Welcome to Embodied Presence: A Virtual Practicum
Thank you for saying Yes to this journey!
Our inquiry and exploration begins right here - both wherever here is for you as you read these words and in the shared space that is this online portal - and right now in whichever moment you are reading this and in the shared the moment designated for the introduction of our class.
We begin with the body. We begin with the breath. We begin with what is.
Notice what is - with no need to change. Feel your breath. Become aware of your current state of presence.
Track this - what we’ll call your baseline - without judgement. What is your current state of showing up?
Stop reading / pause for a minute or two to track this.
Really. Pause and scan. When you have found your baseline we are ready to begin.
We begin our course and each of our lessons by attuning to Source, simply by intending to do so.
Stop reading and ...
**Attune to Source.**
... now.
When you are ready to continue...
I invite you to create an altar for this course work. Make or find a place that you supports you to return to Embodied Presence. This could be in your home or in your minds eye or in your body. Bring yourself there now. Feel that place connected to the central altar of our Virtual Temple. This central altar may appear for you a yurt with an umbilical cord at the center with eons of resonant prayer gathered there. The central altar may appear a stream which Source pours through. However you experience the link and web woven between your Embodied Presence altar and our group altar, make that connection.
When you are ready to continue...
We invoke / name ourselves into this sacred inquiry and circle.
**Call yourself into the circle now by speaking your name aloud.**
When you are ready to continue...
Sit with these questions:
What is your desired feeling state when participating in this course?
This is a word or phrase. This is not something to analyze toward finding a response.
Trust what comes.
How do you currently experience embodied presence?
What do you most want to receive and experience in this course?
What is the support / evolution / cultivation you are welcoming or that is ripe? What do you seek in relation to embodied presence?
Find the meeting place between intention and mystery with this and feel into that crossroads.
Name yourself into our circle -- I am _________________.
Respond to the above questions:
Desired feeling state when participating in this course
What are the ways you currently experience embodied presence?
What do most want to receive and experience here?
What is the evolution you are welcome in relation to embodied presence?
I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to explore and deepen our embodied presence together in an online context. This setting for study allows us to immerse in our home lives while we engage this inquiry ... a setting to integrate practice and evolution. And, an online course is a wild context in which to explore presence - practicing embodied ways in virtual realm!
Know that we are in this adventure together. Our capacity to deepen in this inquiry exists simply in relation for our desire and intention to show up for this journey and this transformation with ourselves and each other.
Throughout our journey, I invite presence in this communal exploration in a way that is simultaneously right for you and aligned. I hope and imagine you will follow our learning inquiries week by week when they are posted, and will practice at home. And, if timing or life-activities don’t allow you to engage fully each week, I ask that you do presence to the Essence of each week by simply attuning to the Headline of our week as part of your daily practice.
The lessons build on each other and also exist independent of each other. If you skip a week or two, feel free to plug in again from where you left off.
My request is that you attune to your desired feeling state for this class. Be guided by presence and spaciousness and vibrance in how you tune in.
Practically - inquiries will be listed here weekly. Read the documents or listen to the audio as you prefer.
In Embodied Presence, we’ll have many invitations to flip the script from ways we usually engage online. This course is a lab. Again, I invite you to always approach this class from your desired feeling state ... rather than from To-Do.
What changes for you when you do this? Allow your words to flow and choose them carefully. How clear can you be when you make offerings there?
Thank you for your presence! I feel you, shining.
Taya