“The art of dreaming is the art of attention.”
don Juan Matus
For the seers of ancient Mexico, freeing energy for new directions comes through redirecting existing thoughts and behaviors; and the initiating impulse to open new doors may be stirred by our fellow ‘dreamers’ lending their attention to each of our current situations at hand.
Don Juan Matus, heir to those seers, told his students that we can also open new directions by paying deeper attention to our own perception, making appointments for hearing, smelling, feeling, tasting and seeing the limitless wonder around and inside us, and allowing the convergence and interchange of our senses (which cognitive science calls “synesthesia”) to take us to the seer within—an integrative perception that goes beyond the five senses, and which don Juan’s cohort, don Genaro, cheerfully called “aware-ing.”
In these post-workshop individual sessions, practitioners will be guided to identify an element (a habit, dilemma, dream, or question) they wish to address in their daily lives, and, through practicing magical passes and one-on-one inquiry will identify strategies for shifting their attention and energy to the joyous unknown in the everyday world.
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Sessions guided by a Tensegrity Instructor, student of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs.
These particular individual sessions specific for participants of workshop in Los Angeles 2011. Please bring a mat, a notebook and pencil or pen.
Schedule and Registration for Los Angeles, California:
Private Sessions (one hour and fifteen minutes):
Tuesday, March 1
Wednesday, March 2
Thursday, March 3
$150
Registration is closed
Please register in advance and we will contact you directly to arrange
a specific time on one of these three dates. All sessions given in
English; please inquire about other languages. It is suggested to
register early to guarantee space.
This format of Individual Session is also available on an ongoing
basis at the Cleargreen studio or via video conference sessions on
Skype or WebEx. Please inquire at cleargreen@cleargreen.com.
Cancellation Policy:
Cancellation will be refunded in full if made more than 6 days prior
to the appointment date. No refund or credit will be available thereafter.
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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. |
