Issue: March 2010 Newsletter Spring Cometh and Life Says Go on, Grow!
By Ya'Acov
I had a very funny experience at Hamburg station
when I was arriving recently for a Dancing
with the Heart of the World workshop. I’d spent all day on the train
travelling from home and I’d had a good journey. The last four hours from Koln
were on a train with no power points for my laptop (yippee!) and so, since the
carriage I was in was virtually empty, I’d been playing my guitar for hours.
We got to Hamburg about
11.45 at night. The train pulled in to the station and stopped. I pressed the
button to open the train door and lo and behold, nothing happened. I pressed it
again and again, nothing. I turned, looking for a conductor, someone to
help…..nobody there! One more press and very slowly, the door whined itself
open. I quickly lowered my big and heavy suitcase on to the platform and turned
round to get back on to retrieve my drums. Door closed. Door wouldn’t open. I
shout for help. Nobody appears to be around. It’s like being in a dream. I
press the button a few more times and once again, the door slowly gives way. I
jump on to get my drum bag and turn round, relieved, to jump off. Uh-oh! Door
closed. Door wouldn’t open. I shout for help again, and…..nothing. And then, to
my astonishment, the train starts to pull out of the station with me on it and
my suitcase sitting like a lonely sentinel on the empty platform. I shout and
press the button one more time and amazingly, even though the train is in slow
motion, the door opens. I prepare to leap and am just on my way when someone
grabs my arm – the conductor has appeared from nowhere and is shouting at me in
German something that I roughly translate as: “Are you crazy!” I sit down,
momentarily defeated, wave goodbye to my suitcase and ring Jens, the King of
Calm. He is at the station waiting and yes, he can see my bag on the platform,
and yes, he can drive to the next station, only 7 minutes away and meet me
there, where my bag and I can be happily reunited. Oh, the joys of travelling!
It’s all worth it though. 2010 is a busy year for
me, perhaps the busiest yet. For a couple of weeks, I had been amazed at my own
capacity to make decisions shrouded in the fog of my understudies when it comes
to planning my year. This was unceremoniously revealed by a great process we
did at the second module of our apprenticeship
in January. Our dear friend Jake had given us a great tool that we adapted
which helps to highlight our immunity to change. We’ll be working with it at
the Phoenix
Retreat in March (still places left – what are you waiting for?). The
process usually reveals something a touch on the embarrassing side. Hopefully,
with a sense of humour, we can take this on and use it as the starting point
for the Phoenix Process, which is the tool that we have created for finding
compassion for our understudies, releasing core patterning and calling the
intelligence of the soul to take it’s place as the star of the show! The
Phoenix Process grew out of the S.E.E.R Process (Systemic Essential Energy
Retrieval) which I will be teaching at Module One of my ongoing group Ritual which starts
in March (again – what are you waiting for?). The S.E.E.R process is a very
effective tool for emptying out the effects of old stories and retrieving our
essential energy from where it may have become locked up in past experiences. Anyways,
I digress. It turns out to my astonishment (but no-one else’s!) that for some
part of me that has the ability to take over the planning of my life, life is a
competition! And, what’s more, if I don’t win it, I will have to wallow in the
unwelcome mud of worthlessness! Oh dear! That’s not a pretty piece of
illumination but once I’d got over the embarrassment I felt, I could start to
understand where this stressy feeling that had started to creep in was coming
from. And then, thanks to a very simple and strong dream about the salmon, the
spirit keeper of the Chamber of Surrender in the Movement Medicine heart
mandala, I have been able to reframe this picture and whoosh, my life energy
and joy in the prospects ahead for 2010 returned in a flash. And, as well as
that, I’ve had a tad more consciousness when it’s come to planning 2011!
Result!
I am continually astonished at my own and our
collective ability for an unpredictable blend of stupidity and brilliance. By
the time we are adults, we really are deeply responsible for creating our own
perceptions of reality. And, we have been given an amazing set of tools for our
journey here on planet earth. The body is astonishing as a vehicle for
experience and expression, the heart unmatchable in its ability to stretch and
stretch again as we start to understand the deepest medicine we have access to.
What’s that? L.O.V.E love of course! And the mind, once freed from its
incessant rehashing of old stories, is the perfect radio receiver for the new
information we need to be able to create a different outcome for ourselves and
of course, for all or relations, especially our descendants.
What’s more, we’ve been given the perfect fuel to
link these three old friends so that we can indeed, become more conscious of what
we are choosing to dedicate our lives too. What is that fuel? Look around you.
Spring is coming. The sap is rising. Feel it? You got it. Sex. It’s all about
sex. How do we treat this divine gift of sexual energy? How to move through and
past a couple of thousand years of conditioning that have led us to have such a
distorted relationship with our sexual energy based on guilt, blame and shame.
How to recover the natural innocence, passion and creativity that gives us the
capacity to be empowered co-creators in the dance of life?
The principles of relationship are the same,
whether they are to do with relationship between our own body-heart-mind, or
relationship with our lovers, colleagues and friends, or relationship with the
community of life on earth, or relationship with the spirit world or
relationship with the divine. And the principles of relationship can be learned
and what a pity they are not number one on the school curriculum – well not yet
anyway. We’re very excited to be starting work on a new book on this subject
this year. Relationship and a healthy dynamic polarity between feminine and
masculine are right at the heart of our work. Maybe we should call it creationship. Susannah and I just taught
Space Between Us II for couples who
had already done the workshop before. It went very deep as it always does.
My good friend Chris Luttichau came over the other
day. He’d just done an interview about his thoughts on the upcoming adventure
otherwise known as 2012. Not the film 2012, which a friend told me was two
hours of adrenalized brainwashing nonsense which may have been better titled: ‘Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid!’ He asked me
what I felt about it. I told him that I felt we were increasingly being asked
to move to another level of recognising our interconnection with the rest of
life on earth. I said that things did indeed feel to me like they were
intensifying and speeding up and that I felt inside myself a continuing
invitation to keep cleaning the windows of perception and bring more simplicity
and harmony to bear in all areas of life. And as we went on talking, it kept on
coming down to the relationship between feminine and masculine and between
polarities. In many ways, it seems to me as if everything is polarising more.
At the same time, I feel that there is an awakening going on to the dangers of
continuing to live in a story of separation from each other and life. Things
are happening so fast that it’s impossible to predict what may happen next
week, let alone in 2012. In any case, we are walking a thin line and every
choice we make matters more because of this. And the more conscious we can
become about the story we are telling about our lives, and the story we are
telling through our actions, the better it is for the intelligence of life within
us, between us and all around us. If we can create moments of dynamic peace
within us and between us, we are creating a template for an outcome that may
make us shiver with delight rather than cower in fear.
And yes, our sexual energy and our relationship to
it is a major key. Just like any other man, I’ve had to do a lot of purifying
of the education I received about sex. I’ve had to track the source of
addictions and attitudes that were equally hurtful to myself and those I have
been in relationship with. And that journey continues.
Over the next few weeks, I will be teaching several
weekends connected to the arrival of spring. In Paris and Manchester, I’ll
be teaching Return of the
Light and in London,
I’ll be teaching Source, which
focuses on the dance of sexual energy.And
in April, there’s a chance to work with Susannah and myself together as we take
a journey through the basics of Movement Medicine in Awakeningin Devon. I hope
to see you and to dance with you and share this great adventure, opportunity
and responsibility to consciously create a world worthy of the beauty we all
have within us.
I wish you all springtime blessings. With L.O.V.E
and respect,
Ya’Acov. February 2010.
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The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of the School of Movement Medicine.
Roland Wilkinson, Nappers Crossing, Staverton, Devon TQ9 6PD, UK Tel & Fax +44 (0)1803 762255 http://www. schoolofmovementmedicine.com