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"Pulsation"
has evolved from two streams. First in the pioneering
work of Wilhelm Reich
an Austrian scientist and psychoanalyst. The second stream, the
vision of Osho, a contemporary
mystic whose life and teaching have influenced millions of people
of every age and way of life.
Osho's
vision is on the basis that both the inner and the outer world are
to be totally embraced, lived and loved. What needs to be renounced
is not the world, but all that the world has conditioned into us
in the way of attitudes and belief systems, rather that we live
without any belief and through our own experience come into contact
with our true nature. For this prescription is: Meditation. Osho
devised revolutionary new ways for the modern, overstressed mind
to find peace and silence. One of his insights is that Active meditation
- in particular Dynamic and Kundalini meditations - provide the
easiest way of moving from activity to relaxation.
Pulsation is breathing and bodywork that is rooted in the deep emotional
release process of the work of Wilhelm Reich, M.D. Reich discovered
relations between emotional functioning and the bodys energetic
processes. These discoveries anticipated the holistic movements
understanding of the mind/body relationship. They also helped to
source many of todays contemporary body-oriented psychotherapies
and personal growth disciplines including Pulsation. Reich's work
on the relationship between emotional stagnation and degenerative
disease was ahead of its time. At the root of emotional stagnation
is what Reich called muscular armor. Muscular armor is chronic muscular
tension that blocks the natural flow of life force through the body
that is experienced as emotions. The restriction of the life force
can result not only in emotional stagnation, but also in physical
disease.
Reich
developed techniques to loosen muscular armor thereby helping people
to allow and experience blocked emotions and the freeing of the
body's natural emotional expressiveness. Long-held feelings then
could flow through the body and be transformed, leaving the person
to feel more alive and better able to establish contact with self
and others.
We
are born as wild, free-feeling and spontaneously expressive beings
but in the process of growing up, the conditioning by our parents,
society and religions force us to repress this natural aliveness.
We learn not to cry and not to be angry in order to be good and
in this process of repressing our f spontaneous feelings when we
are young is that we become emotionally dishonest and cut off from
our real feelings - or better yet, not to even have any. We grow
up fearful, guilty, angry, and depressed, twisting ourselves out
of shape to fit into someone else's ideas of who we should be. But
trying to fit into other peoples molds creates tension. Who wants
to be forced into a fixed shape against their will? As a result
we become sick, both physically and psychologically.
But
what exactly is repression?
Repression requires us to renounce what is vibrant inside of us,
and to become dull both energetically and emotionally.
Many of us have an inkling of it, but few of us have a grasp of
how it relates to our own lives. Our breathing becomes shallow.
We swallow our tears, we hold back our anger, we even suppress joy
and laughter. We force our unexpressed feelings into the unconscious
where they remain buried alive, stuck, held and blocked in the body.
Repressions
manifest as rigid character attitudes.
Such as a man who becomes extremely anxious if he does not live
his routine life by the clock; or the woman in spite of her longing
to share love with someone, rejects men out of an old unconscious
fear of her own father's rejection of her.
But
they also manifest as muscular tension in the body.
When we learn not to show our feelings, they usually go into our
bodies.
We tense the muscles in our neck instead of frowning, we hold our
breath instead of crying, or we clench our jaw instead of yelling.
When these patterns are repeated, emotional suppression becomes
a habit, the unconscious mind takes over.
EXPERIENCING
AN INDIVIDUAL SESSION OR A SERIES OF INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS WILL PROVIDE
A DEEP PERSONAL SELF EXPERIENCE OF BODY AWARENESS AND LIFE FORCE.
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The
understanding and learning about Breathing - Charge-Discharge-Relaxation
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Grounding
and Bio-energetic exercises
Body and energy oriented exercises which begin to loosen up the
muscular armoring, to open the body and the feelings.
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Neo-Reichian
deep breathing - the use of Breath
Deep breathing to intensify the flow of energy in the body. It gives
people direct experiences of their own life energy
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Body
Maps and Emotional Body types
An exploration of the feelings and emotions blocked and held in
Reichs seven segments of muscular amoring in the body (eyes, mouth,
throat, chest/arms & hands, diaphragm, belly, pelvis/legs &
feet)
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The
Feeling Pairs - Anger/Love, Fear/Trust, Pain/Pleasure
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Healing emotional wounds from the past- Body awareness and sensitivity
Individual
Pulsation Sessions
Individual
sessions are the principal method of doing Pulsation Neo-Reichian
work. Each session is different, for the persons unique needs determine
the direction, pace and content of a session. In an introductory
session you are introduced to breathing and bio-energetic exercises
and postures, to help mobilize a lot of stuck energy held inside.
This opens the body to a more profound energy flow.
The first step in this growth work is exploring with breathing and
bodywork the muscular armoring . A person can release blocks in
the body and the energy field, blocks which prevent us from feeling
positive feelings, pleasure and happiness.
With deep breathing, the armoring intensifies and the therapists
direct manual work on the muscles themselves, combined with the
clients uninhibited sounds and body movements, releases old tensions
and blocked emotions.
Pulsation Classes, Groups
The experience of working in a group is very different from working
in a private individual session, and that very difference can significantly
be beneficial. In a group, people often discover that their feelings
are not unusual; that they are not odd for having their feelings.
Often they find out that other group-members are working with the
same or similar issues. The special vulnerability of working in
a group can contribute to important breakthroughs in personal growth.
It is empowering, proving to people that they have the capacity
to care, to give, to share. It becomes a resource for its members,
a source of healing and growth, with its own inherent wisdom and
sense of direction.
Pulsation Workshops
Day-long and weekend-long workshops are offered throughout the
year. In a workshop, participants do concentrated individual, paired-feeling,
group work, movement and dance, combining an Introduction to the
connection of Osho Active meditations and bodywork.
Opening to Aliveness, Expression and Bio-energy class
This class is designed to provide an experience of bio-energetic
exercises to help you find more joy and emotional well being! Reconnecting
with our essential nature which is alive, spontaneous and loving.Physical
exercises, body awareness, and energetic practices, on an introductory
level. This class is fun, and can be tailored to meet all physical
conditions.
Osho
Active Meditation Programs especially Dynamic and Kundalini Meditation
The personal growthwork is supported by Osho's active meditations.
Osho a Meditation Master, designed Active Meditations especially
for contemporary men and women, stressed and impacted by hectic
lifestyles and to much mental chatter in the mind to gradually move
from the periphery to the silent core of being.
WHO
CAN BENEFIT FROM THIS BODY AND PERSONAL GROWTH WORK
People
who are looking for an in-depth personal exploration to deepen self
understanding of body/mind, emotions and the energetic process.
In the safe environment of personal growth work, people find this
process rich, deep and satisfying. An understanding of their interiority
so outwardly their quality of life and lifestyle is transformed.
THE
BENEFITS OF DOING PULSATION NEO-REICHIAN SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
The
real benefits are an overall increased aliveness, subjective and
objective awareness, and an enhanced ability to relax and enjoy
the pleasure that life has to offer. We become deeply aware of our
relationship with ourselves and our relating with others and with
a tremendous total yes to life.
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And
the body becomes a storehouse for unexpressed, unconscious feelings.
A tension that is maintained by the constant effort to keep at bay
whatever is hidden in the unconscious. This unconscious tightening
of the musculature, Reich called "Muscular Armoring" it
also consists of controlling the breathing and feelings, which gradually
deadens the whole bio-energetic system. A persons capacity to express
emotions, to relate easily and naturally with others and to enjoy
pleasureable feelings, especially sexuality, becomes greatly diminished.
Reich
began working with the EMOTIONAL LIFE OF THE BODY
Reich provided the first DETAILED MAP of the elaborate defense systems
which we construct to protect ourselves from both the outside world
and from the impact of our own feelings.
The
techniques of PULSATION Neo-Reichian bodywork help people to contact
their repressed emotions and to re-experience and express them.
This approach bypasses the mind by working directly with the body.
Neo-Reichian deep breathing and direct "hands-on" work
with the muscular armoring, combined with expressive body movements
and vocal sounds, release the tensions which hold back the flow
of life energy.
As these tensions let go, deeply held energies can release in waves
of feelings and emotions. Often memories of the original repressed
events spontaneously re-emerge and become conscious again. In the
aftermath of strong discharges of emotion and energy, the body becomes
deeply relaxed and available to softer, expansive feelings of love,
joy, trust, and laughter.
It is a powerful body based system. It frees the frozen feelings
and history in your body, by working with the blocked and held energy.
It helps you reconnect with deep parts of the self that you disconnected
from as a child. It uncovers the power and vibrancy at the source
of your most destructive patterns. It leads you to connection with
your core, your essence.
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