Awakening Body: Pulsating From The Centre

This two hour movement workshop is an experience of Spanda in the body.

Dr. Mark Dyczkowski’s described Spanda in his book The Doctrine of Vibration, in which he outlined one of  the key ideas of Kashmir Shaivism, or non-dual Shaiva Tantra. According to the Spanda Doctrine, consciousness is not just a witnessing awareness but is an active force and is living, pulsating energy, the source of all manifestation.

The wonder of experiencing the navel radiation movement pattern is to directly experience the somatic throb of the fundamental divine pulsation that is Spanda. The creative pulsation of Spanda produces a world of opposites, oscillating divinely between exquisitely poised alternatives. To connect with the navel radiation pattern is to connect with Spanda in action in our bodies. This workshop is an invitation to enter fully into this embodied experience, moment to moment.

After an initial chat, we will activate our energy with some movement and then have a seated meditation. The movement session begins in a lying down, fetal curl position, where we tune awareness to the experience of the navel, the original source of all our nourishment. Movement unwinds from this position, exploring how we can find ourselves to be pulsating from that centre in our movement. From slow and sometimes free explorations, sometimes in gentle structured movement, the body unfolds into a contemporary yoga practice full of the awareness of this central movement pattern, moving from the centre, expanding from and returning to the centre. This two-hour embodiment experience will unfold from stillness, reach a crescendo, and subside back into stillness, in a sublime mirroring of the trajectory of life and the entire universe.

The session concludes in śavāsana and the expereince of the Blessing Mandala.