The way to do is to be

"There is no need to run outside for better seeing.

Nor to peer from your window...rather abide at the centre of your being....

Search your heart and see.....the way to do is to be." - Lao Tze

Everything comes from Being. Synonyms for Being expressed in other words, are: Essence, existence, truth, vital principle, spirit, life, nature. Whatever I produce issues from my being. All of my doings are predicated on my being. My actions are manifestations of being. Beings is the constant in the process of life itself. Doing is an accomplishment of Being. 'The way to do is to be' points me homeward in my every activity, my every deed, for what i intend to bring about must first be grounded in my being. This is so no matter what arena of my humanity I am operating in at any given moment. eg. if I am to achieve a powerful action in the treatment room I must stand in my own life present to the truth of my life. The 'doing' of treatment becomes a response to the request of the patient for guidance in a way of life harmonious to being whole, to being Home in herself. In this context of being, in the standing in the veracity of nature, doing is spontaneous, effortless. My actions correlate freely and naturally with my patient as we dive-deep into the habitat of our being, of what could be called the well of being.

What am I doing when I am doing acupuncture? Who am I being in the doing? Into what am I putting the needle? Into nothing, no thing, into space, an opening, called human being? Are we all, as Rilke says, 'Angels' beings in whom? the transformation of the visible into the invisible which we are accomplishing already appears in its completion.

I 'be' in life. I 'do' in life. Life is, at the least a paradox. It is unspeakable. Concepts will not bear it. It is our residence. Truth is at the heart of it. It 'is' home....Life is 'home' we dwell in life. All of the great questions in human history live here. We are arriving where we are and being home in the face of all circumstances. In the face of death, of life, of the intersections of survival and creation. Being is home. From my being comes my doing simply and easily, just in the process of life itself - Source, Essence, eternally present, issuing forth continuously...."

Dianne M Connelly - 'All sickness is Home Sickness'

Journal

KING MAKING AND THE INNER PATRIARCH

We are at any one time a mostly unconscious ecosystem of variable energetics and changing internal climates. My consultation room gives space for the expression, sometimes incarnation, often letting go with kindness and thanks to those energetics that have previously been driving us or are waiting to be birthed. Hindu spirituality talks of the true self or the higher self but to be honest there is no hierarchy - we are all colonies of self, selves and disparate forgotten parts that need re-membering literally back to our greater wholeness.

LET YOUR DESERT BLOOM

Happy Summer Solstice to all you beauties! A time of the planet tilting those of us in the North...

Time to rewire and rev up your inner witch

Women who dream of flying are connecting back to their innate desire to be free and connected to their birthright of the numinous. Supernatural flying women date back from prehistoric times when people postulated the radical divide between earth and sky. We created myths and rituals to bridge this separation, incense and fire to create smoke to connect the earth to the heavens and evoke spirit. Women have always flown to take refuge from the concretised captivity of earth's gravity and the mental plane that, when overly lived in, constrains and constricts.

The Ethereal News: CULTIVATING EROS - 'IT FEELS RIGHT TO ME'

“Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase, "It feels right to me," acknowledges the strengt...

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against Reality - Lewis Caroll

Did you know that In our heavens we mostly have to relate to masculine archetypes? Think of...

Cultivating our inner tribe

Governments and institutions need to come together to find common ground, to collaborate, to understand and empathise with, whether that's the government departments of your body, mind, heart, spirit and soul or external governments in the world right now....we need a new song for March....crank up some Sister Sledge and get kitchen dancing with your tribe....love of your inner world will save the day:

Learn + enjoy the process of becoming

'Please hold me during this time. My transition, my awakening is precious and sacred. Please move me slowly and lovingly into newness and allow me to stretch my wings and feel into new spaces within me without judgment or fear.'

The Good, the Bad, and the Wild

A client came to me saying she had a dream where her best friend was flirting with her boyfriend in a very provocative way and as she watched the scene unfold she felt strangely voyeuristic to it and turned on. And the more her man was turned on the greater she felt it amplified in her too. We talked about her own sex life, what she liked/didn't, whether she initiated, role played etc.

Couples Work

But the discord is where the magic is, it’s where the friction is saying ‘notice this’, ‘deal with this’ ‘bring it to the forefront for your combined and individual growth.

The importance of dreaming

Here's a beautiful rounded example of what we mean in this world of 'working on ourselves' or doi...

Helping women to help themselves

Opening to Pandora's box

The spinning Wheel of Life and how to navigate it's highs and lows

useful stuff we don't learn at school We often think we are on a straight line trajectory - birth...

Some Information about Jane

Jane Kersel is recognised as one of the most distinguished embodied movement, yoga and consciousness teacher in London. She is a teacher’s teacher and was a much loved teacher at The Life Centre, Yoga Campus, The Bio-medical Trust + Triyoga (where she trail-blazed and invented their Hot yoga offering and the design of their studios). Now she works in her new vessel the Ethereal Gym teaching consciousness through the visceral body and private one to one and couples consultations sharing jungian analysis techniques and healing modalities.

My Philosophy and intention for all who study with me

to see life as a spiritual investment as much a material one - invest in love, harmony, inspiration, creativity, beauty
to commit to our own happiness - not waiting for someone else to sort things for us
to create rapture - channeling venus energy - to live as the dream of the lover and mystic
to let go of the patriarchal model and ask for the dream

Aphrodite

At that moment, the door to my studio opened as if a gust of wind had gotten behind it (this so often happens when working with spirit).

We both smiled, it was as if her lover had walked into the room there and then, his energy had arrived.

Move

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions.....

Being Mothered

But what if you, being a swan, had to pretend you were a mouse?...

Creating space

It’s important in our work together that we never over-ride these ‘primary’ parts - the parts of us that are out there in the world functioning and getting things done. However, without the understanding and integration of both of these polarities - the doing with the being, the feeling with the thinking etc

A useful perspective

360 degree health - mental, physical, emotional, physiological, spiritual, energetic To discove...

creating inner space

To observe and do shadow work, we need the experience of being centered in a higher self. That is why our spiritual practice is so pivotal. Without space inside our minds to observe forbidden feelings and behaviors, they take over. When they do, we feel controlled and overshadowed by them.