Subject: 6BE Practice Group Reminder: Starting Soon!

Practical life engagement, soul exercises, and spiritual research . . .

Wise Cosmos

Six Basic Exercises Practice Group

Starts in a few days!

You are invited to join with a group of students and friends who have created an online practice group to support our personal transformation and world healing.


The group is now in its fourth year running with a new cycle beginning September 30. All newcomers and past participants are welcome.


Each weekday we meet for 15 minutes to turn our attention to developing our highest selves in a supportive community.


Meetings begin Monday, September 30, 2024 and run until Friday, March 28, 2025 with a break during the Holy Days. Meeting schedule times at EDT (UTC -4). 


Schedule:
12:00 - Opening thought/reading
12:05 - 5-minute individual practice space
12:10 - Journal time
12:12 - Closing thought/reading
12:15 - Close the space


Cost: Free


If you are new to these exercises or would appreciate a review check out these videos by Brian Gray.


Introduction to the Six Basic Exercises: 

This 12 minute video is an excellent summary: 

https://vimeo.com/308654968

Six Essential Exercises To Open The Heart Chakra:

Love is a wisdom and a strength that lives within the soul. Love enables us to understand the meaning of evil in the world and to be seeds of life and light within existence. Through the Six Basic/Essential Exercises we develop our capacity to love by awakening and enlivening our Heart Chakra:

https://vimeo.com/1011703989/2298c635b9

[Rudolf Steiner's six essential exercises offer] ways you can gather the powers and depths of your soul so that you are truly available for tasks of your own choosing.... In a sense, the six powers, and the exercises that promote them, simply represent intensifications of inner functions that we all know we need to develop.... The intensive practice of these more or less familiar features of the soul can lead us into unfamiliar territory.  The various abilities in question (thinking, feeling, willing) can undergo a deep transformation.
      ~ Michael Lipson, Stairway of Surprise: Six Steps to a Creative Life (published 2002).


.... each separate exercise places us into a spiritual reality in which we now participate.  An aspect of the self that was previously concealed is activated and becomes a real point of departure for the way we lead our life.  Such practice can then be experienced as a process of spiritual birth.
      ~ Ates Baydur introduction to Rudolf Steiner, Six Steps in Self-Development: The            'Supplementary Exercises' (published 2010).


Practical life engagement, soul exercises, and spiritual research are deeply interconnected. One cannot be done without the others.

      ~ Lelan Harris, paraphrased from A Leading Thought Regarding Exercise 6 (April 09, 2021).

History of the group:  From March to September of 2020, a group of 20+ students of anthroposophy created a practice together for 120 days.  Seeking an antidote to the rising feeling of uncertainty brought forward by the pandemic, they came together to practice the exercises often referred to as Rudolf Steiner’s Six Basic Exercises.  Learning about themselves and each other, and experiencing the benefits of peer-supported daily practice in an online, group setting.

"Engaging the exercises with this faithful group over the six-month period transformed my Six Basic Exercises experience.   It enlivened my soul practice, inspired wider study, and guided spiritual research explorations."
      ~ Anonymous

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