Over the past centuries in many spiritual traditions the body was left out or to be transcended or suppressed. This was different in the beginnings of mankind. It’s time for us to return to it: What wholeness could there be that leaves out important aspects of our human nature? In our everyday life we usually experience our body as “Body in history,” carrying the echos of the past. Our historical defenses seek to dissociate us from our body. Yet when we move beneath story and beyond conceptualization, we settle into the “silent body.” This is also a healing state. As we move more fully into feeling our body, we move more fully into feeling our spirituality. This work is deeply seated in the belief that the body and the spirit are a single thing. This does not mean they are identical, but that they are subtly different facets of a unifying condition.
In this workshop we will let music, nature sounds and silence guide us towards our own silent body. We will explore wholeness in the body and body as wholeness. There will be short lectures, bodymeditations, sometimes movement. We will sit, sometimes stand and move, often lay down or gently move on the ground, in the comfort of your home. So please prepare mats or blankets and a cushion.
Each meeting of the Silent Body class will deepen the exploration of the text by Jason Shulman. It will be helpful-but not a requirement-to have a copy of Jason’s book: Ecstatic Speech: Expressions of True Nonduality and read the short chapter called “The Silent Body.” You can purchase the book by clicking here.
