Being Present
Presence is a constant return to the center of our body, our life and what is essential. Four days online, with a gathering before we begin.
With Tatiana Aya Tupinambá and Jöy
US$ 333
Taught in English
Uma edição em português acontece em janeiro, e você já pode se inscrever.
Be present
Being present is the practice of my whole life. It is not a technique I learned once. It is a return, again and again, to the center of the body, to this breath, to what is essential. Everything else grows from there: how I think, how I feel, how I am with the people around me, how I am with the world, and above all how I am with myself.
The ocean taught me this. When you go into the sea there is one rule before every other rule: stay calm. The waves will come. They will crash over you, they will pull at your legs, they will take your breath for a moment. That is what the ocean does. It is not against you. But the moment you lose your focus, the moment you get scared and let the fear grow into overwhelm, everything becomes so much more difficult. You fight the water, and the water is stronger. You swallow it. You forget where the shore is.
And the moment you stay calm, you can feel the wave before it arrives. You breathe. You go under. You come up. You let it pass. The same wave that could drown you carries you. Nothing about the ocean changed. What changed is you.
Life is that ocean. The waves are the news that comes, the money, the family, the body that gets sick, the mind that runs and runs. They are going to crash. We do not practice so that the waves stop. We practice so that when they come we stay in our center, so that the floor can shake and we do not run. This is what I mean when I say we are the water clan. We have been learning to swim for a long time now.
Presence is that training, and it lives in the smallest things. How you wake up. What you eat, and how you eat it. The work of your hands. Your rest, your sleep, your dreams. When we bring our attention to these, the routine becomes a ritual, and the ritual becomes a steadiness we carry into every wave.
It is an invitation to return to the body, to the present moment, to life.
Four days, four themes
- Day 0OrientationNovember 6Before we begin, we meet online to get to know one another and to go through how the practice will work. The time is decided together, as a group. Then each day has a theme, and everything we do that day follows it.
- Day 1Reconnecting with myselfNovember 8
- Day 2Connection with the great intelligence that is natureNovember 9
- Day 3Be silent to listenNovember 10
- Day 4The dance and the voiceNovember 11
For four days we practice this together, not alone in your own head but in a circle, listening, experiencing, growing stronger. With much love and presence, we are preparing ourselves for this gathering. We are waiting for you.
The investment
With Tatiana Aya Tupinambá and Jöy
US$ 333
- Investment
- US$ 333
- Screen time
- A one-hour Zoom call every day (4 total)
- Places
- 12 people
- Language
- EnglishUma edição em português acontece em janeiro, e você já pode se inscrever.
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