Body Tales ®

www.bodytales.com 
A creative and therapeutic practice that integrates movement, voice and personal storytelling. This unique form combines elements of dance, theater and expressive arts. Developed by Olivia Corson, with Lysa Castro, and located primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Channeling

An intuitive/psychic practice through which a person connects with, and brings through the guidance of non-physical beings. Channeling is usually done verbally, with the human channel being aware of and to some degree co-creating with the guide(s) what is said.

Contact Improvisation

A form of modern dance that typically involves a rolling point of contact between movers, weight-sharing, and movement into and out of the ground. Our use of contact improvisation includes attention to the emotional body, and what comes up as allow ourselves to explore safe, non-sexual touch.

Continuum Movement

www.continuummovement.com
A typically slow and internal movement form focusing on all the fluids and tissues of the body functioning as fundamentally one undulating stream of intelligence. Developed by Emilie Conrad, with Susan Harper and others, and located primarily in the Los Angeles area.

Dyad Process

A potent partner process that typically involves sharing and witnessing, eye gazing, and breathing together.

Light Body Centers

Three energy centers brought to humanity by the light being, DaBen, to assist us in our evolution of higher consciousness. These energy centers provide access to greatly expanded states of consciousness and other dimensions.

LuminEssence

www.orindaben.com
The company created by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer to promote the teachings of Orin and DaBen.

Marshall Rosenberg

www.cnvc.org
Founder of Compassionate Communication, aka Non-Violent communication, international peace-maker, writer, and teacher. Author of numerous books, including Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life, and many CDs and DVDs.

Money of Light

A term coined by Orin and DaBen in their book Creating Money, written by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. Money of light is created when one attracts money and prosperity through aligning with one’s life purpose and contributing to the highest good of humanity. It enriches everyone involved in the interaction far beyond the actual monetary value.

Orin and DaBen

www.orindaben.com
Two light beings who have been assisting humanity with our evolution for the last 25 years. Orin and DaBen live in a dimension without time or space as we know it, and through their recorded journeys they are able to bring about significant changes in our energy fields and personalities. Orin has an extensive corpus of teachings that focus on aligning with divine will, working with various angelic and devic presences, and evolving our personalities and bodies to handle a greater capacity of light. DaBen is a master of energy who supports us to work in the energy realms and to access expanded states of consciousness. The Awakening Your Light Body basic course is the entry level for all of DaBen’s major teachings. Beyond that are many volumes of graduate courses in studies in consciousness.

Sharing and Witnessing

Al of our classes, retreats, and groups include opportunities for participants to share with a partner and often with the group with one or more witnesses attending. Participants are guided to witness one another by seeing the speaker as whole, healed, and complete already, an evolving, self-healing, and expressive human being. Holding space in this way creates an energetic pathway for the speaker to experience herself or himself in this way as well. This kind of “container” enables the speaker to reveal and explore her or his feelings and thoughts in a safe environment. The practice is not a conversation and advice is not given—we simply witness each other, bringing as much conscious awareness into the experience as possible. Sharing while being witnessed supports speakers to go deeper and let go knowing they are held by a sacred community that accepts them and sees their inherent strength. Many times just this practice brings about a powerful release and sense of connectedness. In my private sessions I also witness clients in this way in combination with a range of other practices, such as compassionate communication and metaphysical/intuitive counseling.

Somatic Practices

Practices that focus on accessing the wisdom of the body for self-understanding, healing, and growth. These practices call for softening the mind and thoughts, slowing down, and paying attention to what’s inside, and what wants to express itself that we usually do not listen to. Somatic practices that we draw on include Clarity Breathwork™, Body Tales®, Continuum Movement, and Contact Improvisation. Other related practices include Body-Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, Felendenkrais, Hakomi, and Barteniff Fundamentals.

Soul Level

The dimension of reality in which the expanded aspect of ourselves—our soul selves—exists and operates. In our understanding the soul exists outside of time and space as we know it, and is that part of us that lives through all our earth lives, incarnating in different bodies, with different but related personalities. Our souls know why we incarnated, what lessons we agreed to meet, what our gifts and talents are, and what our highest purpose is. By consciously accessing the soul level we are able to receive insights, guidance, energy, and to feel the love and acceptance of this more evolved aspect of who we are. Our task is not to leave the physical body and the earth plane, but to bring into our reality here ways of being that radiate more refined frequencies of light, including universal love, acceptance of all that is, forgiveness and bliss. In this we typically also meet deeper layers of our shadows and less evolved aspects of ourselves—our challenge is to meet and love these parts even more. Our complementary modalities at Soul Level Central have been especially selected to support the dynamic process of bringing in light and healing and evolving our shadow. In addition, accessing the soul level supports us in meeting our soul group, that is other souls with whom we have had contact over lifetimes, and who are at a similar stage of evolution to us. Meeting our soul group, even if only through psychic connection on the “inner planes,” can be very reassuring and inspiring. Accessing the soul level is a primary practice of the teachings of Orin.

Vibrational Energy Body Centers

Seven centers that are awakened in the process of awakening your Light Body. These centers lie in similar places in the physical body to that of the chakras, but are several levels closer to the soul level and source/spirit. The vibrational energy bodies—mental body, emotional body, energy body, and physical body—exist as gridworks of light that can be worked with through advanced meditation processes. Working with these subtle bodies of energy enables you to influence many aspects of your being very differently, and sometimes far more effectively, than working on your emotions, thoughts, and physical body directly.

Working with Energy

Everything is created as energy before it comes into form in physical reality. Everything we can think of exists as energy—thought is energy—even if it doesn’t have a physical form. A relationship, for example, exists as energy, and through advanced meditation practices we can find and learn to work with that relationship as energy. That is, rather than meeting with the person with whom you have a relationship, you can learn to bring light to and help heal a relationship by accessing it in the energy realms. This kind of psychic work can be particularly effective when it is not possible for the personalities to find a meeting place in regular conversation.

 
© 2007 Maggie Ostara PhD, www.soullevel.net