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    08/21/2009

Expansive Breathing

        When working with people & introducing Breathing I explain that expansive breathing is a way of using our breath it is not the ‘way’ to breath.

        Since 1963 I have been working with breathing and alignment of the body, in that time I feel it is safe to say “The evidence suggest”, when we use expansive breathing for opening spaces in our upper body for any amount of time, from five minutes to 1 hour, positive outcomes prevail.
When normal body positions are taken; we have a soft and contemplative form of natural breathing where we feel a comfortable rise & fall or an expansion & contraction with the breath. If we decide to explore and examine expansive breathing, we intend a long breath in for expansion and maintain this expanded feeling while allowing some breath out from the abdominal area, as a singer may do when letting sound & breath up and out.

        With an expansive pattern of breathing we are stretching & exercising the muscles of the upper body for a period of time. The transformative aspect of expansive breathing has been expressed by most as a lighter and straighter feeling in the body. Expansive breathing as I use it, becomes a primary breathing education that I give to people with severe to mild back problems. The results are dramatic since most of these problems arise as a result of contraction over a long period of time, and we are just reversing the process intentionally
See session http://www.alignment.org/1/2/full=session.htm a comfortable position for people of all ages in which to feel the benefits of breathing fully. Feed back is welcome if you explore for more then 10 minutes.
 

“All living organisms depend for their survival upon sensitive communication among their parts. In humans, this sensitivity can be increased through biofeedback training, somatic education, martial arts, sports, meditation and other disciplines. Furthermore, both long experience with such practices and experimental research have shown that humans can, by developing somatic awareness, increase their capacities for voluntary self-control. Today we have strong evidence that any aspect of bodily functioning, once brought to the awareness, can be deliberately altered to some extent, for healing or the development of new abilities.”

The Future of the Body ~ Michael Murphy ~ Co-founder Esalen Institute.
 

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06/26/2009

Seeds of love.

    Caught in the coils of the 'created,' man is blind to the fact that he is part of the Divine Creator. Identifying himself with the physical sheath in which he is encased, he is blind to the unity of all beings in the One Universal Absolute. Man has written and studied countless texts on spiritual discipline and discovery, and confounded the confusion, indulging in dialectical rivalries and argumentation. But, he who has put at least a page or two of these tomes into practice, is rendered silent and innocent of any desire for fame or victory. He is happy in the depths of his being. He ploughs the field of his heart, sows the seeds of love and reaps the harvest of fortitude and equanimity.

~~~Sri Sai Baba~~~

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06/06/2009

Why call nature intelligence “gross body”? I’m still scratching my head!
 

As Sai Baba speaks; we are infused with love in every cell of our bodies! Herbologists love nature and use nature to help us open to our nature intelligence. I started in this vain because, I was contemplating the subject of Trusting our nature body to move and animate what is good, true and beautiful for us. Within our form is an ability to unwind indigestible wiring of the physical form. As we breathe, feeling the expansion and contraction of our body, we activate the prana energy that feeds us updated waves of our perfection.

Lying down on your back and playing with the expansion and contraction of the body, by allowing the breath to suggest a pattern that feels comfortable,  you will learn to trust the breath and body to show you where it wants to go. By trusting the body and following where it feels to go we will discover many things about our own body.
 

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06/01/09

States of Consciousness

    "Several states of consciousness are quite familiar. For example, waking, dreaming, and deep sleep. Those are some of the "normal" or "ordinary" states. Some of the "altered" or "nonordinary" states appear to include peak experiences, religious experiences, drug states, holotropic states, and meditative or contemplative states (Goleman, 1988; Grof, 1998; Tart 1972). Evidence strongly suggests that a person at virtually any stage or level of development can have an altered state or peak experience--including a spiritual experience (Wilber, 1983, 2000b). Thus, the idea that spiritual experiences are available only at the higher stages of development is incorrect. States themselves rarely show development, and their occurrence is often random; yet they seem to be some of the most profound experiences human beings ever encounter. Clearly, those important aspects of spirituality that involve altered states do not follow any sort of linear, sequential, or stage-like unfolding. "

                    Ken Wilber full text 

By exercising the brain with reading material that invigorates thought and contemplation, I grow in our common genius. 
Harmony

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05/30/09

Draw me after You!
We will run in the fragrance of Your perfumes,
     O heavenly Spouse!
I will run and not tire,
     until You bring me into the wine-cellar,
     until Your left hand is under my head
     and Your right hand will embrace me happily
     and You will kiss me with the happiest kiss of Your mouth.

-     Clare of Assisi ( 1193? – 1254, Italy)