Past Present Saturday Workshop
Our First Saturday Workshop at Flow was a time of heartfelt sharing and beautiful transformation
“The Past has no power over the present moment”
~Eckhart Tolle
“Do not
dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present
moment.”
~Buddha
Warm-up
Pranayama: Kapalbhati (Art of Living Style)
Sunning & strobing (Bates Method)
Shaking (a la Shamanic traditions)
~ Hildegard of Bingen
Deep Listening in
pairs
Be the silent witness, don’t respond, just listen with a
heart wide open...
“Happy is the moment
when we sit together with two forms,
two faces, yet one soul,
You and I”
~ Rumi
Gentle yoga: Vajrasana, Shashankasana, Striking Cobra, Lion
Pose, Majari-asana, Thread the needle, Downward dog, walk hands in, toe
balance, dynamic energy pose, Balance, Rocking n Rolling, Sleeping abdominal pose
~ Jeff Foster
Create Collage & haiku
Rituals: Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement – ask for forgiveness
for all perceived wrongs, tossing breadcrumbs into the water, releasing guilt.
In India the Ganges is used to purify.
Fire is also a purifying element. Burn
what no longer serves you in the fire.
Alternate Nostril breathing
Yoga nidra/Ritual
of release:
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least
sound
in fear of what my life and my
children's lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood
drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and
the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with
forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of
still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind
stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and
am free.
Progressive relaxation, breath So (inhalation)-hum (exhalation)
You are on the shore of a lake…
Smell the fresh air, hear the natural sounds – waves lapping,
birdsong, this is a place of peace.
Allow the peace to permeate you.
Now
Bring to mind a scenario that brought you pain or
discomfort.
Try to remember what was said, how it made you feel.
Replay the memory.
On the far shore of the lake you notice a person connected
with this painful memory.
Wade into the lake, feel the water around you.
You see the person on the other side is coming to join you
in the lake.
Allow the waters of the lake to purify you both.
Tell the person: “I forgive you. I release you.”
You can emerge from the lake.
As you rest on the shore say to yourself:
If there is anyone in my past who has been hurt by me, I am
sorry.
If there is anyone in my past who has hurt me, I forgive.
Free write
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but
you can start where you are and change the ending.”
~ C.S. Lewis
Homework:
Alternate Cloud Visualisation:
You are floating on a fluffy white cloud, there is string at
the end of your cloud, you can see an object in the distance, slowly reel in
the string, you see a person is on the neighbouring cloud. Speak to them, tell
them how you are feeling. Everything you ever needed to say to them. Say
everything you want to say. Gently push their cloud away from you. Pick up the
pair of scissors at your feet. “I fogive you, I release you.” Cut the string.
Music:
Long Time Sun by Snatam Kaur
Angkor Wat Theme I, II & III by Micahel Galasso from “In
the Mood for Love” soundtrack
Camille by Georges Delerue
Zvinoshamisa by Eric Van Der Westen & Louis Mhlanga
Lassina Coulibaly & Yan Kadi Faso off Acoustic Africa
Paris, Texs by Ry Cooder
Le Sable Mouvant by Keren Ann
History Repeats Itself by A.O.S.
Hymn to Silence by Joachim Goerke
Sounds of Japan
Bread & Wine by Peter Gabriel
Medicine of the Meadowlark by Kevin Locke
Sleepsong by Secret Garden
Join us for the "Follow Your Bliss" Saturday Wokshop on November 4th.
R150 secures 1 of 8 spots.
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