I will follow this infinite path / Ricardo

      Words cannot describe my perceptive process. The ego's impulses suppress our relationship with the world. Slave's within ourselves the body develops from certain tension's.
The encounter with the body has been in my case a constant struggle and at the same time an immense pleasure.Navigating through the dark ocean that is our consciousness and descending from a profound being. There is a state of struggle that appears to be accentuated during sleep.
A bitter sweet knowledge who's consequences I cannot calculate at this moment. In the last six months I have felt fortunate to have learned a method that has given me the tools to enter the darkness of body. I convinced I will follow this infinite path, to where ever it may lead.

5 January, 2009

Overcoming hardship

Recardo seemed to be a monk practicing asceticism for these six months. His proto dream was that he was shivering on the high roof. Someone forced him to jump, he hesitated for long time and at last he jumped down desperately.
The dream was so similar with my proto dream. I was awared of that our naked lives are just shivering beyond the difference of nation, culture, age, sex, and so on. His half years process was like as this dream.  He had met so many hard edges; ego, group, healthy body, dynamics of dance, and so on. All of them are necessary process to overcome daily body as a human and get weakened body. Whenever he met a edge, he left from practice hall, and he meditated by alone. I continued to watch him without talking, but deep resonance. Because it is more important to overcome edges by oneself than to solve them by others advice, though the process must be hard for him. He learned contact improvisation, contemporary dance, and circus, until the last month his movements were still so large and rough. He noticed it, and continued meditation. At the last performance he surprised me by transforming suddenly to weakened body movements. I know the hardship to reduce dance which we learned. It took long time also for me it needed over ten years.   I was so moved to watch his whole overcoming process, after reducing all large possesions; ego, healthy body, thought, judgment, preconceived ideas, there appeared his life itself which is shivering between life and death. I hugged him strongly without word.

Ricardo, you got whole process to travel in the darkness of body. Continue it for ever. And someday come back to Himalaya, to be a facilitator to support others process. Next step is to be midwife for others. Though it is much more harder process to throw out egos than to be subbody by yourself, I believe that you can do it.

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    Subbody Butoh Workshop 2009 (Revised) In USA

8 Weeks Subbody Butoh Workshop with Kats D Fukasawa

Dates: Sunday, 10:00am - 1:00pm

February 1, 8, 15, 22

March 1, 15, 22, 29

Location: Patrick's Cabaret, 3010 Minnehaha Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55406. USA

Tuition: $200 (full payment required to register) 

Early registration is recommended.

Subbody Butoh Workshop is a group process and this workshop requires no previous dance experience.

Anyone who would like to explore their hidden creative potentials are welcome!

This workshop will focus on the essential aspects of Subbody Butoh:

·         Quiet down the daily consciousness and listen to the subtle body signals.

·         Go beyond our physical, psychological and social bounds in order to create movements that are novel and unique to the individual body.

·         Find resonance between ourselves and the environment.

·         Develop Subbody movements through opening eight channels (body feeling, movement, visual, audio, emotion, relationship, world-self image and thinking)

·         Through the resonance with other Subbodies, become Co-body.

For more information, please contact Kats D Fukasawa at kats@paneerproject.com or 612-703-7501

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1. Kats returned from India
2. Upcoming Performance
3. Subbody Butoh Workshop 2009 (Revised)
4. Now Accepting Shiatsu Appointment for 2009 

Subbody is subconscious body. In the subconscious realm, sub-consciousness and body is melting together into oneness. This world is completely different world from daily world. We need to learn how to shift from daily life to subbody life. Please learn the six steps for shifting subbody mode, and change your way of everyday life.

1. Be alone

We need to release from daily mode for becoming subbody. Daily body is bound by many binds; human relationship, social role, persona, judgment, and so on. When we are with people, we cannot release from these binds. To be alone and leave from your daily body, this is the most fundamental step for becoming subbody. Through the silence also you can listen in the deep life resonance with the others and the world.

2. Stop talking

When we talk with others, we are bound by language consciousness. Language consciousness is bound by dualism logic; good/bad, right/wrong, self/others, inside/outside, mind/body, individual/kind, and so on. Subbody doesn't have these border. It lives in non-dual and multi-dimensional world. The second step is to stop talking, then gradually we are released from daily body and mind.

3. Listen in the subtle signal

The consciousness controls us as a director of our habit, action, thinking and everything in our daily life. For becoming subbody mode, we need to shift the position of consciousness from director to listener in the darkness of body( ＝subconscious world).
To retreat the position of consciousness is the most hard step for the daily body and mind. After retreat of consciousness, you can get the subbody mode, and listen to the subtle signal from the darkness of body.

4. Taste all qualia

When we start listening into subtle signal of body, we can meet so many diverse body feeling, image, vision, and so on. I call them "qualia".
Qualia are everything what the life feels.  They are always changing and floating. Taste them deeply. Enjoy their diverse richness.

5. Become everything

When you feel interesting qualia, ride on them with whale body and mind. Become something. They may not human shape and out of humanistic imagination. Don't worry. here is no judgment of dualistic; right/wrong. Release your body as subbody which is streaming and changing shape flexiblly.

6. Resonate with everything

Our lives are always resonating with everything in the world, beyond time and space. Open your resonativity fully. Subbody is also shifting cobody. Cobody is resonating subbody. There are no border between your subbody and other's subbody. Subbody is cobody. Cobody is subbody. Congraturation! You reach the non-dual world of life. Now you can open your creativity, originality, and resonativity freely beyond all borders.

Please visit "Practice Guide" as the next step. You can learn how to condition your body and mind in various ways by yourself.

Prepare your body and mind until starting the subbody school life.