Tony Rice-Perttunen

Tony will be running a session with us in Oulu in March. He has set two tasks for the artists in preparation for his workshop.

1

Devote a few minutes, at least weekly – preferably daily – in concentrated intention.
Your intention will be to call upon your deepest creative self.
You must call it with all your concentration. You ask that deep creative self to bring you a sleep dream. You ask for a sleep dream that confirms your connection to your fellow humans, to life, to the planet – and reveals your responsibility in the changes that are coming.
Keep a dream journal for the most powerful ones that answer you before the workshop in March 2020..

2

Some of you might decide this exercise feels similar to meditation. You may prefer sitting on the floor or even outside. My first time I was in an 8th floor apartment. What is important is to focus and concentrate.
Focus attention first on yourself, your existence, your breath, your heartbeat. Once you feel content in your awareness of yourself, extend it a little; perhaps just other people in the same room, or the apartment. Imagine their breath, their heartbeats, the sparkle of their own minds, emotions and lives. Do not judge or react. Just be aware of them. When you feel content you are imagining and accepting them, extend your awareness a little further. Perhaps expand to the entire building, or the building’s block. Imagine the heartbeats, breathing, lives and sparkles of mind and emotion in all the people. Don’t count them, just feel them. Next, stretch your imagination out to ’embrace’ the entire city, province or borough you live in. Rest awhile in this experience, give yourself time to adjust to it. It is a lot of people.
The final step is both the hardest and easiest. Stretch your awareness out, around and across the entire planet. It may be hard at first to feel our planet’s curvature. Take your time. It is immense.
You might be distracted by detecting and feeling the energy of other life besides human. Be aware: that is a completely different exercise than this one.
The primary goal of this exercise is to sense the entire human race as its own organism – and to feel its life. Good luck!