Inside this session we check out a dynamic flow of immunity boosting qigong forms. These choreographies are master pointers for how we can listen to the language of our own bodies and live accordingly. Complete the connection between the created world and the creating world, as it’s happening in the contours within you. Make easy the difficult places, & make soft the hard places, by laying down the adult armor, & finding joy & intimacy in the edifying virtuosity of qi.

This is an especially potent time to circle around as a community of practice, as we begin to piece things back together in our world, mining for diamonds in the darkness, & following the breadcrumbs of our own vision… out of the wilderness of these times. This time we are in is what the Taoist alchemists called the Far Journey, we are in the crux of the crisis, we are in the turning point, we are in the substantive and circumstantial reversal, where the breakdown yields to the breakthrough. Even if we are not in the room together, we are gathered together, aligning our forces, advancing toward our common goal, bringing about stable, durable conditions for the better. Our individual strengths are exponentiated by the collective, Yes, we find embedded in this kind of work. In these meditative gatherings we quiet the cacophony, and access a clarity of consciousness, that has been accumulating for centuries, and then apply it liberally. It is more important than ever before, to know the ‘who’ that rests within us, and the ‘who’ we are presenting as an agent of change, as we bring our voices to the new stories & paradigms beginning to emerge. During this session we tune into the power of patience, and its roll in our embodiment of a multi-sensory, mad hopefulness for the seemingly impossible, but non-negotiable future, that is not just on her way, but here now, and breathing inside of us.

Tune in for 30 minutes of adaptogenic practices, that will boost the immune system & poise you, so the biofeedback of your very being is building dignity, through a kinesthesis of discernment. Create a gentle wave of transformation, that serve & steer, pragmatically & poetically, alchemizing apprehensions & impasses into opportunity. Inside this practice, we engage with the science of evolutional breathing , and explore a few edifying forms for cultivating character, which is the relationship your personality has with your soul. May we look skyward & find new windows into the potential of our potential. May we connect to the un-carved, not yet sculpted parts of our nature, awaiting discovery. May we want life to be what it has to be in order for us to become who we came here to be. May we contribute, from a position of exceptional human beingness, from a stance care, concern, & kindness. Stewarding the re-growth of our planet, one breath at a time, one action at a time, & one story at a time– when it feels easy and available, and also when it feels like the life-force isn’t tangible.

Check out what it means for you to get flesh to flesh, eye to eye, and into a pinky swear kind of relationship with the power of your innate immunity. Work with the inner alchemy of patience, inviting the breath to become big & the mind to quieten & expand. We are beginning to emerge from a freeze frame cycle of fear, which has caused a lot of breath holding, of breathing just enough to get by. In Integrative Practices we are interested in toggling out of the freeze frame and moving as thriving. Steer your pulse toward out and out loving awareness, so your responses are resourced from inner equipoise. Our job as practitioners is to consistently, and unconditionally occupy that stance, as our buttons get pushed in life. These meditations will help you get the gallop of your heart, both systolic and diastolic rhythms into harmonic concert. Use these techniques to stimulate your sympathetic nervous & the right hemisphere of your brain, to cultivate balancing adjustments, capable of fortifying the backbone of your immune system.

Within this practice, we explore forms for letting go of the adult armor, & all of the defenses, so to feel the full cascade of human arising. Align with the endogenous immunity that is generated from within, for the within, with an undefended heart. Tune into all the ways that you can merge with the meaning and the medicine of the moment, accessing & directing the life force that is filling & surrounding you. The repetitive practice of qigong forms gets us closer, by and by, to the totemic inner disposition of our integrated wholeness, they work on us at the level of depth psychology & at the level of pragmatic anatomy — there is deep medicine in both realms, as the experience is breathed through every pore. Explore your will and surrender, and the roles they play in keeping your wits and wellness in-tact. Generate an attitude of intimacy with your practice, a kind of psychological nudity, that lets you fall in love with your inner most happening, & who you become when you are inside of it. These moments are about direction, not speed, which in an of itself, is so restorative. Let this practice help you to move through the contours of your life and soul, with moral, emotional, mental, & structural fortification, regardless of any of the resistance you may meet, because — You are the Bridge.

Inside this gathering we spotlight upon the parts of our psyche and our soma that have experienced trauma or have been carrying the tenderness of the ages. Trauma is the greatest challenge we are working with, as individuals and in our collective constitution. Unlock your neutrality with these gentle but effective dynamic techniques. They will help you get into the underbelly of your subconscious, transformatively so. In the work of awakening we must activate our potential, we also need to follow our bliss, but we also have to do the trauma work, of taking hands with where we are tender, & honoring our blisters, even when it seems like there is 1008 better ways to spend out time, it has got to happen, period. While in the panorama of practice, we can heal all the way down to the bottom bone, so the old pain patterns that used to run the show, run out of fuel, giving us a perceptual, emotional, & biochemical shift that lets us choose peace more regularly, freely, and from a place of conscious effortlessness. Every time you meditate, you become a kind of blue print technician, or an inner alchemist, committed to the chore of reducing the reasons for being numbed out, so that big leap across the chasm can transpire, and you can discover yourself to indeed be a light house in the fog. Energy is ethical, all you have to do is ask, and it will show up, because practice and energy are alway entwined. With repetition, through practice, we can possess a peace that is inviolable, & incorruptible, & that is inhaling through us, no matter what the external circumstance may be. These meditations will clear the clutter & incessant mental chatter, they will balance the tattvas, which are the elements of your being, so you can be less defined by duplicity, and more aligned with resiliency.

During this especially potent time of practicing in the heart of a pandemic, it is so necessary to turn toward what is unchanging and stable within, so to cultivate the inner resources that can successfully steer us through this sick cycle. So many of us are experiencing exhaustion, from articulation & consternation, enjoy this guided relaxation and gong meditation, to consolidate the day, in the body, and to consolidate the body into the earth, so to then intimately participate in the world from a place of inner quietude, and robust dignity.

Your personal home practice is a magnificently potent terrain for working through the wounds that have amassed from life’s journey, and reconfiguring how their imprints are stored in the tissues of your body. Inside this session we create a safe environment for helping, holding, and warming our most tender places, with a technique for sustained transformation, in this very realm. Everyone out there walking around has some kind of ‘master wound’ that was almost always picked up during a childhood experience and has been hitching a ride on the underbelly of the subconscious mind. If we don’t face, and love open these childhood traumas, our ‘master wounds’ then we run the risk of them become crazy makers, potentially causing a crass, cold, indifference in our outlook, in some way or another. Use the sound current to be an architect of your own self-mastery. When I use the term self-mastery, I’m not inferring that we are aiming to become flawless and perfect at everything. In the context of this work, when I say self mastery, I’m alway pointing to the inner disposition of staying teachable, because there is a revelation of some sort, in every living moment. When the tender places soften back into wholeness, then our addictive, self-soothing behaviors, such as over caffeinating, incessant social media scrolling, etc. (which are unconscious ways of seeking that “I”M OK” feeling) loose their magnetic attraction, and the energy that way going in that direction can be steered constructively. Inside of every living human is a seat that is undisturbed, a sanctuary that has never been dismissed, violated, abandoned, or judged, a place that is always whole. It has been my experience, in my own somatic & sonic research projects, that when we are willing to walk humbly in the direction of this unconditional, inner seat, it is alway waiting there for us, wanting to welcome us in warmly. It’s there, inside of you.

Inside this session I share some classical methods for using the sound science of mantra, medicinally. Tune in and discover some approaches to further infuse yourself, and expand your portfolio of ways to work with the power of sound, and intentional word, in your home practice. When we work with mantra, a rhythmic, hypnotic cadence penetrates us cell deep, delivering the resonance of rest & focus. Putting a mantra on internal loop, is like running a program on the mind that removes all the viruses that have gotten in from external sources, so you are more sovereign as yourself, & more exuberantly available to life. Recitation practice can help you reduce any resistance you might be carrying, and cultivate an elevated relationship with joy. Name, claim, and curate your signature pleasures, and let the muse force out to play with you in the field, because embodying joy is a form of healing.

Take a few moment to tune into the parts of your being, your psyche & soma, that may be feeling tender in this time, from the journey of life, or the experience of trauma in our collective constitution, or… some confluence of the two. The forms in this set are designed to steer the energy of worry toward the strength of your innate warriorship. When we honor the wound, by helping and holding our human fragility, and the opportunity for transformation, that it points to, the wound can drop back, and yield to a blossom, a blessing, & a becoming. As practitioners we are architects of a revolutionary loving awareness. Loving Awareness: it is a field of neurogenic presence, wherein, a process of re-storying & regenesis, can arise from the underbelly, reviving your reasons for saying Yes in the face of challenge. Our discomfort, is a master teacher, when we can use our emotions, feelings, beauty, & bravery to sit with it, in full honesty, for as long as it takes, to feel the gift. Shake off the numb, warm up the parts of you that have become indifferent, and slip into the space between stimulus and response. The power place where your choice, growth, and freedom lie, is closer than you think, and has never left you, as Pema Chodron points our, ” We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.”