Summer Ba Gua Retreat:
Walking, static postures, palm changes
Meditations and Temple dance
August 5th-11th 2024
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prices range from 575€ per person for a shared room to 750€ for a single room with en suite bathroom
Ba Gua retreat at Tourné August 2024
For beginners and experienced practitioners.
All participants will study 7 basic standing postures, and up to 11 static arm walking postures and at least one basic palm change.
Emphasis for both experienced and beginners will be on all aspects of walking - all the different ways in which benefit can accrue to body and mind through the different types of walking. This can be straight line walking, walking with posture stance, walking to develop different types of power or energy in the body, walking to develop flexibility in tendons and ultimately circle walking. How the straight line develops into the circle - how a straight line includes a circle and how the circle defines the straight line.
Direct investigation of such matters, beyond intellect and reason, begin to open awareness to its essential nature - one that is not constrained by thought, fear of future or worry based on the past.
Advanced practitioners will learn 8 palm changes according to ease of assimilation. Emphasis will be on how walking the circle allows the palm changes to develop by themselves [tzu jan] and how this allows a glimpse into the nature of the trigram / palm change.
We’ll walk individual and group circles, outside, inside, in small and large spaces. Finally and perhaps at the heart of all ba gua retreats at Tourné it the meditation application. We’ll introduce a mediation practice that will stay alone or which can be used with ba but practice.
Above all, this retreat offers practical guidance on how to incorporate ba gua moving and sitting practices into daily life without risk of becoming encumbered by excessive details. Efficiency is the key!
All levels: First step
Learn the basics of body alignment, how to stand, how to walk, how to be at ease under effort.
ba gua supports nervous system function: step 2
learn familiarity with change at all speeds, calm in all situations through circle walking and palm change practice
Learn ba gua, experience change with clarity. Step 3
direct insight into the energy of change-heaven palm change and simple water palm as means to investigate and deepen practice
ancient taoist longevity practices. Step 4
the inevitability of change need not be feared! Letting go of habit patterns of mind-body, glimpses of all the first eight palm changes
mind is still while body moves. Step 5
constancy is heaven - I ching. Movement and stillness as an expression of the source of all phenomena, heaven as the means to perceive with direct insight.
Hard and soft: Step 6
How change and perception nourishes and is nourished by tao
Maturing, accumulating. Step 7
Ensuring accumulated energy does not transform into impetuousness or excitation-tao and compassion
Mental Clarity. Step 8, the end at the beginning
Living in reality
Enjoy a summer Tao meditation retreat
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