Love Warrior Continuum Dive
Otters are long, sleek and graceful swimmers. They live on land and in the water – flowing effortlessly between the two elements. They are always moving, curious, and playful. Otters will not fight unless provoked first. In many indigenous traditions, Otter is revered as an embodiment of balanced female energy. Otter creates space for others to enter without preconceptions or suspicions. It enjoys and shares the pleasure of the good fortune of others. Otter reminds us not to be jealous of others’ success or afraid of scarcity; everyone’s accomplishments benefit the whole. Otter swims in the waters of universal connection. Otter is an embodiment of a kind of love we call Eros.
Bud Harris writes, “Eros means personal relatedness, a keen interest in relationships, and a prevailing attitude that works for conciliation and reconciliation. It supports healthy interdependence on every level of life. Eros evokes self-integration, subjectivity, and the concern of individuals. Eros is rooted in the material universe and the earthy feminine qualities of love, receptivity, and transformation—new life being born. Eros supports the love of life, individuals, and the pains of bringing forth the future. Eros and love do not lead us to an end of the challenges of human life, but they support us in facing them, living through them, and when feasible being transformed by them in ways that enhance our growth, character, and wisdom.”
self love is
a revolution
that every atom
in your body is
marching for.
~ by s.r.w
Right now, humanity is suffering because we are out of balance and created cultures that have attacked “the great feminine principle of Eros—love, the source of life—that supports life and our potentials of healing and transformation” for generations upon generations. We think this is normal. This is not normal. Harris notes, “As a natural consequence of this murder, we are killing our humanity. When love stops, the symptoms of the imbalance—anxiety, hopelessness, despair, mistrust, and then even violence and terror—increase.”
The time has come for this imbalance between the male and female energy to correct itself. There are so many signs that this essential rebalancing is underway. We have an opportunity to step up to help.
Are you ready to become a love warrior?
“It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for the soldier to fight on the battlefield.” - William Butler Yeats
“It takes even more courage to examine the dark corners of our collective soul. We need love warriors to face and reverse the course we are on,” Bud Harris continues. “The quest of a love warrior is to never settle for an interior wasteland caused by a discouraged or barren heart. We must be seeking the Grail in the forests of our interior lives. Choosing life means becoming fully engaged in living with body, mind, and heart. To be fully engaged with life we must be fully committed to our inner lives and resources. This means we must be on the journey to discover and mature our capacities for passion and compassion, for love and strength. Becoming a love warrior is to confront our fears, our suffering, our despair, and the shadow sides of our lives, our culture, and our history. And it is to do this with the confidence that comes from the good we have done and are still capable of doing.”
Continuum is a practice of swimming in Eros. Continuum is a practice for love warriors.
Spring is the perfect time to commit to life, to the power of love; to embrace the contracting forces of our own resistance, and to meet the unknown with power, curiosity, and creativity. A cacao or tea ceremony will be offered to enhance heart-mind opening as an optional part of entering the explorations.
Continuum is at its core a deep listening practice that cultivates dynamic awareness throughout the body. Beginning with simple breaths and vocalized sounds, these vibrations invoke subtle and spontaneous movements within the body. As these intrinsic movements emerge, they spark creative sensory imagery and increase fluid responsiveness in our embodied minds. Within the first few breaths, we recover and restore sensation and awareness that has been flattened and lost by the speed of modern life. This immediately increases our vitality, adaptability, and immunity — making us more resilient. Continuum is a profoundly relevant awareness-awakening practice that reminds us how to slow down, quiet our minds, and open our hearts.
Slowing down to the speed of water, our tissues hydrate themselves, becoming less dense and more spacious. Continuum helps us relocate ourselves, separate from the sensory overload of technology-driven culture, and drop into our place in the interconnected web of life on earth. It then becomes possible to explore the edges between the known and the unknown in Continuum’s essential inquiry — what is a body?
Continuum develops the non-judgmental witness, allowing to us to be fully present to our own process, without expectations of outcome. This enhances our ability to rest into what is, to be in the Here and Now. By reconnecting to what is most alive in each of us with more empathy and compassion for ourselves, it becomes easier to perceive the same in others and offer these gifts out to human and non-human beings around us. Continuum is a practice that deepens our trust in our own inherent wisdom and the interdependence of all things —skills and awareness that are critically needed in this time of ongoing human sanity recovery and climate-driven adaptability.
“Justice is what love looks like in public just like tenderness is what love feels like in private.” ~ Cornel West
Please wear comfortable layers of clothing you feel like moving in; bring a notebook and a water bottle to each class.
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