Tai Chi Arts

Wimborne, Dorset, UK.

Sun July 8th to Sat 28th July 2012

Full residential - Board and Accommodation on site.

UK Enquiries:
Jane Launchbury / Patrick Foley, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Tel: 01725 514546

Full details of the course structure to follow soon.

Overview

The World of Taoist Meditation

Take a journey into your inner world with an authentic Taoist Water Method Meditation tradition.

During this course you learn specific inner tools that are necessary to unleash the potential transformative qualities of meditation. Each day you'll be given new Taoist Presence Practices so you can be more conscious and present.

This course will train you to embody the basics which underpin all major methods of meditation such as awareness and presence with relaxed, smooth and open continuous inner focus. This course is also the foundation for all practices within the Taoist Water Tradition including the Inner Dissolving meditation methods which build on and extend the Presence Practices.

You will be shown how to:

• Recognize what's subliminally happening inside you. This helps you become better able to consciously understand and navigate many of the glitch points normally found during most practitioners' meditative experience.
• Acquire necessary meditation skills including proper breathing and sitting alignments.
• Stay present by reducing and overcoming the involuntary tendency toward both distraction and spacing out. This involves three phases.
  • Recognizing if and how you become distracted.
  • Pulling back from the brink of becoming either fully distracted or spacing out.
  • After you tip over into distraction or dissociation, how in the shortest time you can again return to being present while meditating rather than remaining lost or disorientated.
• Use meditative presence to supercharge the benefits of your tai chi, qigong or yoga practice.
• Gain the ability when encountering subtle inner blockages to recognize, rather than ignore them. This is the necessary precursor to actual Taoist Inner Dissolving itself.
• Explore deeper possibilities within the practice of Taoist Inner Dissolving.

This retreats starts with a one-week Presence Practices Intensive and then moves into more advanced subjects for those who have been invited to attend for all three weeks. A very small group of Bruce's more experienced instructors will be training to teach the presence practices.

Flow between Presence and Inner Dissolving

Presence Practices enable you to continuously feel the energies within you, including those that have become blocked, cloudy, or unbalanced in your body, mind and spirit. The Inner Dissolving Practices in turn then enable you to clear and resolve those energies so that you can become more free, clear, natural and balanced.

Generally within the tradition, one initially learns Presence Practices through Outer Dissolving Methods either moving or sitting before progressing onto Inner Dissolving. You cannot dissolve what you can't feel and be present to. You can also learn presence through sitting meditation.

Yet, as with everything in the Taoist Water Method Tradition, these two phases of study (Presence and Dissolving) are not a linear progression but an ever-evolving circle of practice. The more you can become present or aware of the blocks within your body, emotions, mind and spirit, the more you can clear them. The more you can clear, the more that you can become further aware of what is deeper inside you.

During this meditation retreat Bruce will guide the group back and forth between the Presence and Inner Dissolving Practices, weaving them together as will best benefit the group.

Full details of the retreat structure and pre-requisities.

Location: Gaunts House, Wimborne, Dorset

Registration/Check-in: Sunday, July 8, 4:00PM

Approximate daily course schedule July 9-27: 10:00AM - 5:00PM (with two hour lunch break)
*Course schedule subject to change during event due to circumstances within the group dynamic.
 

Check-out: Saturday, July 28, 1:00PM

Cost: see the course details page.