Quick Fire
Trip Start
Nov 20, 2007
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Trip End
Jul 31, 2007
Bendigo,
Australia
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A real quick entry. Grabbing myself another pin for my map.
I've just come back from Confest. http://www.confest.org.au/pages/
It's a wonderful festival which I also went to for New Years. At New Years I loafed about socializing, experiencing extreme heat, doing loads of art and swimming, this time round I joined in with the workshops. I ran three and attended four. It was great fun, the air was cooler and my head was fresher.
I had a lovely introduction to Feldenkrais and picked up a few things to explore. For instance how looking actively with the eyes can automatically enable your body to twist a great deal more whilst it still remains in a relaxed state. The exercise shows me how much the body likes a stimulus for it's movement. It's funny twisting the body for twisting sake goes only so far, but add on top of that REAL GENUINE curiosity to what is behind you and bingo the body becomes so obliging. That's one of the many things I picked up a few exercises on that will help me illustrate the point.
I also had a wonderful introduction to Theta Healing. I have to say it was quite astounding. Sophie Simon was the first person to mention it to me. I remember shortly before coming here picking up a book at hers and practicing my speed reading on it. The creator ...or discoverer of Theta healing managed to repair herself from Cancer, she has now been working for fifteen years sharing her techniques with others. When I did the Breakthrough To Success weekend, that was the free NLP seminar, I felt convinced that Chris Howard was using very similar techniques to what I had read about in Theta healing. After doing the workshop I am doubly convinced. Chris Howard is a man who has studied a tremendous amount of people in what he calls the self improvement world. Nauro Linguists like Anthony Robbins, Conversational Hypnosis invented by Milton Erikson, Hawaiian Shamanic journeying..in his own words he was a workshop junkey. His approach has been to pull what he believes has worked best together to create his own unique approach. That was marvellous to see because I have a very similar dream for THE FUSION PROJECT.
Anyhow yes the THETA workshop was so inspiring I am going to do a weekend course. I feel that it very much builds on the work I did through the help of Kyle with Mikkel therapy/Reverse therapy. To sum that work up it was listening and acting upon body signals in the present moment. The work helped enough to bring me to a semblance of financial freedom and to regain my physical energy. I knew in England that I had partially recovered but one could say I was still slightly de-pressed and overly anxious. I also knew that that meant my body was trying to draw my attention to something, it was letting me know I was unhappy with my present situation, only I was finding it tremendously hard to imagine any scenarios that would pull me out. Perhaps I should re-state that I was finding it hard to believe that any of the imaginings I had were possible for me. That involved talking myself out of a lot of good ideas. I could imagine things I wanted to do, and I did invest hope and time in those dreams but also a large part of me was imagining how impossible they would be for me to achieve. I did always like to remind myself that there are many people out there in this big wide world of ours who are doing loads of truly wonderful fantastic things and having a blast of a time.
A quick Re-Cap. I spent four hours of my time time with KYLE and it changed my life! Literally and no messing about. It changed my life and my ATTITUDE. I'd like to say that again it changed my ATTITUDE. I felt that it was important for me to re-iterate that my life was changed due to experiences that I had in just FOUR HOURS.
I would also like to add that all the life changing inspirational moments of my life happened over a very short period of time. Moments like looking in my daughters eyes just moments after she was born. Discoveries of the body through KI Aikido (the unbendable arm) or Drama exercises. Tricks of the voice like imagine shouting behind you instead of in front of you increases your projection humungously and saves the throat from being ripped apart. Standing at the top of the Grand Canyon...I could go on, but really mt point is that some of our greatest learnings are truly instantaneous and last us a lifetime. Give yourself a moment to think back on those powerful memories that are so strong within you....those moments of intense emotion...where you knew your life was changed for ever...you knew you had experienced something that would change your perception forever...perhaps it was your first kiss....your first swim...your first paycheck....your first child...as you flew up up high in a plane, perhaps you had just solve a puzzle...perhaps it happened as you gazed at a sunset....perhaps your conscious mind is still unsure, yet your unconscious mind knows, your unconscious mind recognises this immediately. As you let yourself travel back to those times let your memories indulge on the feelings you had in those moments...what colours were around you...the noises that were present in the air...how alive you felt....how incredible it felt to have those instantaneous learnings and recognise in yourself how those moments changed you for ever. Allow yourself to smile and perhaps even laugh at the wondrous memories....it only takes one special memory...you will recognise it for what it was a moment of instantaneous learning.
I also ran a couple of introductory sessions to my Improdance course and got some truly staggeringly good feedback. Afterwards my system kind of went into shock. I felt so humbled. Positive feedback can be quite overwhelming, I felt very touched. I think the most touching comments were about how SAFE participants had felt in the space. People said that they had attended lots of Worskhops at Confest and at other times in their life and it was rare to feel so SAFE. How Marvellous. There will be a few of you reading this who know how important that is for me, that participants feel truly SAFE. SAFE to explore UNCOMFORTABLENESS..in a manner that enables growth.
My Sensei was an advocate of expansion. In Ki AIkido (and many disciplines) there is talk of plus and minus Ki. Minus Ki simply means loss of Ki...Koichi Tohei talks of depression as a minus Ki state, he believes minus Ki makes you ill and that it is important to have plus Ki....
Pumpkin soup with cnuks of Parmesan Yummy. Owen Thomas turned me on to eating Parmesan in a very liberal manner, I had only ever had it grated, he ate it by the chunk, and boy it's good.
One woman liked the workshop so much that she wants me to go to Adelaide to run a Day Workshop and wanted to know how much I'd charge and how many people she would need to get to attend. That's great I'd love to go to Adelaide and check it out. IT's exactly how I dream of travelling...doing my lifes work as I see the world and meeting it's fascinating inhabitants, from Koalas to butterflies, bats to people, and having my finances increase along the way.
Oooh I also learnt a great handstand technique from a contortionist.
I'm off to Sydney tommorrow will be leaving at half four in the morning. Tonight I've got my blindfolded dance and Hawaiian Huna study, I've got to pack me bags do some fly posting eat some food....Phew it feels like a lotta stuff and my wee letter got carried away.
Yeah Dolly is coming with me to Sydney, she wanted to stay at home for Confest. She's been staying at home a lot looking after Irias collection. WE made a doll together and called her Funkydory. Photos will be on facebook in about a week. WE sent a lovely parcel off to Iria for her birthday on the 7th April. I'll write about that in my next post.
Hope you are all well. Dolly is celebrating, she's told me she's ready to get out and about more. That even dolls can feel like just staying at home, but now that Irias parcel is sent off she's happy with her role as caretaker but now she's ready to come party. She wants to come to my workshops too. How lovely is that!!
