Notes from meet-ups and notices of meetings
Thank you for your input into the design and timing of our 17Y Retreat. Following below is the formal invite and the necessary details and actions for registration and preparation. This year we return to the practitioner based format, rather than a public event at apitholo, as the work to be presented represents content that requires→
The transcription from the Sonance Practice #6: Soma#1 – assembling, trusting, differences, moved – 23, 47, 27, 31. Soma #2 – jumbled, relaxing into, earthing, channels deepening and others hiding, linked fingers as a vessel – 40, 40, 26, 32. Soma #3 – endless runway, stretching, nothing more needed, acceptance of, illustrating – 41, 10,→
Thank you for your responses to the design survey for our 16th Year Apithology Practitioners Retreat. In apithology practice it is always worth doing the prior inquiry and the emails, phone calls and conversations supplemented the design and attendance options helpfully. This post is to tell you more about this year’s retreat and provide some→
The transcription from the Sonance Practice #5: Soma#1 – complementary distinctions, fumbling in dark, co-mingled refuse, sifting through – 38, 30, 1, 29 [composed reverberation disarranged, more words than numbers]. Soma #2 – quiet concerns, grumbling, dissonant mutuality, bottomless compost – 40, 44, 39, 34 [diverse meaning appreciated, four legs stabilising, optimism present circumstances, disturbed→
The transcription from the Sonance Practice #4: Soma#1 – adjustment, tensioning, together-ness(nests) ~ wholle – 17, 30, 23, 14 Soma #2 – acknowledge, wailing, re-membering ~ tear drop onto dirty ground – 24, 12, 37, 21 Soma #3 – what is artificial, curiosity, undigitised understandings ~ unsatisficings – 42, 32, 19, 44 Soma #4→
The transcription from the Sonance Practice #3: Soma#1 – respectful curiosity, recohearing, sufficient coping, being sung – 37, 20, 22, 36 Soma #2 – tingling tension, skin sensings, full feelingness, diverse pulling and pushings jostlings – 43, 17, 12, 22 Soma #3 – what is it, meaning full-ness, Ahrrr, newly uncertainly, simply actually impartially –→
The transcription from the Sonance Practice #2: Soma#1 – creaking, cracking, arts of humans, plates on planet, trembling cells jostling, diverse invisibles, gentle holding, arts parcels presences – 34, 15, 12, 42 Soma #2 – flow of tides times and thought of us, sensing existence, not yet sentience, recognising unique distinctions, can wholeness overcome true→
Discovering, entering, positioning, imagining dimension, finding inside and outside, practicing enumerating, messages to human society, reflections from humanity to humanity, careful intrigue, caring-full-ness in listening, burdens created, purse silence, softness at the edge, trepidatious patience, satellites finding location, initial practice insights recorded … We sing to the song of the First Soma: [44, 27, 19,→
Feeling curiosity, trepidation, nurtured, ease, loved, subdued, discovering doors, truths, recursions, invitations, residing, insiding, voicing, learning, entrainments, vessels, somas, potentials, naturalness, cardinals, ordinals, enterings, holdings, wholdings, exquisite invitings; Asking how it is (in practicing) relates to the why it does (in enabling)…
Feeling bedazzled, challenged, emotional, pulled, constricted, inquiring into humanity-centric practice, allowing human nurturance, mutuality of enablement, replenishing the well springing, moistering the ground, expression of life as the presence of moisture, toning in sonace, resonancing in songing, invocation in vocalisation, voicing beyond the two residings, a humanity voice moving to singing, singing the vessel as→
Feeling curiosity, momentary narratings, refreshed, flat puzzled, perceptual, wondering, causal in present moment, influencing of current human capacities, to perceive and act differently, experiencing resonancy, later resonancing with humanity, not just humans humanising, spaces of receptivity, re-sonance listening, in the sonance of another, imaginative, not envisaging of futures, imaginal limitations, wombs as a feeling, gestation→
Feeling grief, sweetness, heartbroken, fluey concern, meditative, forward pull, tone and rhythm, times and duration, exploration of service, cohesion within holding, significance of shared, beneath new joining, container moving, landscape visiting, pacing led, weighting as lead (pb), future drawing, wellspring seeding newspring, moisture lingering, more moistering, holding of mystery, within the pulling, holding for what→
Feeling timely, appropriate, refreshing, necessary precision, new accuracy, enabling humanity, relations differently, anticipatory, recalling coherences in practices, kata|prayer|breathing, seven transitions, leading to below the central residing, songs sung needing many voices, harmonies and frequencies, entrainment potentials, future causal, potentials holding, seeds as innate, potency potentiated, ground of becoming, ecological integrity, moving from static-ness, feeling sensing,→
Arriving curious, adoring, also curious, organised, shift in the seasons, changes in humanity, breathing as seeding, inquiry into the form of inquiry, asking ‘What is needed at this time?’, an allowance that enables a holding of unknowing, allowance for children to pay forward to future potentials, being interested and invested, no expectation of returns, as→
Arising from the convening of the Apithology 15 Year retreat was a consolidation of the essences of the present forms of humanity inquiry. For completeness …and to prompt a discussion of what form of inquiry is invited by the next invitation from apithology, here are their descriptions. Additionally, there is a transcription of the 15Y→
Arriving playful, delighted, whimsical, soft, whirl pooling, holding love, as connection, commonality, empathy, unity, involving humans, holding of potentiation of the potential, as love, not for other, but as potential, in a humanity, for humanity becoming, as humanity actualising, with all humaness in three times expressing, reflections within, not reflection of self onto, more than→
Arriving ruminating, hmph, pulled, industrialised, relinquished, reviewing, flux and flow, in locations of confinement, peace requiring turmoil, pause isolated, frenzy connected, from where seen, by who described, systems of separating, capacities for ignoring, system within systems, closed not isolated, presence as influence, no non-relevance, presence always present, radically inclusive, causation elusive, implications for trichotomies, inquiry→
Arriving questioning, happy, cheerful, sunny, moved moving back to the point of origination, a generating moment, generative origins, reminding mind, holding reinforced, reinvigorated, renewed, daily practice, periodic return, starting again, refinding origin, returning differently, recoherencing, returning as self-renewing, bringing the passage to center, more available, a move available, illusion of narrative, already there, found by→
Arriving pensive, scattered, happy, tentatively, humanly, voluntary, social convention, personal divinity, motivation, compulsion, volition, intention, to wish for, want wellbeing, free choicing, the entirely new, no expectation of benefit, to will into being, humanism, individualism, collectivism, vocation, beyond reason, before reason, within reasoning, choice between, choosing from, choicing as, quality of the chooser, as whom,→
Arriving weathered, resting, swaddled, dawned, wonderment, ebb and flow, pulse and rhythm, wintering as nourishment, less darkness preceding light, more the lightness of dark, resting as activity, pause as heavy lifting, holding restfully, restless dispersing, endarkenment as potency, withdrawal as enlightenment, past seasoned binaries, post oppositional preferencing, outrage becomes inreach, despondency becomes potency, atropy as→