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THE INVISIBLE SKY  1-3 APRIL ‘16  Here, above, is a shot of the town taken from the patio of our hotel room. A rare place, as you can see. Here is one venue where the place is part of the seminar! And the hotel that we stayed in, the grouproom we worked in, the restaurant where we all ate Friday and Saturday, the bars for our coffees and variations during the breaks, all lay within the circumference of a 100 meters.   It took Mishka & I eight hours to get there, by road, could have been even longer and [...]

Song of Songs Movement, Sound, Stillness, Music – were all one, all blown by the same wind. Just this, no thats. Everything happening was happening together, right here, right now, and to all. The whole way there is quite different from what is there, when you get there, that is the problem. The problem of the Teaching of the Path. At times in the group everyone – for example, to music – was doing something different but to me it was always one complete unity… We are all always in the middle of all that is. If we could only [...]

White Light, Still & Moving A Weekend in Prague It was like a dream for me, the whole weekend, no idea what I was up to at any point, I couldn’t see through my own actions at all, I was just a passenger… It wasn’t such a large group, for Prague, in the mid-thirties, a bit of a mixture, plenty of OPTers, from past and current Trainings, and six or seven Newies, Tiago and Nabi down from Denmark to help along… We had a dance session late Saturday in the grouproom. I joined in. The roof came off. I was [...]

 OPT 4 – A Leg: 17-21 Feb 2016   A BLOG In many ways, this part of OPT started long before it began, the previous sessions had loosened structures, identified patterns and revealed hidden traumas, so there was a lot already in play. Even before we sat down for the first session, the energy among the participants, the house team and the facilitators was bubbling up towards this week’s theme ‘moving anger to positive aggression’! It sounds paradoxical that a training in the formlessness of Michael’s energy work should include structure, but that is why it is called the Onelife Personal [...]

The Still Point of the Turning World  A Seminar in  Bremen 26/28 Feb 2016  A Blog The name of the room I stayed in at the Park Hotel there was The Buddha Room – one of the best. I had stayed there once before, long ago, but not since, and sometimes, since, in not such pleasant rooms either, so I asked Judah to fix a good one for me this time and he got them to block this great room just for me. The room is full of pictures – of Buddhist monasteries, and colourful masters too… Well done!   [...]

AYURVEDIC PANCHAKARMA IN SRI LANKA JAN 2016 A BLOG Mishka and I have just returned from a Kur in Sri Lanka, at an Ayurvedic Centre there,– the whole 2 week Panchakarma process. Mishka was there, same place too, in Nov ‘14, and loved it. I’ve also been through the process before, once in Switzerland, at the Maharishi place there, twice in Massachusetts at the centre started there by Deepak Chopra, once in England, in Bournemouth, all some time ago now, but since then I’ve made several visits to Ayurvedic Centres in Germany for a week or so of much the [...]

  There was silence and silence and silence, there was action, there was much flow, there was movement, there was stillness. There were very few words from me, bar the opening outline of what we would be up to, and the Q&A as usual at the end. Apart from that – just intros to the explorations we made together. A number of them. Emphasizing in action the energy presence, again & again. This time silence throughout, right until the very end. The silence brought the presence, the presence brought the wonder. And presence brings silence too, even when later, there [...]

"Where it´s Cool" THE WINTER FESTIVAL 2015 :: A BLOG At the end, Sashara said, “Thank you for an extraordinary group” – and so it was for all the ninety people who were there, no doubt about that. On one occasion, one morning, Michael walked slowly up and down the aisle that the group made between themselves each time, very slowly, moving his arms and hands – and eyes – that was all, but of course it was a lot more and everyone present responded in an extraordinary way, just from that, on & on. Later one Wild Goose, Aminyuna, [...]

Great place! Super Grouproom, food fine, and – finally – I got a just great accommodation, and I think that part of it was fine for everybody else too. The place lies deep too in the countryside, near the Danube, and is totally quiet. And Daniela the lady owner, with her husband Klaus, was easy to work with – even with her 2 toddlers around her neck, and her dogs. We will go there again, with the upcoming Love & Beauty Course. Yes it was the 5th of 6 meetings for this great X-Run. It went very deep – we [...]