Godfrey Devereux in Sweden - Opening the Body of Bliss
Teacher: Godfrey Devereux
Price: 6800 SEK including food & accommodation. All prices are + VAT for companies, if you want a company invoice, you need to let us know when you register.
“Love your body and life will love you back”
About the event
OPENING THE BODY OF BLISS
There may be more to yoga and meditation than you realise. Yes, they can be used to escape from the trials and tribulations of life, for a while, perhaps. More fruitfully they can be used in combination to transform your ongoing experience of life completely. This transformation is possible because of the plasticity of your nervous system. As it is you may be habituated to defensive and restricting habits of perception and reaction encoded in your nervous system. This does not have to remain the case. You can use yoga and meditation to completely recalibrate your sensory-motor nerves. When this recalibration is based on sensitivity and guided by pleasure they can bring to you to a deep and stable resilience based on your pleasure nature. No longer having to seek pleasure and satisfaction from external, unreliable sources, you will have unrestricted access to an inexhaustible source of nourishing, fortifying pleasure. This can bring you deep satisfaction and freedom invulnerable to circumstance.
There is much more to your body than you may realise. More than a remarkable biological structure, it is your most inviting and potent spiritual doorway. While your mind speaks to you of distinctions, differences and divisions, your body is a singular fractal of pleasures, the essence of which is pure bliss. It is into this, your Body of Bliss, that your sense of isolated separateness dissolves when you surrender deeply enough into the richness of your own Presence. Free from the restrictions of space and time your Body of Bliss is the spiritual heart of your nature. It is an inexhaustible source of pleasure, joy, peace and love. To embody it into your life you need only establish stable pathways of pleasure from your body.
This retreat will immerse you in your pleasure nature by way of your body just as it is. We will use delicious, rhythmic movements and sustained, accessible stillness to open pathways of pleasure from your physical body to your Body of Bliss. After basking deliciously in the pleasures of movement and breathing you will be taken deep into your pleasure nature in guided meditations, which will deepen your pathways of pleasure. Finally these pathways will be stabilised by passive tantric meditations within which the bliss that you are will be mirrored and amplified in the Presence of 'others'. Then the pathways you have opened from your physical body to your subtle body will become available in your daily life. Learning how to embody your blissful nature requires only curiosity, a willingness to feel and to practice. It does not depend on age, experience, flexibility, agility, strength or stamina.
No previous experience is necessary. However if you have previous experience of meditation, yoga or tantra, this retreat is likely to deepen and expand your experience. If you are teacher of any kind within this field, Godfrey’s teaching and methods may inspire you to take your teaching to the next level.
ABOUT GODFREY
A published author of many books, Godfrey is a radical teacher for our troubled times. Unintimidated by the ideologies and hierarchies of tradition he has been developing methodologies of somatic intimacy for over 40 years, grounded in his initial trainings in Child Development and Oriental Medicine. These methodologies include the Dynamic Yoga Training Method, Somatic Meditation and Slow Tantra. and their blending into a Radical Ecology. All four are somatic invitations to become completely at home in being human. Together they address the full spectrum of human nature: biological, sexual, social and spiritual.
A master teacher who embodies what he teaches without assuming unwarranted authority, Godfrey has trained and influenced thousands of teachers and taught many thousands more. His somatic methodologies and teaching are as profound as they are accessible, potent as they are effective. His dedication to sharing the fruits of his enquiry is leavened with a playful irreverence, and love of life in all of its expressions and forms.
Godfrey says: "I see teaching as way to give back of the riches I have been given. Underlying this is an understanding that being human is both a gift and a challenge. My teaching will invite you to meet that challenge and enjoy its gifts. All you need are curiosity, the desire to feel deeply, and the courage to take responsibility for your own experience."
Whatever your experience, whatever your beliefs, whatever your practice, there is something here for you.
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This workshop will be in English