Matt's Practitioners Group

Current assignments, activities, and other announcements for the Center for Sacred Sciences Practitioners Group, from the group's current teacher.

• — CSS Subtle Energies Class Update

     (Friday, September 16 2011 17:32)

  Greetings prospective Mysticism and Subtle Energies class attendees:

  
  

  This class will expose you to a different way of framing experience than is common to our culture. There is, of course, no right way to frame experience, as all acts of explication are within duality, and thus illusory. However, there are useful ways. The phenomena of subtle energies and the spiritual and health practices based upon these phenomena have been found useful for millenia. Therefore we too, may find them useful in these regards. To this hopeful end this class has three main missions:

  
  

  1. To study ancient models of subtle energy.

  2. To investigate our own experience of subtle energy.

  3. To cultivate reality through mystical practices rooted in our experience of subtle energy.
  

  
  

  Because of the somewhat oddness of this mission, it is requisite of the earnest student that she cultivate the following three qualities prior to attendance:

  
  

  1. A sense of humour, or at least an appreciation for silliness.
  

  2. An open mind, or at least an ability to suspend disbelief.

  3. A curiosity about one's own experience of embodiment.

  
  

  With these three criteria in mind, this class should prove to be at the worst entertaining, and at the best enlightening.

  
  

  One more thing: there is a change in textual requirements from the initial syllabus. It is now a requirement to possess a copy of Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energy Anatomy, available at Amazon.com.

  
  

  
  

  Thank you for your interest!

  
  

  Peace, Love, Light, Levity!

  -Matt Sieradski
  

  
  

  
  

  Matthew P. Sieradski, L.Ac.

  Acupuncturist & Herbalist
  Director, Green Phoenix Institute
  

  GreenPhoenixInstitute.com
  541-344-0073
  
  

• — Course Summary for 2011-2012

     (Saturday, September 10 2011 19:22)

  Mysticism and Subtle Energies
  CSS Practitioners Group with Matt Sieradski
  Mondays, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, GPI
  
  
  Objectives:
  A.     Understand two traditional models of subtle energy anatomy:
  a.     Chinese Meridian and Dantian Model
  b.     Indo-Tibetan Chakra Model
  B.     Learn practices to work with subtle energy:
  a.     Basics of Hunyuan Qigong
  b.     Dantian (Elixer Field) Meditation
  c.     Central Channel Meditation (Opening the Chakras)
  d.     Gentle stretching and self-massage methods
  C.     Develop personal experience of subtle energy with the ultimate goal of releasing the heart's restrictions that bind the central channel. By releasing physical-emotional energetic restrictions, our attention becomes stabilized and less subject to the wanderings prompted by emotional habit-patterns. With stable attention that is aware of the body's subtle energy (which is none other than consciousness as experienced in a body-mind), the awareness-energy can be guided into the central channel. When awareness-energy stabilizes in the central channel, the experience of formless, endless clear light manifests. Recognizing oneself and all things as none other than this clear light is the final goal.
  
  
  Expectations:
  A.     Practice techniques learned in class a minimum of 30 minutes daily (best is 1 to 2 hours)
  B.     Plan to come to every class if humanly possible as we will be working through a lot of material
  
  
  Suggestions:
  A.     No required texts, information will be delivered in lectures and in handouts, but a suggested reading/resource list follows:
  a.     The Way of Qigong by Ken Cohen
  b.     The Bliss of Inner Fire by Lama Yeshe
  c.     The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy by Cyndi Dale
  B.     Attend twice-weekly Hunyuan Qigong classes and monthly Day-long Saturday Sitting Meditations at GPI