The
Serenity program
Many of us
strive for higher levels of consciousness and realize,
that although we can know a fair bit about ourselves, much remains hidden. Developing
one’s awareness
is a lifelong project, but participating in rituals, ceremonies, workshops, and
group meetings helps to explore those hidden depths and can, at times, help us
reach new levels. There are many
traditions, routines, and paths that evolved over time that can help us reach
these levels of awareness, but very few of these are really well adapted to the
present culture, lifestyle and the ethics that have developed within it.
The many
paths we all have encountered in our lives have all had a significant impact, and contain important lessons and
deep truths in them, but usually also a superficial and rationalized layer that
tends to become institutionalized: we
become a Breathwork, Enneagram, Matrix, Santo Daime, Landmark, etc., person, even more so if it becomes
our livelihood. We then easily become
the prisoner of the path and it is not easy to go back to the deep truths that
initially attracted us to the work. Letting go of the “spiritual” programming
and being free to receive the core message is the real challenge.
The Serenity
program aims at offering participants a way to integrate the core essence of
all these ancient and exotic techniques and teachings in a setting that also
honors our modern way of being and relating, towards a quiet but powerful level
of self-aware natural being and in some cases also leadership. By experiencing
different levels of consciousness, in oneself and in others, we grow towards
greater acceptance and a serenity that is effective in dealing with the
perturbations in our inner and outer world of sensations, perception,
cognition, and emotions.
Serenity
works with all techniques and methods that would resonate in the group, but
aims at a calm re-digestion of their core lessons, with the help of what we
could call a “virgin” use of plant teachers, nature, our body and our senses;
the process will, ultimately, give each individual participant a reappraisal
and renewed sense of the personal quest.
The actual
formats consists of weekend, evening and longer meetings, usually around a
specific theme, with a number of carefully chosen facilitators.
The program
assumes you are fairly familiar with the broad palette of bodymind
techniques and disciplines practiced in the West over the past few decades, in
fact it is expected that you have an adequate level of experience and/or
expertise in some of these fields, so that you could actually teach, assist or
guide in processes of this kind.
Participation
is on a invitation-only base, the cost is 150 euro per
weekend (incl. food/lodging) and the venue will be near
Info: Zarko Almuli email jalmuli@gmail.com Prinsengracht 688 hs 1017 KZ Amsterdam
All modules
are centered around a deep meditative experience with the Serenity Teacher Plant , there will be a theoretical focus, but the
experiential exercises are most important.
A: you and yourself (October 7- 9, 2011);
exploring
the layers and mechanisms of your self-preservation model, your personality/ ego
and beyond those reaching for the deeper layers, the inner child and the higher
self
Theoretical focus: inner child, layers of
defense
Tools: silence, guided meditation, dance,
ritual
Experience focus: inner world exploration,
building the inner temple
B: You and
the other (October 21-23, 2011);
relationships, mirroring, blind spots, enneagram, tag clouds
Theoretical focus: enneagram, Jung, Platonic
horses
Tools; massage, inner child dark room
exploration (no sex), floating, masks
Experience focus: body awareness, touch, radiation
and aura
C: You and
the Cosmos (November 4-6, 2011);
Theoretical Focus: Quantum Physics, Cosmology,
Zero-point Energy, Morf-fields
Tools: Astrology, Human Design System, skygazing, simple magic
Experience Focus: experiencing emptiness, creating
your world in artistic ways, magical powers
D: You and
Nature (November 18-20, 2011);
the quest
for your nature connection
Theoretical Focus: archetypes,
the “other” senses
Experience Focus: making
connections with nature, animals, plants