The Art of Attuning
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Introduction Mairéad Vaughan holds a (PhD) in the field of Release-Based Contemporary, Somatic Movement Practice & Creative Process. She works as an Artist, Body Practitioner (Craniosacral Biodynamics, Yoga, Movement), mentor, researcher & writer. Arising out of 30 years of professional dance practice, Attuning is a holistic or psychosomatic spacious support. This practice cultivates listening wholly ‘to’ & ‘through’ our bodymind space to our living embodied intelligence. Our bodymind as a creative process of ‘becoming’ - points us towards our underlying nature - our pervading never-changing underlying unknowable Mystery. Attuning accesses many layers of living consciousness in our quest to explore, realize, discover & embody (live) our True Nature.
The Art of Attuning - A Process Of Becoming Attuning as an embodied art form, is experiential in nature. It is a model for embodied living - allowing the conduit of our bodymind become our whole instrument of expression. Resonating ‘as’ its purest form, Attuning expresses through the direct living agency of transmission. This transmission supports a ‘real time’, ‘active’, ‘immediate’ living enquiry.
We learn how to attune, open, listen, expand, sense & feel. This is the language of our bodymind system. All is elicited through the direct agency of our living sytem. We attune to our human instinctual nature, our strategies , structures, defenses & protections. Behaviours that limit us to our one-dimensional conditioned & habitual experience. As we cultivate our sensory awareness ie, how to sense feel & open, we begin to gradually attune to our whole dimensional nature as we progressively awaken our intuitive & essential capacities.
Attuning as a support, activates our felt sense of spaciousness & embodied palpable presence. Through building a healthy balanced safe & regulated nervous system, we open to these hidden potentials of our True Nature that mostly remain dormant in our system.
Spaciousness is an inherent living cellular intelligence. It is our felt sense of awareness. As regulation occurs, we gradually learn to settle & listen. And we begin to access our spaciousness as we let go of our habitual patterning. Our living cellular awareness is given space to express. This is a direct living experience that by-passes all cognition. It is pure living immediacy, glistening, open sense of ocienic lightness.
From our spaciousness we cultivate our sensory, kinesthetic & energetic awareness - our direct living embodied intelligences. All of which support our unfolding ‘depth journey’ of enquiry, exploration & discovery.
As our sensory awareness is cultivated, our inner world begins to ignite & creatively open. As we focus our attention inwards, our nervous system regulates & strengthens in its capacity to be with all of our experience. And over time our nervous system lights up as we attune to our subtle life force energies. And expanded states of consciousness may begin to express our deep mystery.
As we learn how to inhabit our bodymind more fully, many essential aspects comes alive. And as we begin to experience our spaciousness, we generate an open receptivity that includes all or our experience. As all is increasingly welcome, we build embodied resilience, balance & trust in this process of becomming.
We begin to access our expansion as layers unfold into our living essential truths. Our spacious Awareness is felt in our heart space as pure bliss and our palpable Presence radiates Truth. These are our essential qualities which generate a process of deep alchemy, integration & a return to the wholeness of our True Nature.
We allow this inner pull to support a process of ever-deepening Surrender. Consciously refining our sensory capacities as our essential nature. Through attuning to the depth of our sensory capacities we begin to realise pure Awareness. Awareness lies in the background of our experience, as a felt sense of open attention & spaciousness. Awareness becomes conscious of itself, through the direct living cellular intelligence residing in our bodymind. Glistening, opening, increasingly purifying itself.
As our sensory awareness refines, it clarifies into pure Awareness. The essential Light of Awareness begins to penetrate the whole system, guiding and lighting up into the vibrancy of our impersonal journey home into our Source Mystery.
Attuning generates a grounding force, which keeps us rooted in our direct living sensory experience. Our palpable Presence becomes more substantial, as Awareness is embodied. Presence supports us to surrender more deeply into that which underlies all - our Source Mystery, the Unknown.
And our bodymind continues the process of Becomming, living our True Nature. Our subtle light body becomes embodied & accessible. Life force energy expresses & we continue our human journey to meet all that lies in the way of our True Nature.
Tuning Fork Our mid-line runs along our central nervous system, housed in the pillar of our spine. Embeded along our mid-line, are 3 primary centres of intelligence - our Belly, Heart & Head.
Our mid-line is like a resonant living tuning fork radiating life force/creative energy. As we evolve, we become more aware. And we progressively integrate our habitual & conditioned patterning. Our midline also resonates our open empty spacious nature.
Our nervous system records all of our life experience - a living memory bank of recorded information. This information becomes ‘our’ life programme - that which over time becomes impressed into our system, into conditioned or habitual patterning.
This patterning can be integrated through the process of becomming aware & responsive. Our ‘life programme’ does not need to control us. As we learn how to integrate our patterning, a deep process of surrender unfolds. This surrender may occur through our 3 primary centres of intelligence - Belly, Heart, Head.
These centres hold our conditioned patterning.
Head Centre (Chit) - habituated thoughts, beliefs, inherited collective programmes - integrates into discernment, clarity, open attention, light of Awareness
Heart Centre (Ananda) - loops feelings, emotions, sensations all of which impact how we perceive - these patterns gradually harmonise into Unity, Wholeness & Oneness
Belly Centre (Sat) - our human structures of defense - social sexual & survival drives embody into the ground of our Being
All three centres hold the capacity to integrate into living essential aspects that support an ever deeepening exploration, discover so that we embody (live) True Nature.
Alchemy At first, in the beginning of our enquiry, as we sense our materiality, our solidity, our density - habitual patterns drive & limit our experience. These patterns come to the surface of our experience. We begin to sense & feel our discomfort perhaps for the first time. Attuning gives space to what arises, so that is is made aware, then gently felt & sensed. Patterning is hotwired into our system & often keeps us fixed in automatic & unconscious responses. Or often the system may become stuck in a fight, flight or freeze response. It is inertial and can over time express as dis-ease, chronic pain &/or a felt sense of disconnect or dissociation. Attuning provides support so that we become aware & thus responsive to our habitual patterning. We begin to clearly see our structures of defense, emotions, thoughts, traumas, inherited & ancestrol impressions - all of which fuel our relationships & our behaviours. The patterning that kept us stuck in an habituated state begins to move once more towards health & balance.
A process of digestion, metabolisation & embodiment may begin occur. This alchemical process transforms the flesh, transmutes our subtle body & purifies our ground. As we process our patterning, we simultaneously begin to feel more spaciousness, clarity, sense our palpable presence, inner stillness, our unmoving never-changing mystery.
Lightness, fluidity, aliveness, wholeness, peace, stillness arise as embodied aspects of our true nature - our natural state of Being. And ever-deepening revelations & dimensions of experience unfold as we are still alive in a human bodymind Soul system . As True Nature lives to ever increasingly refine its self.
Attuning Sessions
A typical session starts with taking time to connect to the felt sense of your whole bodymind spirit/soul system. Clients describe a melting sensation as they drop more fully into their system. And simultaneously begin to feel more full &/or more whole. Each session supports a progressive sense of deep relaxation and expansion simultaneously. This open state allows patterning, traumas, tensions, dysfunctional behavoural patterns to arise. We deepen into an enquiry into our somatic felt sense of our self and we listen. Allowing the intelligence of your system to express what it need to in each living moment. You begin to access your inherent spaciousness, your presence & your wholeness. That which is always in the background of your experience begins to come to the foreground. As patterning gently arises, from this embodied supported space, we attune, listen & enquire into that which impedes our natural open fluid still nature. For more information, email Mairéad - maireadmv@gmail.com