RECAPITULATION

What is recapitulation? What are the benefits of practising it? Does it have any relevancy in the 21st century? These are amongst the questions we get asked when we introduce people to this practice.

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The recapitulation is a technique discovered by the sorcerers of ancient Mexico, to view and relive all the experiences of their lives, to achieve two transformational and pragmatic goals.

Firstly, to become detached and light about their lives, so that they would not lose their individual awareness at death and secondly, to gain perceptual fluidity.

These men saw that at death a force that had lent awareness retrieved it and that men lost their individual awareness in the process. They also saw that this force didn't require the life force of the individual, but his life experience. In man these two had become so entwined that by default man lost both. 

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By the practice of the recapitulation these sorcerers were able to separate the two (life force Vs life experience) and as it were, offer to this force a facsimile of their life experience whilst retaining their life force and awareness. 

The technique used was simplicity itself. A list was made of all the people in their lives and the interactions with them. 

Taking the most recent of incidents, a breath is employed that fans the head from side to side. It is a smooth and gentle breath, inhaling from one shoulder to the other as the head turns, with an intent to scan the experience and recall our energy caught in the scene. Then fanning the other way with an exhalation and letting go of all the energy that was mixed in the interaction. 

Breath was considered a magical element in this process that fulfilled their intent to return this force what it required.
Carlos Castaneda who introduced this technique said 27 generations had followed this technique and had been transformed at death into a spirit being. The reaction of his students was that though the rewards seemed great, this task was too laborious and unwieldy and near impossible to execute.

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His reply was that if they felt they were unable to do a perfect recapitulation then they should do a shitty one. Those that attempted this practice found immediate and accumulative benefit.

An immediate realisation was the repetitive habitual way they lived their lives that robbed them of the immediacy it had once had, giving them a new-found zest for life. The recapitulation opened a pragmatic way of thinking and a more strategic approach to living life. Old habits disappeared and seemed irrelevant.

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Energy levels increased and chronic patterns of thought that resulted in mental and physical ailments and pain, gave way to increased health. New perspectives and possibilities opened up. Many practitioners started new courses of study, work and hobbies.
Ena and Gammadian have used this practice to great effect in their lives. The retreat will go deeper into all the mechanics of the practice.  

Ena and Gammadian will guide you in simple movement sequences to gather energy for the recapitulation and then take you step by step through the process of reclaiming your energy from your life experiences.
Modern students of this practice have worked out efficient and effective ways of tackling this process. These techniques will be available to you. 

We will engage with those aspects of your life that are relevant to you and your concerns, family, relationships, work and prosperity etc. 

All attendees will be individually tutored in a flexible program to deal with specific issues and be assigned individual movements conducive to their development.

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A week's retreat will not only restore your vitality and well-being but will give you simple practices to use in your daily life. Towards the end of the retreat we will look at ways of applying your new-found energy and perspective, allowing you to find specific steps to re-dream and redirect your life.

Each day we will enter into meditative silence together. We have found that throughout the week even novices at meditation are able to easily relax into a deep harmony with themselves. 

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Wouldn't you love to step out of your life for a week and return to it empowered with energy and pragmatic tools to navigate your life and live it how you'd like to? 
Even a partial review of your life will show you a bigger picture, help you let go and both immerse yourself in the now and look forward with a clearer vision.

For me in these retreats I find freshness, verve, a new commitment and focus to those aspects of my life I would love to expand and enhance. 
Long standing perceived obstacles seem to melt away and give me the freedom to act. I become less careless and more carefree about my life.

We invite you to share in this retreat and deepen your experience of who you are and how you want to live. 

Rishikesh is a beautiful place, nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas beside the river Ganges. It is highly conducive to this kind of activity and has supported it for millennia. 

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“To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.”
                               Carlos Castaneda

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We invite you to our next recapitulation retreat in India, a week from October 1st.

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