Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Healing Skills We Want All in Our Community to Be Able to Learn and Practice

For a New and Thriving Culture

Blending Elements of Phase 6, Phase 7 and Geopraxis 

Covid-19 is more than anything a Phase 6 disorder.  This will be best understood by orthobionomers. Yes, it makes the individual ill, fatal to those at risk, but it is not at the level of the invidual body it does its most damage. It is far more deadly in its attack on the Body at the level of social connection and integration.

No prior experience of knowledge needed.

Children who are passionate to learn and contribute very welcome

Self-Care for the Social Body

The Rhizome of the Body

Our greatest danger from Covid-19 (and whatever plague may be queuing up behind) is not the individual risk (not to be discounted) but how it only furthers social isolation, already a serious epidemic. Your Social Body needs serious Self Care. The built-in need to cluster together is what defines us as human. Even Aristotle recognized this when he defined humans as "social animals." Perhaps viruses will guide us into being some entirely different species, without that built-in need for belonging. That animal would require a different name; call it Homo solo. Homo sapiens survives by becoming something different, shaped by a radically different culture.

In the meantime (in between time) we look for ways to become the wise animal the name we gave ourselves implies. It is arguably an aspirational name, what we hope we can become. We can only do this by reforming our culture to conform to the space the virus will allow us. We must find ways of intimacy without proximity.

Now is the time to hone those skills of distance healing you maybe don't know you have.

Proxemics and the Social Field 

(Credit for Ortho-Bionomy® program can be given for Phase 6 and/or Phase 7, with great relevance for Ethics as well)

Ortho-Bionomy teaches technologies of engagement with the body as it lives in different spaces, different (scopes levels phases realms domains ranges) of engagement. Will our new culture form out of a fear of coming together or out of a joy of opening to each other in ever deepening ways, finding other spaces of intimacy? We can outfox this cunning virus vixen.

For a place to ply our trade together, to play together and at a safe virally determined distnance all we need is fresh air and some sunshine; a space that's open, light and airy. Such as a park, a large back yard, with some shade, shelter. We will learn many things can be done, for self and other, with no physical contact

Social engagement is the body's main strategy for staying well. Being close to and engaged with others tickles mechanisms of Social Homeostasis, which is linked into (evolved from) the basic biological homeostasis.

Prominent neuroscientist Michael Graziano studies and reports on The Spaces Between Us from 

An example of the sort of thing we will be doing:

Soaking and thinking something came to me I'm excited to do. A playing with praxis as a group.

An Iprov-based, yes-and, game Construct a fictional person (we can call Client).

Here's the inner game revealed:

The quality or characteristic of a client you contribute, coming I would expect from a client in your experience, is held in your own body. This is entanglement, it's how things work. It's the cost of doing business.

Once we have this Client sitting transparently before us what can we do with [Preferred Pronoun[?

I want to coin a new pronoun: pup = Person of Unknown Pronoun.

For instance, I have a Pohaku, a stone, pup, the stone, is a person, has considerable agency. I do not feel right in thinking of this puhaku as a he or a she or even a they,––certainly not an it––so pup will do for now. Any other candidates for this new pronoun?