OSHO MEDITATIONS IN THE UK

The Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind

How it works, and why I like to run it

 

This is my favourite of all Osho's meditations, it has been a very helpful gift to me and I have chosen to run it because I love the powerful yet gentle space that is created when shared as a group healing process.

The meditation helps you learn to listen to your body's wisdom. The body is your best guide, and hearing and understanding its messages is a natural ability which many of us have lost touch with. The technique helps you access deep layers of the subconscious that you are normally unable to reach easily.

The Structure of The Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind

It is one hour long, and it is done for seven consecutive days, each day varies a little from the one before. It is done either laying down or sitting, comfortably.

There are three parts, the first part opens a dialogue with the different parts of your body. It is about befriending your body, which is an important key.

The second part invites a connection through your mind, seeking guidance on any physical illness or symptom. Some people have found it useful for psychological issues as well.

The third part is a deep relaxation process inviting the information gained through the first two parts to integrate through body mind and being and become available for your healing.

The way it works often seems to me like magic – and it's a magic that I have learned to trust.

A few years ago I noticed that when I combined this meditation with Feldenkrais ATMs, my healing journey accelerated, deepened, and became much clearer to me.

What is Feldenkrais?

Feldenkrais combines awareness and movement as tools for healing. Movement is fundamental to us and when we use our curiosity to examine our habits and patterns in movement and discover new ones, we can really open up to our healing process, our path to wholeness, in very practical, down to earth ways.

The kind of movements we explore with Feldenkrais are the ones we do all the time, every day – the functional ones involving our general posture in for example how we sit, how we work on a computer, how we get up or lie down or roll over, how we move to take steps, how we use our hand to chop or write, how our eyes engage in that, what a shoulder must do to let an arm reach high – and so on, the list is endless.

Perhaps this gives you a tiny glimpse of the power and the depth that this workshop makes available?

Other Tools used

Feldenkrais and Talking to the Body are the two main elements. Other tools from other awareness and movement practices, such as Chi Kung, or Latihan an authentic movement practice, or Yoga, will be combined as I feel appropriate; and we will ground the whole process by taking a couple of hours every morning to do physical activities such as cooking, gardening, cleaning and the like.

Many of us treat work as just a chore to be got over and done with so we can make the money we need to enjoy the rest of our lives.

Here, you are invited to explore a different possibility: that if you can bring a quality of awareness to yourself and into your life, whatever your job will not matter, it will no longer be a chore but simply an enjoyable part of your daily living and being.

The key is to become more and more present to yourself and that is the aim of this retreat.

by Nikhila Ludlow - August 2008

Further reading on The Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind: Body Mind Balancing, interview with Prabodhi published by Osho Times International, March 2008