Essence of Breema: February 2011
excerpts from classes at the Breema Center
Why practice Breema? Because you need taste. When you experience the body, you see that you and the body are two different phenomena. When you bring your body and mind together, you have a chance to see you are not this mind, not this body. You are not your sensations, nor are you your feelings. Then what are you? You are that which is conscious of mind, feelings, body, and sensations. This realization becomes your first taste of freedom.
When you come to taste, you're in a dynamic relationship with your body, with your environment, and with yourself. And that's how you actually exist--always in relationship. When you have taste, you have an inner atmosphere. That's your actual connection to your existence. Getting Breema in your body means coming to taste again and again. Gradually, you establish a relationship to taste. That allows you to experience a natural confidence when you do Breema, because when taste is present, you are connected to that inner atmosphere. When you are leaning, when you are holding, when you stretch, when you move, you are supported by that inner atmosphere. That makes it Breema.
Don't allow yourself to think the recipient needs something, and that you are going to give it to them. Throw those ideas out of the window! Don't try to heal them or make them more balanced. The moment you place your hand on their body, accept the unity of the recipient and yourself, because that's the truth. Your hand is not doing bodywork. It's a representative of the entirety. The entirety is touching the entirety. Life is giving to life.