I am amazed at how different I feel in my own skin since I have done those few sessions with you. I’m feeling way more connected to my body…as strange as it may sound, it’s like getting to know my body after all this time. I have felt so clear and strong after doing the work and I’ve also realised just how much more I can have. It’s been a great way for me to really embrace more of who I am and what I can do. I love it!
Catherine Taylor – Gold Coast, Australia.
I found the Body Harmony One Month Retreat reaching deeply to yet not discovered places to heal and reveal new possibilities – all to become even more aware and living as fully as possible.
Aita Veetmohi Päts – Sweden
I would like to take a minute thank all of you for coordinating such a great event. It is only my second international event, but it totally exceed my expectations. Every aspect of the event, from the location – the classes – the group activities, were simply fantastic! Thank YOU, because the event would not have been a success without you!
Elda Cameron – Miami, Florida.
It’s been a phenomenal and inspiring experience spending time with you both, and with everyone at such a excellently organised and taught event. Thank you thank you thank you.
Susy Joy – Glastonbury, UK.
After my first session with Duncan, I felt I had to learn more about Body Harmony. I couldn’t remember ever being touched with such respect, integrity and “Consent” at any time in my life, before this session. It opened my mind to a whole new world.
Since then, I have taken many sessions, participated in many courses, both here and overseas and gone on to teach Body Harmony as well. I have used both sessions and classes to help me work through complex emotional issues, and to address outmoded behaviours. I am much more aware of how my posture influences my perceptions, and how I can use my awareness of my body, breathing and posture to help change my mindset.
Body Harmony has been my lifeline at crisis points and turning points in my life. Now I use it more to improve the quality of my life, and relationships. As a practitioner and teacher I love to see the transformation in my clients.
I remain ever grateful to both Duncan and Gina for their part in my personal transformation, and for their example of living Body Harmony.
Robyn Barraclough – Canberra, Australia.
It is so wonderful to see your plans coming to fruition in such a beautiful way. I really acknowledge your vision, and your commitment to it. I feel a bit as though in my Body Harmony experience I’ve ‘rubbed up’ against an inspiring dream – maybe some of it will rub off!!! (Thinking horses rubbing against trees!!! – some image!!!).
V.
“Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your letter re new business name and activities. I especially love the description “Aligning posture, perception and intention” – inspired! And also the “why would I do this” part. Why would I do this? To feel better. To become healthier. To change your mind. To improve your posture, movement and function. To change your habit. To respond more intelligently. To let go. To balance thinking, feeling and action. To appreciate just how things work within, and how they could work better. And to identify and resolve any issues you may be dealing with.”
LB
In one word: peaceful…
The wonderful experience of feeling peaceful in one’s own body and personal space, of being ecstatically alive in the present moment. Knowing that the present, right here right now has everything I need and that everything is in its right place. Feeling all of that in my body: in my chest, a great lightness and expansiveness; in my pelvis, a combination of grace and funkiness (think James Brown!) in my movement; a depth of ease and relaxation in my breathing; and, possibly above all, a lightness of being and the confidence that this present moment and this body sense contains all the wisdom of the past and all the promise of the future, without fear and therefore without compression.It is paradoxical maybe that the only true way to vision one’s future is to come fully into the present moment, to come out of the 24/7 habitual preoccupation with one’s conceptual mind and sink down gently into the subtle intelligence of one’s presence, to tune into this alternative waveband and hear as if for the first time the inner stirrings and energy waves of a deeper and more ancient (hence more trustworthy) wisdom.
Yes, my body knows what is best for me. Knows all the stratagems and ruses I have used in the past to resist and refuse this wisdom. Knows how nevertheless the long wave of vision and self-realisation has been coursing through my history for ever and like all such waves is inherently unstoppable. I just needed to get myself into a peaceful place, open my senses, trust the process, and listen deeply to understand what I must do now, the different choices I must make, and the vectors of future possibility that I must explore.
Choices are the key for me. Vision is realized when I make some simple, different, and better choices, here and now:
– what to eat, how much to eat, and what quality of enjoyment to eat it with!
– how to hold myself in my body, to sense which position or posture is better by feeling the energy flow through me
– how to move with awareness and appreciation of the gifts of such a beautiful flow
– to stop or call timeout on the derailers that inhibit me or cause me to lose heart: procrastination is the big one for me here
– choosing to enjoy contact and relationship with others, feeling there is more space and more connectedness in my relations with loved ones
– choosing healing, positive words over negative or hurtful ones.I know where I am going: it is not a precise GPS reference point but a vector that I am now walking and exploring that calls most strongly to me. I know why I am going there: this is at the core of my motivation, therefore not whimsical and not transient. I know who is coming with me: the relationships that bring out the full potential in me and help me to support the realization and expression of that potential in others.
I trust my inner guide to take me there: everyone needs their own special Saint Anthony!There is a character in a James Joyce novel who is described as “living a short distance from his body”.
So I am back in my body now. And I know again how to touch and be touched.
There is an aboriginal saying that the whiteman only knows how to live in a “skin-encapsulated place” rather than in the world at large.
So I now feel there is more of the world in me and more of me in the world.My own breakthrough discovery is that vision is most powerful when it is fully embodied and fully present. When it is both these qualities it is no longer about the future, it is no longer a thought or a free-floating aspiration. It is no longer out there but is “in here” ( gesturing to my chest). It is a fire in the belly, a twinkle in the eyes and smile on the lips, and a magnetic pull as strong as the moon’s love for the tides. Unstoppable!
With love and gratitude,and with full consent to luxuriate in the experience…
Tony
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