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Tao’s Center is happy to host JuDitta Ben-David for
Surrender to The Now, an awareness group through Meditation and Motion.
To be fully present is in effect the simplest act of Being, while at the same time the most difficult one, for our comparing, conditioned, distracted and preoccupied minds.
Curiously, just beside that chatter, our body maintains constant dynamic relationship with the here and now, as well as our breath and our sense perceptions, all points of contact, as a streaming life flow. Paradoxically once again, our body and sensations are the vehicle through which we tend to distract our attention away from ourselves, from our needs, from the present moment with its difficulties, pain and uncertainty (at least it seems to us that way). In order to entertain ourselves, to suppress our fears and to comfort our restless mind, we go to our body and sensations, looking for momentary distractions.
None the less, with some kindness and radical acceptance, we can learn to stay with the bodily un-rest, with the confused mind, with the question, slowing down, hanging-in with one sensation at a time, curiously befriending it, examining it and developing our ability to delight in embodied experience, in stillness, touching presence through movement and movement in presence.
What will happen when we take twenty minutes to eat just one raisin?
What will we notice when we take thirty minutes to move with our eyes closed
in the presence of another?
What will we meet when we take an hour to walk slowly, attentively, silently,
in the open nature?
These are some of the inquiries we will listen to during the five days Surrender to The Now in Tao’s Center, together with dancing, writing, breathing, laughing and sharing. The practices we will use during the workshop are coming from wide range of disciplines - Authentic Movement, Buddhist meditation, Breathwork, Contact improvisation, Somatic Experiencing – all functioning as a bodily gate to consciousness. Surrender to The Now is an invitation to penetrate deep into present tense, having a sacred pause, an opening to our true nature.
The five-day workshop will be led by JuDitta Ben David, a therapist and a group leader.
JuDitta is a psychotherapist, Breath therapist, SE Trauma therapist, Movement & Body Oriented Psychotherapist (M.A.), a meditator and a singer. JuDitta has been practicing, lecturing, and facilitating individual & group work for over 19 years in the fields of: The Art of Breath, Buddhist Psychology, Therapeutic relationships, Death loss & pain, Trauma therapy and Expressive therapy - in Israel, Greece, South Africa, Ireland and Germany. Over the last 9 years JuDittas’ interest is in Healing Trauma, especially through SE (Somatic Experiencing), a student of the Diamond Heart approach, she has also received acknowledgement as a meditation teacher in the forest tradition (Tovana, and Dharmagiri). You can find more about her in this link.
The workshop is offered in a package of workshop & accommodation (6 nights) in Eleana hotel.
Surrnendr to The Now: Tuesday to Saturday, 7th to 11th of September
380€ for workshop (see schedule below),
500€ for workshop & accommodation (sharing a room, regular registration). For more details please check the ’Details’ button below.
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