The Institute of Core Energetics
 
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Issue: #6
November/2015

 

 

 

In This Issue

New York Institute of Core Energetics Events


The Annual Core Energetics Scholarship AUCTION

Friday November 20th
6.30pm to 10.30 pm
All proceeds go to support the scholarship fund
- Door Prizes
- Nibbles & Drinks

150 West 28th St.
RSVP

 

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Free Friday Nights

(ON SUNDAY) 

November 22nd, 2015

with Ana Konopko 

2:00-4 PM

 150 West 28th St

Ste 1803

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 Art From the Heart

A silent auction in support of the NYICE Scholarship Fund

 

 

@ Wisdom House

Training weekend

Dec 1st & 3rd

Click here for flyer

 

 

 

  
 Ongoing Events 

Deep Dive Process Group for Core Women
with Kate Holt
Commencing 7/10
Link for more info
Contact Kate
Ph (856) 261 4900


Johnathan Godfrey
RACE Group
Monday 7=9pm
Philadelphia area
Ph:323 309 8200


Skype Supervision Group
with Lisa Loustanau
Link for more details
Ph (203) 852-1561
  
  
The Art of Practice
Twice Monthly
Mondays
7:00PM to 9:00PM
Sam Cagnina
Cynthia Kagoshima
  
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Office Space for Rent
 
Available Monday eve and weekends for private sessions or groups (10 pple max). Also available for rent by the hour. 

My office in Greenwich is available for rent by the hour or by block of time for private sessions.

The address in NY : 1239 Broadway Suite 1003A New York, NY
and Greenwich:  522 East Putnam Avenue # 8A Greenwich, CT.
Contact Karin Knoblich
(212) 400-1446
 
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Great Space Wed & Fri
 
150 West 28th St
Rental 
Fridays 1-9
 
 
"Happiness is the consciousness of growth" 
                                                       J.Pierrakos 
Dear Community,
Autumn is here. Our training year has just begun and from what I hear, came off to a great start! This edition we share with you some contributions from our alumni (see Body and Beauty, Corevolution) as well as introduce some new regular columns (Q & A with Alumni and Core Concept of the month).
I also want to welcome aboard the talented Aimee Falchuk to the Bataka Team. Aimee heads Core Boston and is a passionate advocate for Core. We hope you enjoy our collaborative efforts! Wishing you a wonderful Xmas and holiday season,  
With love,

Jessica Nygren
Aimee Falchuk
 
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Body and Beauty
Lubna Khalid, CCEP
I have personally struggled with beauty image much of my life.  I always looked different than the ideal beauty image. Far from blue-eyed and blond-haired, my Pakistani looks never fit what the media portrayed as the ideal image. And in middle school, the popular girl, Melissa, was exactly the opposite of me. So I dealt with incessant teasing about my hairy legs and brown skin color.

This led to an extreme amount of insecurity which negatively affected my self-esteem and what I thought about who I was. It took me years (and lots of therapy> thanks Core!) to get to a place where I can stand in the power and beauty of who I am inside and out. Later in life, my experience as a fashion model and as the owner of a beauty line about real multicultural beauty (Real Cosmetics) further showed me how body image is so deeply tied into how people feel about themselves. 

The average model that is portrayed in fashion is a size 2, while the average American woman is a size 12.  Plastic surgery rates are up 104% since 2000 with people getting everything altered from noses to eyelids, hands to feet, butts to breasts. The latest craze is with young male entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who are resorting to plastic surgery so that they look younger to investors who want to invest only in startups run by 20-somethings. 
 
What does all this mean for us as we work with our clients?    As I talk to clients about how they feel about their own bodies and beauty, most are not satisfied. They want to change many things or wish they looked like some celebrity or model. They feel they don't measure up and therefore it limits them in their daily lives. Many have trouble being vulnerable in intimate relationships, having pleasure in sexual relations and in feeling powerful in the workplace.By working with these images and digging deeper with clients on how they feel and think about their bodies and beauty on an external level, we open up an opportunity for them to love their bodies, feel the truth of who they are and live fuller lives.

Lubna Khalid is Co-Founder of The Body Workshop together with Aimee Falchuk, a Core Energetics workshop about body image and how it affects out lives. Website: http://www.thebody-workshop.com.  Lubna also has a private Core Energetics practice in New York City.
Core Concept of the  Month: Images
Aimee Falchuk

"Every personality forms certain impressions due to environmental influences. These impressions usually take the form of conclusions about life. These conclusions are often wrong and yet they mold our life."- Pathwork

In Core we call these conclusions, IMAGES, which if not brought to light can cause all sorts of havoc in our lives and the lives of our clients.
I recently uncovered one of my own images. The belief was that "If I spoke my truth to another they would leave." As I explored the etiology of this image, I could recall multiple memories from childhood in which I saw something in my family and chose to say something. I could recall what happened when I spoke up. I would often be told I was causing trouble or I would have the tables turned on me. My reality was often questioned. I felt totally abandoned by the people I needed most.

The dynamic of speaking up/abandonment formed a conclusion (an image) that to speak up meant losing the other. Pulling the thread a bit more I uncovered another image, which was that this other person staying was necessary for my survival and self- worth. The image here was  that my worthiness, my existence could only be validated by them. As a result of this conclusion, I made a decision, albeit unconsciously, to give over my own truth for the sake of theirs. If anyone was going to leave the relationship in order for it to work, it was going to be me.  You can the imagine the impact of such a decision.

We learn over the course of our training at the Institute the importance of uncovering our images. The above example highlights why. Images are often erroneous and limiting. Like a contracted muscle, they restrict our ability to move in life. Thus, the more we can uncover our images, explore their impact and challenge their veracity, the more mental, physical and energetic space we have to fully live in truth and flow.
Alumni Q & A 
Aimee  Falchuk 
 

We caught up with the 2015 graduating Core class and asked them to answer the following question:

 

"What matters to you about this work?"

 

Here's what they had to say:

 

Manon: "Confidence to be myself, vulnerable without a mask.."

 

Craig: "What matters to me is how I am called to be more loving, open and vulnerable. I am to listen to that still small voice inside that informs me what I am supposed to do with my life."

 

Michael: "Learning to allow feelings and not avoid them out of fear. Finding compassion and love for myself and others. Heart. The prospect of authenticity."

 

Lubna: I feel this work has taken me deeper into my true self. My pain, my joy, my passion. My life."

 

Hannah: "Truth. Commitment to uncovering the truth. Permission to have all of the many parts of ourselves and that they are all deliciously divine. Witnessing and being witnessed. Relationship.

 

Anna:"The return to myself, my authentic self, my core. I can then go there with the other, to meet them in their authentic self. It is in this depth that feeds and nourishes my soul, and the others. Anything and everything is possible from this place."

 

Aimee: "Its living life as an adventure. Like pioneers willing to risk the comforts of what is already known, we go out in search of what isn't. Despite the fear, we know there is more. So off we go. Together and alone. That's pretty cool."  

 

Andy: "My body has wisdom, flow and pleasure. My body has my answers. no risk, no reward. Breathe. I like connection. I have needs. I am not broken. I am alive in my truth. I can feel more than I think. My emotions, needs and desires will create my life if I am willing to feel, listen and follow. there is no limit."

Corevolution
Sherri Brown &
Jim Johnston
 What can happen when you completely follow your
attraction and your impulse, even if it's a journey into the unknown? For Jim and Sherri two NYC Core Practitioners, that is how Corevolution, a 5 weekend personal transformation program developed.

After noticing each other during the training and having a clear pull towards what we saw in the other, we came to discover a resonance in our philosophy in life and in how we held the work It wasn't long after, that we decided to co-create a program in NY City. Once we started brainstorming, we were bursting with ideas and excitement about what we wanted to bring to people.  In addition to the program itself, we wanted to make a space for a larger community and introduce people to our work and the work of others, both in Core and other modalities. It was out of this eros that our free Saturday community nights,  a unique component of Corevolution grew (see Bataka events listing).  We wanted to build a vibrant, diverse, conscious, creative community that welcomes everybody.

It is the hybrid of our complimentary training in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics that helps to create a dynamic atmosphere where true growth can occur. Not surprisingly  there are so many people out there wanting to be more alive, more in connection, more authentic and self expressed. We walk away from our weekends feeling so much hope that there are so many gifted people out there who are really wanting to lift the planet up. t's been an amazing journey and we are constantly reminded that the students are so often the teachers.

We want to thank Patricia Dalen and Brian Cameron as well as Jonathan Godfrey and Jessica Nygren who bring their wisdom and gifts to enrich the program and the community.
Words from Warren
Executive Director Warren Moe
Here's to new beginnings
They say spring is a time of rebirth, but there is something about the crisp fall air that acts as a charge in awakening a longing to create.
I envision this year as being one of sustainability and expansion for the Institute and this amazing work we call Core Energetics. To sustain ourselves as a modality and an Institute we must continue to develop
and implement systems to ensure the academic rigor of our training is met with user friendly tools and processes for both faculty and students.

The implementation of the learning management system is one such tool.
Our administrators have been hard at work this summer rolling this program out and we look forward to sharing it with you. Expansion is abundant at the Institute and for Core Energetics. We start the new school year with an incoming Core 1 class of over 20 students.
Core is also claiming itself in places like Greece and Poland, graduates
are building innovative ways to bring Core to a variety of audiences
and more of us are bringing Core to light through social media,
public speaking and academic writing. To build and sustain and build again is a continuous process of envisioning, creating/doing, receiving/being and resting.

Like the four seasons each part of the process comes with its own kind of energy. As we enter into the fall season and a new Core year at the Institute I invite each of you individually and collectively as a community
to step deeper and fully into where you/we are in this continuous process.
I look forward to the journey ahead.
We envision this newsletter as an opportunity to enter into dialogue with our community, each other and invite you to take part. We want to hear your news, views, art, articles, space rentals, workshops, ideas and more!  Please send us your articles in word format, 300 words or less.
  
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With Love, 
The Editorial Team
 
Jessica Nygren
Aimee Falchuk