- the magical passes of Carlos Castaneda
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Cleargreen
have announced a UK Workshop of Carlos Castaneda's Tensegrity,
called:
Dare I Dream?...Yes!
to be held at:
Bath on
Friday 27th, Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th June, 2008
The Workshop will be held at the University of Bath.
Registration for the Inroductory Class will start at 1:15pm and the Introductory Class will begin at 2pm on Friday 27 June. Registration for the Workshop will start at 5:30pm and the Workshop itself will start at 7pm the same day.
To book your place on the workshop click - Bath registration
Practical arrangements are similar to the previous workshop.
You can book accommodation and meals from the links given below:
transport information
accommodation information - now with new link for booking accommodation (May 1st 08)
catering information
After the workshop, from 4:15 to 5 pm at the workshop site, instructors will address, in various languages, questions and observations related to the workshop content.
BEFORE the workshop, in the UK there will be a series of events to introduce people to Tensegrity. See UK Events if you are interested.
Feedback from practitioners who went to the workshop in Bath 2007:
www.cleargreen.com/english/feedback/2007_England.cfm
Bath has tourist attractions that also may be of interest. The following sites feature these attractions:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath%2C_Somerset
www.romanbaths.co.uk
www.bath.co.uk
www.cityofbath.co.uk
Within easy driving distance of Bath are the following places both of historical interest and to quote one UK practitioner "are places with special and unusual energy".
Avebury stone circle www.avebury-web.co.uk
and easyweb.easynet.co.uk/aburnham/eng/aveb.htm
Stonehenge en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
Silbury Hill www.prehistoric.org.uk/wiltshire/silbury_hill.html
More information on Tensegrity and upcoming workshops:
www.cleargreen.com
Tensegrity practice in the UK:
Practice in the UK
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Intending...requires imagination, discipline, purpose, and affection. In this case, to intend means that you get an unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are a dreamer. You feel you are a dreamer with all the cells of your body. -- The Art of Dreaming
"What do you want?" the nagual Carlos Castaneda asked a group of students gathered in a movement studio in Santa Monica.
"You've been recapitulating, reviewing your lives, for some time. You now have energy…energy to dream…So I'm asking you the same question don Juan asked me, the same question I asked each of you when I first met you: 'What is your heart's desire?'"
The students paused for a moment.
"I want to dream!" excitedly exclaimed one student
"Dream what?" asked the nagual.
"I want to be part of a collaborative team that builds a community," she said. "Where people can live well and they can… Well, I don't really know,” she suddenly hesitated, interrupting herself.. “It's a really big dream...I'd like it to be able to generate its own power, and have fruit trees and vegetable gardens, and lots of community space, a place where everyone can participate in decisions.”
"And?" questioned the nagual.
"And?" questioned the apprentice back. "Do I dare dream that?"
"Yes!" said the nagual laughing. "We get caught in our fear – fear that we are not enough; fear that others will say 'No'! And we keep our dreams small...We are far more accustomed to nightmaring than to dreaming!...Let’s brush this habit aside and practice a magical pass - The Singing Earth Serpent - a form designed to help us practice the art of specific dreaming…here and now, on this earth!"
The students spread themselves out in the room and began to move, following the movements of the nagual.
"What do you feel?" the nagual whispered after a lulling moment.
"That my insides are vibrating in tune with my outsides!" said one student
"I feel tingling in my cells," said another.
"...That we are all connected," said a third
"You are feeling your essence," the nagual said, "which is intent itself, vibrating, alive, delicious! Intent is affectionate, the organizing web of the universe. From here you can track the trail of intent in your life, your moments of YES! and share them and follow others like them with purpose.
"I want to feel this way, all the time," one student said.
"A part of you, a part of everyone here, HAS been feeling this way your entire life!" the nagual said. "You just didn't know how to access it consistently – that flame of infinity inside, reaching out to touch and intermingle with the dreams of others – those that are like yours and those that are different – interacting with all that infinite diversity. Yes!"
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About the nagual Carlos Castaneda's magical passes:
Tensegrity is the name given to the modern version of the Magical Passes: positions and movements of body and breath that were dreamt and stalked by men and women seers who lived in Mexico in ancient times, and taught to Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs by their teacher, don Juan Matus, a Yaqui Indian from Yuma, Arizona, and Sonora, Mexico, and the heir to a lineage of seers that originates in Mexico of ancient times.