Valentines Day & Love: Cross-Cultural Psycho-Spiritual Perspectives and Practices.

Description

This class on Bodymind Healing Qigong integrates Valentine’s Day themes, and explores cross-cultural psycho-spiritual  perspectives on love. Each tradition adds to our understanding of the jewel of love and adds another facet to experience its mysteries and transformative potentials. You’ll learn what Qigong practices add  to  traditions of embodying love.

Some of what you’ll learn:

• Exploration of cross-cultural holidays and perspectives on love: The Christian Valentine’s day, Greek mythology, the Western mystery tradition, Chinese perspectives.
• Learn how the tale of Eros and Psyche from the Greek mystery tradition prescribes the  four tasks we must traverse to find our beloved. Discover how this last mystery play of the ancient Greek world shows the pathways and mythopoetic solutions to  activate love’s deeper mysteries. Is the most important Goddess of love Aphrodite or Persephone? Find the importance of Psyche’s journey to the underworld in actualizing deeper love. Discover how are your failures on the path of love are an essential part of the process.
• A Western mystery school perspective: What is love from the perspective of the different sign of the Zodiac? Embodying those perspectives by walking the Bagua circle to become an initiate into the various archetypes and pathways of love.
• The Integral Chuan (Tai Chi, Xing Yi, and Bagua) principles related to love: Joining male and female, yin and yang, fongsung (relaxed awakeness), activate the polarities of expansiveness and boundary setting by practicing Tai Chi. Becoming an adept of the elements of love in Xing Yi — For example Spreading your heart’s energy outward with the Fire posture of Xing Yi.  Wuji Qigong, Experiencing the ocean of love and the sea of elixir.   Bagua circle walking the Zodiac—Finding the appropriate archetype of your love’s 12 pathway.s How do qigong practices activate the hieros gamos (mystical marriage)?
• Practicing the Bodymind Healing Qigong Extended Short Form from the perspective of cultivating our  heart-minds (xin). For example, the wounded healer morning qigong prayer, Qigong/Tai Chi postures as mudras,  medical Qigong for the heart, five element qigong from the perspective of cultivating love, etc.
• A.  Shape-shifting stances to embody divine states of consciousness.
  B. What do shamanic animal form movements have to do with love? The tiger— using and taming desire, the lion and openheartedness, etc.
  C. Practices for the yin organs to heal encumbrances to love.
  D. An integral bodymind approach to the zodiac of love: Walking the Bagua circle.
  E. A group healing ritual: Bagua and Jewish mysticism.
  F. Qigong spirals to join heavenly and earthly love,
  G. Cultivating the heart’s intention in Yi Chuan Qigong. How can transcending and transmuting traditions of love be actualized through integrating Qigong with Western bodymind practices?
  H. Working through encumbrances to love through Standing Meditation Qigong.