Showing posts with label Integral Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Integral Theory. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

The Energetics of Creativity: Foaming or Frothing?

In this clip, taken from the Kosmic Creativity Media Collection, Sofia offers a fun and wildly exuberant presentation on the embodied energetics of creativity.

"If you don't understand a word I say, you're getting it!" -Sofia Diaz

Sofia Diaz is one of the world's most treasured (and most beautiful) dakinis—an ever-flowing fountain of spontaneity, creativity, and deeply feminine wisdom. She is the incarnation of energy and movement itself—and therefore the perfect medicine for the sort of disembodied abstraction, hyper-intellectualism, and idle navel-gazing that we often feel as integral practitioners.

Sofia is an exceptionally gifted muse, calling us out of the muck of our own somnolence and inspiring us toward an infinitely more awakened experience of the innate wisdom of our own bodies. She is also a courageous guardian of the sacred, cutting fearlessly through the tensions, anxieties, and stubborn neuroses that keep us separated from our fullest expressions of (and as) the divine.

As a result of this fearlessness, when dealing with uncomfortable moments or unspoken irritations, Sofia is not content to just ignore the unnamed elephant in the room. Instead she will leap on top of the elephant, straddle it, take the reigns, dig in her heels, then crash the damn thing right through the wall—breaking us from of our habituated thoughts and behaviors, while leading us away from self-contraction and self-defeating narratives, and toward a radical freedom of body, mind, heart, and spirit....

It is our very deep honor to present to you one of our most cherished friends, teachers, and healers: the one and only Sofia Diaz.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

How the Integral Vision Can Help Us Stay Positive in Chaotic Times...

This week's Daily Evolver explores what the world might look like if you see it through an Integral lens. Watching the news most any night of the week, it's easy to collapse into a ball of self-contraction and wonder if things will ever get better. But of course, the Integral vision reminds us to think differently.


Listen as Jeff and David examine the perspectival shift that the Integral view allows us as we watch the moment-to-moment unfolding of the world. We are reminded that we are neurologically hard-wired to seek out danger, and our current media environment is perfectly designed to provoke all our worst fears. However, a more Integral perspective offers us a chance to break free from this spell of cynicism, and to make a much-needed shift from merely reacting to the latest news, to freely witnessing our own experience as we relate to the headlines... More>>>