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Integral, Transformative, Mind-Body Practices
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Integral, Transformative, Mind-Body Practices
Guidlines for Integral-Transformative Pracitces:
“Some Guiding Principles for Integral Practices and Institutions That Support Them:
They promote a simultaneous development of our various faculties.
They generally require mentors, rather than a single guru.
They require a strong and developing autonomy.
They are facilitated by personal traits that promote creativity in general.
Though they encourage individual autonomy, they require surrender at times to
transformative agencies beyond ordinary functioning.
They require patience and the love of practice for its own sake.
They utilize inherited all-at-once responses, or psychosomatic compliance for high-level change.
They utilize the manifold changes catalyzed by images and altered states.
They enlist more that one mediation to achieve particular outcomes.
They surpass limits by negotiation rather than force.
They depend upon improvisation.
They utilize images of unity.
They require and facilitate conscious transitions between different states of consciousness.
They depend on a developing awareness that transcends psychological and somatic functioning.
They orient all our capacities and somatic processes toward the extraordinary life arising in us.”
- Michael Murphy, “The Future of the Body: Explorations Into the Further Evolution
of Human Nature,” 1992, pp. 579-586.
"Do nothing with the body but relax.
Shut firm the mouth and silent remain.
Empty you mind and think of nothing.
Like a hallow bamboo rest at ease in you body.
Giving not nor taking, put your mind at rest.
Mahamudra is like a mind that clings to nothing.
Thus practicing, in time you will reach Buddhahood."
- Tilopa, Song of the Mahamudra
This week, I read the new book by Will Johnson: Yoga of the Mahamudra: The Mystical Way of Balance. (Rochester, Vermont, Inner Traditions, 2005. 151 pages. ISBN: 0892816996.)
The book deals with three mind-body transformative topics: relaxation, the careful use and control of thought processes, and improving awareness of bodily sensations, feelings, and energy. It makes reference to the text "The Song of the Mahamudra" by Tilopa (988-1069) as sung to his disciple Naropa. The mind-body practices discussed include yoga, dance, standing, opening to the flow of energy in the body, mindfulness practices, zen, breath work, vertical and horizontal alignment of the body, balancing, somatic intelligence, bodywork, and the sacramental use of plants.
Another book by Will Johnson that deals with some of the same issues is:
Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness. (Boston, Shambhala, 2000. 137 pages. ISBN: 1570625182.)
For more information on Will Johnson's programs, go to:
Institute for Embodiment Training
http://www.embodiment.net/
6688 Grandview Road, Duncan, British Columbia, V9L 5Y7, Canada
Phone: 250-746-7618
email: tifet@embodiment.net
The Ninefold Path of Embodiment:
1. Gazing at the Beloved
2. The Farzji Dance Troupe
3. Sitting Meditation
4. Mindfulness Practice
5. Bodywork
6. Exercise and Nutrition
7. Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri Circle
8. Water Monkeys
9. Sacramental Plants
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