Discover the Sentient Body
Two free introductory classes with Lisa Marks
Wednesdays, 3-4 pm PST
February 1 and March 1, 2023
Gain tools for living in a world on the edge
Everyone is welcome
Everyone is welcome
Discover the Sentient Body
our potential power for extreme times
What will I learn?
Create
Create the capacity for dual awareness, awareness within of the body and an awareness witnessing the body’s experience.
Develop
Develop the ability to identify subtle signals, pre-signals and flickering signals in the body.
Learn
Learn how awareness interacts with subtle somatic experiences, noticing how subtle somatic experiences respond to awareness and how awareness responds back.
Welcome from Lisa
Step into the Sentient Body
Every time you ignore sentient, that is generally unrecognized, dreamlike perceptions, something inside you goes into a mild form of shock because you have overlooked the spirit of life, your greatest potential power
Arnold Mindell, Dreaming while Awake
Session Overview
Catching
Sensations
February 1st
Discover and engage the thread of Essence level communications in the body, building relationship with subtle experiences. Catching sensations as they arise, we find movement and meaning within subtle language. Our interactions uncover the link between their dialogue, our dreaming and events in daily life.
Extraordinary
Experiences
March 1st
Extraordinary experiences are gateways to the Essence level, the quantum field that is signaling all the time. Exploring essence level dream doors through sensation and movement reveals the gift of our essential nature and how it informs our current life. Receive these invitations from sentient reality to return to the joy of connection and the wonder of embodiment, something that is often lost in our culture.
Sentient Reality, the energetic backdrop, is the mystery behind all of creation. Like the velvety night sky and stars that are always present, it is the back story to the Consensus Reality world we inhabit. The mind’s structure imposes everyday reality over the mysterious entanglement of electrons that manifest as matter, like the morning sun obscures the night sky. The thinking mind and personality can obscure our view of the night sky, of that background sentient field, but the body stays connected, tracking the background of matter through subtle and not so subtle experiences.
Lisa Marks, Sentient Body, Sentient Earth
Meet the instructor
Lisa Marks
Process Work has been my personal awareness practice and theoretical home since I became a mental health therapist in 1990. At the community mental health center our children and family services team read City Shadows, which profoundly impacted our work. I met Arny Mindell in 1991 in Vancouver BC at a WorldWork weekend that changed my life. Our work together and the dreaming at all levels has inspired a personal awareness practice based on the principles of Process Oriented Psychology.
Process Work has informed my business as a mental health consultant with local school districts, Head Start Preschool programs, Children's Protective Services, and Domestic Violence agencies as well as advocating in my community for children and families. It is the structural bones for my private therapy, coaching and consulting practice.
I completed the certificate program at PWI in Portland in 2007. The outcome of this was the unpublished manuscript, Sentient Body, Sentient Earth which inspired a body of teaching, the “Sentient Body Explorations”. My fascination with movement led me to Authentic Movement, Movement Medicine, Continuum, Open Floor and other movement modalities. To incorporate music and movement into teaching I became a Soul Motion® conscious dance teacher.
Sentient Body explorations illustrate how the levels of reality are created through marginalization. This is Process Work from the body's perspective. We start with Essence level subtle signals and movement tendencies, discovering how Dreamland and Consensus Reality unfold from there!
www.sentientbody.com
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