Carlos Castaneda’s Tensegrity

A One-Day Workshop

Dreaming with our Creative Energy*

November 6, 2010

New York, New York

"The first part of the dreaming lesson in question is that maleness and femaleness are not final states but are the result of a specific act of positioning the assemblage point. And this act is, naturally, a matter of volition.”

- Don Juan Matus to Carlos Castaneda -The Art of Dreaming


Modern medical science purports that in utero we are all born female; then through an act of chemical diversification, a flush of testosterone, maleness buds and sprouts. Science also tells us that all human beings, whether their result in physical terms is male or female, possess the gender-defining hormones for both – men and women alike have testosterone, estrogen and progesterone – just in varying and differing attribute-determining amounts.

Thus from a physiological point of view, we all have ‘maleness’ and ‘femaleness’ inside; yet shaman-seers suggest we have a third option as well – an underlying energetic essence through which both ‘male’ and ‘femaleness’ can, as an act of volition, be creatively expressed.

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In this one-day Tensegrity event, participants will be guided to get in touch with first their same gender internal expression, then their opposite, then something far beyond yet encompassing both, all for the purpose of stepping into the localization and utilization of this, their creative energy.

Magical passes, recapitulation or the reviewing of one’s life experiences, and ‘sounding’ and vocalizing exercises will be part of this unique event. All to culminate in a 'dreaming' practice, whereby each participant, freer from the ties of their personal socialization, dreams themselves creating and following their own dream.

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This one-day workshop is taught by a new generation of Tensegrity Instructors – students of the students of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs.

Open to all: newcomers and seasoned practitioners!

Schedule:

Saturday, November 6, 2010           
10:00 am to approximately 9:30 pm – with two breaks for lunch and dinner

Cost:

$125
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Cancellation Policy:
Before the start of the event: Refunds or credits will be available less a $25 administration fee. After the start of event, no refunds or credits available. Exception: Anyone attending a Cleargreen-sponsored event for the first time may receive a refund, less a $25 administration fee if they notify the registration supervisor in person during or immediately after the first session of the workshop. No refunds are available thereafter.

 

Tensegrity is the modern practice of the warrior-traveler’s path with heart which don Juan Matus taught his four students: Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs. The word ‘tensegrity’ was coined by an architect, scientist, engineer, global thinker and dreamer whom Carlos Castaneda admired: R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller described tensegrity as a process of tensional integrity—the inherent interdependence of structures such as cells, bodies, and solar systems which are held together by a continuous web of tension (such as gravity) holding together discontinuous islands of compression (such as the sun, planets and moons in the solar system).
    As a modern practice of shamanism, Tensegrity means adapting to our own energy, the energy of sun and stars, the air, water, the land, and of its inhabitants in a way that supports the interdependent integrity of the community that we are, as individual and collective beings. The tools that can help us to do this include the ancient energy-enhancing movements and breaths known as magical passes, as well as tracking and dreaming exercises, all of which we will do in this workshop.
    Tracking exercises are: guided self-examination exercises practiced individually and with a peer witness, which allow one to track not only our physical patterns, but also our related mental and emotional patterns and their consequential behaviors and judgments, which we inherited from our lineage and cultures.
    We can direct the energy and awareness gained from this review to access what don Juan Matus called freedom of perception—the freedom to move past any limiting interpretations of our lineage, upbringing and culture to perceive energy directly, and to dream true interdependence—new possibilities of working with others and with the earth–wherever we are, possibilities which spring from an open heart, from bringing one’s best to the interchange.

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