Equipping Ourselves for WIM•Patterns of Nature Exploration

When we embark on an adventure it can be useful, crucial to equip ourselves with tools to help us navigate the terrain, to access and traverse passageways, nourish and sustain our well-being. Similarly, dancing with Patterns of Nature as a pathway to Nature as our teacher and guide can be facilitated by developing tools for this exploratory self guided learning. 
Tools here are practices, something you can spend years wondering about as you do them. 

1. ‘The whole me, with the world, with no expectation of change’ practice.~ DG
2. Living or owning your questions – Resting in the question. LINK to story
3. Receiving (back body) information as distinct from problem solving or getting something right
4. Embodied Imaginal practice
5. Symbol or metaphor - tangible object/symbol for re-minding or re-connecting to a practice 

Video link for above 5 tools: LINK

1. Dimensional Luxuriating - this practice requires an instruction manual
   1. Skin sense — sensory initiation 
   2. Yum factor - following deliciousness
   3. Some continuums to explore    
      1. Quality of luxuriating: ease to gripped
      2. Initiation: central to peripheral
      3. Space: micro to cosmic
      4. Layers: cells, gut, skin, galaxy or any tissue layer in system and universe. 
      5. Energy: still/suspended to wild
   4. Giving a question to luxuriating like any pattern for example: invite expand and condense into the movement, in layers and space and….I think of the this as Imaginal Luxuriating

Video for Luxuriating: Link

1. Dynamic Range Practice (emotional range)
   1. Adjectives/adverbs: slippery, swift, breezy, roaring, delicate, stern, floppy. wayward, (poetry as resource)
   2. Nature’s processes: volcanic eruption, gentle rain, torrential rain, upheaval, flood, desert, conch shell, lizard
2. “Put the rock down, let the weight of the rock stay in the rock” practice ~ BBC