attune
A five-week laboratory in embodied listening, relational presence & expression.
Official Beginning: Tuesday Oct 6th
Attunement run (free): Sept 22nd
Tuesdays, 10-11:15am PT
$165 for 5 sessions serie
an invitation to attune.
For the past seven years, I have been contemplating how quickly we move from experience into story, and what it costs us when we do.
We engage with another, our child, a colleague, someone we are drawn to, and something happens in the body. A contraction. An opening. A flutter of desire. A sudden sadness. An image arrives. Something in us wants to move toward, or away.
And almost immediately, the mind enters.
What does this mean? What should I do? Why am I feeling this?
Yet beneath all that meaning-making, something else is happening.
There is a quieter language moving through us all the time.
I am opening a space where we can practice listening to the embodied wisdom of what is arising, and give it room to reveal what it carries.
THE JOURNEY
For five weeks, I am opening a small online laboratory devoted to the practice of attunement. This is not a place to arrive with a problem to solve, but a space to slow down and become intimate with the different dimensions of your inner instrument through the direct experience of the moment. To notice what resonates, what contracts, what opens, and what has been waiting quietly beneath the stories.
We will move through a simple cycle:
ROOT · LISTEN · RECEIVE · SOUND
Root into what is here. Listen beneath what you already know. Receive what you find before trying to change it. And allow what has been received to find expression. A word. A movement. A truth. A question. A boundary. A sound. A silence. And then we listen again. Read more.
I think of it as entering a cenote.
We arrive at the surface carrying the familiar world with us: our identities, histories, explanations, strategies, ideas about who we are.
And then we descend.
Into body. Sensation. Emotion. Image. Impulse. Memory. Desire. Imagination. Intuition. Psyche. Soul.
We’re not in search of an answer but rather, seek to become more available to what is already here. And we will do this both alone and together. I have come to know there are places within us we can reach on our own, and other places that become available when another human we trust and feel safe with, is present.
There is something profound about being witnessed at the edge of what we don't yet understand. Imagine a person not interpreting, fixing, advising, or rushing toward resolution. Simply met, right there, at the trembling edge of what is becoming available.
Perhaps this is part of what attunement asks of us:
to learn to receive ourselves, and to discover what becomes possible when we are received there too.
This is the experiment.
Embodied inquiry, silence, movement, voice, imagination, relational practice, witnessing and whatever the particular field of that gathering invites.
No particular state to achieve.
Nothing you need to arrive ready to work on.
Only a willingness to listen.
If something in you feels drawn toward this experiment, I invite you to join us.
BEGIN October 6 · 5 WEEKS · 75 MINUTES · SMALL GROUP · $165
