The Body of Love

The Body of Love. Igniting Love Within!

The Body of Love

In this transformative workshop, we will explore the science behind love – how the brain, heart and body create a deep, intimate connection with other people – and practice science-backed techniques for entering loving states at will, and as a daily practice.

What we will explore:

💡 The science of love. How the brain and neurotransmitters, heart rhythm variability, vagus nerve and nervous system conspire for or against your ability to give and receive love.

💓 The role of the heart. Anchoring yourself in this powerful, multifaceted organ, a social, emotional and spiritual center capable of producing intuition, ternderness, calm and compassion.

🌀 Meditation, breathing and visualization practices to cultivate warmth, trust and openness.

🌍 Beyond romance; love as an evolutionary engine. How love evolved in mammals and humans to shape our relationships, communities and social justice movements.

🦎 Transcending the narrow scope of the reptilian brain, and activating the calming and binding circuits of the limbic brain.

🤸🏻‍♂️ The role of positive emotions to open your sight, change your physiology and help you create community.

All in all, you will receive practical tools to activate a loving attitude in your relationships, your work, and with yourself.

Here’s hoping you’ll join us for this adventure of the heart! 💗

Format

Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after the class. It’s yours to keep for life!

When

March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

Tuition

U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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    The Wisdom of Your Dreams

    The Wisdom of Dreams. Engaging with Your Inner Dream Maker

    The Wisdom of Your Dreams

    The stories that visit us every night may seem like the work of a crazed filmmaker. In truth, they are living myths, stories filled with personal and transpersonal meaning, told in symbolic language.

    If we learn to speak the language of metaphor, we can enter a rich and creative dialogue with our own Unconscious, and let it guide us and correct our path througn its insights and intuitions.

    In this one-time workshop, you will:

    💭 Learn why we dream and how dreams reveal our deeper truths
    🔍 Explore symbolism, archetypes, and personal associations
    📖 Discover a step-by-step method for interpreting your own dreams
    💡 Uncover the wisdom hidden in your recurring themes, landscapes, and dream figures  ✨ Incubation techniques to stimulate the dreaming mind,
    🌀 Engage in active imagination to work with your dreams in waking life.

    For Carl Gustav Jung, the exploration of dreams was an important foundation for Depth Psychology, which he fathered. He saw dreams as valuable creations of our psyche that acts as guideposts to our growth and evolution: “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.

    Your dreams are guiding you toward something meaningful. Let’s explore where they want to take you! ✨🌛💫

    When

    March 1st, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

    Format

    One virtual session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

    Tuition

    U$D 25. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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      The Anatomy of Love

      The Anatomy of Love. Following the Path of the Heart

      The Anatomy of Love

      For centuries, poets, mystics and philosophers have spoken of the heart as the center of wisdom, love and connection. Until recently, science considered this a mere metaphor. But in recent years, research has revealed that the heart is an organ of perception of the highest order, with a deep connection to our emotions, and a direct line to the larger consciousness of which we are all a part.

      The heart forms an essential part of the anatomy of love, along with the right hemisphere of the brain (with its holistic, sensitive and intimate mode of attention, which we learn to activate); oxytocin (the “love hormone” that creates a sense of openness and trust); the vagus nerve (which regulates our nervous system and brings us calm and empathy).

      But here’s the interesting point: we cannot activate this delicate living system on our own, as if swallowing some self-prescribed pill. We can only create true resilience, purpose and joy together, creating and sustaining life-giving bonds with each other.

      Whe we do so, love becomes medicine indeed. Let’s look at some of its gifts.

      Living from the heart:

      ✅ Regulate the nervous system

      ✅ Develops emotional resilience.

      ✅ Molds the brain for openness and creativity.

      ✅ Protects against distress and anxiety.

      ✅ Expands our meaning and purpose in life.

      How will we achieve this?

      Here’s my invitation!

      Anatomy of love. Folliowing the Path of Heart”. A spiral journey.

      I conceived this course as an organic journey, like so many we engage in throughout our lives. In other words, it’s not a linear movement from A to B, but a cyclical, spiraling, living one. More a pilgrimage than a race.

      As if following a line of glittering seashells along the shore, we will explore:

      • The Body of Love. Awakening the intelligence of the heart, the holistic view of the right hemisphere.
      • The Ecology of Love. Connecting with Nature, and with the universe, not as a spectator but as a fully engaged participant. Being a force of Love in the world.
      • The Emotions of Love. Cultivating and practicing the states that transform us: gratitude, awe, kindness, compassion.
      • The Courage of Love. Exploring personal and relational shadow.
      • The Psychology of Love. Transforming conflicts into opportunities; combining intimacy with differentiation.
      • The Creativity of Love. Recreating our bonds with curiosity and imagination.
      • The Spirituality of Love. Transmuting loss into transcendence; growing from vulnerability.
      • The Wisdom of Love. Bringing clarity to our relationships, balancing compassion with discernment.
      • The Presence of Love. Discovering the radiant silence within.

      Poets have always beckoned us to this path of seashells and echoes from the deep.

      Here is David Whyte, with his luminous invitation:

      “You know that the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest? … The antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness.”

      Let us walk this path together, opening our hearts wide with each step.

      Format

      Virtual, by Zoom. Video, audio and visual presentation will be delivered after each class. The material will be available without time limit.

      Schedule

      Every last Saturday of each month.

      Opening session

      March 29th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

      Tuition

      U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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        Being Lovers

        Being Lovers. Living with an Open Heart

        IsBeing Lovers

        “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

        Willa Cather

        What is a great love?

        Is it a bond that grows and deepens over time? Is it the affection spurred by a beloved place, cause, person? Or perhaps the tenderness that wells up in our chest when we see a stranger perform an act of altruism? The softening of our eyes and hearts when we enter an old growth forest? 

        All of the above!

        How can one word encompass so many meanings? This is what we’ll explore in this Saturday’s session: how to deepen in this “orientation of the heart” that helps us transcend our small self and fills us with vitality and meaning.

        Love is a dynamic mystery: more verb than noun; more between than within; more present than past and future, and as much starting point as destination.

        We’ll dive into this fertile territory with carefully selected ancient and brand new practices and invitations.

        Will you come along?

        When

        December 7th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

        Format

        One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

        Tuition

        U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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          Being Dancer

          Being Dancers! Living with Sensuality

          Being Dancer

          Do you ever ask your body how it feels about a person, a place, an activity, a decision? Do you ask it if it’s got enough energy to go to that party, if it needs to move, or go out for a walk, after so many hours of screen time? Do you invite it to dance to your favorite music? Do you listen to what it whispers to you at night, when everyone is asleep?

          Our body is a reservoir of truths, intuitions, knowledge and unique and exquisite sensations. But like any good friend, if we ignore it for too long, it will be become frustrated, angry, and eventually, recoil from us (expressing its discontent in pain or other symptoms). At the very least, it will resist cooperating with our demands, no matter how reasonable we may find them.

          The journey from the mind to the body can be the most fruitful you  ever undertake. Unsuspected reserves of beauty, meaning and vitality await you, if you venture out to meet it with an open heart.

          Shall we taket this journey together?

          Looking forward to seeing you!

          When

          November 2nd, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

          Format

          One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

          Tuition

          U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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            Being Creators

            Being Creators! Living with Imagination

            Being Creators

            If the universe is exuberantly creative and innovative in all of its forms, shapes and creatures, how could we possibly be otherwise?

            Quantum physics, and cutting-edge findings from biology and other sciences reveal a universe that is alive, complex, mysterious, and connected in all its parts. And are we not, in fact, the universe in miniature? What levels of understanding, wisdom, power and beauty can we achieve, if we can let go of limiting ideas and preconceptions about who we are, and what we are capable of creating or becoming?

            We invite you to take part in a deep exploration of one of this most vitalising of archetypes; the very force that gave birth to our bodies, feeds our imaginations, and invites us to fly high and reinvent the world day after day, for the sheer joy of doing so!

            Hope to you on Saturday, with a heart full of curiosity and delight 💫✨⚡

            When

            September 28th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

            Format

            One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

            Tuition

            U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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              Being Children

              Being Children

              Being Children

              What does it say about a society that calling someone ‘childish’ is an insult?

              We might conclude that our culture demands that adults be serious, productive, responsible and, let’s say it, conform to the norm. As children, we were unique, one-of-a-kind beings. But as we grew up, some of that shine and authenticity went underground, in order to accepted and fit in.

              Many of us must go back to our earliest years to find our full, undiluted essence. Not because childhood was a pristine and perfect time, but because it is, perhaps, the last time we allowed ourselves to be so fully ourselves.

              Fortunately, the children we were are alive and kicking, anxiously waiting for us to call them out to express themselves, feel fully, and play to their hearts’ content!

              In this Saturday’s session, we’ll explore the qualities of this vital archetype. Among them, the capacity for enjoyment, simplicity, spontaneity, authenticity, creativity, vulnerability, awe, and also, of course, magic!

              Roald Dahl writes: ‘”And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

              Here’s find that magic together!

              When

              August 31st, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

              Format

              One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

              Tuition

              U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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                Being heroes

                Being heroes

                Being heroes

                Do you feel that the word ‘hero’ or ‘heroine’ is far removed from you and your life? This is only natural, as it’s traditionally been used to describe people who acted alone, risked life and limb for strangers, and acted with reckless self-abandon.

                This definition doesn’t reflect a rich range of actions that people take, quietly and far from any fanfare, in pursuit of something they hold sacred.

                Today’s world urgently needs us to activate our courage, practice discernment, and act in defense of what’s most dear to us.

                Can this kind of courage be cultivated? Definitely! And it results in a rich, full life, inspired by the beacon of purpose.

                Courage also has concrete effects on our personal lives: it allows us to act on behalf of our own neglected goals, and to create a life that we’ve only dreamed of.

                Acting with boldness is not exclusive to superheroes; it’s a prerogative of our essential nature. And it can be a more humble and everyday choice than we imagine.

                In this Saturday’s workshop, we’ll explore the hero archetype, and invite its gifts into our lives.

                Looking forward to seeing you there!

                When

                July 27th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EDT / 5 PM GMT

                Format

                One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

                Tuition

                U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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                  The Adventurer

                  The Adventurer

                  The Adventurer

                  Do you love to travel more than anything else? Do you dream of climbing mountains, crossing deserts, visiting the world’s most impressive museums? Do you dream of exploring uncharted lands and learning the language of the locals? Would you love to have a time machine and travel back to 1800, or 2080?

                  If any of these scenarios light up your soul, chances are the Adventurer archetype describes you, and you live for the opportunity to embark on a new exploration of body or soul.

                  The question is: Is there only adventure when we go far from home?

                  The answer is: no!

                  To be adventurous we don’t need to use a compass, we need to change the way we think, look and live. Says author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper: “Everything important is uncertain. Sitting with the discomfort of that uncertainty is the hard part, the wedge that can move the world.”

                  We look forward to “travelling with you” into wild new, undiscovered terrain!

                  When

                  May 25th, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EDT / 4 PM GMT

                  Format

                  One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

                  Tuition

                  U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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                    Being Wild

                    The Wild One in You

                    Being Wild

                    It doesn’t matter if you live on a busy city street, drive your car to work and buy your food in a store: wildness is all around you. Look aroun! The dandelion growing through the crack in the pavement, the bird singing on the branch, the tree on which the bird stands, the air that is keeping all of them alive, the sun that allows you to see them. All of them are wild forces, and so are you!

                    Wildness is that primordial, unbounded energy that expresses itself in our bodies as emotions, desires, dreams, impulses, and sometimes -when its flow is too tightly blocked or impeded- in symptoms.

                    Our bodies yearn to move, to be outdoors, to connect meaningfully with a small group of familiar people, to exchange care and affection with them, to feel part of a living, thriving community.

                    Life today may be safer and more comfortable than that of our ancestors, but it’s also more isolated, sedentary and disconnected from the natural environment of which we’re an integral part.

                    This separation saddens us, saps our strength, and sometimes even makes us sick.

                    Do we need to go and live in the woods or the mountains to regain this sense of kinship and belonging?

                    No! We need to reconnect with the Nature that we are, at all times, and also with the wildness that surrounds us, and reminds us of the life-thirsty creatures that we are.

                    Join us this Saturday to explore an essential archetypefor for our times: the Wild One who longs to live in freedom and authenticity in this many splendored world!

                    When

                    April 27th, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST / 5 PM GMT

                    Format

                    One monthly online session, via Zoom. You will receive the audio, video and notes to keep for a lifetime.

                    Tuition

                    U$D 30 to $ 50. Choose your donation according to your possibility, and in accordance with the value you feel you receive. Please make your contribution via Paypal to the following address: alfredo.berge@gmail.com

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