Yoga at our Milton Yoga Studio has sold out even more quickly this time. Sorry if you missed out. The current theme is ‘STRETCH” and sold out by Friday. If you would like to attend a yoga event, why not join in the Mega-workshop on Saturday 17 April 2010?

Yoga and breathing, meditations, postures, placement, how to use yoga and much more. We have discounted this down from $170 to just $99 10am –3pm. You will have plenty of opportunity to try,  ask questions and really go indepth. This is geared to beginners and those who are more advanced and want to learn more – you will gain a different learning from it.

Yoga Teacher Trainers – this forms part of Module 14. Ask us more about our specific Yoga Teacher Training.

yoga@worklifebalance1.com ,

(07) 3369 7404, 0410 570 441

Our Yoga Studio at Milton has a special offer until Sunday 5 July. If you can get to the Studio before we close, you can have a 1 hour private consultation as part of your flexibility program. This is open to all attendees – but at this late stage – there are only a couple of appointments left!

Amazing flexibility in 3 week program!

For all enquiries, or to pay your spot and receive your goals sheet and induction session for flexibility, contact us at

 

yoga@worklifebalance1.com or, (07)3369 7404.

Phillip Gordon will take you through the Hermetic Seven Principles as a small group, or individually. These Seven Principles cover every possibility that life can throw at you, and you can use them as a framework around you as you seek direction. If you seek a spiritual life, or if you want to live at a deep intuitive level, these Seven Questions and the Answers they provide, are your essential tool.

Contact Phillip at the WorkLifeBalance Consultancy on (07) 3369 7404, or phone 0415 100 223.

Email your questions/ bookings to info@worklifebalance1.com .

 Hello, it is Susan Wanmer here writing on Phillip’s blog!         

I so have enjoyed consciously noticing the forces at play, even in creating and setting up The Road To Joy seminar.  Even putting ‘The Road To Joy’ together has been a journey of personal transformation.  An intimate knowledge of JOY, has been the road we have stood on for everyday decisions like creating and distributing the flyer, letting people know about the seminar, our two egos battling for importance against each other (you all know that everyone’s ego battles to feel significant – don’t you?!).

Physical decisions like how long to work for, tiredness, when and what to eat if we have a long meeting. Creative decisions like the initial brain-storming and mindmapping when I approached Phillip with a need I saw in my clients, and others that I spoke with. Every aspect of every interaction sits within the effects of the principles.

 We had a couple of days, where neither of us were working or communicating well. That, in turn affected our ability to be dynamic in our work on this project. I wish you could have been flies on the wall to watch. As we talked with confidence to our clients about ‘The Road To Joy’, neither of us felt any joy at all.  Exhaustion, anger, frustration, bleakness, dissillusioned would have summed it up better (is it ok to be as frank as that, or do I need to pretend that practitioners lives are perfect?!).

As we sank to the bottom of the murky waters as it were, where did my joy come from? From trust in immutable laws, that things would change. Not only that, but I could actively participate in the change, and predict the outcome. And sure enough the change came. Because we live these principles both personally and professionally, the turnaround was 24 hours and the JOY was enormous–a new level. This is not about thinking positively, orbeing ‘happy’. This is about sitting confidently in the middle of forces greater than self, bringing people- work contacts, intimate relationships, acquaintances– in to your life of similar depth and understanding, and enjoying the ride!

Whether you choose to consciously work with them, or not is irrelevant. The fact is they exist – and those of you who attend The Road To Joy seminar 12 July–will get an in-depth understanding of them.  They are the univeral laws of nature – and similarly to gravity–you could say ‘I don’t believe it’, or ‘I don’t care’ – but ignore gravity and its effects and see what happens.   The universe hangs together in some orderly fashion. Get the map Saturday 12 July Milton, Brisbane!

ph 3369 7404.  info@worklifebalance1.com                                                            

 What is the stuff of life?  Any answer is going to have to be all encompassing isn’t it, inclusive of every possible possibility, and I don’t know if that is at all possible.  I am interested by the phenomena of the human arts becoming sciences.  From sociology to psychology, anthropology to mythology.  We have put ourselves into a position where we need to prove anything and everything unswervingly from a position of objective reality.  Whose objective reality I wonder.   The age of reason has taken us out of life and in to the mechanics of it.  We have created a substitution to our superstitions of bygone eras as rigid as the theologies we wanted to escape from. 

So we understand that e=mc2, and that all matter is compiled of mainly space mixed up with subatomic particles.  What I want to know is what moves the whole show.  I see title after title expounding the theory of no God.  I see sociology proving that the human condition comes from everything that happens upon everything that happens.  Psychology and psychiatry reach for an ability to fix everyone as though they are broken and pop them nice and tidy back in to normal society, well adjusted and contributing.  

Then the new age of spiritual teachings pits one idea against the next: magic against logic, soul against ego, God against Goddess.  What are we doing to ourselves?  What is the stuff of life that all of these variant ideas and forms are trying to ply their trade in?   What is the common denominator in all this?  It is us the human being perhaps.  We are the great Mystery that we are trying to unravel.  The idea it seems to me all of these sciences are engaged in is how does life become, and support itself– as life.  What underpins it all, and what is it as a medium that we inhabit?

I do hope that The Mystery remains just that.  Where are the most fantastic leaps being taken?  What I propose is this.  It is our consciousness that asks the question, so perhaps that is the stuff we seek. 

Phillip C Gordon   Brisbane 2008

 I love music. I am not restricted by any particular genre, I love classical, jazz, hip hop, rock trance and dance to name but a few of the avenues for my soul to get tumbling with.  What is it about music that makes me so deeply moved?  Why do I cry when listening to an opera and swing in silent content while the tension of a fine blues ictus stretches me?   Because music touches me, it touches me deep.

Music can transform a mood or set a scene that defines an event.  It is a language beyond words.  I am not going to get in to a rave about the movement of energy or the understanding of vibration and if you pluck this note it will do this to one, and if you pluck it with this tension it will do this to you even though it is the same note.  I said I wasn’t going to do a rave and there I go and do one. 

These are but a few contributing areas one could discuss at great length as to what is going on while I am being transported by the sweet loud or raucous timbres.  However I would like to share this simple and wonderfully pleasing thought. I don’t care why it moves me so. It is simply that it brings me great pleasure that I will continue to listen and dance and do all sorts of things to music, for it is the pleasure that I seek. The deep pleasure as I lie in a steaming hot bath listening to the second movement of any of Beethoven’s symphonies.  The deep joy from any contribution to my life is what I seek.

To live from soul, to walk along the road even when exhausted, even when paralysed with utter bliss, to be touched deeply by the mere matter of existing. Music is but one of the many wonderful gifts that the human being has created to express the sweet pleasure and pain of life. To live with it all as it moves through and around you. That for me is joy. And being on that road is to walk on and on toward nowhere but the road. Phillip C Gordon Brisbane 2008.  Does music move your soul?

For many years I worked as an actor. I say worked for two reasons.

Firstly it was my profession, how I earned my money and what I occupied my time with. Devoting my thoughts and creativity toward the discovery of ways to improve upon my craft, in order to increase the possibility of getting work and to foster in my self a certain eye and skill that I could employ as a conveyor of the truth.  This latter explanation is what I wish to focus on, to convey the truth.  Many think that being a successful actor mans being able to lie well, to create false images and perform well, to entertain.  What that gives you is an entertainer. 

An actor is in constant pursuance of the truth. For it is the truth which one seeks in order to lift a character off the page and on to the stage or screen so that what an audience sees is something of them reflected back.  To reveal something of humanity, of our common themes, across all race and creed, to look into a mirror as it were and take heart in the sameness.  Or perhaps observing some aspect of life that appears different, yet on closer inspection, shudders or humours one in to a realization beyond words or science, to bring a pause and reflection of the awe of being alive, and finding a deeper and more constant reality.

Even though I am not at this stage of my life engaged in that most wondrous of art-forms, it is clear to me that the same experience is what I want from life, and after working with many people over the last ten years as a facilitator in Personal Transformation, that it is what others seek. To live a life full and rich and alive, a life that lifts out of the rhythms that surrounds us and become truly revelatory and deeply meaningful.

What gives an actor this ability is a craft. Most people stumble though life holding on to broken beliefs in the hope that one day it will all come together. Like any artist, when we have a craft in our hands we can engage life with something that will keep us focused, yet allow us to tip over into the wonderful world of uncertainty and find a consistency. Life becomes art. We become the artist and the work…..

Phillip C Gordon     Brisbane 2008

The ‘Road To Joy’ one-day seminar is offered to you on July 12, 2008. It will be a spiritual, mental, and ethical makeover for you! Rather than run it as a course over several weeks, we have decided to offer it as an intensive Saturday seminar, with facilitator Phillip C Gordon. If you have ever wondered how to move forward in your life: be it physically, emotionally, spiritually, then this is THE seminar for you to construct your framework of beliefs with integrity! Contact us on (07) 3369 7404 , or enquiries for further information.

This is a comment to Ian Skippen (triple M). Skip was listening to an interview between Sami Lucas and our Director, Susan Wanmer demonstrating some Yoga with Dogs. Over the background noises you could hear Susan’s calm tone asking Mookie to ‘balance’, repeating the word over and over. Skip, confounded by the whole concept of doing yoga with your dog said something like “I think this woman is thinking about her bank balance!” A very funny take on a serious topic within stress management. Why don’t you bring Charlie down for a session?

 Warm regards and ten points for your humour! Susan Wanmer, Director, WorkLifeBalance, Milton.

The Sunshine Team had Mondayitis today–and it was Tuesday! And yet there was a marvellous opportunity for true Yoga today. Perhaps the rush of Christmastime had jarred the recruits and kept them in their more external focus. The most important aspect to take out of today’s training was to take on the mind as an observer. New postures can bring up emotions. In yoga that is seen as valuable as it gives the yogi an opportunity to deal with those emotions in a controlled environment. Common responses are to become frustrated, upset, defensive, or angry. The beauty of Yoga Bootcamp is that you can roll through those reactions, guided by the Yamas and Niyamas.

When your Bootcamp Sergeant suggests you could go further, do differently, lift higher, move the belly button etc, it is to send you inside yourself. Your response to take you mind back in to your nervous system (which in turn controls your muscles) and wonder and ponder “how could this be?, how could this happen? how could this be achieved”. It is a wonder, a ponder, a silent and still questioning…creating a space from which the answer will come. And the answer will come back through the body–not through the intellect. You wonder, “How could I possibly lift higher?”. You wait. Response AHA! Suddenly the muscles find a little more stretch, a little more strength. That, my dear recruits and readers is the true mind-body connection.