With Andrea Juhan (USA)
Assisted by Annette Uhlemann & Jan Redsted

Cycles III
The Momentum of Mind

Are you out of your mind? Stuck in your head? Do you sound like a broken record? Do you yearn for peace of mind, some place where your thoughts can enhance or support your experience rather than over-stimulate, bombard or abandon you?

The mind is a beautiful dancer and, like everything else, the movement of mind is a dance. When it moves freely, the mind is fluid, rich, rhythmic, brilliant, and wise. Too often, we compartmentalize ourselves; we forget the simple truth that our head is a part of our body. In an effort to connect with the immediacy of our physical, emotional, or spiritual experience, we sometimes reject or denigrate our mental intelligence. We view our mind as an obstacle to our well-being, rather than welcoming it as a crucial and integral part of our wholeness.

Of course, the mind can be a dangerous place, when it clouds our experience and causes us to lose touch with our bodies and emotions, or with the people and the environment around us. Being caught in repetitive loops of thinking, and hearing the voices of criticism or judgment is painful, limiting, and no fun. But when we cut ourselves off from ‘Mind’ because we don’t like the quality of our thoughts, we disconnect from a vast and valuable resource - a tremendous source of creativity, energy, innovation, inspiration, and focus.

In this workshop, we will investigate the Life Cycles from the perspective of an embodied mind. Just as we use the 5Rhythms movement practice to free stuck energy in our bodies and emotions, we can also use movement to work with the places where we get lost in thought: past present or future. We will invite the thinking mind to dance, to use our limbs to express its amazing and sometimes chaotic creativity; we will open ourselves to the wisdom, intelligence, and power of crystallized attention that constitutes an awakened, open Mind.

Any workshop in the Cycles Suite can be taken in any order, at any time; each one is intimately related to the others, and each is relevant for any point in one’s life. In this series, each workshop invites us to attend to a particular realm of development so that we may bring more fullness and presence to our experience of being alive.

 

The Cycles Suite

I - The Living Body - What is our genetic inheritance? How do we relate to, and care for, our own flesh and blood? Here we explore our relationship to the vehicle that moves us through this life.

II - The Heart’s Expansion - How does our heart contract and expand as time goes on? What touches and moves us? In this workshop, we trace and develop our capacity to feel, express, connect, and respond.

III - The Momentum of Mind – Here we practice tapping into, and making peace with, our mind’s remarkable energy, flexibility, curiosity, and creativity – meeting and riding the Momentum of Mind.

IV - The Soul’s Unfolding – accepting, offering, and committing to our unique gifts, talents, and purpose. In this workshop, we make way for the unfolding dance of our soul.

V -The Eternal Spirit – What else is there? Here we honor that which already is – what always has been, and always will be. This workshop is an invitation to receive, embody, and rest within the ever-present Eternal Spirit or life force that moves through all.

Teacher: Andrea Juhan (USA): www.openfloor.org

Level:
This workshop counts as a Cycles workshop for the Gabrielle Roth Teacher’s Training (24 Hours)

Venue:
Performers House
Papirfabrikken 76
8600  Silkeborg, Denmark

www.performershouse.dk
Find it on Google maps here...

Information about Silkeborg
http://www.silkeborg.com/international/en-gb/menu/tourist/silkeborg.htm

Se how to walk: Google maps

4 Airports:

BillundAirport (1 hour with bus to Silkeborg)

Aarhus Airport (45 min bus to Aarhus + 1 hour train to Silkeborg)

Copenhagen Airport 
(About 4 hours train / change in Copenhagen and Skanderborg )

From Norway: Ålborg Airport is a posibillity:
www.aal.dk

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