The Relaxation of Effort: Sunday April 15 and June 10, 2012

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The Six Servants: Embodied Resources in the Heart & Craft of Relationship

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The Relaxation of Effort: When the Body Says Yes!

Relaxation of Effort

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

Location: Yoga on 7th, 156 East 7th Avenue (at Main) Vancouver, BC
Wednesdays 2:15 – 4:30 pm

Drop in Introduction:

• Wednesday, January 25, 2012
• $25.00( includes HST)

4 Week Class

• Feb. 8 & 22 Mar. 7 & 21, 2012
• $135.0 0 (includes HST)
• Registration required.

An Inquiry in Body, Movement & Life with Penny Allport
Penny Allport has been facilitating groups and individuals for over twenty years in Yoga, Continuum Movement & Montage, perceptual inquiry, dream exploration, process oriented painting and writing and ceremony. The infinite imagination of the natural world continually informs and inspires her offerings.
Private sessions are also available at Yoga on 7th.
To Register or Inquire:
pennyallport@gmail.com
604-803-4607
Visa, Mastercard, Cheque & Cash accepted.

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!

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

www.pennyallport.com

Arms of Autumn

Arms of Autumn

Arms of Autumn

Oh the weight
of Being

caught in
Autumn’s arms

falling into
the weight of
consent

stilled in an
embrace of
“yes”

“I’ve got you”
she whispers

Earth
Mother
soothes
the flurry
of summer’s dance

leaves know this
in the only true
way of knowing

carnally

so may it be
with me.

October 2010

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• Dreaming In the Dark: Become a Dream Explorer
• Wednesday,December 7th, 2011
• 6:00PM-7:30PM
• GIBSONS & DISTRICT PUBLIC LIBRARY

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.

RSVP Gibsons & District Public Library

at 604-886-2130

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

• 5 week journey
• Tuesday evenings
• November 22 – December 20, 2011
• 6:45 – 9:00 p.m.
• Dream Lodge, Wilson Creek

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.)

5 classes – $150.00

(Two come for $250.00)

(all supplies included)

To register call 604 885 4663 or email:pennyallport@gmail.com

cash, cheque, visa & mastercard accepted

If the Angel

deigns to come

it will be because

you have convinced

her, not by tears but

by your humble resolve to be always

beginning: to be a

 beginner.

      -Rainer Maria Rilke

Honoring the Hibernative Call ~ Dreaming in the Dark

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 our lives and the collective process of transformation we share as human beings on the planet Earth at this potent moment in time.

•  Honoring the Hibernative Call ~ Dreaming in the Dark with Penny Allport
• Friday, December 2 – Sunday, December 4, 2011
• Dream Lodge
• Paradise Found, Sunshine Coast, BC
• Hours: Friday 7 – 9:30, Saturday 1:00 – 9:00 p.m., Sunday 10 – 3 p.m.
• Cost: $235.00
• Early registration: $199.00 (prior to November 2, 2011)
• Nourishing Organic meal provided on Saturday evening.

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)