MOVEMENT REQUIREMENTS - Heloise Gold

• Participate in one annual Skype or iCHATav consultation/movement session with Heloise.  See FAQ for more explanation.
• In a 3 Year Period attend one 4-5 day T’ai Chi/Qi Kung/Movement Improvisation Retreat with Heloise OR attend Two 1-2 Day T’ai Chi Movement Workshops with Heloise (within a 3 year period) 
• Commit to a daily ten-minute (minimum) movement meditation practice - to be taken from movement work learned on a retreat or workshop or from Heloise’s book Deeply Listening Body OR commit to a ten-minute daily movement-awareness practice that you are currently studying.
• Commit to writing about  your observations, curiosities, inspirations in relation to your movement practices and to your relationship with your body. These are to be recorded in your Listening Journal.
• A DVD of the Tai Chi form as practiced and taught by Heloise Gold is available from goldbird1@gmail.com.
• Read and consult Deeply Listening Body by Heloise Gold, Deep Listening Publications 2007.
  
  

Commentary
Movement and the Body in Deep Listening

Through a light-hearted approach and through the utilization of specific movement meditations, creative sound/movement improvisations and T’ai Chi and Chi Kung practices, we can become ‘Full-Body-Listeners’ (see also Dreaming Requirements). Our bodies become a resource for listening. As we listen with and through our bodies we can cultivate directing our attention inside the body as well as listening outwardly and expanding our ‘listening body’ awareness to the whole universe. We can develop a friendly and abundant relationship with our bodies.

Some inquiries that you can consider are:
How do I perceive my own movement and body? How do the movements of my surroundings and of other beings affect me? What changes am I noticing in my body? How can I become friends with my body?