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We revisit the theme from the previous class — God’s Location: The Cloud of Unknowing — and add some material I felt was missing. It’s a commonly expressed idea that God’s location is everywhere and in everything, but the mystics’ teachings explore how to have a direct bodily felt experience of this. One way is…
God’s Location: The Cloud of Unknowing in Taoist, Jewish, and Greek Mystical Traditions. It’s been said that God’s location is everywhere and in everything. But how does one get in touch with the felt experience of “G-d,” which is beyond description and words. How does one find the felt experience of G-d in everyday life?…
This Webinar by Dr. Michael Mayer, was originally produced for Natural Standard: The Authority on Integrative Medicine(2010). It contains a combined Powerpoint and Audio Presentation which reviews research on hypertension, shows how Qigong can help with the treatment of hypertension, examines Qigong and hypertension research, discusses Chinese medical approaches to hypertension (including breathing methods, Qigong…
In this article, Dr Mayer encapsulates his post-modern view of Tai Chi Chuan that each practitioner can honor the classical training curriculum of Tai Chi Chuan and then bring to it the experience and meanings that are unique to that practitioner. In this light, each Tai Chi movement can be looked at as having four…
From my perspective after 40 years of practicing the Integral Chuan the culmination of the tradition is at times practicing to music. It’s been said that the Torah, the old testament was meant to be sung not just said. And in many cross cultural traditions of integrating healing with activating altered states, sound and music were key to healing and psychophysiological transformation. Hans Jenny a scientist of sound crated a tonoscope, which when vibrated the sand on it would form words, even the Sanskrit symbol of OM. So it’s said that sounds can create form and healing. Sacred music enhances discovering how the Integral Chuan is a tradition of “postural initiation.”
The MJP is a symbolic process tool that has a person transpose a life problem into a story set in ancient time in order to work through that issue.
There’s a story I like to tell about where Tai Chi “really comes from.” Not the historical record, the mythic origins of tai chi. As Joseph Campbell used to say, a myth is an untrue story that’s truer than life. Here’s the story. Once, in a land of lakes, mountains, forests, and rivers, there lived…
The Spirit & Soul of Qigong: The Importance of the Transcending/Transmuting Dialectic on the Psycho-spiritual Path This Bodymind Healing Qigong class explores the idea that Tai Chi and Qigong can be more than spiritual or energetic practices; they can also become practices for psychological and emotional transformation. “Spiritual practice” is defined as moving upward toward…
In this class you’ll be introduced to making the enlightenment of the Buddha at Wesak Full Moon time into an entryway into cross cultural wisdom tradition practices. Wesak Full Moon time (full moon in Scorpio/Taurus) can not only be seen a a time of Buddha enlightenment under the Boddhi tree, but as a pathway to …
In response to a student question, a cross cultural perspective on the creation of energy is explored. Some of the lenses we look through are: psychological, Chinese medicine/ Qigong, and Greek mythology.
This second class on Bagua reviews the imaginal origins of Bagua and shows how it fits into the Integral Chuan curricula, emphasizing it’s role in psycho-spiritual transformation. Adding to our Session #1 of Bagua, we go further into the Wang Shujin’s eight changes while walking the Bagua circle.