Doel
Awareness Through the Body aims to provide tools for individuals to expand their consciousness, explore the different planes of their being, discover their inner selves and, eventually, their psychic being. Along with this, we want to offer individuals an opportunity to refine and internalise the senses and become aware of their own perceptions with as little outside interference as possible.
Using their senses in a more complete way, free from judgement and preconceived ideas, individuals will be able to better manage their mind and emotions, to determine how to steer their own lives and to create their own “owner’s manual”.
We think that the way to achieve this high goal is to discover and explore the body and, through the body, awaken the consciousness of the entire being and all the parts that form it.
Uitgangspunten van het werk
- Bewustwording van de gelaagdheid van ons ‘zijn’ en de onderlinge samenhang.
- Zowel lesgeven als leren is altijd een dialoog.
- Alles is een gelegenheid om bewustzijn te vergroten.
- Ben in het moment, zonder iets als vanzelfsprekend te beschouwen.
- Neem, geef en verwacht gepaste mate van verantwoordelijkheid.
- Ontdek je eigen tempo en innerlijke patronen.
- Bewustwording van je innerlijke ruimte en die buiten je tegelijkertijd.
- Je eigen ‘subjective sensory landmarks’ vinden en herkennen.
Sub-doel
- Become aware of the witness attitude and begin to cultivate it.
- Develop awareness of the different levels of consciousness.
- Develop an awareness of the inner and outer space.
- Develop awareness of the interactions between the different parts of the being.
- Understand the use of oneself, and accept one’s own limits and those of others.
- Develop a heightened sense of respect, responsibility, trust, self-confidence, patience, concern and awareness for one’s own timing or pace and that of others.
- Enhance concentration and focus, and the capacity for being present.
- Develop listening for meaning.
- Develop awareness of the physical structure so as to be able to more effectively use ourselves.
- Refine the senses, internalise them, and develop the kinaesthetic sense.
- Develop subjective sensory landmarks.
- Learn how to explore, understand and manage emotions.
- Become aware of breathing patterns, their effects on the various parts of the being, and how breath can be used to effect changes within the self.
- Improve the capacity to adapt and be flexible.
- Develop a sense of how better to collaborate with others.
(1) By subjective sensory landmarks we mean personal memories of sensations that one has experienced in the different planes of one’s being, as well as sensations of how it feels to be in different states of consciousness.
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