MANNA-FESTATION

PESACH PRACTICE 2011

This practice will open a door for you to experience the themes of Pesach, and to take from the experience whatever you may need. It is offered to be inspirational, especially for anyone who needs a booster shot or new direction for the coming year.

Lets settle in. Please close your eyes, check in. Listen to my questions, answer aloud, quietly if you wish. Keep on expanding your answer until I move on to the next question. (Do exercise in pairs if possible, one partner whispering the question again and again until the other answers, and again whenever there is a pause in the answer; then again switching roles with partner.)

1.  who are you -- keep going til it all comes out. not just a list of your demographics, job and activities. you are more than public servant, healer, rabbi, activist, artist, mystic....mom or dad; oldest, middle or youngest child, etc. your bandwidth is wide and beautiful. who are you?

2.  how did you get to be who you are?
a. what blessings came your way without asking?
b. what did you overcome to get here (and how)?

3.  how did you feel about receiving those blessings? about overcoming those obstacles?

Now just be.  Here.  Now.  Take in that feeling of gratitude.  Know that it has helped bring you to where you are.  And that it is a predicate for perfecting our own exodus.  It takes us from 'freedom from' to more fully inhabiting 'freedom to.'  Again and again.  The practice of manna-festation.

4. the last question is: how will you use this annual and in every moment opportunity to engage the mystery? who will you choose to be. will you choose to be grateful for having this choice. and what will you choose to manna-fest. (please ponder tonight and when you get home.)

May we all be blessed to listen to our hearts and follow.
And be grateful for how we got here, however blessed or difficult that process may have been.
And grateful for the awareness that the journey begins with a next step.  
May we live.  Fully.
Each in his or her own way helping to connect heaven on earth