The Relaxation of Effort: When the Body Says Yes!
An Inquiry in Body, Movement & Life with Penny Allport (View our brochure)

Engage the movement of life’s longing for itself. Enter the infinite play of flesh and breath. Move in joyous union with universal energy. Lavish respect and attention in the primacy of the embodied now. Discover gestures of new life birthing in creation. Directly experience the relaxation of effort, when the body says Yes!

Yoga on 7th, 156 East 7th Avenue (at Main) Vancouver, BC
Two Opportunities to Explore:

• Sunday, April 15, 2012 2-5 pm
  Theme: Welcoming the Body’s Innate
  Intelligence, What the Body
  Already Says Yes to!
• Sunday, June 10, 2012 2-5 pm
  Theme: Liberating the Fish Body,
  Moving in the Widening Stream
• $40.00 ea., $70 for both (plus HST)
  All levels of movement capacity welcome!
  Pre-registration required.
• Private sessions are also available at Yoga on 7th.

  To Register or Inquire:
  pennyallport@gmail.com
  604-803-4607
  Visa, Mastercard, Cheque & Cash accepted.
  

Being Green Again: Reconnecting to Our Evolutionary Movement Lineage (with Amy Kiara Ruth and Penny Allport)

View our poster with full details here.

Based on a Western European teaching story, The Six Servants, offers an invitation to land in a circle of inquiry with others who are called to deepen connection and relatedness at this time in their lives. Meet, Explore, Discover View our poster with full details here. Sunday January 29, 2012 2:00-5:00pm Yoga on 7th 156th East 7th (at Main) Vancouver, BC $40.00 (price includes HST) Register pennyallport@gmail.com or phone 604-885-4663 or 604-803-4607 (Visa, Mastercard, Cheque and Cash. Note: Pre-registration is required)

Stewarding Soul with Penny Allport

February 2012 – October 2012
Paradise Found, Sunshine Coast, BC
4 weekends tending the midpoints of the year through circle, ceremony, mask making, movement and mystery.

Dates:

• February 3 -5, 2012
• April 27 – 29, 2012
• August 3 – 5, 2012
• October 26 – 28, 2012

An invitation to enter a Circle of Soul Stewards, called at this potent time on the planet to gather together in the spirit of community dreaming and inquiry in a year of committed personal and planetary service to Stewarding Soul.

Practical embodied exercises and tracking explorations in the theme and energy of the earth's seasonal medicine will be offered at each gathering, along with daily practices to share in a field of nonlocal resonance between gatherings at home. Each weekend will unfold in the richness of our collective dream offerings through tracking dreams, painting process (optional), writing, storytelling, movement inquiry, in circle and ceremony. On the first weekend we will create a mask to accompany us on the journey.

Saturday evenings will offer Dreamtime Dives, in order for each participant to bring personal dreams to share in community and receive medicine both, personal and planetary. Altars will be both created and co-created in devotion to the sacred web of life.

Dates are chosen as perennial portals of Earthing wisdom, through which our Ancestors participated with and in the "world behind the world." The "midpoints" of the calendar call to the liminal place we are tending at this time.

Hours: Fri. 7 – 9:30 p.m. Sat. 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. Sun. 10 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
4 Weekends $1,020.12 (includes hst)
Early bird price - paid in full by January 10, 2012 $920.12
(residential price available/limited number – please book early)
$100.00 non refundable deposit holds your spot.

Payment plan available. Intention to participate in all four weekends required.

Meet Mystery~Live Origin~Unfold Myth

To register or inquire: pennyallport@gmail.com or 604 803 4607/604 885 4663

Dreaming In the Dark: Become a Dream Explorer

Join Penny Allport and become a dream explorer. Penny is a creative explorer with a passion for all that is possible in the living inquiry of what it means to be an embodied human. For over two decades she has facilitated individuals and groups through explorations in Yoga, Continuum Movement, Perceptual Inquiry, Creative Expression, Storytelling and Dream Inquiry. Penny will be your guide in an experiential inquiry into the language of dreams as you discover simple practices to receive the messages delivered in night dreams. Penny believes we are personally and collectively in a time of re-dreaming life on the planet earth; truly, we are sharing dreams in community and “dreaming in the dark”. Come dream with us at the Gibsons Public Library.

Painting from the Inside Out with Penny Allport

"You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born." Rainer Maria Rilke

In the days leading to the Winter Solstice, our ancestors felt the increase of the gestating darkness all around them. Meeting the blank page is a meeting with this mystery.

We begin with gentle explorations in breath, movement and perceptual inquiry to awaken the potency that lies within. As we approach the empty page, brush in hand, color dripping from its tip, awake to the possibility of just one authentic gesture, we are welcomed by a numinous longing not easily spoken of or articulated in any other form.

In the embrace of this mystery we can never fully understand, we merge in a co-creative process with that which is dreaming us. What emerges is a surprise, filled with the potency of expectancy and a willingness to not know. The energy of the unexpected calls us more deeply as images, shapes and form arrive without our contriving. We see and are seen by the emerging light on the page.

As the sun stands still at Winter Solstice we will stand, sit and move together with these dreams (paintings) in a dreamtime inquiry to deepen integration of the medicine of each painting (last evening of classes).

(This process is a wonderful way to explore physical, mental, emotional, creative or spiritual questions or challenges in our lives. The Inner Physician is an artist just waiting to give birth to healing images specific for each of us in each moment.)

To register call 604 885 4663 or email:pennyallport@gmail.com
cash, cheque, visa & mastercard accepted.

Moving the Medicine of Dreams with Penny Allport

Moving the Medicine of Dreams is an invitation to engage with the dreamtime through harvesting image, gesture and medicine delivered in the night dreams of our life.
Moving the Medicine of Dreams is a practice to restore the primacy of the imagination to the process of being whole, healthy and embodied human beings, and to collectively evolve fresh possibilities, as we shed the skin of outdated forms of relationship with the mystery of life.
Any dream snippit is gratefully welcomed and received.
Dreaming in a collective offers rich and surprising medicine to emerge through the field of shared dreamers in community.
$22.00 or bring a friend and two come for $35.00
To Register:  pennyallport@gmail.com or 604 885 4663

Honoring the Hibernative Call ~Dreaming in the Dark with Penny Allport

Honor the ancient and universal practices of incubation and dream healing as potent medicines of integration and deep physical, mental and spiritual nourishment.

Allow the season of Winter to mirror the art of slowing down, to deepen listening, feeling and experiencing capacities in the place of our most essential Soul work - the body.

Join with others to rest, dream and open to new possibilities for ourlives and the collective process of transformation we share as human beings on the planet Earth at this potent moment in time.

Hours are created in this way to provide a Dreamtime experience on Saturday evening. Those wishing to extend the night dreaming may inquire re: accommodations (limited space so book early.)

Penny Allport has been facilitating groups in embodied soulful explorations for over twenty years.

This retreat will offer explorations and practices based in Continuum Movement, Yoga, perceptual inquiry, dream incubation, creative expression through personal writing and engagement in group process. Saturday evening will offer an opportunity to experience Moving the Medicine of Dreams, a practice to restore the primacy of the imagination to the process of being whole, healthy embodied humans, and to collectively evolve fresh possibilities, as we shed the skin of outdated forms of relationship with all of life.

Penny is deeply informed by the work of Angeles Arrien, Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Hubert Godard, Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank and humbly inspired by her direct experience of the incredible mutability and mystery of this "one wild and precious human life."

cultivate gratitude activate wonder meet mystery receive blessing
To Register: pennyallport@gmail.com 604 803 4607 or 604 885 4663 (on Sunshine Coast)

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Moving the Medicine of Dreams with Penny Allport

Moving the Medicine of Dreams is an invitation to engage with the dreamtime through harvesting image, gesture and medicine delivered in the night dreams of our life.
Moving the Medicine of Dreams is a practice to restore the primacy of the imagination to the process of being whole, healthy and embodied human beings, and to collectively evolve fresh possibilities, as we shed the skin of outdated forms of relationship with the mystery of life.
Any dream snippit is gratefully welcomed and received.
Dreaming in a collective offers rich and surprising medicine to emerge through the field of shared dreamers in community.
To Register:  pennyallport@gmail.com or 604 885 4663
www.pennyallport.com

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The Rapture of Being Alive, with Penny Allport

"People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning to life…I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive." Joseph Campbell

Land in the rich and fertile soil of the body.
Enter the deep waters of renewal therein.
Rest into the relaxation of effort.
Deepen resonance with all of creation.
Breathe life into that which makes its own sweetness.
Feel the rapture of being alive.
Through explorations in Continuum Movement, Continuum Montage, Perceptual Inquiry, Yoga and a six acre sanctuary for the senses (Paradise Found), we will enter a time of spacious inquiry and discovery of resources and ways to support our capacity to "feel the rapture of being alive."

We will deepen our inquiry through painting process and "dreamtime attention," allowing for both personal and planetary processes to meet and integrate.

Penny Allport is a creative explorer called by the infinite capacity of the body, mind and Soul of the World to ceaselessly answer the call of creation, and of the hearts great longing and capacity to love and be loved. For over 20 years she has offered groups and individuals time and space to linger in the flux and flow of the creative fire to deepen and unfold more of our potential for being alive and rapturous human beings.

The Re-enchantment of the Body, Movement & Life

We question cultural beliefs, the history of exercise and its origins, the origins of life itself and what it means to be human, to have and be a living organism on the planet earth. We explore the body as a living activity, not something to be controlled, shaped, fixed and objectified, but an intelligent and indigenously wise organism with resources yet to be integrated.

We move and are moved, breathe and are breathed, sound and uncover new meaning through rich inquiries into embodied consciousness. Yoga, Continuum Movement, Evolutionary Movement, Perceptual Inquiry and deep listening offer fresh possibilities for movement, pleasure, and integration in the body and life.

These classes offer a synthesis of over 25 years of exploration into Fitness, Yoga, Yoga Therapy, Continuum Movement, the rich inquiry work of Susan Harper through Portals of Perception (and Hubert Godard), Em’oceans and Sensations and Dreamtime, How Life Moves work of Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank, as well as an ongoing apprenticeship with the natural world, in the body and daily life.

What is Continuum Movement?
“Continuum is at the same time a philosophical, scientific, artistic, musical, poetic, and spiritual concept, a cosmology, and an advanced state of consciousness. When applied to our affairs, continuum leads us naturally to a saner and happier world. In other words, continuum as an experience is a direct involvement in the harmony and congruence of our inner and outer realities. It enables us to live the real lives of our bodies.”
James Oschman, Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance.

Private Sessions

Penny offers private sessions to support you in meeting what is arriving in life, the body, and dreams at this time in your journey. Deep listening, tending sensation in the body, embodied tracking, perceptual inquiry, Yoga, Continuum Movement, the healing salves of creative expression and dreams are all invited and drawn on to encourage movement and adaptability to meet the unfolding moment. Together we cultivate a field of presence that encourages mystery in the moment to meet and integrate the unlived life.

Penny also offers private sessions to explore concerns in movement, injury, and habits that are no longer serving the flow of life. Through perceptual inquiry and personalized meditation and movement practices to support embodiment, the body is integrated as a wise teacher and ally.