Actually I’m not interested in concepts or talking about awakening, or states of mind.  What really interests me, if I’m honest, is seeing you move from a place in which I feel the whole universe shake.   I’m interested in watching you move your hand and feeling my whole being erupt.   I don’t know what you are. I don’t know what you are doing. I’m a fool, no idea what is going on, feeling the vein of all of creation. I am weeping and laughing and not on the edge of experience, but deep into the marrow of what is happening. I can’t step outside of myself, as there is only lightn ..read more

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As we deepen in our practice the breath starts to drastically change as the energy and the breath start unify. This is a big transition. Our practice is no longer abstract but something to engage with all of the time with our whole being. We were just talking about this today in class. Please support this channel by liking and subscribing, as well as joining us in classes, retreats, and workshops! http://coreyhessbodytherapy.com ..read more

What are we all doing here? Let’s have the weekend be about that. What do we really care about?  Who are we?  Taking some time, a good chunk of time these days of the retreat to honestly feel into our most basic, most sincere questions. What do you want?  I mean, right here, what is happening?  This field of what I think I am, how is it in space right now? How do I feel?  What do I feel? Where does my body begin and end? Is that barrier real? My most honest inquiry, how does it show up for me? My fears, my sadness, my anger, how are they intimately tied to somethi ..read more

It’s all so exciting. It’s all so mysterious. What is happening?  What is actually happening?… I’m interested in exploring our assumptions. How are our beliefs about what we are experiencing shaping and blocking our experience? Like, I mean, right now, right here, how is our physical and energetic experience of reality delineated by these assumptions. And how can exploring that perceived barrier be a most creative act.  How can we let life in, allow it to come alive, feel what is actually happening, and live from this fresh ever changing place?  When the barriers begin to come d ..read more

Cultivating and feeling the Tanden (Lower Dantien) takes a long time. At first, it can show up here and there as an interesting flutter, or some heat maybe in the center of the belly below the navel or in the lower back. Later it’s like seeing something out of the corner of your eye, and all day long you are gently checking in with it.  How is it showing up? How is it there, how can I connect? And as I move, raising my arms, how can I stay soft and stay in that neutral, find the tanden, allow the body to emerge out of it.  All day long curious, not forcing, not too eager, looking at ..read more

People often think that in their practice they will be going along and just feel miserable and then one day something will spontaneously emerge through them and they will miraculously be full of joy. But often it is that in their struggle, they maybe hit rock bottom, and in a most creative shift, discover, even in the tiniest way, how to interact with reality in a different way. And that different way of interacting with all of life then begins a process of transformation and liberation which eventually blossoms or ripens into a radical change of perspective ..read more

We have to find our own way  We hear that a lot in practice. But it’s way more than we would have expected. We really have to be reborn in how we are.  It’s a path of blind feeling. A zigzag of touching and stopping and fading and regrouping.   It’s very personal, how we find it It’s walking through the dark, in the unknown, breathing with our feet, hearing with our eyes, seeing with our ears.  A walking lightbulb… We know not where we are going, but are compelled to keep absorbing, being penetrated and allowing it to mold us.   No one can do this for us, and yet we ar ..read more

Often when I hear someone give a talk or see a video of them speaking, what they say has little interest or hook for me. Usually I will get something out of the talk which is different than what they were saying. Like, I’ll see a video of someone and even if I don’t completely resonate with their words, I may learn something with how relaxed they are in space, or how they carry themselves in some interesting or beautiful way. Or that their presence seems to be shining in some inconceivable way. Something in the essence of their being. It’s as if their words are beside the point. Maybe they don ..read more

In our Energy Collective Group we are currently doing a Thirty Minute Wuji challenge for the month of March. This thirty minutes is on top of our normal practice, and I suggested it so that participants could experience how Wuji and stillness creates a particular type of cooking of the system.  So with that, I wanted to share some thoughts on Stillness and practice. Why is a level of stillness and subtlety important for releasing deep patterns in our system?  In other words, why the heck do we sit or stand still or mostly still? Firstly, I would like to note that I am talking about w ..read more