Sammasati Seminars

unique experiences in awareness & personal growth

presents

MOVEMENT, MEDITATION & AWARENESS

a day full of a variety of
Active Movement Meditations

Despite our natural yearning for periods of relaxation, peace and calm,
many find it difficult to simply close their eyes and still the incessant process of thoughts, emotions and physical motion.

Active Movement Meditations
utilize music, breath, sound, dance and other aerobic movements to transform the tension and busyness of the mind and of daily life,
allowing them to be expressed rather than repressed or fought.

This creates a clear and unobstructed opening to the inner-most experience of the essential Self.

These simple yet extraordinarily innovative and powerful exercises can support you to let go deeply into yourself, paradoxically using the chaotic and crazy energy of modern life and mind to allow access to a deep sense of peace, inner freedom and grace.

All active meditation techniques involve beginning stages of physical activity – sometimes intensely physical – followed by periods of silence and stillness.

The prescribed stages are facilitated by specially composed music to guide and intensify the process. This enjoyable and creative process allows the body to release chronically pent up and constricted life energy.

These provide great access to entirely new levels of connection with yourself at all levels.

You might think of it as “spiritual aerobics”.

You can think of it this way:

• Since all “activity” just feeds the ego based machine, the driveness and the doing of life – we need to find a way to deal with the strength of the machine. The “mind” cannot imagine stopping activity. If it could, we would move back and forth between these two states of doing and being, mind and no-mind. Therefore, one way through is to push the body into extreme activity until it tires itself out, breaking through the defences until a level of contact with the inner being is established.
  
  
• The machine is in a constant state of frenzied, disconnected, crazy activity. If we push far enough into this, it is possible to “fall down” into a state of inactivity, or contact with some truer place in the self that is just experience.
  
  
• Deep down, we have been “collecting madness”. The machine and the mind are in a constant state o f management of all the repressions of our lives. We have not laughed, screamed or cried at any authentic level with the fullness of our being and really focused ourselves to be totally with any one feeling experience. Therefore, we are never released into ourselves and the pressure pot keeps building. The repressed unconscious is a volcano which constantly disturbs us and consequently we are never at home in our ourselves and therefore we can never be at home in the universe.
  
  
• The energy centers of the body can be stimulated from two directions. The first is from without, through being attracted to someone or something or being manipulated by the barrage of media all around us today. The second way is more self-directed and intentional, through the use of breath and movement and the invigoration of the body.
  
  
• The mind can only control a dead body or one disconnected from the source of life. If the body becomes truly alive, then the mind becomes afraid. The body released then steps into the “river of existence” and has the opportunity to go beyond the machine’s normal madness. This requires a profound suspension of belief about what we think we know about ourselves and allows access to many new forms of information.
  

NO PREVIOUS MEDITATON EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY.

Registration is required.

Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm

September 10, 2011
November 5, 2011

Offered by donation
at the
Sammasati Seminars Offices
1412 Broad Street, Victoria, BC V8W 2B1
For information call Ashanti at 250-298-8270
Or email sammasati@sammasati.com