School Of All Relations

01/07/2021

06/05/2021

"Free" is not free from feelings but
free to feel each one and let it move on,
unafraid of the movement of life.
- Jack Kornfield

20/10/2020

“Your direction is more important than your speed.”

09/10/2020

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”
- Alan Watts

22/08/2020

«You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude, and acceptance. You will change the world just by being a warm, kind-hearted human being. »
- Anita Krizzan

16/07/2020

“THE PRESENT MOMENT”

A week of awakening
with the team of the School of All Relations (SOAR):
Brigitte Mesdag, Jan Quintens, Christina Chorafa, Spiros Kourkoulos

13 – 20 November 2020


Even though SOAR is aimed at young adults aged 18 – 30, people of all ages often ask us how it could be possible for them to participate. So this year, for the first time, we decided to propose a week-long session open to all, based on the principles and practices of the School of All Relations.

In essence, we invite you to take with us some steps of awareness on the path of inner freedom.
From first peoples to ancient greek philosophers, eastern sages or western mystics, it is a path common to all the great spiritual traditions, beyond dogmas and religions. It can also be called the path of truth, or the path of awakening, or simply, the path of happiness. It can actually be named after any of our great qualities, beauty, kindness, wisdom, peace, as this path ultimately leads us to the recognition that all is one. That we all are cells of a mysterious universe, all interconnected.
It is an education of consciousness.
At SOAR, the grounds for this education is in cultivating awareness in all our relations: ourself, others and the world.

And as that is a long journey, going through many diverse landscapes, other sessions will follow, so that we can delve deeper and deeper into our being, strengthening our ability to remain fully present and serene in any kind of conditions.

The purpose of this session is to awaken to a deeper realm of being, unlocking mechanical thoughts and behaviours, liberating our connection to our core, our source.
The womb of this awakening will be the present moment.
Our role as a support team, while fellow travellers as well, will be to offer a safe framework and appropriate practices which will help us ground ourself in full awareness of the here and now.

Landing in the present moment, veils are lifted, our truth clarified.
In Greek, the word truth, «Alitheia», etymologically means «coming out of oblivion».
The freshness of the present moment has the ability to spark our remembrance. Our waking up.

Waking up, I feel infused with the power of the universe.
At the same time, I feel vulnerable as a child.
SOAR embraces this child so that it can grow confidently, without losing any of the power. Some aspects of our truth are not always easy to deal with. And yet, embracing them is a basic condition, our main and necessary step towards their transformation, and consequently towards inner freedom.

We will cultivate mindfulness.
We will practice yoga and dance.
We will explore non-violence in our relation to ourself and to others, bringing awareness to our habit energies, learning how to be genuine in all circumstances.
We will share in non-judgemental, truth centred circles, eliciting personal insight and collective intelligence.
We will strengthen and develop our connection with nature.

SOAR is really a living organism, combining methods, tools, teachings, experience, live elements and emerging situations. It is a continuous midwifery process of the teacher that each one of us holds inside, addressing body just as much as heart and mind. The individual as much as the group. Our nature as much as Nature in which we participate.
And most importantly, the relation between them.

Once our relation with our body, our emotion and our mind is cleansed, these three aspects come into balance and meet in the present moment.
Now spirit can enter, spirit can emerge.
Now we actively participate in the harmonic, illimited flow of existence.
Now we can aptly serve the whole.
Now we dance, in step with Life herself.

And at SOAR we love to dance!


See more about the School of Relationships on our website
www.schoolofallrelations.com

> Early bird registration until the 30th of July

27/05/2020

https://charleseisenstein.org/voice-recordings/the-coronation/

01/04/2020

Dear everyone,

in those unprecedented times I stretch my hands out across space and time, catch yours and those of all our beloved ones, and they those of their beloved ones too, and so on until all of us humans, in this life or in another, hold each other’s hands.

Now is the time to practice ! :)

We are living challenging times.
And as we all know, a challenge always holds a gift.
There will be moments of grace and there will be hard moments. Difficult, unknown emotions and situations will come up. Let us work at embracing difficulty in the loving light of our awareness and slowly, patiently, let ourself be cleansed, in depths perhaps never yet explored till today.
Now is the opportunity for seeing our attachments and practicing letting go.
Now is the time to put in practice all that we have learned together.

Remember: The Way Out is In.
The way to the gift is in fully embracing our truth, however difficult that may be at times.
In Greek the word truth, αλήθεια (alitheia), comes from α-λήθη which means coming out of forgetfulness.
Remembering.
Coming back to the essence.
Waking up.

The whole planet is on pause. What an opportunity! The value of a pause. It opens the crack through which the light gets in :)

A mindfulness bell has been invited for the whole of humanity.

May this global pause be the threshold to a new planetary spring. I wish us all to have the strength, the peace and the focus to touch the grace of Spring. Let us be in gratitude for all that is given to us at each moment and let us be present in our hearts to the whole of humanity, listening for any support we might ask for or offer, at all times.
With all my love
Christina
(founder of Soar)

26/03/2020

"I know that one day I'll be free, deep down in my soul."
And today is a good day!
Nowhere to go. How does that feel?
An opportunity to come closer to 'what is': fear, trust, sadness, love, despair, hope, boredom, inspiration, creativity... Going inward to resource. Taking care of ourselves. Offering help and daring to ask for it. Reaching our hands to the ones suffering. Waving to a stranger. Expressing gratitude to hardworking people. Smiling to spring, unfolding in beauty with courage and joy.
Locked up in our houses: are we really Home? How can we give meaning to these challenging times? Are we still free, deep down in my soul?

19/02/2020

We had a beautiful, intense reunion week in full connection to the SOAR spirit. Being together with our old SOAR brothers and sisters and meeting other family members, was food for the soul.
A being together day without any plans, spontaneous pancake breakfast, a cozy outside carpet lunch, evening music in the fire place room...
We had singing and community building sessions and several open spaces with non-violence, wheel of consent, movement meditation, dance of awareness...
We had a dreaming, visioning session in which so many wonderful seeds were planted and shared, common stories appeared listening to each other.
On Friday we went to see the sunrise on Mount Oros and have lunch in the ancient olive grove. It was crazy cold but the beauty of our generous Earth and each other made our hearts be on fire :).
The week ended with a great celebration with friends from the island - we had a beautiful and diverse open stage and then connecting and dancing all night.

Here are a few pictures, and there is more to come the following weeks, for you to get an idea of what happened :)

01/02/2020

One day left until more lovely people will return into the wonderful atmosphere of this place... For envisioning, interconnecting, living simplicity and co-creating a reunion week, together with the beautiful souls that have been here for some weeks.
We gathered intentions and dreams and stepped into a consent decision making process listening to all voices that needed to be shared.

On Wednesday we had a silent fasting day; contemplating on which stories don't serve us anymore and creating space for new personal agreements. This empowered us to step into Action from the present moment.

Sending out warming, life nourishing first sunrays in this month of February to all of you, wherever you are!