Tracking Perception
The Essentials of Practice
Movements, Meditations, Connection, Narrative, Magic
Self-Inquiry, and Re-Patterning

​Towards a deeper capacity for embodied connection, and communication, with self, sense, and other.
Effectively navigating the internal and external worlds.
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 A space of connection, and focused techniques for empowerment, grounded practice and new perspectives...

This is a professional development workshop for Communicators, Movers, Performers, Body Workers and anybody interested in Mind-Body Practices and personal empowerment, non-verbal communication and embodiment.

This workshop is a two day event and has a combination of practical and theoretical material.

The material and exercises are drawn from over 10 years of practice and research, including:

Nature Connection, Wild Living and Dance-Movement Therapy, Butoh, Martial Arts, Performance, Trans-personal Psychology, Creative Mentoring and Meditation, Mysticism and Comparative Religion

for more information please
email Michael.maso.ellis@Gmail.com

Cost is $130 Limited spaces
Early bird booking by 25th April: $100
LIMITED PLACES please book early to ensure your spot
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Awareness and ​Movement: Intuitive, Subtle, Technical
Spatial Consciousness: Attention and The Spatial Matrix
Social Dynamics: Interpersonal Presence, Play, Empathy
Conceptual Hierarchy: Symbol, Myth and Narrative

Please fill out the form above to book this workshop! 

Awareness and Self-localization:

The resource of spacial presence that our ancestors knew and lived, both human and animal, is still available to us in the modern world.  Uncovering and developing this resource for application in the contemporary context is fundamentally healing, empowering and accessible.

There are powerful primal underpinnings to why physical awareness of ourselves, the people around us, and the space we are in, is a skill to develop. Presence training is practising spacial awareness, leading to deeper experiences of the present moment.
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With practice we can be more alert to changes in our environment, socially and physically, allowing us to respond with initiative and care. Being present to the physical space we are in is an essential element in relaxation, confidence, and understanding of our present context. 

Being centred in the space can lead to deepening awareness of the way other people are in the space, and by extension, the shifting dynamic of group consciousness. As natural beings, we have in times past had a deeper relationship with the natural world, grounded in connection to space and place.
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The methods involved in training and improving this experience need to both address the barriers or challenges to being present, and develop the skills that allow a state of presence. More advanced practice results in a sophistication and deepening of the spacial experience. The biggest barrier to presence will be different for different people, but the main one is anxiety or tension.

If we take that tension on the spectrum of relaxation, and also that we can get better at relaxing, then the process begins with methods to move from tension or resistance towards an relaxed awareness. The word transmutation is the best suited to describing this process.

With practice, we can take the physical, spacial, social, mental and spiritual condition as presenting in the moment, and use it as a teacher to transform. Further integrative practice leads to mastery.

The ancient rawness of the primary experience is accessible through practice, and there are effective ways to talk about it.
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Embodiment Practice:

Centering:
The center is the middle of the axis between above and below, forward and back, left and right.
Centering is improving sensitivity to ones physical center, and the way we experience gravity, balance, and stillness.
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Breath and Relaxation:
Relaxation is a spectrum from tension to softness. Very deep relaxation is possible with good breathing practice. Relaxation allows access to the softer and subtler range of experience in the body. When the body is relaxed, the parasympathetic nervous system can operate, allowing rest and digestion. This is essential in healing, allowing new connections to be made.

Strengthening:
Strengthening awareness is essential to being more present socially. Without confidence in our physical structure, our ability to set physical boundaries, and negotiate conflict, we loose the ability to be present to ourselves and the space.

Moving:
Movement is exploration, it is training the body to experience difference. It wakes up our sensitivity to the space, to others, and to the deeper layers of presence. The way in which we move is important. Conscious movement is a very focused use of attention to learn more about moving.

​Playing:
Improvisation is creativity in motion. When we play, we draw on what we have discovered through practice. The liberation of enjoyment in play is essential to connecting more deeply with the body, and being more present.

Environment:
What can the body do? What are we physically capable of? Where can we take ourselves, what are we frightened of? The body in the present moment is the interface between internal and the external world. We can use the environment to learn about our physicality, and develop deeper experiences of the present moment.

Spatial Consciousness and Attention:
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Sensing:
Sensing is feeling, in one way it is using the sense of touch to feel the space. The skin is a sensory organ, as is every cell in the human body. The felt sense experience is the doorway to being deeply present. The sensate experience is on a spectrum of 'easily noticeable' to 'subtle'.

Sweeping:
As we relax more, we have access to a larger field sensory information, as well as the ability to move our sensory attention more effectively and easily. Practicing accessing more information in the present moment is the work of engaging more deeply with our dormant consciousness.

Focusing:
Sharpening the focus of attention is the practice of avoiding distraction from the present moment. As we focus more effectively, we gain access to smaller and smaller, more subtle sensory information. This process both further en-trains the consciousness to the present moment, and amplifies the experience by revealing more detail in the same space.

Expanding:
Moving the attention in to and out from our central axis is the practice of establishing our consciousness in a larger spacial zone. This means we have a larger spacial awareness, and more established presence.

Mastering:
Mastering spacial awareness is the process of combining the elements described above. When we can shift our awareness between large and small, close and far, in a spherical shape around the central axis, we are beginning to be able to play freely with the felt sense of the present moment. We can use spacial awareness as a medium for exploration at will. This is the liberation of attention, from the mind, time, and gravity. We can focus deeply on elements in our spacial awareness, and connecting powerfully to the present moment.

The deep security of connection available is a powerful resource for the social context.