Will Johnson

The Radical Path of Somatic Dharma (eBook, ePUB)

Radiant Body, Radiant Mind

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• Shares practices to show how sitting meditation can be reconnected to lived, bodily experience and help you rediscover your natural somatic radiance • Explores how the modern thought-focused frame of mind introduces patterns of holding and tension into our bodies • Draws on techniques from the Buddhist, Sufi, and somatic wisdom traditions as well as insights from the author's own teachers and collaborators, including Ida Rolf and Judith Aston The modern practice of seated meditation is in serious need of reformation. What began as a living, vibrant, and felt practicethe primary practice of the Buddhist path to spiritual realizationhas painted itself into a corner of frozen stillness, divorced from lived, bodily experience. Presenting an accessible and deeply felt guide to sitting meditation as an active exploration, Will Johnson offers a revitalized understanding of this essential spiritual practice through deeper connection with the body. Johnson argues that the thought-focused mode of consciousness of modern rigid seated meditation introduces patterns of holding and tension into our bodies and virtually guarantees that awakening will not occur. He explains how our focus on thought, rather than embodied experience, results in a numbing of our connection to our physical self and the dimming of the body's natural somatic radiance, which in turn leads to the nagging presence of chronic pain, a general sense of malaise, and the inability to get comfortable in our own bodies. However, this "consciousness of separation" can be overcome. Johnson presents a wide range of practices, including 14 meditations, to support the awakening of breath and presence in the body, drawing on techniques from Buddhist, Sufi, and somatic wisdom traditions as well as methods from his studies with Ida Rolf and Judith Aston. Through the radical path of conscious sitting, Johnson shows how to transform your sitting meditation practice into a fully natural mudra of greater grace from which radiance will naturally flow. As the egoic perspective is dissolved, and chronic pain and discomfort are lessened, practitioners begin to feel a new, enlightened, bodily radiancewhat Johnson calls "The Great Wide Open."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888500491
• Artikelnr.: 70724642

Autorenporträt

Will Johnson is the founder and director of the Institute for Embodiment Training, which combines Western somatic psychotherapy with Eastern meditation practices. He is the author of several books, including Breathing through the Whole Body, The Posture of Meditation, and The Spiritual Practices of Rumi. He lives in British Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Bound Slaves
PART 1
The Liberation of the Radiant Body
The Somatophobic Entrapment
Don’t Try
The Line
The Koan of The Line
Undulation
Breathing the Spine
Undulating Breath
Radiant Body, Radiant Breath
Virtual Acupuncture: The Portal Meditation
Breathing in the Six Directions
Breath as Bodyworker
Unwrapping the Breath
Surrendering to Current
PART 2
The Great Wide Open
The Consciousness of Felt Radiance
Uncorking the Wine
Let It Lead You
Mystery Space
The View
Look and See
Form and Emptiness
Rainbow Body
Rainbow Embodiment
This Very Body
Afterword: The Birthing of
Western Dharma
Addendum: Hollow Bamboo Breathing
Acknowledgments and Further Study
Index