In this exploration, we'll be playing with our perception—the *how* of how we are sensing and feeling our body. This is called “ting” in tai chi or listening, and we'll actually be using the sounds around us. If you would like to kind of create a bit of a soundscape in your space—you'd like to play a little music, open a window and even hear some sounds from nature or your neighbors, run the fan—all these can be sounds that will be of service to you in the second half of our practice.

I'll guide you through letting the sounds of your environment wash over you, noticing if some sounds are washing more into one ear or the other as these sounds come effortlessly to us, as we receive the sound. Then we'll explore: what if we could listen to our body, the sensations of our body, and even the space of our body, like we're listening to sound? What might that be like?

You might discover how each fingertip is sending its own signal of sensation that wafts over you, that effortlessly flows in your experience—listening to the feelingscape of your ten fingers. Since the fingers are themselves illuminated with body-mind flow, there's no need of a flashlight going down to them; they're the ones sending the signal. Illuminated. Like they have their own sunshine. 

Through this practice, you might find how listening is a wonderful example where we neither go to it, nor does it have to be “sucked up into our head.” Observer and observed can both be right where each is, and together. Master Wonchull Park teaches how our subjective experience distributes sensory information in space—we can say we're feeling our toe because we have some sensation of our toe that “can be left” in some place there in space. Terabytes of signals are coursing through us at any given moment in the vastness of our subconscious feeling and our feelingscape. It’s quite a symphony. 

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning the practice of ting—listening to the body
• Feeling how bodily sensations send signals rather than us “going to get them”
• Understanding why experience is organized spatially to manage vast amounts of information
• Experiencing the shift from effortful reaching to effortless receiving
• Finding how the feelingscape is just there around us, like a soundscape

The Body as Nature's Flow Series:

In these hour-long sessions, we explore the three qualities of presence—mutual flow, free flow, and whole flow—through direct, felt experience in the body. Each session begins with 30 minutes touching in on these foundational qualities, then goes on an adventure exploring different ways to feel into presence through our immediate, physical experience. Drawing from physicist and Tai Chi Master Wonchull Park's teachings on nowflow, these in-depth practices help us recognize how we too are part of nature's flow.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll be using what's called the external harmonies in Tai Chi—the way that there's this natural correspondence between shoulders and hips, elbows and knees, wrists and ankles, hands and feet, and even all the way to our fingers and our toes. We'll especially allow ourselves more to feel our lower body and the presence of our lower bodies, first of all, because we have a lower body full of presence—it is presence.

And also as we feel more the presence of our lower body, it can provide this feeling of ballast. For example, when we get more caught up in our head and our emotions get more reactive, usually there's a tendency to have a rising energy and to feel like our identity, who we take ourselves to be, is more concentrated around our head. By feeling our lower body, even all the way to our very toes, that can be a way that we feel what’s sometimes called “qi down”—and can even feel a more distributed sense of our identity can be the ballast in the stormy seas of our own inner experience and living this crazy thing called life.

I'll guide you through discovering the “fingers of the feet” as someone asked about here—that's exactly what they are! We call them toes, but they're really the fingers of the feet. In the Taoist tradition and philosophy, there's that sense of humble, right? And even that sense of how water always goes to the lowest of the low places. And the toes and the soles of our feet are the lowest of the low place in our body. Through this practice, you might find how feeling those toes can give us more access to a sense of presence in the entire lower body—and can offer another way of working with a busy mind, heightened emotions, even having trouble falling asleep. If you ever have a hard time falling asleep, you can practice counting toes instead of counting sheep.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning the external harmonies—correspondence between upper and lower body
• Discovering the “fingers of the feet” and how to feel them individually
• Understanding a practical way to feel more humble, like water 
• Finding the ballast of presence in the lower body for “getting out of our heads”
• Experiencing how there's more to our experience than just what we tend to focus on

The Body as Nature's Flow Series:

In these hour-long sessions, we explore the three qualities of presence—mutual flow, free flow, and whole flow—through direct, felt experience in the body. Each session begins with 30 minutes touching in on these foundational qualities, then goes on an adventure exploring different ways to feel into presence through our immediate, physical experience. Drawing from physicist and Tai Chi Master Wonchull Park's teachings on nowflow, these in-depth practices help us recognize how we too are part of nature's flow.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll be using the whole flow quality—the third quality of Nature’s flow—to experientially stumble upon an experience of the now that may feel a little more allowing, just the way it is. We can get a lot of messages about how it's better for us to live in the moment, be here now. And even quite subtly, we can tend to associate now as something more kind of like the present, like it's wedged in between the past and the future, and we gotta find ourselves right in the now. Like it's this slit in time. Instead of starting with time, what about starting with space?

I'll guide you through feeling the space between your fingers, making those spaces smaller and wider, discovering how we know it's a smaller distance because we feel it—we feel the distance, we feel the space between. Then we'll expand to feeling the space between the center of your heart and your front body, and that sense of the space in front of you in the room you're in, all the way to the wall of the room that you're in.

The approach of this practice, coming from the teachings of Master Wonchull Park, is very non-conceptual in practice. We just see what we can feel and understand most evidently in our immediate experience, just the experience of even our body. Through this practice, you might discover what it's like to let all of those spaces be simultaneously there in your awareness—space of the room, space of the body, space of your heart, all at once. They are already one whole space, together. In another word, now. 

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Understanding how "now" is not a slit wedged between past and future
• Learning to feel space as negative space—what artists use to get over concepts and perceive what’s there
• Finding how lying down helps reduce trying because this practice is about letting ourselves feel what's already always in our experience
• Experiencing your heart center surrounded on all sides by this one whole space
• Discovering the all-at-once-ness of nature's unfolding

The Body as Nature's Flow Series:

In these hour-long sessions, we explore the three qualities of presence—mutual flow, free flow, and whole flow—through direct, felt experience in the body. Each session begins with 30 minutes touching in on these foundational qualities, then goes on an adventure exploring different ways to feel into presence through our immediate, physical experience. Drawing from physicist and Tai Chi Master Wonchull Park's teachings on nowflow, these in-depth practices help us recognize how we too are part of nature's flow.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll be using what's called the external harmonies in Tai Chi—the way that there's this natural correspondence between shoulders and hips, elbows and knees, wrists and ankles, hands and feet, and even all the way to our fingers and our toes. We'll especially allow ourselves more to feel our lower body and the presence of our lower bodies, first of all, because we have a lower body full of presence—it is presence.

And also as we feel more the presence of our lower body, it can provide this feeling of the ballast of presence. For example, when we get more caught up in our head and our emotions get more reactive, usually there's more of this tendency to have a kind of rising energy and to feel like our identity, our presence, is more concentrated around our head. By feeling our lower body, even all the way to our very toes, that can be a way that we feel, sometimes it's called more like Chi down—and can even feel a more distributed sense of our identity that helps us be the ballast in the stormy seas of our own inner experience and living this crazy thing called life.

I'll guide you through discovering the fingers of the feet—that's exactly what they are, we call them toes, but they're really the fingers of the feet. In the Taoist tradition and philosophy, there's that sense of humble, right? And even that sense of how water always goes to the lowest of the low places. And the toes and the soles of our feet are the lowest to the low place in our body. Through this practice, you might find how feeling those toes can give us more access to a sense of presence in the entire lower body—and can offer another way of working with a busy mind, heightened emotions, even having trouble falling asleep. If you ever have a hard time falling asleep, you can practice counting toes instead of counting sheep.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning the external harmonies—correspondence between upper and lower body
• Discovering the fingers of the feet and how to feel them
• Understanding the Taoist philosophy of humility and water seeking low places
• Finding the ballast of presence in the lower body for emotional regulation
• Experiencing how there's more to our experience than just what we tend to focus on

The Body as Nature's Flow Series:

In these hour-long sessions, we explore the three qualities of presence—mutual flow, free flow, and whole flow—through direct, felt experience in the body. Each session begins with 30 minutes touching in on these foundational qualities, then goes on an adventure exploring different ways to feel into presence through our immediate, physical experience. Drawing from physicist and Tai Chi Master Wonchull Park's teachings on nowflow, these in-depth practices help us recognize how we too are part of nature's flow.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this hour-long exploration, we'll discover how to deeply relax physically by feeling into the first quality of nature's flow: contactful, mutual connection. I'll guide you through accessing these qualities of presence really tangibly and evidently in your experience, then we'll go on the adventure of how we can especially use this contactful, mutual connection as a way to deeply feel into that neutrality of nature, that inner connection and lack of separation.

We'll be laying down into support. Tangibly. Contactfully. Becoming a connoisseur of that felt experience, its nuances. You might find how this mutual flow is not a "this first and then that"—in each place of contact, it's one event of interaction happening both directions simultaneously. Inseparably. You and the ground participating in one inseparable event of mutual flow. Not two, one.

Through this practice, you might discover how finding these qualities of nature that we can feel in our inner nature resources us, where they can feel deeply restful, yes, and connecting in a way that supports us at so many levels. If you have difficulty at all with sleeping, this can be a wonderful one to apply for sleeping—when we send the signal to our arms and legs, shoulders and hips that they don't have to do anything, it can help our overall experience find either deep rest or sleep.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning to lay down into support tangibly and contactfully
• Discovering how support from the ground is literally a force coming up into your body
• Experiencing how mutual flow is one inseparable event, not two separate things
• Finding pockets of tension and inviting them to participate in this laying down
• Understanding how this practice can support deep rest and sleep

The Body as Nature's Flow Series:

In these hour-long sessions, we explore the three qualities of presence—mutual flow, free flow, and whole flow—through direct, felt experience in the body. Each session begins with 30 minutes touching in on these foundational qualities, then goes on an adventure exploring different ways to feel into presence through our immediate, physical experience. Drawing from physicist and Tai Chi Master Wonchull Park's teachings on nowflow, these in-depth practices help us recognize how we too are part of nature's flow.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover how to work with subtle emotional pains that may feel tied to past events and "smeared out" in time. Getting trauma-informed support for these emotions is incredibly important. Ultimately, though, each one of us is “the one” who interfaces with our own inner experiences. I personally find it helpful to do this with as much spaciousness as possible—spaciousness that can be held in the utter integrity of this whole moment. The “when” where healing happens.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Recognizing how emotions can “come out of nowhere”
• Opening up more space that can hold emotional experiences
• Feeling the integrity of this whole moment
• Discovering what can and can’t affect us now

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover how emotional hurt and physical pain share similar patterns of bracing and disconnection. I'll guide you through gentle qigong movements to soften the heart area and explore how tenderness itself can be experienced as the refinement and sensitivity of nature’s flow itself, rather than shutting down. Through this practice, you might find how tenderness is our resilience. It allows emotional hurt to flow as part of the free flow that’s always given—as nature's grace.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Understanding the parallels between physical and emotional bracing
• Learning qigong movements to soften and open the heart area
• Discovering how tenderness is part of the fullness of nature’s flow
• Finding resilience within sensitivity rather than through hardening

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this integration exploration, you’ll practice how to guide yourself through dissolving pain using all the approaches we've learned. I'll review the toolkit of perspectives and techniques—feeling space, shifting to immersive awareness, and working with the wholeness of the moment—that you can mix and match based on what you need to be with yourself in many circumstances of pain. Through this practice, you might find your own creative ways to meet yourself where you are and work with whatever arises.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning to self-guide through dissolving pain practices
• Understanding the grace of Nature’s flow that comes before any particular technique
• Reviewing the repertoire of approaches to difficult sensations
• Finding the flexibility to modify practice based on your current state

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover how to work with the "blahs"—those all-over, nebulous feelings of fatigue, malaise, or systemic unwellness that can be harder to locate than specific pain. I'll guide you through a gentler approach that starts with the space and sounds around your body before gradually including the whole-body sensations. Through this practice, you might discover how even through pervasive discomfort, there is underlying comfort that can be found.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Learning to work with whole-body, diffuse sensations
• Discovering how to modify practice when you don't want to feel inside your body
• Understanding how to approach the "blahs" with extra gentleness
• Finding how outer awareness can gradually include inner sensations

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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In this exploration, we'll discover how our stories about pain in time can amplify suffering far beyond the present moment sensation. I'll guide you through experiencing how past, present, and future pain stories are all held within the wholeness of this eternal now. Through this practice, you might find how pain itself can feel lighter when we discover our time-based stories can be held differently.

Some possible takeaways from today's practice:

• Understanding how pain gets "smeared out" in time and amplified
• Discovering the wholeness and integrity of the eternal now
• Learning to experience stories as held within present moment awareness
• Finding lightness and relief from the burden of time-based pain narratives

Dissolving Pain in Nature’s Flow Series:
What can transform our relationship with pain and suffering? Perhaps most simply: recognizing our nature as part of Nature's flow. Resisting pain and hurt can make it persist, but what if we could experience these unpleasant messages in our body as sharing the same qualities as all of Nature's flow—as finely free and fully in the flow of this moment. In the first half of each session, we connect to these foundational qualities through guided practice. Then we'll go on an adventure into the underlying experience of pain of all kinds—from physical booboos to heartaches to blahs and fatigue. Over 15 years ago, Dr. Les Fehmi's book "Dissolving Pain in Open Focus" saved me and opened up a world of possibilities I'd never imagined. Over the last 10 years, it has been the teachings of Master Wonchull Park on the 3 qualities of nowflow that helped this make sense to me—giving me a simple way to embrace as ever-present what can sometimes seem magical. It's with a full heart that I share what has been so meaningful to me in this hour of self-discovery, knowing that these resources we might find in books can become real when we discover them for ourselves. I look forward to our discoveries together.

Thank you for Being with Being.

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