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#4052 -Friday,
October 22, 2010 - Editor: Jerry Katz
The Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights
I'm writing this
issue from my hotel room in San Rafael, California, at the
Science and Nonduality Conference. The popularity of
nonduality continues to grow. Adyashanti confirmed or
suggested such when he said we are witnessing the breaking away
of spirituality from religion and that it is breaking down
rapidly.
More movies with nondual themes are being released. We'll also be
seeing more gatherings, small conferences, and 'talks.'
By talks I mean meetings with nondual teachers that don't follow
the satsang model. That's my impression.
If spirituality is breaking away from religion, so is nonduality
breaking away from its current self.
Adyashanti also noted, and I've said from time to time, the
current approach to communicating nonduality will look
old-fashioned in years to come. Adya said about 50 years. I think
it's more like 5 years or less.
Global transformation requires that nonduality be as much a part
of our lives as orange juice for breakfast, so to speak. That
status of cultural affairs won't end the dissemination of
nonduality but it will change its form.
Okay, back to a normal Highlights issue. Ellen Emmet is
featured.
Ellen is a licensed
Movement and Transpersonal Psychotherapist and a senior member of
the UK Dance Therapy Association.
She has been interested in investigating the true nature of the
Self for many years and has found the wisdom of the non-dual
tradition to be very helpful. Francis Lucille is her teacher.
Ellen has practiced as a movement therapist and psychotherapist
in private and clinical settings for over 15 years. She has
experience working in many settings, from autistic children to
adults struggling with psychosis, to couples and families in
crisis, to individuals managing anxiety, addiction, depression
and trauma.
Ellen brings an open, non-judging and receptive presence to her
work with clients. She is deeply committed to helping individuals
to recognise and welcome their true, direct and total experience.
Credentials: Master Degrees in dance movement therapy (New York
University) and transpersonal psychology (John F. Kennedy
University, CA). Certificate in Laban Movement Analyst. Long term
practitioner and facilitator of Authentic Movement. Mentored with
Janet Adler.
IN WHAT WAY IS THE YOGA YOU TEACH `NON-DUAL'?
This Yoga investigates and expresses our real nature and the real
nature of the body. It is not an activity that leads us to the
understanding of what we are. It proceeds from this
understanding. It refines and celebrates it.
We have never been an individual body containing a personal
consciousness. We have never been limited by physical skin, nor
have we ever been located inside a solid body separate from an
outside world. This is never our actual experience, although it
may feel that way.
That in us, which experiences and shapes itself as thoughts,
perceptions and sensations, is universal, impersonal and
undivided. It is without limits and without a center. It is like
the blue sky on a summer day, pure and open. From it, and within
it thoughts, perceptions and sensations, like clouds, appear
unfold and dissolve naturally.
The direct experience which we name body is fluid and alive,
sometimes present, sometimes not. It does not refer back to a
memory body, a habitual body or an image body.
The yoga of non-duality invites us to feel ourselves as the vast
blue sky: open and welcoming. We listen to our bodily experience
directly, without interpretation and without a goal. Within this
simple and innocent openness, misidentifications with bodily
sensations and feelings of being located inside a solid body
dissolve naturally simply by being seen directly with and in the
light of their own true nature.
In time, the body is knowingly experienced as a flow of amorphous
sensation expanding and free floating in a quality of
spaciousness. And as we live in this direct experience of the
body as sensation, we feel and understand that it and the space
all around are made of the very same reality.
Non Dual Therapy
Non-dual Therapy is a space that is open. It is a deep listening
without judgment which we come to knowingly share.
Within it, layers of experience, at the level of the mind and the
body, are welcome and seen simply for what they are, without an
agenda for change.
As we abide in and as this gentle openness, mistaken beliefs at
the level of the mind and habitual contractions at the level of
the body begin to unwind naturally
As we remain open and unknowing, we may deeply recognize this
Welcoming Presence as our true nature, unchanging and
ever-present. In and as this recognition, happiness and peace are
shared.
For more info please visit http://ellenemmet.com