We meet each morning
all together in circle
to check in with ourselves
(through ten minutes of silence)
and to check in with one another
(by sharing our experience).

Then we set an intention for the day
to be carried out through
our practice, and our plans.

We practice relaxation
in body, mind and emotion.
Often this is based on teachings
from john g. bennett or gurdjieff
as this is the lineage
of our community coming to be.

In the body: we focus on a place of tension,
breathe, and send the breath there
to melt strain and disperse said pressures.

In our emotion: we focus the breath in our heart center,
to sense its tone, and allow the breath to purify what is there
with our awareness of it.

In the mind: this is the hardest place to find rest.
by breathing into the present moment,
and labeling our thinking, \”Thoughts.\”
We transcend them and find Now.

We break at each half hour,
close our eyes
for several breaths:
a simple reminder
to be.

theo – scholar and shaman – spoke to us
in the library at the mansion
he brought shifting visions of south america.
a people uniting form and energy
in their unexplainable structures, and sustainable inventions
3,000 different potatoes.

the source – our creator – is wisdom, power and love.
in each thing that the creator creates
in each thing that comes from source
leaping out of the universe, into the universe
each thing has the creator in it
everything made, is made of him
so that he is not separate from his creation.

everything manifest – all that is – is our brother and sister
even the earth is our sister
she so old, that we call her mother.
everything here created equal.
and in equal relation with everything else
even to ourselves, we have a relationship.

relating is reciprocity
one must give in order to take
one must exhale in order to inhale

the more we unite
the more divinity we embrace
bringing back oneness
as we come together

from outer space
the earth has no borders

organic life, not just food