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"Dare I Dream?... Yes!"
Palm Springs, California
February 23 & 24, 2008

Overall what I discovered in this workshop:
That I have always been connected with my dreams, but I believed that I couldn't achieve them. This belief didn't allow me to see that some of my dreams are already flowering. My inner dialogue makes me blind to my shining being. I always knew that I wanted to paint, draw and write.

My new dreams are:
Art exhibitions, growing my art dreams.
Edit my book "The other side of the moon".
Increase my income with my job.
Travel.
Be closer to my daughters (physically).
Have a house.
Support the dream intent in the daily life.
Learn to speak and write in English well.
Take care of my health and body.
Meditate at list 5 minutes every morning and draw something after my meditation.
Pay attention to my automatic behavior.

What are my excuses for not actualizing my dreams:
Now I realize that I have new excuses for the same dream:
My fears:
Fears to shine and fear to be responsible for that.
I don't have time to paint.
How can I be relaxed while I'm painting if I don't make enough money to live.
When I work I tell myself that I'm tired and I cannot paint.

What effect the magical passes had over me:
All the magical passes we practiced in the workshop brought silence waves, each of them in different tone.
'On the run:' the silence and the attention arrived by the direct contact of my body with the earth.
Singing Serpent: the silence came through the vibration of the voice and the contact with the earth. The contact was ethereal.
These magical passes activate the right and left side, male and female gender. I felt balance and I felt that the passes were integrative.

The lectures brought to me lightness, trust, bravery and Yes!!!!!!!!!

Some of my moments of Yes:
I needed to detached myself from my drama tendency "poor me."
After that I could get the Yes moment.
eight years old I won a painting competition.
when I had my daughters
when I finished my high school.
when I got my degree in Art.
when I recognize myself as an artist.
Now.

What effect this acknowledgement brings to me:
I feel like a river after the rain, going down from the mountain.
It runs and runs without anything able to stop it.
I recognize my fear, my lack of security, but this doesn't stop the flow of my dreams.
The river doesn't stop until it surrenders itself to the ocean.
I know now that without confidence my dreams don't exist.

New dreams: Share more time with my family, live in a green space, have my Spanish Waldorf teacher training completed.

Discoveries: I realized that my dreams have already wheels. I am doing all the things I want to do. I am writing , dancing and little by little getting involved into the theater scene.

Magical passes: the magical passes were strong. They help me to reach silence and visualize the dreams. I woke up at midnight doing passes in my bed.

Stalking exercises: with the stalking exercises I discovered that all the excuses are coming from the same fountain: The inner dialogue I am repeating over and over to myself. I was surprise when I saw the very long list of the yes moments I had.

Talks: Cedar's talk let me a sensation of lightness and happiness. The others two talks touched me deeply. I identified, myself with them, with the idea that we have about ourselves and how hard seems to have affection for our being. It was satisfying to feel we can get rid of old patterns, and see that we have new possibilities.

The workshop brought me the possibility to put the attention in the bright side of my life. I found a lot of moments of "yes" and also I realized about my tendency of being dramatic and fix the attention in the dark side of things instead of see all my achievements in life and being thankful for them.

After the seminar, it was easier, in a way, to woke up and intent the "Yes mood" in my daily life. In the morning I am doing 15 minutes of silence to visualize my dreams, (followed) for a breathing series and magical passes.

Thank you for your dedication, affection and time.

My feelings of not making any progress were assuaged to a great extent, when I realized that I have been living my dreams very much as you described and encouraged. I have been lucky enough to have several very specific dreams, and at some point along the way, I guess I understood that pursuing those things was going to be essential to my long-term sanity and satisfaction. To realize that I have been doing this for years with great success is very uplifting to me. I hope to maintain that feeling indefinitely.

don’t remember having been preparing a Seminar, so much as this one. I saved all the energy I could; for my body was scared. My feelings were: if you don’t make it this time, there might not be another time. This was felt from within a rigid ribcage I had for over thirty years, accompanied by nasty thoughts.

Today I feel more at home, with less thoughts and more easyness. I have a new dream: I want to write a children's book, with pictures in it. Having a dream is already making my life and my interactions more easy.

The lectures were samples of real life struggle. I can see myself reflected in them all. They left the impression on me, that life is an energy journey, an energy I can direct if I have it. I am at awe at the discipline with which you guided me in this journey, a journey that seems to be stretching to this moment.
Thank you so very much Instructors. Thank you very much practitioners, for helping me to change (shed) my skin.

This workshop put the "yes" back into me that has been missing for a while. Aerin Alexander captured the mood for me when she mentioned that this workshop is a celebration to meet and enjoy each other, and that the work is what we are doing in our lives on a daily basis.

My first yes moment started before the workshop began. I was considering changing hotels because I didn't get a roomate, and the room was twice the price I wanted to pay. In the parking lot I thought, wait a minute I can treat myself to a nice hotel this weekend. Why not. This is a great hotel, stay here. Relaxed and positive, I entered the lobby, and the clerk at check-in offered me an odd room at half price, and it turned out to be a big interesting comfortable room.

Creating my list of dreams allowed me to look at desires that I ignore, and reminded me that my excuses have gone unexamined. An example is that I enjoy sculpture, drawing, building and creating with my hands. These activities are not part of my work and I rarely do them. Remembering doing these things alone as a child, my excuse for not doing them now is that they are solitary and sedentary activities, and after work I want to be with others and active. I imagine that I will do these things when I am older, and I have believed that I cannot make these these things my vocation because I would not make enough money. These excuses are out of date! I actually am creative in other ways, and I am starting to examine how to bring art in these forms into my life. I can even learn how to creatively collaborate with others, and explore how that feels.

Both the Singing Plumed Serpent and the On the Run forms gave me a sense of community. The On the Run because of the collaboration with others brought joy and silence into action. The Singing Plumed Serpent because it started silently and then the chorus of singing felt like one voice. Really nice. Thank you!

Looking into my Yes moments exercise, brought me the answer to this question: I can hook up to a very specific Yes moment I have found, and bring it back, be there.
Trying this at home, I actually found out that just by thinking of this possibility, even before really going to the moment itself, had the magical influence of shifting my assemblage point to the mode i was looking for: the warrior mode.

My task was to do daily at least two passes I have chosen, affection for the energy body, and stalking the self. I intend to do these passes with joy, and lightness. And I'm doing so delightfully.

It's a new and refreshing view of a pattern i have since i remember my self. Mostly of being tilted from one side to another, now i know it wasn't the sea that was rough but the sailor, who drove it , that made it to rock from side to side, and up and down.

Getting the balance between our sides, enables us to have an unlimited array of possibilities, and not just black and white, yes or no, answers ; but a range of the colors in the rainbow…

…It is not that one side of our being is better than the other but rather their corroboration that gives us the wind and the sextant. We can navigate in awe and sobriety in the awesome sea of awareness.

And I thank all of you, all of us practitioners, and everyone else for taking part in the journey.

Bon Voyage

The surprise came when we were practicing 'On the run' at the moment we were dreaming what we want. I have never had a clear idea of what I want and in this last year I always thought I would like to study and create a career toward the financial system but during 'On the run' the artistic field imposed itself.

I realized that this is not something coming from nowhere: when I was a child my elder sister was studying Art and I saw her painting and sculpturing. I was reminded of the feeling that I saw when I looked at her when she was painting: total concentration, mesmerizing and happiness. I liked it.

Some days after the workshop, I was talking with a friend and I told her that my mother was a dressmaker and she said 'oh, she is a creative!' I thought about her comment and it is true. I never looked at my mother in that way and I judged her as not being a good dressmaker. But she was good and with little money available she made beautiful dresses.
I suppressed completely this creative part of my female family for different reasons but in that workshop I have reclaimed acknowledgement of my mother.

The dialogue or excuse that didn't allow me to see this was: 'I'm not an artist; I'm not creative; I'm not good; with art is difficult to survive and my sister didn't do anything with it'.

My want for a financial career comes from my father and brother and it is full of failures, but after many years of following my brother I want to recognize it.

My commitment for these two parts are:
I start drawing something at least two times a week, Tuesday and Sunday; I don't judge what I paint but only enjoy it.
… I will take art classes.
I want to continue to go to UCLA extension to take Financial Planning classes too.
The dialogue 'I am too old to do this' it is there but doesn't matter any more. One of the stories shared at the workshop stated this dialogue also; from there I recognize it now as only dialogue and have more the question: How? Until now a silent confidence supported me; in some way step by step I will arrive to succeed and support myself.

During the Singing Earth Serpent Form I felt something entering in me, as light, silent, connections and mystery. It is the unknown, no thoughts but the possibility to be something different.

Thank you for organizing and dreaming this workshop! It is unexpectedly "shaking my foundations" and has brought me face to face with what I am actually doing in my daily life. A couple of days after the workshop I was depressed and crying inconsolably. It has made me see how I close myself and put walls between me and others and then justify it continuously how it is all their fault anyway because they hurt me and offended me. I have taken action to become available to those people and to actually speak my feelings, do a wonderful exercise of open communication that, when properly done, never fails to clear things out. I have also tracked it to the view I have of my mother, "She hated me," and decided to repeat to myself daily "My mom has always loved me." I can feel her love in the past situations, which was always there, as is now.

Also, instead of waiting to enjoy the tropical sunshine and breeze once I have enough money, I am enjoying it NOW, reminding myself, Yes, I live in California! it is available to me already.

The written commitment to connect with Infinity and silence daily is bringing new sobriety and control over impatience and high expectations which claim that my dreams have to be realized NOW and if they don't it means I failed. It is helping me to ground myself and be detached from the outcome, and at the same time give full attention to my endeavors.

Several weeks before the seminar we got into the mood of innovation and new ideas/dreams with my witness. We were very inspired to think out of the box and dreamstorm new ideas. It ended up naturally flowing into the mood of the seminar.

This time I did not even try to remember the movements - I just went with the flow and enjoyed the experience. The experience for me was very light and dreamy and yet practical and down to earth. It felt like a new wave in my coming to the seminars. I also felt very close to the instructors and saw them as human beings just like the practitioners and not put them on an unreachable idealistic pedestal.

Going back with the notion that the seminar starts on Monday after the seminar I looked at my dreams written on my T-shirt daily and took practical steps to make them happen. I find the T-shirt a wonderful reminder - better than sticky notes or writing somewhere as I can look at it every time I put it on. Signing our "agreement with the spirit letter" with a witness gave me an energetic boost and worked really to make me responsible for what I sign. It was not just some writing in my navigator's log - it was a declaration with my signature and I have put my word and my determination to give my best and a bit more for it to happen.

I do kind of feel like a brand new being this week. I feel a wholesome and stable energy and the world and the beings around me seem to sparkle. I liked the thing that was said in the workshop about things not being black or white. It's been helpful to me as I navigate my way thru my thoughts. I notice myself pinning things down as solid facts that aren't necessarily energetic facts. By this I mean there are concepts and thoughts I can hook onto or not but to call any one of them an absolute fact to me just closes down the dreaming possibilities, which seem to be endless in between the black and the white.

I quit one of my jobs this week. I realized that this. fairly low-paying uninspiring job was putting the cart before the horse, dreamwise. In other words. I'd been sticking with this job for a bit because I hoped that if I sacrificed some of my present time on this job I might save a little, pay off a little debt, and then...then I'd be set for dreaming my dreams. But I realized that's what I always do,save my dreams for a later time when I will have more money or have more time or when everything is caught up. But that moment never comes. And the energy for doing it that way is very low. Instead, I am daring to begin dreaming my dreams. "Oh but how will I manifest them?" You know, I don't really know exactly, but I can think of first actions to take and letting myself feel the enthusiasm that comes with my dream, I can feel a large creative energy flow thru me and I know if I continue to focus this way the ways and means of manifesting my dreams are going to show up. I've done this before.Yes- I'm now remembering several times when I've dreamt something and wanted it and knew nothing would stand in my way(if it did I'd laugh and go around it). So thank you for this workshop and helping me to remember that it's always worked for me to go ahead and dream and access that creative dreaming energy. I think some of my energy this week is coming from living a little bit right now rather than save it for a later that never comes.

What a wonderful experience to be in Palm Spring for this workshop, rocked by the sun and the mountains around.
In the car on the road to the venue, arriving from France, I was feeling strangely as if I was there but not there in the same time.
What this workshop brings me is the strong feeling of being here, in my dream. I knew before coming what my dream was, what I learned is how to make it real, add concrete elements and expand it, what steps to put into practice to reach this dream. I've understood I could take the best of my lineage's heritage instead of rejecting it: I can start a business as my father did, but in my own path, taking in account his experience, and accepting his help.
I've seen that I was not alone; I can accept the help of other dreamers, as a part of a community, we are all connected.

Thank you so very much for another incredible event, I felt a sheer joy being present, and witnessing to the magnificence of so many beings connected to their dreams.
I realized that my life in general is filled with so much more yes moments that I thought and how anything is incredibly permeated by the magic and unknown.
I wrote a full list of dreams including acknowledging that my energy body is here and I am already a complete being; rewriting the story with my mom and putting my whole being into her shoes; connecting to my creativity and expressing it through photography and showing my pictures in art exhibitions all around the world.

At the beginning when we practiced "On The Run" magical pass, it wasn't very clear how could I include the tribe in my own dreams, but now there is something new showing up in my view. It's a deep desire on my heart of support and appreciation, affection and comprehension between women. I feel that respecting and acknowledging other women is the way to respect myself and connect to my own dreams. Sharing the creative wombs energy! YES!!! Just a little gesture, like a nice word, or a smile can connect us to that power and sensation of making our dreams happen.

En el cuerpo en el pecho senti que se me abrio y me atraveso hasta los pulmones y se abrio en la parte de atras de mi espalda. Senti mucho amor por mi.

El poder ver mis excusas me permitio ver cuales son mis miedos y tambien saber por donde tengo que empezar. El haber firmado mis acciones a llevar a cabo me dio compromiso con mi testigo, conmigo misma y senti que el proposito de todos se juntaba para ir a un solo lugar, el afecto.

I am still in awe and feeling a deep silence a week after the workshop. Doing the actions from the Contract for the Daily Practice to keep my dreams alive, that we made with our witness, is keeping the door open to new views, new possibilities, and the energy to keep my dreams alive. I love the very pragmatic exercises which are linking my dreams to my everyday life. On the Run magical passes, especially when I am practicing it in the evening, is bringing me very clear dreaming at night.

During the workshop when we were doing On the Run with the group, I had a very strong feeling of Dreaming Together. During the stalking my main excuse was: no confidence, not in others and not in myself. Waiting for my mother to help me when I was 5, so waiting for others to help me, or doing the opposite: I do it all by myself, don't need anyone else... And I found during the passes: Dreaming Together is taking reponsibility for your own dreaming part and having confidence in the part that your cohorts are dreaming. A joy of interweaving energies.

And what I liked the most were our YES! moments. I realize now that there are so many of them every day, if I keep myself in the right mood to receive them!

I am making lists now of steps, small steps, for several dreams in my life, dreams about work and projects, about self-care, about my creative work. I had one "big" dream, but they are all connected. Adjusting myself everyday and shifting to the mood of YES gives me dozens of new steps for all different life area's and dreams... And I saw: Staying in the mood of fluidity is making everything possible, is opening up the whole scale: not doing my best so very harshly, but lightly staying in tune, a joyful link with infinty.

The seminar had the light mood of a dream; I really enjoyed it!

Every dream is possible. Even the most crazy ones look possible when we are connected with the spirit, when we are together, supporting and caring.

The seminar helped me to refine my dreams; some of them are here now, but before the seminar I could not see it. Yes ! I am dreaming.

On the other hand, I found out that my first list of 'What I Want to Dream' was more about comparing myself with others and trying to be like other practitioners or please them with my dreams, and it was much influenced by my personal story, my social mask held in my mind.

As we 'shed our skin of fears and excuses' and went more into the seminar, our link with IT was more clear and with the guidance of the instructors I discovered another person inside: the Me that I know was not there before and at the same time was. This new Me is complete, the one that cares, loves and supports, the one who wants to do things with what he has and give and help the community, the planet and the universe.

With this, my dream becomes more close to my heart and I dream the new steps to take and the people involved without any effort or manipulation - they come like a drizzle of water, soft and gentle.

Another thing is: I have more Yes! moments than what I thought! And even when I was stalking them in the workshop, my usual pattern of No moments came easily, so one of my daily practices at night is to recapitulate some of Yes! moments that I have during that day. Miles Reid's lecture was inspiring to see how the No moments turned into Yes! moments.

The magical passes 'on the run,' sitting and lying down, stopped the flow of my thought so much so that the day after the workshop when I arrived at work, I did not act in situations the way that I usually do. I was moving like a cloud and everything was not solid anymore - I had the sensation of being in a thick substance. It took about two days to 'come back' and I still do not think I have come back completely - I still have the smile on my face.