February 13-14, 2010 Dynamic Stillness Series: Embodiment of your Natural State and the Art of Transmission through Touch Pay For a Course This course for the general public is based on the practices in Charles Ridley's two books for practitioners, "Stillness" and the E-Book,"Beyond Stillness" NEW: Both books ("Stillness" and "Beyond Stillness") have been re-written to support you when taking the Stillness Series Class: To purchase 'Stillness Practices' and 'Stillness Touch', click here: Store To view my youtube video: Video STILLNESS: Practices and Touch Class Overview: Open to anyone desiring to deepen contact with their authentic, natural state through the cultivation of embodied Stillness, Presence, and Touch. Through stillness practices and non-doing 'neutral' touch - letting what is be as it is - we transmit our essence, as unconditional love, to another. Day One: "Finding Stillness: Practices" We'll learn a series of practices to embody Stillness, out of which we contact the wisdom of the body as the flow of life. By repeated contact with life's inner flow we gradually cease self-intervention and access our natural state -- let it be -- neither interfering with, withdrawing into, nor leaving ourselves amid contact with the depths of Dynamic Stillnessand its revelation to us. To embody the natural state frees your consciousness from the gripping and rejecting tendencies of the personality structure. Our Natural State is revealed to us by certain practices: Stillness Meditation, Whole-body Breathing, Attuning to our Midline, Sensing the Tone of the Atmosphere, Infusing the Four Centers - Head, Heart, Belly, and Pelvis - with the Presence of Stillness, and Resting into the SA Node of our Heart. When these practices unify as one process it becomes a Sacred Sense: Spiritual Touch, by which we directly contact the singular living substance (Sophia) that permeates and flows between the body and all that is within infinite Stillness. Day Two: "Stillness Touch: The Art of Transmission" Designed to deepen, through touch, the stillness practices we learned. We will touch in a manner that does not interfere with the freedom of life's flow in the recipients body, which when left unimpeded - as it is - becomes the flow of Love. We will feelingly navigate the tonal stages of touch -- Inner Preparation, Making Bodily Contact, Waiting, Coming off the body, Closure, Integration, Support and Validation -- in a way that frees the recipient's delicate unfolding flow of consciousness. Essentially, this class reveals that we are each capable of gifting to another the mystery of Touch as a body-to-body transmission of unconditional Love. Pay For a Course Course Fee: $150.00 Class Date: February 13-14, 2010; 9:30-4:00 Location: Rudramandir 830 Bancroft Berkeley, CA Rudramandir Join our mailing list: Join So we can notify you of class updates. Recommended Reading as Support Material for Stillness Series: 'Stillness Practices' An E-book that describes the basic practices covered in class. 'Stillness Touch' This is a rewrite of the practitioner book, 'Stillness.' Both books, as well as supportive Stillness Meditations in Audio Mp3 format, are available from our store, click here: Store Dynamic Stillness 66 Starbuck Drive Muir Beach, CA 94965 415-342-1149 Email: Charles@dynamicstillness.com "The surprises of the two days were delicious. Your workshop was/is beyond words. I am still in an altered state and may never be the same again. Hooray. Thank you for the lifetime developing this work. Even more for the generosity of sharing it so freely. Your workshop had no padding, no jargon, no hype, and just delivered again and again in deceptively simple words and actions." Selma Lewis, Ph.D. Psychotherapy and Hypnosis 310-273-5761 415-454-4970 www.selmalewis.com "Since 1967, I have been involved with finding out who I really am...the blockages in seeing into true nature is hidden in our minds and bodies. When we relax our ego control, then strong, true messages come through. Easily said, but how to do? Charles Ridley has been of great help in allowing my blockages to be seen through. Don't ask me how he does it; in fact, he doesn't seem to do anything, but the results can be both subtle and dramatic." Robert McCullough BA, BS, MBA Purpose of 'Stillness Practices' Finding and embodying Stillness calms wavering, chaotic thoughts Stillness reveals your Core of inner stability -- the midline Contact with Stillness in the center of your Heart reveals your True Nature -- the Self Cultivating whole-body felt sense unites all senses into one Sacred Sense: Spiritual Touch Learn to sense the unfolding of body-as-consciousness Discover how attuning to the tone in the atmosphere is a guide to being in harmony with the flow with life (In the Tao) In the Stillness Practices Class you will receive: Stillness Meditations Whole-body Breathing Ways to feelingly locate your Midline -- the inner core -- your Self How to Access the center of your Heart (SA Node or Pacemaker) Cultivate your whole-body felt sense Embody Stillness in the four centers -- head, heart, belly, and pelvis Abide in not-knowing Appreciate the value of the Tonality Characterize your experiences in sensual body felt language Pay For a Course Purpose of 'Stillness Touch' Class To learn specific body contacts Practice 'neutral' touch -- in a way that does not disturb your recipient's delicate unfolding life flow Sense the unfolding of body as consciousness Learn to transmit essence, as unconditional love, body-to-body to another through entrainment Learn to give yourself a Stillness Touch session In the 'Stillness Touch' Class you will receive: How to apply specific body contacts to another Inner preparation before touching another's body Making bodily contact in a way that does not disturb your recipient's delicate unfolding flow of consciousness Waiting without an outcome or agenda Coming off your recipient's body seamlessly Closure Integration Support and Validation Pay For a Course Supportive Audio Mp3 Titles: Whole-Body Breathing Navigating the Invisible Midline Three Midlines Midline, Body-Felt Sense, and the SA Node Nervous System Wash Gut Wash Notochord Wash Store