Module 9
The polarity model, alchemical breath practice, and next steps for the Assembly.
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Thursday May 7 - Practice Circle
Guided practice. Settling into open space and the ground, releasing non-functional tension, and sensing the long lineage of mammalian love and ancestral attunement. Heart fire as the warmth that holds whatever arises, including resistance. Heart breath as a full 360-degree field of practice.
Guided practice. Settling into open space and the ground, releasing non-functional tension, and sensing the long lineage of mammalian love and ancestral attunement. Heart fire as the warmth that holds whatever arises, including resistance. Heart breath as a full 360-degree field of practice.
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Opening the Day
John opens with the plan for the day: a long deep practice, a review of where we are with the ground, and an introduction to a polarity model emerging from recent feedback. Brief setup before dropping into the first long-form guided practice.
John opens with the plan for the day: a long deep practice, a review of where we are with the ground, and an introduction to a polarity model emerging from recent feedback. Brief setup before dropping into the first long-form guided practice.
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Meditation With Light Breath to Raise Energy
A long, deep guided practice reawakening the non-dual awareness body. Loving awareness in the heart, listening to the inner body and to silence, two principles for working with the awareness body: the heart cohering outward, and the body saturating with loving awareness from toes to crown.
A long, deep guided practice reawakening the non-dual awareness body. Loving awareness in the heart, listening to the inner body and to silence, two principles for working with the awareness body: the heart cohering outward, and the body saturating with loving awareness from toes to crown.
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Practice Reflections & the Polarity Model
After a short energy practice, John teaches into a polarity model: pre-verbal masculine and feminine, sacred polarity, wholeness. Group discussion on what surfaces as energy increases, where we get stuck in one pole, and the shared language needed to work with polarity skillfully. Extended teaching and Q&A.
After a short energy practice, John teaches into a polarity model: pre-verbal masculine and feminine, sacred polarity, wholeness. Group discussion on what surfaces as energy increases, where we get stuck in one pole, and the shared language needed to work with polarity skillfully. Extended teaching and Q&A.
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Assembly Process Updates
Liz and Anthony share business circle updates from the April retreat: clarifying the distinction between Planetary Dharma School, the community, and the Sacred Secular Operating System. Two important updates since retreat, and practical orientation for what comes next.
Liz and Anthony share business circle updates from the April retreat: clarifying the distinction between Planetary Dharma School, the community, and the Sacred Secular Operating System. Two important updates since retreat, and practical orientation for what comes next.
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Guided Reflections on the Future of the Assembly
Guided practice settling into the heart, the full breath, and the field already present. John takes the cohort back to January 2023, the moment Aspen first began, to feel what has accumulated in the field across three years of practice together.
Guided practice settling into the heart, the full breath, and the field already present. John takes the cohort back to January 2023, the moment Aspen first began, to feel what has accumulated in the field across three years of practice together.
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Reports From Small Group Facilitators
Note-takers from the eight small breakout groups report out themes from what surfaced in their circles. Patterns across the cohort emerge before John offers a brief wrap heading into a break.
Note-takers from the eight small breakout groups report out themes from what surfaced in their circles. Patterns across the cohort emerge before John offers a brief wrap heading into a break.
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Practice Setup
Setup for a short seated practice working the pump of the prana. Open ground, heart-mind of love wisdom, long full slow breaths in cycles of ten with brief pauses to integrate and notice the relational frame needed to meet what arises.
Setup for a short seated practice working the pump of the prana. Open ground, heart-mind of love wisdom, long full slow breaths in cycles of ten with brief pauses to integrate and notice the relational frame needed to meet what arises.
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Meditation With Breath and Movement
Closing circle practice. Heart open to ground, loving awareness of sound and sensation, the body saturated with presence. Opening into the unbounded stability of the ground beneath, mother consciousness, the field that holds it all.
Closing circle practice. Heart open to ground, loving awareness of sound and sensation, the body saturated with presence. Opening into the unbounded stability of the ground beneath, mother consciousness, the field that holds it all.
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Gratitude
Brief closing from John. The formal close of this chapter on Thursday, the seed-planting for the next cycle, and gratitude to the team and the cohort for three years of practice together.
Brief closing from John. The formal close of this chapter on Thursday, the seed-planting for the next cycle, and gratitude to the team and the cohort for three years of practice together.
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