Retreat:
Session 1 Friday night: practice of presence, the Embodied now
Journal: What blocks you from being with your living embodied experience. 5
Tell me a way you leave the present moment?
Tell me a way you sense your embodiment now?
Explore what you include or exclude in your sense of the embodied now. Do you select what to focus on? Do you ignore what you think is not appropriate in your experience to speak about. what do you grasp onto?
Session 2: Resistance, doubt and superego
Tell me a way you judged yourself since you woke up this morning.
How do you feel when you judge yourself.
Explore how your superego manifests. Is it loud, frightening and shaming. Does it whisper. what does it say. Do you recognize the voice.
Why do we believe and listen to this voice? Who hears this voice (child) how do we react to this voice. We get defensive, rationalize, make excuses,. We go on the attack mode. We collapse bodily
Tell me a way you believe into the superego
Tell me a way you child react’s to the superego
Explore in your circle how being attacked by the superego affects your ability to be present.
Session 3 The alchemy of welcoming and holding.
Open inquiry. By staying present explore what is arising for you during this retreat so far. Check in with your body.
Journal: explore your resistance to practicing presence, meditating at home.
Tell me what you are experiencing now.
Explore your embodied experience. Notice how you leave your felt experience into your mind, into judging. What happens if you return and include your embodiment.
Monday Night Sessions:
Monday 30th. Depth or surface.
Tell me a way you stay on the surface of your experience.
Tell me a way you allow yourself to go deeper.
Explore what you are bringing into this session ? From your life, from the retreat? Notice if you are staying on the surface? Are you going deeper in the feelings, sensations in the body? What happens when you and sense yourself for a moment.