From Deep Transformation to Personal Awakening with the Way of Unfolding

Unfolding Creative Potential

with the Keys to Living Awareness

AAn holistic approach to creativity and personal development

For those keen to enjoy more of their creative potential and help others to do so, too

with

Peter Wrycza, PhD

30 August - 9 September 2008

 

In Unfolding Creative Potential with the Keys to Living Awareness we embark on a profound inner journey to connect with the well-springs of creative expression deep within us.

In our integral and holistic approach, we balance inwardness through meditation and reflection with connection with nature, the divine Other, and with each other in community, dynamic expression through movement, drawing, etc., and attention to the setting and realization of our direction in life.

In opening to the potential for creativity present within us, we naturally stir and resolve the patterns and blocks that have been holding us back. As such, the natural unfolding of our creativity further stimulates the very unfolding of that creativity during the programme, while offering a Way to maintain that momentum and openness on our return.

The Unfolding Creative Potential programme is inspired by a unique synthesis of Western and Eastern approaches to creative development, offering a ‘Way of Unfolding’ that draws extensively on the traditional life-wisdom of Bali and Balinese Tantra. Creativity is in the air, the soil, the soul of Bali and the Balinese people. Come and join us at Nirarta and let it become part of you, as you

• enliven and free creative potential
• grow in powers of self-expression
• connect with and unleash passion and excitement for life
• neutralize old limitations and blocks that have been holding you back
• free the emotions and become more at home in yourself
• renew focus and direction
• become more sensitive to your context and better able to flow harmoniously with it
• learn more about the patterns of deep transformation and awakening in general

Improvised genjet dancing, August 2007Improvised ‘genjet’ dancing, August 2007

The Programme:

Our programme starts and ends with a traditional Balinese blessing. The first four days enliven the qualities underpinning creativity expression – notably, stability, change, energy, and intelligence. In the second four days, we unleash our potential, growing in inwardness, purposefulness, connectedness, and expressiveness. Integrating the Keys to Living Awareness, we begin to centre ourselves in the natural Mandala at the core of the self-unfolding dynamics of our own and all life.

30 August: Arrival by 14.30 for Registration, Orientation and Opening Celebration
31 - 3 September: Enlivening the Roots of Creative Expression
4 September: Visit to a traditional Balinese healer and master exponent of the Balinese Way of Creation.
5 - 8 September: Actualizing Creative Potential In Daily Life
9 September: Final integration, blessing, and closure.

 

"I can truly say that the seminar was everything I feared, and yet everything I had unknowingly wished for.

I was challenged in ways that made me sit up and pay attention, and explore myself to depths I had not thought possible.

The use of a wide range of different and unusual modes of expression such as free movement, drawing and free writing gave me the freedom to explore my emotions, and connect with myself in ways I had not previously known how.

It helped open up restrictions formed by my preconceptions of what expression should be, and what sort of results I could expect."

– D.R.R. , UK, 2006 seminar

A Typical Day:

07.30-08.15 Morning Stretching and Awareness Meditation
08.30-09.30 Breakfast
09.30-12.30 Self-unfolding movement followed by work with expressive media to stir personal process. Tuning into emerging patterns in pairs and in the group
12.30-14.00 Lunch and Relaxation
14.00-15.30 Connecting with the Nature and Small Group Process
15.30-17.30 Afternoon Expressive Session
17.30-18.00 Break/Shower
18.00-18.45 Evening Awareness Meditation
19.00-20.00 Dinner
20.00-21.30 Community gathering and tuning in to what is unfolding in our personal and group fields; expressive movement and/or artistic performances

Orienting Themes:

• Living Awareness and ‘The Way of Unfolding’
• The Natural Processes of Change, Learning, Growth, and Unfolding
• The Way of Unfolding Compass and its place in Balinese life and our own
• Keys to Living Awareness: Fundamentals of Alignment
• Keys to Living Awareness: Fundamentals of Performance
• Five Rhythms of the Creative Process
• The Process of Creative Unfolding
• Balancing Expression and Inwardness with Meditation and Movement

Keys to Living Awareness

Methods:

Our approach in this programme is primarily experiential. We stimulate the natural unfolding of creative potential through simple yet powerful processes and practices; deepening one's understanding of what one has encountered; integrating physically and emotionally what has opened up; and making new connections that link experience to one's life as a whole.
There is a minimum of cognitive input to orient understanding and support the self-unfolding individual and group process. We emphasize personal learning and sharing through discussion, feedback in pairs, small groups, and the community as a whole. In opening to a larger dimension of the Spirit of Life, we seek to nourish the body, celebrate the senses, and listen to the heart.

Connecting with Balinese Culture

Our programme includes:

• One or two evenings of Balinese dance
• Traditional Balinese ceremony of cleansing and blessing
• Some instruction in Balinese dance and/or music

Fees:

• €1190 /1850$US (includes instruction, teaching materials, entertainment, food, twin accommodation, and programme-related transportation, airport collection and drop, as well as transportation and visit to the Balinese healer and mask maker near Ubud.
• Single room supplement: €110/ 170$US).
• Programme begins 14.30, 30 August 2008. Formal closure, 12.30, 9 September 2008

Payment:

Transfer in Euros to the account of: P. Wrycza, no. 2.019.00171.8, BII (Bank Internasional Indonesia), Jl. Udayana Nr 1, Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Swift Code for international transfers: IBBKIDJA. For dollar payment, contact us.

© Nirarta Centre for Living Awareness, 2006
Sidemen, Karangasem 80864,
Bali, Indonesia. Tel. +62 366 24122
http://www.awareness-Bali.com
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