Dear Participants of the Song of the Dreamer Class, and Friends:
Here is some of your amazing feedback, from the class, please enjoy. At the end is a link to further artwork and songs sent by you.
With Love,
CleargreenDreaming and the Tensegrity Instructors
CHAT FROM THE CLASS:
From Snoopy to Everyone (12:00:04 PM): This is my appreciation song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5-P9v3F8w when i practice the pass i saw some bright entrance when i closed my eyes
From Michail Konstantinidis to Everyone (12:02:37 PM): My loving apreciation song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtIZz8HV8y8
From Umit to Everyone (12:11:26 PM): I would like to share this song called” Reflection Eternal” by a Japanese artist with you all http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qU2MXeAz1E
From Miyo to Everyone (12:16:56 PM): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF6sIE64XG0&feature=related
From your letters after the class:
I was waiting for a kookaburra whose song I could record for you, but this fellow showed up this morning. His singing with the rain fit in with the watery form of ‘stabbing for a new position of the assemblage point’ and the digestion pass, which I like doing at breakfast time.
Thanks,
Bernard
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23232748@N08/5591559273/
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The moment which had most impact on me was feeling the energy inside and outside myself, when Nyei asked, if the quality of energy in and around has changed by singing and the ha-breath, and perceiving this new, light and sparkling sensation of energy.
I recognised that I lived up to a deep ingrained judgement that joy, singing, laughing is an expression of being “superficial” (hardly don’t dare to write this now!), although I always feel the change of energy after singing, but now, after sharing with all of you in this class, it is stronger and becomes part of my “Tonal”.
And perceiving towards the end all the affection transported by the many chat messages, this wave of transforming power of affection, was and is beautiful.
Continuing with my heart more open, sending you affection,
Elke
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Una clase con la familia de la tensegridad. Me gustó especialmente la respiración, sentí el pecho más amplio, como si respirara con todo el tórax, no encontré una tonada específica hasta el lunes, que una amiga me envió un correo con un video de Noah and the whale, jijiji, “Para que empecéis la semana bailando y con una sonrisa de oreja a oreja! Es imprescindible mover un poco la cintura,decía.
He aquí la melodía
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/2137399/noah_and_the_whale_5_years_time/
Sigo practicando el acento balleno y veremos si esta canción es realmente mi canción o me abre de alguna forma.
Un abrazo,
Natividad
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Dear Singers of Cleargreen,
surfing the web I found this song of 200 people around the world jointed together just with their voices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs#t=0m20s
Ciao
Luca
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Добрый день! Хочу поделиться своми ощущениями после последнего Web-класса. Спустя два дня после классов у меня было выступление с оркестром. Я играю на тромбоне.Учусь всего 1,5 года и выступал на сцене впервые! Обычно в подобных ситуациях склонен волноваться и пребывать в напряжении! В этот раз всё было иначе! Я был предельно собран способен концентрироваться на всём,(например) на дирежёре Я чётко видел и чувствовал его выражение глаз из под очков,успевая возвращаться взгядом на нужную строчку нот очень спокойно и размеренно, вдумчиво,без напряжения и страха что потеряю место произведения,чего не было ни на одной репитиции до этого ! Моё тело было совершенно расслабленно при этом.Я дышал спокойно и не колотился! Я чувствовал напряжение и тишину в зале и слушая весь оркестр в целом как бы со стороны. Как мне козалось я играл довольно стройно без сомнения что ошибусь.какая-то часть меня(основная) всё время сканировала окружающее пространство включая позицию тела : я сидел довольно устойчиво расслабившись облокотился на спинку стула,ноги и туловище были очень расслабленными ! Я получал массу удовольствия от всех этих осознаваний и это даёт мне уверенность продолжать в таком же духе. Я максимально благодарен и признателен Cleargreen невзирая на то что было очень плохо слышно ине разборчиво особенно у Наи Мюрез ! Нельзя ли в дальнейшем сделать субтитры на русском языке дабы воспринять всё сполна! P.S.Ощущение во время вытупления в оркестре коротко могу охарактеризовать как пребывание в настоящем моменте(погружённость в каждый миг !) Спасибо за внимание! Sergey
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Dear Instructors, Nyei, Alice and the other ones,
I would like to share, that at the end of the class, my whole body was wide , brilliant, the singing exercise made me feel alive because of the energy `fluidity. I was connected with all around the world.
I felt the strong sensation that I needed to invent to myself again and started new activities in order to be a human being wider and full.
The matter was, that night I dreamt I delivered to myself. I was the mother and at the same time, there was a lovely and wonderful baby next to me. She was pale and without movements but I was able to see that she needed to be liberated from a transparent paper that there was around the neck and that kept her almost without life.
I removed it and the baby, me, came back to the life.
Now, I am more conscious about what I want to do, I want to learn dancing and to spend more time singing .
After sunday class, I have got a strong feeling of fluidity , I feel I am dreaming all the time. It does not matter if it is at night or in the middle of the day. All is a dream.
Thanks for all everybody, every practitioner, Thanks Instructors .
With love
Alegria
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When I was young…..My mom told me I was tone deaf. I didn’t disagree. Only a guy named Paul sounded worse so I liked to stand by him while singing in church.
Nowadays… If I sing quietly I’ve been told I have a nice voice. Even I like the sound of my voice, especially when I sing like I mean it. I’ve always had a knack for lyrics and love to sing along with songs. The words seem to come to me when a song is playing but I often can’t repeat all of them on my own. Sometimes I change the words.
It’s new territory for me to come up with a song, my mind goes a little numb. I sure do admire musical people, I think they are magic. During the practice I really want to just let it flow and hope something just magically comes out. I could feel my stiffness in voice but I still clicked and whaled and hummed and mimicked pieces of others songs I heard. We (my wife Amy) had to shoo our 16 year old daughter out of the room during this time. I felt bad that I didn’t have the where-with-all to withstand her presence. I told her we’re working on not being judgmental but it was me who felt weak for not abandoning myself to singing. And so it went and we sang - I thought ofAlicesinging at Joshua tree for inspiration.
Okay, I have to tell you something that’s bugging me….. I’ve not been a good practitioner. I so wanted to start the New Year off right .. but did not, self pity and gargoyle behavior. I will do better. It came to a peak when we did the leg opening passes I felt sadness. A very deep bodily sadness. I did them again Monday at work and felt a tinge of the same sadness. Maybe it’s from other sadness in the world and not just my self pity.
I did yell at someone in my dream on Saturday night. It was a name I wrote down on my list of things I didn’t appreciate. I tried not to be so specific (writing down someone’s name) but it just came out. It makes me chuckle now and lightens my mood. It was someone from work who annoys me and in my dream we were at work and I told them what I thought of them. Now I don’t feel the need to do that at ‘real’ work. I’m grinning now thinking about the blending of dream time with awake time.
After practice I was sitting on the back porch waiting for my song. It’s real beautiful there with a cathedral of redwood trees and a creek that flows through ferns over rocks. What I got in my head was the Bobby Darren song Beyond the Sea. I was hoping for something more original but dropped that and just enjoyed my version with the words slightly changed. I later returned the spot and the same song popped in my head again. It went something like this….
Somewhere, in theDarkSea
somewhere waiting for me,
My e-body stands on golden sands
and watches the ships that go sailing
Somewhere beyond the sea
He’s there watching for me
If I could fly like birds on high
then straight to his arms I’ll go sailing.
It’s far beyond the stars
it’s near beyond the moon
I know beyond a doubt
my heart will lead me there soon
We’ll meet beyond the shore
we’ll kiss just as before
Happy we’ll be beyond the sea
and together again we’ll go aware-ing
I know beyond a doubt
my heart will lead me there soon
We’ll meet (I know we’ll meet) beyond the shore
We’ll kiss just as before
In totality we’ll be in the dark sea
and together again we’ll go sailin’
Thank you all so much.
With great affection and gratitude,
Jim
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Dear instructors of tensegrity
Thank you for this wonderful class
I keep singing my song of the dreamer and every day I am adding something more.
The song Always with me is a magnificent piece of art, very lyrical and touching.
I am sending light and love to all who suffered in Japan.
With affection.
George
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… Thanks to whoever it was out there, who told to “Give it another try!!!” when I woke from a lucid but heavy/oppressive dream last night.
With a bit of caution, I did try to dream again—and then had a dream that was not only lucid but bright and sunny, I found my hands, and woke up
singing. It was the best feeling ever!
Now I know we do have a choice…
Karen
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Dear Cleargreen:
Once again, I am incredibly grateful to have been able to attend the class!
It was truly magical. I felt, without at doubt, how you at Cleargreen are aware of every one of us participants, and how we are doing in our own paths. I acknowledge this with joy. It motivates me to return to my tasks, with greater focus and vigor.
A couple days before the webinar, I was at a stop light with lots of cars buzzing by, trying to quiet myself and “listen” to everything around me, it was like threads in a giant polyphony, that one could focus in on one or a few, lines or spaces, or the whole thing, but everything was indeed connected. I had the same feeling during the session, and it was wonderful to be one of the threads.
I’ve been singing a lot lately, which is unusual for me. A few songs I like include Hey Little Red Bird by Dan Zanes, Northwest Passage by Stan Rogers, but also Waltzing Matilda, Sing a Rainbow, ABC’s, you name it.
I had written these words way back in January, as part of the Solstice exercise – it seems fitting to share it with you, so here it is.
I have traced so many melodies
But I’ve never sung a word
So when it comes time to sing
Where can I find my voice?
Until I really tried to listen
And then there were so many more songs
And sounds beyond in the silence
A minute, a year, a lifetime, a million years Would not be enough to hear them all And yet an instant is more than enough To sing all the songs of wonder that are possible.
And then a song came to me.
A seed of a song, so tiny
And I realized again
How one can be both full and empty
In infinite ways
Many tiny seeds
And you are one of them
Who reminded me to listen
And seek the songs in this world and beyond
Remembering that singing
Can make the world magical
Then another song on a generous breeze
So subtle yet catching
That helped lift the forgotten wings of my kite In spite of its many holes
It grows stronger as I go over the lines Where to send this kite When it finally takes flight?
As it resonates in the wind
Will it help to carry tiny seeds in turn On their journey?
Many thanks,
Karen
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Dear Cleargreen:
I send you the song of the class:
I get along with myself and the others, I get along with the animals, plants the moon the son the planets and the Universe.
I liked very much of the class the emphasis on music, astronomy and solidarity with japan.
That day of the solar flare I was in a practice with 4 of us. I felt flooded with exquisite energy and I have another song from a dream I had that night, that colors both experiences:
Toca mi pincel los acordes coloridos de los sueños que están más allá de la descripción de lo humano concebible, forjando la canción de la mariposa viajera, que se transforma con cada respiración del Infinito.
Plays my brush the colored notes of the dreams beyond the conceivable human, forging the traveling butterfly song, that transforms with every breath of Infinity.
Looking forward to see you again
Lucia
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General feedback —
Well first of all, I really like the reinforcement I get from connecting with Cleargreen without having to travel a quazillion miles to do it. I think that after two webcasts and a private session I finally have “got” the magical pass we’ve been practicing. BTW When comparing the magical pass as practiced now to the one on the Tensegrity dvd it is striking how much the mood and tone of the pass has changed. It’s striking how much TENSEGRITY has changed! It seems so much sweeter now…
Please note though and please don’t let this slide—-The technical problems, esp. with the audio, were not good and made it more difficult to hear and follow this webshop than the last one. I hope this might be a helpful observation: it seemed like when Nyei turned her head away from the camera the audio suffered.
I believe that there were positive repercussions in my daily life from the practice. I also visited a body/energy worker who helped with the chronic tightness in my left shoulder blade area. I had a short lucid dream. I was also asked to examine my attempt at
establishing a dream discussion circle here in my home town and why if petered out …and I realized that it had evolved into a philosophical movie night instead and that is where it had gone. But there seems to be renewed interest in having dream discussions once again so I am in the process of setting that up.
One last thing…at Palm Springs a couple of years ago one of my dreams to realize was drawing and publishing a cartoon and having someone discover it and want to turn it into an animated piece. Well, all that has sort of happened on a very modest basis. The results are at this link….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmes0M8CUI&feature=youtube_gdata
Check it OUT! The Far In Adventures of Kid Lucid, baby
Al
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Dear Cleagreen,
A big thanks to you for what really was a wonderful class.
I found myself during the gazing exercise feeling buoyant and light, with a deep feeling of joy and well being. There was open space around me with a glow of light, like a bubble of light. I didn’t think much about it at the time, because I was familiar with this place. Yet, looking back, at this current moment, I can acknowledge I’m not as familiar with that place as I’d like to be.
When we were asked to bring up a song of love I went right away to one I hum often. The first two notes relate closely to my “alignment hum” I learned in the NY class many years ago. I was self conscious at first thinking maybe I need to dream up an absolutely new song in the moment. Yet, I kept being drawn back to my song, and continue to be drawn back to humming the tune. I looked it up and found the lyrics and a video of “Just the Way You Look Tonight” being performed in 1936.
Saturday afternoon, following the class, I went to my studio to do study drawings I had completed in the morning. I had the radio on, and a song came on that quickly struck me as another song of love, to whistle, hum, or sing, and one that resonated with the intent of the class. It’s Dream a Little Dream of Me – by the Mamas & Papas.
Attached are the lyrics and links to videos of both songs.
With affection, Chris O.
“Just the Way You Look Tonight”
“’The Way You Look Tonight’ is a song featured in the film Swing Time, originally performed by Fred Astaire. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1936. The song was written by Jerome Kern with lyrics by Dorothy Fields. Fields later remarked, ‘The first time Jerry played that melody for me I went out and started to cry. The release absolutely killed me. I couldn’t stop, it was so beautiful.’”
“The song was sung by John ‘Lucky’ Garnett (played by Fred Astaire) while sitting at the piano. Penelope ‘Penny’ Carroll (played by Ginger Rogers) was busy washing her hair in an adjacent room, and feeling anything but beautiful at the time.”
Watch the video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR4FwZeSyYs
music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Dorothy Fields
Someday,
When I’m awfully low
And the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you
And the way you look tonight.
Oh but you’re lovely
With your smile so warm
And your cheek so soft.
There is nothing for me but to love you
Just the way you look tonight.
With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart.
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
Touches my foolish heart.
Lovely,
Never, never change. charm.
Won’t you please arrange it, ’cause I love you
Just the way you look tonight–
Just the way you look tonight.
Keep that breathless
Dream A Little Dream Of Me – The Mamas & The Papas
Video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLkCzeeR91c&feature=related
music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn
Stars shining bright above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
Birds singin’ in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me
Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you’ll miss me
While I’m alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I’m longin’ to linger till dawn dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars shining right above you
Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
Birds singin’ in the sycamore trees
Dream a little dream of me
Say nighty-night and kiss me
Just hold me tight and tell me you’ll miss me
While I’m alone and blue as can be
Dream a little dream of me
Stars fading but I linger on dear
Still craving your kiss
I’m longin’ to linger till dawn dear
Just saying this
Sweet dreams till sunbeams find you
Sweet dreams that leave all worries behind you
But in your dreams whatever they be
Dream a little dream of me
Dream a little dream of me
Dream a dream of me
Come on and dream come on and dream
Dream a little dream of me
I said dream, dream, dream a little dre-dre-dream
Come on and dream
Dream a little dre-dre-dream of me
What you sayin’ hey baby come on and dream
Dream a little dream, dream of me
Dream
Dream
Dream
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Dear Cleargreen Dream Singers:
It was so funny to see greek practitioners laughing, communicating together joyfully like dolphins do ;))))) click click click c:) :) :) thanks for opening our minds with your affectionate laughter!
I got silent practicing the Magical Passes – and although I’m practicing since years and daily, this was another silence. It was working on my feeling of integrity and I got focused on my intent to be free.
Feeling the vibration of my body is still new, unknown…fears if others might detect my energy and dislike it/me.
The vibrational presence surrounded by others seems to be watery. We’re all vibrations, energies in the middle of intent?
When we sing together I want to sing like the instructor, I judge myself for not being myself and let go of my self-reflection. Now I merge into perceiving my voice/vibration as spiraling around her, meeting her (FEAR), curving as another singing spiral and my perception is full of them: all moving peacefully and intendedly filling the space and I feel adventurous, silent, alive. This is such a pleasure and I’m really grateful at the same time for experiencing it. FLOWING :)
I¹ve often be grateful to Nyei for her work but I have to say that selecting this song with these words is a pure magic act of precise abstract affection and expresses absolutely what I wanted to say to Japan and myself. I¹m in awe.
And it felt so good to be all of us around the world doing something together….sharing with the people and earth inJapan. I had lots of energy to share and was able to surpass my fear of loosing energy doing so.
I dreamt of a web of practitioners caring for mother earth and it’s beings and they were glowing energy-dots: like stars on the earth. I got afraid being alone when we parted, yet I reminded the feeling of them and I felt my own heart glowing with affection and this saturated me.
In our practice group everybody let go and we laughed without judgments about our sounds and ourselves. We treated each other with care and respect leaving everybody his/her space. When I left I was joyful and much more “positive” then before :) like a playful dolphin.
When I walked under the sky in the night I was aware of the stars shining with their vibrational energy themselves.
Love and thanks
Zoé
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It was very moving to sense the calm energy flowing from Miyo in Japan towards the end of the class. I’d just got in from a march and had been immersed in a massive flow of a different kind of energy emanating from half a million people protesting peacefully on the streets of London.
Really struggled with the dolphin clicks during the session so switched to whistles and seemed to get on better so I must have a predilection for whistling.
My song started out as a meandering hum that underwent a metamorphosis and for some reason became the song “wandering star” from the 1960′s musical “paint your wagon”, so I think it needs some more work.
The “hah” breath was a revelation, a direct connection to mirth, extremely funny and joyous.
At the end of the class was left with a feeling of detachment.
I enjoyed it very much and had a really good time.
Thank you very much.
John
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I still can’t perform my song with connection with feet. I intent that.
Zdenka
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I had a dream with Synesthesia: Someone was playing a guitar. At first, the thing being played became a dark-chocolate bar, nibbled off to the small almond chunks. I thought, “this is going to be dangerous!”. As the player began strumming, a very simple yet powerful song emerged (similar to Kirti’s song at the previous web-x, like an American Indian chant, kind of), and visions of the end of the world, or ultimate power, overwhelmed me. I think that I almost fell down, but managed to stay standing up.
However, other people were strewn all around the room, in various states of collapse, being overwhelmed by it all.
I repeated the song many times after I woke up. But, I didn’t have any way to record it.
It was a very powerful experience, and I remember being glad that I was able to withstand it!
Love,
Don
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Thank you for a great class. I was little apprehensive at first but once things got rolling it was great. From a computer technical side I couldn’t figure out if it was me or something else that made my webcam view constantly shift away from the Cleargreen studio.
One thing that came up for me was when I generating my list of things I was grateful for. I made it to about five items when I realized with the utmost certainty that the items were obligatory, or that I felt that they were things that I should be grateful….then next came the understanding from an outside point of view my life could be viewed as rich but I myself felt no gratitude at all, almost indifferent, and I had to create a shame emotion to feel like I thought I should in regards to having a nice home, good job, etc….
A very disconcerting realization or understanding but I continued on with the class, all the while a heavy wind and rain storm raged outside my window. Eventually the storm knocked my power off and I was logged out for the last part of the class, aprox. 10:55 a.m..
The actual passes and breath themselves were at first a non-registered item. But at the very end I had the clear sensation of something more around myself. As well as an increase of general energy that still persists now, or maybe because I have continued practicing the pass and breath as well.
I was left with at the end with a very strong desire to practice the pass and breath in water and look forward to warmer weather to do just that in my pool.
Thanks,
Jason
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I succeeded in reaching first gate of dreaming and here are some ideas about that.
First dream I dreamt awake, there was no differences in this “reality“ and that dream.
In second I succeed in sustaining images from a dream and was aware of them.
I am pretty sure that man must love this world in order to dream. To love water he drinks, his surrounding etc. I felt great love, affection for my environment and for my life on these dreaming days very clearly.
In the book secret, they are telling similar story. They are explaining condition of feeling good, feeling gratitude etc.
Here are some inserts from books which i think are important:
When I told don Juan about my futile attempts to cross the first gate of dreaming, he gave me some guidelines. “To ask a dreamer to find a determined item in his dreams is a subterfuge,” he said. “The real issue is to become aware that one is falling asleep. And, strange as it may seem, that doesn’t happen by commanding oneself to be aware that one is falling asleep but by sustaining the sight of whatever one is looking at in a dream.”
I think that you all know the feeling when you go to bed, and all is “black“,you closed your eyes and although you are aware of your surrounding completely ,some special feeling starts coming, some feeling that you are somewhere else and even some visions could appear.
I think that it is very important to follow that feeling, but in relaxed condition, so from there, you go deeper and deeper with energy body in dream.
I think that is conclusion of upper insert.
That also Castaneda said in one bookstore.
Something like: “if you set up your intent correctly and do not insist ,your energy will pull you…
also this:
“There are two ways of facing our being alive,” he said. “One is to surrender to it, either by acquiescing to its demands or by fighting those demands. The other is by molding our particular life situation to fit our own configurations.”
“Can we really mold our life situation, don Juan?”
“One’s particular life situation can be molded to fit one’s specifications,” don Juan insisted. “Dreamers do that. A wild statement? Not really, if you consider how little we know about ourselves.”
He said that his interest, as a teacher, was to get me thoroughly involved with the themes of life and being alive; that is to say, with the difference between life, as a consequence of biological forces, and the act of being alive, as a matter of cognition.
“When sorcerers talk about molding one’s life situation,” don Juan explained, “they mean molding the awareness of being alive. Through molding this awareness, we can get enough energy to reach and sustain the energy body, and with it we can certainly mold the total direction and consequences of our lives.”
I have my 2 little exercises for that.
I wonder how perfect and powerfull is our organism and something like that and inhaling that wonder of how I am alive.
Second is image, also inhale feeling. (you can find image on www.behance.net/snoopy, in section design, first image)
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Thoughts have power. Be watchful of them.
Esperanza, Being-in-Dreaming
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“My message is you can do anything if you just put your mind to it.“justin bieber
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and for goodbye my song that fits to all of you who realised that there is no return anymore:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Z5-P9v3F8w
Nikola (SNOOPY 8)
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Dear all,
When I was at the first grade of elementary school, I had a wonderful teacher. She proposed us the option of singing a song when we didn’t know the answer of a question or when we didn’t do our homework. I would use this option all the time since I had never done my homework.
I was never ashamed of my voice or the way I sang in front of entire class. Also I never felt that I didn’t do my homework. Everything felt like a game. Every time she saw my blank notebook, my teacher would ask me whether I had bought a new notebook and I would say ‘yes’, thinking ‘she is little bit naïve’. After my first semester at this school, we moved to another city so I started with another teacher and new classmates. On the first day, there was a reading competition. I was in a shock. I didn’t even know how read yet. I felt so insecure and my troubled school life had begun.
With this online class I remembered my first teacher and the feeling of being playful instead of feeling inadequate or competitive and also there is always an option to sing. The magical passes and the powerful presence of the other practitioners carried me to a place of silence and from this silence I felt the joy and lightness of sunshine in my heart and the beauty to act with this shining warmness in my heart.
Thank you so much! Here goes my song:
Sun is mine
Shines in my heart
Pause and watch
How you feel
Warm your heart
Remember the light
inside
PS. Recently I had a dream about torpedo sharks (although I had never heard of them before), perhaps this is the best place to remember them.
With love,
Umit
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This wonderful song kept going through my head after the webex class,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwn_TEM9J1Y
Here’s the lyrics:
When midnight comes and people homeward tread [Alternate: When midnight comes good people homeward tread]
Seek now your blanket and your feather bed
Home comes the rover, his journey’s over [Alternate: Home is the rover, his journey's over]
Yield up the night time to old John O’ Dreams
Yield up the night time to old John O’ Dreams
Across the hill, the sun has gone astray
Tomorrow’s cares are many dreams away
The stars are flying, your candle is dying [Alternate: The stars are flying, the wind is sighing]
Yield up the darkness to old John O’ Dreams
Yield up the darkness to old John O’ Dreams
Both man and master in the night are one
All things are equal when the day is done
The prince and the ploughman, the slave and the freeman
All find their comfort in old John O’ Dreams
All find their comfort in old John O’ Dreams
When sleep it comes the dreams come running clear [Alternate: Now lies you sleep the dreams come winging clear]
The hawks of morning cannot reach you here [Alternate: The hawks of morning cannot harm you here]
Sleep is a river, flows on forever
And for your boatman choose old John O’ Dreams
And for your boatman choose old John O’ Dreams
When midnight comes and people homeward tread [Alternate: When midnight comes good people homeward tread]
Seek now your blanket and your feather bed
Home comes the rover, his journey’s over [Alternate: Home is the rover, his journey's over]
Yield up the night time to old John O’ Dreams
Yield up the night time to old John O’ Dreams
Eamon
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Dear Cleargreen,
A few days before the workshop I sat down to voice my intent to change a method of behavior that I know to be draining of energy. After a moment of combating the urge to just state my intent in a round about way by thought alone, I spoke clearly my intent to drop this behavior. After I did this another voice took over and I said “Well, I can still ….!” Even though it was my voice I instantly didn’t like the personality that was revealed by the statement. I found that voice of mine petty and despicable, and as a result was able to reject it.
As I reflected on this I came to the conclusion that the only way to combat my petty mind was to use intent as a bridge to action. I’m starting to realize that I’ve always used intent, but the actions and intent were so rooted in the petty self that the results were just a systematic draining of energy/vitality. But positive action (mainly tensegrity) can and has given me a chance at a chance.
During the workshop where you had us write things we appreciate I struggled a little with the concept at first, but soon got on a roll and quickly wrote twenty things I appreciate. As I reflect on the list now the my’s and I’s definitely made a part of it, but overall it’s a list that I feel positive about. My don’t appreciate list was short, but I was trying to avoid those things that I see as more rooted in my self-importance. What I was left with was more of a despise list; my petty self, lack of energy, and lack of discipline. As I think about my own daily actions it becomes clear using these lists how I should proceed; center on the actions that are a result or precursor to the things on my appreciate list, and reject those actions that contribute to my despise list. It is only through my unbending intent that this is will be possible.
With the new intent toward action that I felt today practicing the magical passes, singing my songs, and meeting the community of tensegrity practitioners I feel as if a new cycle has started in my life. The exercise of placing attention on the different directions I found very profound, and the moment of sending our intention to the people of Japan was a surprising delight. I normally don’t appreciate those types of thoughts and dismiss them as frivolous, but as I sat there sending out my intention for the well being of the people of Japan I became very silent. I realized that thinking about something other then myself was very refreshing. I really appreciate the writing activity, as it has allowed me build and expand upon my recent revelations (the right word?). I’m excited to meet again in the future. INTENT!!!!
Sincere thanks!
Jesse
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlQmDIpZztE&sns=em
The song of iemanja come to me in the class today, is Yoruba and I can made the translation but the meaning is in this video
Thank you for the class I enjoyed a lot
Francisco
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I appreciate so very much this experience, I am not going to attempt the words to fully encompass all of it. Though, I humbly include below:
When doing the passes I felt as if I was truly experiencing them as a dolphin. I felt fond appreciation for the beingness of dolphin, and knew them to be my equal or greater. I felt the dolphin and other inhabitants of the ocean like the whale connecting with me, and with us as a group. I felt much joy, happiness, and playfulness in motion. Awesome.
At one point in the webinar while doing the passes I got the connection of the spirit with physical life forms. This really helped me to know that doing passes as other life forms helps my overall being as an inhabitant of this planet. Doing this makes my human form stronger, and the bond with the Earth greater. My connection with the habitations and habitants elsewhere in the galaxy(s) was also positively affirmed.
I also felt a connection with the Earth as a living being. I have heard this talked about, but felt it – to knowing that I lived it. I cried in my relief and joy.
I felt all of this. My sobriety is sound. I am in the driver seat of my impeccability. I practice the “ancient” Ha breath now as I write this without thought!
Thanks again Cleargreen and Tensegrity Instructors.
Brad
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Thank you! Webex workedl! I enjoyed this technically assisted activity. It felt as if we are in the same space-room, even with Japan. One could feel the mood of the studio in LA as well.
With affection, Bilyana
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Link to more songs, and pictures too: http://cleargreen.com/english/feedback/2011_feedback.htm
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