PRACTICE IS EVERYTHING
The Practice of Patterns is a school for anyone who is interested in exploring how it feels to be alive.
As a school of applied philosophy we use experience and our ability to reflect upon it as the base for how to deepen our understanding of who we are and how we can expand on our capabilities to meet this phenomenally complex process we call life.
Central to all practice is the dialogue that develops the student’s relationship to themselves as well as with the world around them. With personal guidance, tutoring and support practitioners investigate, identify and challenge the conditions and principles that determine their current habits and patterns.
This is a school where you learn how to pay attention and become friends with your body, breath and mind so that you can go on and confidently immerse yourself in your experience with excitement and curiosity for all that it has to offer.
It is in our nature not only to be alive but to truly connect with how that feels. Albeit that life is just a process, when it appears in us we can choose how to allow that process to express itself.
Through physical exercise and movement we explore how changing the condition of our vessel, i.e expanding our understanding for the capacity of our body, allows us more options to navigate and carry ourselves through space.
In stillness we can better observe the nature of our mind and how it actually works. For this to process to take place we embark on what is perhaps the most counterintuitive mission in our modern age; to not get involved with what is going on in any way at all.
The Practice of Patterns is a step back, not a step backwards, but an opportunity to stop and reflect on how many patterns you have automated in order to be more efficient in your progress to …where? Not to suggest that any of your patters are wrong, bad or unwholesome but to give you an opportunity to explore the options that are already at your hands and how much is within your grasp.
This is a school for the Self. A place where we you are invited to learn self-awareness, self-development, self-evolvement & self-realisation.
Welcome
MovementTo move is not a choice, it is an inevitable response to the circumstances that surround us. How we move depends on conditions, those within us as well as those around us…
StillnessBefore we use the mind’s ability to add to our experience there are many reasons why we would first learn to rest with what is already there…
The breathThe breath is our last line of defence when all else is out of control. Ironically if the breath had been the starting point, chances are we wouldn’t lose control in the first place…
ContemplationOur perception changes with the words we use to describe and express what we perceive, when our vocabulary expands so will our perspective…
It doesn’t matter what you do, what matters is how you do it.
At the very root, the quality of the experience we are having deeply depends on our ability to pay attention and notice what is going on. In a sense what we do isn’t as important as how we engage with it.
All our practice revolves in one way or other around this principle; expanding and deepening our connection to awareness, in order for us to better reflect, take stock of and appreciate what an amazing process we are a part of.
WHAT IS OFFERED
– 1:1 SUPPORT –
Explore your patterns and deepen your practice with personalised plans & individualised coaching to support your path and goals. Minimum period for Online support is 3 months. Limited availability.
– Online Material –
Practice at your own pace by ordering one of our online courses & workshops or explore the archives of discourses, presentations and other material made available to the public.
– OFFLINE WORKSHOPS –
Check out the next opportunity to come practice with us in person at one of our signature workshops or retreats taking place somewhere around the world where we make joyful immersions into self exploration.
-ONLINE EVENTS –
Workshops and Courses broadcasted Live
What we do and what we don't
Read more about what we do and what don’t before you apply to join the school.
A Teacher
A teacher is someone or something that acts as the catalyst that in one way or other will spark the synergetic process that happens when potential turns into capacity and/or ignorance is replaced by knowledge. In-person tutoring can be helpful and a beautiful process when we need support, guidance and companionship on our exploration through that which can only be known through experience.
As a teacher in the Practice of Patterns, CJ meets students where they are at and that is from where you will work together. What you learn is up to you, ho you choose to build on what you learn and where you go, is up to you.
