay dynamic. Where there is an absence of flow, there is a greater likelihood for pain, where there is flow, there is less likelihood for pain. Use this flow to oxygenate and focalize the pre-frontal cortex of your brain, the part of your brain that gives you agency, and rehabilitates negative impulses. Flow is a state of simultaneity, wherein you feel comfortable enough to be in the rest and digest part of your nervous system, activated enough to clear the waste, and challenged enough to experience the transformation. Be patient, like the bamboo. When a bamboo plant is put into the earth, it can look at great length, like nothing is happening, so much so, that it might look like the plant is stunted– until one day, when the conditions that have been cultivated, are just so, the bamboo will begin a quick ascent upward in its growth. and the same thing happens with us. Much like the bamboo plant, when we practice with committed repetition, at a certain point the magic begins to arise, and we find an internal fusion that helps us live strong, live long, and love life, abundantly. The Upanishads say that the butter is hidden in the milk, likewise, awareness resides in every being, and to discover that, we need to constantly churn the mind toward clarity.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT: as a steward of continuity.

Dear Friends, this is a remarkable time to tune in around listening and breath. Tomorrow is the Winter Solstice, the most Yin day of our entire year. It is a rich time to grow still, to let yourself become one with the night, and to turn toward the light. Tomorrow is also a truly historic day, regarding what is happening in the panorama of our sky, as Jupiter and Saturn will appear 0.1 degree apart, which is the closest they have been observed, by the naked eye, since the year 1226. If ever there was a year when we needed such an incandescent affirmation, on the horizon, certainly this year is it. May you take some extra time, during this time, as our wheel is turning, as oscillations of awakening allure us to the threshold, to dream with our earth and our cosmos, and to honor the power of connection, on the path of evolution. A few quiet moments for making meaning of this year’s echos. Grab a blanket, lay back, open your heart, listen, & feel. Let your own attention create an orbit of refreshment, in this guided meditation. Let your heart relax into a belonging, into the great mystery of being, in a state of consciousness that is neither waking, sleeping, or dreaming. A state wherein tissue repair becomes more readily available, wherein anxiety can recede, and the sound of creation can be heard within your own sentience and serenity. Use these 30 minutes to sync up with your inner rhythms, and the relationship you have with your own wholeness.

I look so forward to diving deep, come the start of January, as we continue the journey together. Until then, celebrate safely, and know how much you are loved! The ending of this video is uncharacteristic, as my dog began fervently barking. Thank you for understanding why I suddenly slip away, without my traditional goodbyes, I thought I would spare you the jolt to the nervous system, after a guided meditation.

SEE YOU SOON, AT THE LIGHTHOUSE!

This is the last qigong gathering for the year of 2020! We had an amazing time checking out this choreography of migratory forms, designed to ready you, for a strong, steady, and brilliant transition into the new year. There is an old Chinese proverb that says, If I place a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come. Use this practice to re-green your heart, & to express an inner hospitality that is of benefit for all.

JOIN OUR MOVEMENT: in pursuit of unconditional embodiment, self-realization, and compassion in action.

This is a gentle session designed to cut through any caught-upness that may be standing in the way of your feeling fully steeped in loving kindness, gratitude, & connection. Follow the muse of this meditation, into the axis Mundi of your spine, connecting to the unity beneath the enormity of it all. Subtle movements and meanderings of breath, wandering gracefully and graciously, through the rivulets of the body, & the warp & weft of your energy field, delivering the message of wonder and awe. Where there is more wonder there is less fear. Fear is our wonder in retrograde, and when we practice, we coach our concerns away from fear, and toward possibility, imagination, regeneration, and love in action. We set up structures, within our actions and attitudes, for engaging time and space, and timelessness too, for our ideas, creativity, prosperity, and purpose to find their runway, and take flight. We are each stewards of our own inner transformation, custodians of the inner world we carry around at all times, and in my views, we have a human responsibility to tend to this journey, in earnest. Let your breath become a hymn to the world, and let your heart open to the family bloodline of our entire earth, as you articulate the power of your own axis. Turn your eyes toward the out of the way places, where beauty and sensitivity reside, so to better honor and acknowledge all of earth’s children, and the reality of what is.

Inside of this session, we move through a set of practices designed to break through the facade of our bypasses & biases. These practices create a burning intensity in the biology, & in the way chi is configuring within, so that habituations, mental loops, and all the various traps & catch-cries we linger in, (for longer than is appropriate) can be identified and transformed, effectively. There are countless ways we try to knowingly and unknowingly mask our deficiencies and insecurities, or to circumvent responsibility. Or, what about all the ways we allow external predictions to guide an outcome, while we are numb on some level, scared to be magnetic, or hesitant to keep our hands on the ball. The list is lengthy, and we unpack just a few of these bypasses that may be biasing your journey of growth. Ours is a time of urgency, and we must use every drop of awakening and agency to respond– accordingly, to the call. We need to ask ourselves all the important questions, and to do all we can to get strong, empowered, and illumined enough to rise to the occasion, of a new narrative emerging. We must set love into motion, & to be robust meaning makers. Utilize the good medicine of this work to get free from within yourself. Free from both the grip of despair and the craving for hope. Now is the time to be alive in a self, who is equanimous, resolute, centered, stable & committed to compassion in action, come what may. Breakthrough work is about mastering your non-attachment, so to be in all of your actions, and not of them.

JOIN OUR MOVEMENT: befriend the process of soulful refinement.

We are moving through a planetary rite of passage, of titanic proportion. The darkness has emerged from its hiding place. It has stepped into visibility and is directly challenging us. It is even seducing us, to contract our minds into overwhelm, pessimism, shock & despair. This, however, is a form of colluding with the darkness, of letting it fuel the perennial virus of fear, and a deep sickness that humanity has been wrestling with for a long, long time. It is what Carl Jung called the ‘sickness of dissociation.’ An era of dissociation is also an era, pregnant with the possibility for re-birth, reconciliation and re-construction. This is an hour that calls for a kind of optimism that turns us into way showing, meaning makers, capable of shocking the shadow back into balance. We are in the season of dreamtime, which invites us, & even insists, that we mine our shadow archives, that we identify our bypasses, and that we open our eyes, to unflinchingly look at what is asking to be faced, fixed, and changed. We must rise to the occasion, and go all the way to the root, rather than simply rearranging the deck chairs. We each carry within us, an un-dreamed of luminous creative agency, that we previously did not know to be available. Engage this breath work to align yourself with the wisdom born of eldership, awakened awareness, and deep self-inquiry. May we conspire to co-inspire one another, as we step into who we are, as much as we are able. May we connect with our inner authority, our inner voices, & our authentic selves, so to help humanity heal the ruptures. Pursue your realization intensely in this time. Fill your life with inspiration and beauty, train your inner eye to notice the indication of new grass, and the burgeoning re-birth becoming evident, even in the most unlikely of places.

Travel beyond linear space, into Dreamtime, into the mysterious quiet of Eons, that is in you. Access the oldest and newest places within the terrain of your body, and feel into a profound peace, that counts time in billions of years. This is the Dynamic Medicine of Absolutness. In this Qigong Gathering we work with an alphabet of gestures and healing sounds that will transmit rejuvenation, harmony, and energy, all the way in and through, while opening the circuitry of your human bio-electricity— a moving morphogenic experience, not to be missed.

JOIN OUR MOVEMENT: Journey – Dream – Expand.