Unity in Community
Living Nonduality

“Living Nonduality,” the title of this course, refers to a series of gentle, somatic practices for realizing fluidity, wholeness, depth, and stillness pervading our whole body, and living in that dimenion. Nonduality is the wholly mysterious experience that we are made of consciousness – and simultaneously, we are human.

• September 7 fluidity – moving with grace and ease.
• September 21, we explored wholeness – being conscious and in contact everywhere in our body simultaneously.
• October 5, we explored depth – the stable expanse of our contact with fundamental consciousness in the innermost depth of our mind and heart; the fullness of our responsiveness arising from the luminous ground of our being rather than from our conditioning or reactivity.
• October 19, we explored stillness – experienced as profound openness, radiance – full of the movement of life..

Thank you for joining us in this series. We hope that you continue to practice with these meditations. We welcome hearing your insights, challenges, and questions. This portal will be open through the end of the year.

With gratitude for this opportunity to be together, Karen, Michelle, and Roma

• Sep 7: Fluidity
  • Contact the fluid mediums of your body
  • Feel your body become light and buoyant
  • Move with grace and ease
    • “Our fascia is made of interconnected tissues that reach everywhere in our body. In the living body, it is a fluid medium… The upward current is experienced … as a calm, ongoing fluidity within the core of our body. …The more we know ourselves as the stillness of fundamental consciousness, the more freely, deeply, and fluidly our energy moves.” – JB
      •  Bonus meditation: attunement to fundamental consciousness – integrating breath and energy, allowing the mind and body to be in its natural state of oneness 38 min

• Sep 21: Wholeness
  • Open the chakras
  • Experience a resonance in the subtle energy systems of the body
  • Feel vibrantly alive, substantive and secure
    • “Wholeness is not a vague ideal, but a lived experience. It is a potential inherent in our human nature. To be whole is to be conscious and in contact with ourselves everywhere in our body, to live within our body.” – JB
      • Our focus today is on Wholeness – being conscious and in contact everywhere in your body. We’re going to focus on the pelvis and the pelvic floor. Inhabiting our pelvis and our pelvic floor is foundational to our feeling grounded and at home in our body.We will silently attune to “aum” in the central channel. The central channel is the integrative axis of the body. Each of the core points in the central channel gives us access to a felt-sense of being conscioous and in contact everywhere in our body. Experiencing this subtle, very refined dimension of consciousness feels like we’re experiencing our true nature.In our last exercise this morning, lying on the floor with your knees moving side to side, please make yourself comfortable – with pillows on either side of your knees and also under your head, if you want. The point of the movement is to stay attuned to the core points in the central channel and also the subtle circuitry as your knees slowly, very slowly, cross the mid-line of your body. Practicing these ‘living nonduality’ exercises daily can be truly transformative.Bonus meditation: Subtle core circuitry meditation 33 min

• Oct 5: Depth
  • Let protective shells dissolve
  • Be nourished by the resonance of our shared aliveness
  • Deepen into the internal space of your whole body
    • “Inhabiting the body … makes us more resilient to external stimulation, such as abrasive sounds or other people’s intense emotions. Instead of feeling that sensory or emotional stimuli impinge on us sharply, we have an internal depth in which to receive and absorb the stimulation. The ground of our being … cannot be broken.” – JB
      • Bonus meditation: attune to the quality of Being in your breath, in your feet, in your whole body, attune to qualities of physical sensation, awareness, emotion 37 min

• Oct 19: Stillness
  • Settle into stillness
  • Recognize a very subtle vibration throughout the pervasive space
  • Experience your life itself, as existence itself“
    • “Fundamental consciousness is experienced as an underlying stillness … a palpable, lively stillness, pervading our body and our environment at the same time. When we know ourselves as this pervasive stillness, everything – all of the content of our experience – appears to emerge out of this stillness with extraordinary clarity, as if we are seeing things as they really are.” – JB
      Quotes from Judith Blackstone, Trauma and the Unbound Body

• Bonus meditation:  the felt-sense of this space that pervades us. 37 min

This series includes two 20-minute private appointments, one each with:

• Michelle (quinnastro.gmail.com)
• Karen (kernskm@gmail.com).

They will contact you for scheduling.

Michelle is a nondual ski instructor, yoga teacher, and nature enthusiast who lives in Park City, Utah. She offers guidance on breathing, moving, and living in oneness with your environment.

Karen is a transformative body worker who lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She offers perceptive guidance as her sensitivity to subtle energies catalyzes healing at the level of our core-life force.

Both women work online and in person. They are fully certified Realization Process teachers and participants in the Advanced Realization Process Mentoring Program, Level III: Unveiling Unbounded Depth, Vibrancy, and Creativity.

If you are interested, you may also schedule private sessions with me. They are discounted from $225 to $175 during this series (September and October).

Meditate in your root chakra, your pelvic center, your heart center, and your head center silently attuning to “Aum.”