Ah the days of rain and thunder, bad weather driving us indoors!
Although unlike the weather with the Taoist Inner Alchemy practices we are able to transform our negative emotions into positive feelings, as we recycle the negative and cultivate the positive. We are also able to access our own energy to make the most of it and manage it wisely. The Inner Alchemist is a path of self-healing and self- mastery. Do you want to experience it?
As Lao Tzu said, the Taoist Master all different Taoist Schools agree with:
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Coming very soon we just a few last places left: Taoist Inner Alchemy, Step 1 on the journey to self-fulfillment, freedom to be oneself, and to qualify for Step 2, Taoist Healing Love, the following weekend when you wrap it all up and step into your innate power.
Check for more details below, is the last opportunity this year to join us in these Healing Tao Life Enhancing and for many Life Changing Workshops.
And before these we have a Free Talk!
TAOIST TEACHING, TAOIST PRACTICE, TAOIST LIFE
A personal view by Kris Deva North adapted from his article in Qi Magazine
Start the day with a Smile. In 1972 - just after leaving the army and before my first meditation weekend - I went on a sales course, where they said the same, these hard-nosed business chaps who taught the mindfulness of skilful manipulation. We were advised to smile at ourselves in the mirror, to set ourselves up for the day. Two decades later the Taoist Master Mantak Chia was telling me to smile at my internal organs, the Inner Smile in the tradition of four millenia. Must be something in it! People who live beyond 100 are generally of a cheery nature, according to Deepak Chopra, who knows these things.
So now, when I wake up, I smile. Nothing formal, not sitting up, let alone in seiza or lotus, just lying in bed watching the light slip by the curtains. An Inner Smile, to myself, my being, my energy field. A smile to my mum, long gone, and my dads - I had two, one who started me off before leaving this world, and his brother who took over for the hard part. A smile for my kids and theirs. My ancestors and descendants, teachers and students. No lists, no enumeration, just a big grin of gratitude to the whole energy field around me.
Time past and present condenses into the now, individuals blend in the moment of a heartfelt smile, and I am everyone I have known and all that has happened to me. I thank the universe for the many gifts and blessings - records of my ancestors, knowledge of past lives, totems of insight and grace, leadership and love.
Thus the day begins with Gratitude, awesome in its power and effect, and flowing naturally into the sexual practices, the essence of the Tao, honouring the Way which gave me my ancestors and descendants, opening the gateway through pleasure to bliss. If alone I will work with arousal energy, opening the microcosmic orbit and recycling the chi. If with my Beloved and plenty of time, we might practise dual cultivation, or solo cultivation together. Sexual practice in the morning has a wonderful clarity and spontaneity.
Throughout the day opportunities arise for moving and still meditation: Chi Kung - imperceptibly adopting the ready position waiting for a bus or train, Taoist reverse breathing sitting at the computer, “Tai Chi walking” up a flight of steps. A patch of green grass offers a place for Bone Marrow breathing, or the powerful earth-connection of the Tai Chi Chi Kung form, or the “Hands of Light” form of QiGong Colour Healing Therapy. Parks and avenues become arenas for “embracing the tree” and the yin-yang breath exchange.
Interacting with people, with other energy-fields, opportunities arise to recycle the emotions of the Five Energy-Phases or Elements, seeking to transform impatience into love, worry into serenity, depression to courage, fear to gentleness, even anger into kindness, thinking of Mantak Chia’s encouragement “every day we get many chances to forgive”. I use the Healing Sounds individually for each occasion as it happens - a discreet hiss can dissipate some minor annoyance, or a loud HHHAAA! dispel impatience....when done with the right intention.
Iron Shirt grounding, rooting and centering taught me how to take a push, physically in the first instance but, as I progressed through my training, extending my ability to take an emotional push or withstand financial pressure. I might practise the postures while waiting to start a teaching-session. One great attraction of making my living from this work is the limitless landscape of practice. It is my job to do what I love. Can’t get better than that! Teaching helps keep me keep up my practice. I realised that my original nature/conditioning (hard to tell the difference when you’ve been doing this stuff for a few years) swung me between activity and inertia. This helps towards harmony.
For the full interview click here and scroll down.
I'm looking forward to seeing you soon, and to sharing the Taoist Secrets!
Kris
WHAT'S ON
Thursday 16th November - 7.30 to 9pm
FREE TALK: Taoist Tantra, Taoist Love with Anamarta & Kris Deva North
It's only an hour and a half - what more could you need? Enough to know how little you already know? Enough to know how how much more you can take on!
More details released soon, keep posted with our meetup and FB pages.
Learn how to manage and make the most of your energy, get grounded and centered in your power; along with cultivation and awareness towards self-love, self-healing and self-mastery.
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Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th November - 10.30am to 5pm
Foundations Step 2 - TAOIST HEALING LOVE
All Welcome who completed Step 1.
Motivation, Increased confidence and managing sexual energy come with learning Step 2, Healing Love; embracing the Taoist Greater Alchemy of Yin and Yang. The perfect way to evolving with the practices you learn in Step 1, and open the door to master your most powerful energy, your sexual energy, your creative center.
Sign Up Now! Combining with Step 1 and Saving 10%
@ All these events take place Kentish Town Studio 141-145 Kentish Town Road NW1 8PB
