NO FORM
A practice of standing meditation or ‘vertical rest’ which marks the beginning and completion of each ritual and is the cornerstone of this modality. It aims to serve three important functions.
- To loosen the grip of intellectual preconceptions, directives, assumptions and definitions.
- To engage and cultivate internal receptivity towards tapping into the currents and impulses of one’s own unique internal landscape.
- To discharge and release energies after engagement, to reengage with the present time, and to reset internal energetic states for the next directive.
At the beginning of each ritual structure, No Form is in place to relax into profound internal receptivity, while during the ritual itself one is moving through a physically active meditative state. At the conclusion of the ritual, No Form serves as a way to ‘break trance’ and dissolve any previous attachments to a source or experience.
THE PHYSICAL STANCE
Posture and balance play a key role in discovering one’s own vertical resting state. This standing meditation requires minimal effort which is supported through a conscious connection to the breath and by making a few internal adjustments.
- Deepen connection to self by withdrawing attention from the external environment
- Relax the desire to control the outcome of the experience
- Relax the desire to control
- Find your comfort in the void and anchor in to ‘being nothing’
Be nothing.
CHARGING NO FORM
After entering the No Form state, a source is chosen for the group. For example, the energy of the Earth, an energy that already exists within us at varying states of accessibility. The objective is to locate your internal contact point with this element and fill the No Form state without controlling or directing this energy. Simply allowing the source to direct and decide the outcome of your movement, gestures and vocalizations.
The deeper your receptivity in No Form, the deeper your engagement will be with the sources engaged. This initial standing posture and subsequent movement into source is the ‘charging’ function of NoForm, behaving as a trance-induction device which expands and alters consciousness from one state to another.
DISCHARGING NO FORM
After moving through the ritual sources and energies engaged within, we return to No Form to release experiences, attachments and identifications with the source at play.. AKA Let it GO. NoForm at this time functions as a trance-dispersion device, discharging the experiences and epiphanies that may have been uncovered by tapping into uncharted areas of the psyche. From this meditative state we are able to restore internal receptivity, minimize any ego inflation and return to being nothing (but ourselves).
CHARGING AND DISCHARGING in NOFORM is essential in this process and can only occur by taking time before and after each ritual pass to ensure clarity of experience, safety within the nervous system, and time for the body to reset and categorize changes.
Persistence of Practice
“First, we encounter the fertile Void of potential energy. Then come the many reactions and resistances to this Void experience. With persistence, a friendlier relationship with the Void can ensue until (at some unpredictable juncture) all separation between self and Void dissolves leaving an ineffable experience of being the Void itself — the potential stage where all forms emerge and are born and dissolve in perpetua.
There is nothing to A Void.”