Carlos Castaneda’s Tensegrity

A New Format:
Workshop Follow-up Classes and Individual Sessions

For Participants of Recent Workshops
in Mexico*

Abriendo Puertas: Opening Doors

Mexico City, Mexico, October 2010*

 

*The classes and private sessions Abriendo Puertas in MEXICO are postponed to the Fall. We will announce the new dates soon!

“The art of dreaming is the art of attention.”

don Juan Matus

For the seers of ancient Mexico, freeing energy for new directions comes through redirecting existing thoughts and behaviors; and the initiating impulse to open new doors may be stirred by our fellow ‘dreamers’ lending their attention to each of our current situations at hand.

Don Juan Matus, heir to those seers, told his students that we can also open new directions by paying deeper attention to our own perception, making appointments for hearing, smelling, feeling, tasting and seeing the limitless wonder around and inside us, and allowing the convergence and interchange of our senses (which cognitive science calls “synesthesia”) to take us to the seer within—an integrative perception that goes beyond the five senses, and which don Juan’s cohort, don Genaro, cheerfully called “aware-ing.”

In these post-workshop group classes and individual sessions, practitioners will be guided to identify an element (a habit, dilemma, dream, or question) they wish to address in their daily lives, and, through practicing magical passes and ‘dreaming circles,’ (group sessions) or one-on-one inquiry (private sessions) will identify strategies for shifting their attention and energy to the joyous unknown in the everyday world.

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Classes and sessions guided by a Tensegrity Instructor, student of Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs.

Classes and individual sessions specific for participants of workshops in Mexico and Italy 2010. Please bring a mat, a notebook and pencil or pen


Schedule and Registration for Mexico City, Mexico:

*The classes and private sessions Abriendo Puertas in Mexico are postponed to the Fall. We will announce the new dates soon!

At the end of each Individual Session, follow-up meetings via Skype, telephone or WebEx can be arranged.

 

 

 

Tensegrity is the modern practice of the warrior-traveler’s path with heart which don Juan Matus taught his four students: Carlos Castaneda, Florinda Donner-Grau, Taisha Abelar and Carol Tiggs. The word ‘tensegrity’ was coined by an architect, scientist, engineer, global thinker and dreamer whom Carlos Castaneda admired: R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller described tensegrity as a process of tensional integrity—the inherent interdependence of structures such as cells, bodies, and solar systems which are held together by a continuous web of tension (such as gravity) holding together discontinuous islands of compression (such as the sun, planets and moons in the solar system).
    As a modern practice of shamanism, Tensegrity means adapting to our own energy, the energy of sun and stars, the air, water, the land, and of its inhabitants in a way that supports the interdependent integrity of the community that we are, as individual and collective beings. The tools that can help us to do this include the ancient energy-enhancing movements and breaths known as magical passes, as well as tracking and dreaming exercises, all of which we will do in this workshop.
    Tracking exercises are: guided self-examination exercises practiced individually and with a peer witness, which allow one to track not only our physical patterns, but also our related mental and emotional patterns and their consequential behaviors and judgments, which we inherited from our lineage and cultures.
    We can direct the energy and awareness gained from this review to access what don Juan Matus called freedom of perception—the freedom to move past any limiting interpretations of our lineage, upbringing and culture to perceive energy directly, and to dream true interdependence—new possibilities of working with others and with the earth–wherever we are, possibilities which spring from an open heart, from bringing one’s best to the interchange.

 

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