Intention - developing our motivation - establishing an effective view (relationship)

• Rooting in love // acceptance

• Stepping into the empowered reality of appreciation and acceptance

• Change and being with what "is"

• The body as: pet, temple and life raft

MEDITATION: (meditation on the body as pet, temple and life raft)

• Journey through the cycle of birthing, living and dying

EMBODIMENT: Anchoring our intention through breathwork (gentle breath - organic movement - embodying our intention)

M1 (food) FREEDOM component: TBD

What is 'the body'?

• Define in terms of features: arms, legs, brain, organs etc.

  • What makes something a body? When does a body stop being a body?

• What is a body made of?

  • Elements of the body

  • Where did these elements come from

• History of the body

  • Evolutionary development

• What does the body do?

  • Functions of the body

Experiencing the body

• What IS the body?

  • Define the body in terms of sensations

  • Define in terms of thoughts and emotions

  • Define in terms of environment and physicality

  • Define in terms of Tantric view

JOURNALING: discovering what we believe about our bodies.

MEDITATION: Vipassana style inquiry into the body

EMBODIMENT: Exploratory movement and self-experieincing

EMBODIMENT: naval radiation

MEDITATION: the (Tantric) 5-layered self

M2 Food freedom component: TBD

Self-Trust comes from action and consistency (giving)

Self-Confidence comes from meeting life as it comes (receiving)

• Learning to be with what is

• Developing a strong energy body

• Digesting experience

• The path of least resistance

Nervous System

• Education

• Regulation

• Soothing // Nourishing

MEDITATION: Mindfulness of breathing (training our attention)

MEDITATION: Being with what is

EMBODIMENT: gentle, whole body breathing

EMBODIMENT: Yoga Therapy

M3 Food freedom component: TBD

The power of deep rest and doing nothing

• Have we forgotten how to rest?

• Rest and the nervous system

• Rest and the creative process (the body as a conduit)

• The art and science of doing nothing

Transformational rewiring: understanding, working with and leveraging our conditioning

• Definitions and mechanisms

• Forgiveness and (the illusion of) Control

• How we become who and what we are

• Understanding the mind body spectrum

• Maya the beautiful - the ultimate body artwork

Original Innocence:

• Rebooting the system

• How re-wiring works

• 7-step rewiring process for realizing original innocence

EMBODIMENT: Self pleasure as sovereign power

EMBODIMENT: Giving emotions a name, a form and a voice

EMBODIMENT: 7-steps of original innocence self-exploration

EMBODIMENT: Shamanic body yoga

MEDITATION: Worthiness is what you are

MEDITATION: Loving-kindness in 4 domains (the source and fulfilment of joy)

M4 Food freedom component: TBD

Organic Living: wanting what life wants

We are the Earth

• The Earthly body

• The heavenly bodies

• Understanding interdependence

• Nourishment, abundance, decay & regeneration

The 5 Elements – balance and imbalance

Extending the view of body and taking care of our domain

• The body as environment

• The body as nature

• The body as community

• The body as family

• The body as work

• The body as art

• The body as alter

EMBODIMENT: Dancing the 5 elements

EMBODIMENT: Celebration // gratitude // praise dance 

EMBODIMENT: The dance of grief

MEDITATION: Blessing mandala and Dedication of Benefit

M5 Food freedom component: TBD