Mobile Monastery Chautauqua
A spiritual community on wheels
Here's what you'll find at our events:
Chanting
Connect with the rhythms of sacred songs while singing in harmony together
Intimacy
Drop into communication, touch, deep listening, and the joy of reciprocity
Dharma Talks
Learn tools for how to walk the spiritual path in the modern world
MASSAGE
Deepen your connection with your body through the healing power of touch
EMBODIMENT
(contact improvisation, movement meditation, Ecstatic Dance)
Discover the joy and spontaneity of improv movement
Leadership Training
Integrate the qualities of Wisdom, Love, and Power to become a trustworthy leader
HOW TO BECOME A TRUSTWORTHY LEADER
with Autumn Turley
Everything we do, say, feel, and even think has an impact. At the Monastic Academy, we train under the ethos that the integration of wisdom, love, and power cultivates trustworthiness. This workshop explores how to integrate these qualities into every aspect of our lives in order to become trustworthy leaders.
Intimacy: Gateway to Wholeness
with Autumn Turley
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A true “yes” comes from the practiced ability to say “no”. A true “yes” lets people come closer in all intimate contexts; friends, family, romance, business, and so much more. A true “yes” to intimacy allows us to come closer to ourselves. Concepts like beauty, love, and divinity transition into visceral, physical, fulfilling experiences. The subject of this course is active trust.
In this workshop we will be exploring communication, touch, positive space, and the joy of reciprocity.
Coming home to our Bodies
with Autumn Turley
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How can we experience our bodies as integrated systems? What can our physical bodies teach us about our emotions and our minds? This talk and meditation will guide us through a journey of how to inhabit our bodies with awareness.
Contacting the Etheric Body
with Autumn Turley
This Contact Improvisation workshop leads us through an exploration of dancing in contact with each other while connecting with the aura before connecting with the physical body. How can we dance through our physical bodies and into this energetic space, weaving this energy back into our bodies? How can we use this new sensitivity to deepen our physical connection?
This class will offer tools for feeling our chi and using this internal energy to inspire our movement. We will also learn tools for recognizing when we have taken on other people’s energies and clearing those energies out of our field.
Circling
with Autumn Turley
and Xuramitra (Peter) Park
Circling is a practice of present-moment meditation and authentic communication with other humans. It develops our ability to notice what is true for us in the moment, express it, and be with others as they do the same. The format is massively open-ended but is rooted in sharing the personal and embodied experience of being here and now. What’s it like to be here, right now? What are you seeing, hearing, or feeling? What stories are you making? Circling makes the claim that by responsibly and sincerely embodying and expressing what is true for us in relationship with others, more clarity, love, and power will come of it.
MAPLE and the Mind that is Making AI
with Gigen (Omar) Obregon
Moment by moment, we let screens and ads control us. What are the results? More food and shelter, yet less wisdom and love. More computers and faster shipping, yet less reverence. How is it possible that we live in a time when we can cross the oceans in a day, but are more segregated than ever? If we don't act right now then we may destroy all life on the planet.
How do we respond to artificial intelligence? How do we respond to a tool that is now teaching our children? Simple: wisdom and compassion. At the monastic academy we learn to cultivate wisdom and compassion through daily efforts. We believe that through these efforts we can tackle this AI crisis. We do not assume that AI is innately evil, but that those who make it and use it are currently stuck in an evil mind, and are therefore making it in evil ways.
In these talks we will discuss how we choose who to hand our future to, and how we can choose a future where the mind that is making AI is reverent, honorable, loving, and wise.