Class 22: Cultivating the Golden Ball 2: The Psychological and Energetic Dimensions

Description

A delving deeper from last weeks’ class into tales and practices of the Golden Ball. Robert Bly’s book Iron John and the original Brother Grimms Iron Hans are used to invoke the Wildman’s initiation of the king’s son in his loss of the Golden Ball and his initiation into how to find his golden wild self. Psychological and energetic elements of the loss of the Golden Ball are also focused upon.

Some specifics you’ll learn:

• The Wildman tells the Kings’ son, who doesn’t know where the key is to open the Wildman’s cage, that the key is under your mother’s pillow. The class addresses how freeing oneself from psychological complexes is one key to recovering the Golden Ball. of your life’s energy.

• Freud’s book “Civilization and its Discontents” is used to understand the loss of the Golden Ball in Western civilization due to suppressing the “Id” in service of the ego. Getting in touch with our Wildman gets us back to our instinctual self. We explore how both Western psychotherapy and Eastern Qigong practices can join in finding the key that opening the way to opening our primordial energies.

• The journey from Anima Mundi to Anima Personalis and back to Anima Mundi— the key to restoring one’s connection to our essential nature and a secret to healing the loss of a personal relationship. Finding primordial chi (yuan chi, 元氣)) when we have lost our way in life.

• How to find, and tap into the energy of, “The Sea of Elixir.”

• Qigong exercises (dynamic and static) to cultivate the Golden Ball. “Standing Mediation doing “no-thing” and finding contentment in being alight.” Cultivating the Golden Ball of the Tan Tien and Ming Men (belly)

As always, the Bodymind Healing Qigong set is used to illustrate and build upon the topic of the day, i.e., how bodymind healing Qigong movements and non-movements can be used to cultivate the Golden Ball. To see the PDF description of the 9 sets of Bodymind Healing Qigong Extended Short Form set CLICK HERE.