Classes

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             This style of meditation / yoga promotes the awakening of both the body & mind by incorporating relevant postures, breath-regulation, neurogenic pattern release, felt-sense of intra blood O2/CO2/NO gaseous exchange, perceptual fields & fluid/potency insight 

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     Whole body felt-sense postures

(attention based body opening by being aware of body posture, emotional states and body sensations)

The postures included in our classes are specific body positions which help to evoke an inner sense of wholeness and relaxation

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  Breath-regulation 

(prana-nigraha - "breath-work")

Breath regulation exercises are methods of balancing the breath sufficiently to help increase focus upon the present moment and open to the awareness of embodied sensitivity. Relevant breath regulation exercises, tailored to an individuals physiologic and psychologic traits/tendencies, is often a vital component to help regulate the autonomic nature of the body, which then helps to release restrictive patterns of experience held in the body.

 

Neurogenic release exercises

(autonomic (non-doing) nervous system release practice)

These exercises encourage an automatic 'waking up' of the body. This awakening of the body helps to expand upon the breath regulation practice by facilitating an involuntary physiologic expression/release of subconscious reactive tendencies (this is mostly a gentle simmering release of sub-conscious tension and rarely overtly cathartic. When overt catharsis needs to be expressed it is generally a calm and palatable de-pressurisation of emotional tension). ​

 

Pran-ayama 

(whole body felt-sense awareness of natural breath)

Pran-ayama, is the awareness of the natural breath (i.e. without intentional control) and the body's subtler expressions as they gently unearth and express themselves. The awareness of these subtler expressions include tissue temperature, muscle tone, fluid space, potency space, vitality based stillness and subtle tangibility of gaseous exchange and blood dynamics.

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  Embryonic/foetal intelligence

(non-doing formative development insight)

This is the subtle inner body awareness, now relatively free from protective/restrictive patterns of experience. This, if it is experienced, is a transition part of the process whereby the blueprint of an individuals physiologic formation reveals itself and provides the body with a greater sense of potency and empowerment. Potency, is this context, a difficult word to interpret and convey. Just to say it is like the calm stillness when all mental objects are no longer distracting from their essential nature. Yet this is not a stagnant/disembodied stillness, rather it is a dynamic stillness, which can seem paradoxical to the intellect. The primitive reflexes very commonly are retained (unintegrated) when this aspect of embryonic/foetal development is disrupted due to maternal stress or environmental perturbations causing intrauterine distress, notably the fear paralysis reflex. When a relational field is facilitated by a safe and embodied contact then the primitive reflexes get a chance to reintegrate which enables the cascade of other retained reflexes to also reintegrate. This is the realm of the pre-verbal...the root of knock on experiencing, i.e. not a process of narrative based "body-psychotherapy", which merely deals with the branches of the tree (metaphorically speaking). 

 

​Fluid body & potency felt-sense

(subtle body and transpersonal felt-sense insight)

Holistic (wholistic) embodied awareness is the realisation that the "original body" is a very subtle felt-sense expression, often overshadowed by tendencies, impressions, memories (past) and expectations (future). When this is realised another way of relating to circumstance begins to unfold. This encourages a flow of connection beyond the constraints of fear and conditioned psycho-physiologic fragmentation. In other words it is an antidote to limitations we have been enticed to believe in due to distorted experiences.

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No lasting antidote will be found to help balance a fragmented system by incorporating extremes and opposites. For instance by gravitating to something we like in favour to that we do not like (which may be useful from a theoretical point of view) does not alleviate the long-term yearning to feel whole, balanced and in relationship with a bigger perspective than our conditioned reality provides. In other words by suppressing the negative in favour of the positive we merely bury its subconscious shadow (especially in regards to emotions). Whereas the subtle felt-sense of whole body insight (not born from the duality of opposites) shines a light (non-preferential awareness) which leaves no shadow of dis-satisfactoriness in its wake.  

 

So, this style of meditation/yoga begins with intention (desire to change something), it then transitions to establish attention on unfolding present moment phenomena, and develops awareness, without trying to change memory/circumstance or needing attention to be focused on a physical and/or mental object. This might be considered the last phase of embodied non-doing…the ‘END’, where potency is then able to express itself free from recalcitrant tendencies and emotional polarities.  

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