ivyray and EVERYTHING

“THE FINE ART AND SKILLFUL MEANS FOR OVERALL WELL-BEING and SUSTAINABILITY iN the entirety of YOU, YOUR LIFE, OTHER, CULTURE, NATURE AND THE WORLD

first, DEMYSTIFYING AND LIVING IN agreement WITH THE ECOSYSTEM THAT YOU ARE”

In a “de-spirited” modernity, what is needed is a “holistic humanist vision” – one that is able to integrate the self, community, nature and heaven. In Confucian humanism, the highest aspiration for human beings is to be “the unity of heaven and humanity,” where human beings are not merely creatures, but partners in the cosmic process.

~TU WEIMING

WELCOME.I AM in the process of reconstructing this site. Stay tuned Much is Coming. I’m using this page as a kind of Ranty Overview, the rest of the site is available as well. Please keep in mind it’s all in flux. Check Events for something somewhat current, Testimonials for some reflection from others and Working with Ivy Ray for many ways to be together now. Please find me via CONTACT I will Gladly Receive and Respond.

Enjoy your Winter, Your Lives and Each Another.

HAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY YEAR OF NINE

WELCOME TO THE BODY

YOUR BODY IS WHERE EVERYTHING LIVES, HAPPENS, THRIVES, AND INTERSECTS WTH EVERYTHING ELSE. IT IS A PRIMARY FORM OF INFORMANCE AND A GREAT EVEN RADICAL AGENT OF CHANGE. THE BODY DOESN’T LIE, IT CANNOT HIDE, IT SHOWS EVERYTHING, AND IS IMPECCABLY DESIGNED. YOUR BEAUTIFUL MIND, WHICH IS HOUSED WITHIN THIS MIRACULOUS BODY, IS NEAR INFINITE IN ITS CAPACITY AND COMPLEXITY, RUNS THE SHOW WITH OR WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT AND AS WE ALL KNOW, CAN BE TRICKY AS HELL. YOU CAN’T MEND THE MIND BY THE MIND ALONE.

EVERYTHING IN THIS LIFE NEEDS THE BODY FOR SUPPORT.

TO UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE WE MUST UNDERSTAND ITS PARTS. UNDERSTANDING THE PARTS, IS CONTINGENT UPON UNDERSTANDING THE WHOLE. IN THIS ROUND WE BEGIN TO LEARN WHAT WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE MADE OF, HOW IT ALL WORKS, WHAT IT ALL NEEDS, AND WE CHOSE IF WE ARE WILLING TO PROVIDE IT. THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE.

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY WORLDS, EARTHLY, HUMANLY, PLANT, ANIMAL, HEAVENLY, COSMIC. YOU ARE A WORLD.

LET US GROW/BUILD A MORE SAFE, SANE, EVENLY DEVELOPED, FREELY FUNCTIONAL YOU. A VIABLE, WORTHY CONTAINER, FOR ALL OF WHAT YOU ARE, DULY PREPARED FOR WHAT LIFE MAY HAND YOU, WITH GREAT GUARDIANSHIP OVER OUR BEAUTIFUL MINDS. ALL IN A CONSCIOUS UNBROKEN CONTINUUM WITH SELF, LIFE, NATURE, EACH OTHER AND THE ALL.

INDIVIDUAL/COMMUNAL/MULTIDISCIPLINARY SKILLFUL MEANS BRIDGED TO SENSIBLE LIFE-LIVING TECHNIQUES, GOOD IDEAS, BRAVE HEALTHY DISCOURSE, FACTUAL OBJECTIVE UNBIASED INDEPENDENT THINKING, MEASURED ACTION AND FIERCE GRACE FOR EMBODIED WHOLISTIC CHANGE AND PERSONAL/CULTURAL/UNIVERSAL WELL-BEING.

I STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS GREAT AND SMALL ~IVY RAY

THE ANTIDOTE TO UNCERTAINTY IS CERTAINTY. At a time when the truth has all but lost its currency and we find ourselves surrounded by much Ambiguity, It’s reasonable and fortuitous to work with as much that is Certain as possible.

This Interdisciplinary Emergent Body of Work is a unique synthesis of Absolutes/Facts; Ancient Universal Wisdom, Natural and Neuro Sciences and Fresh ways of Being/Thinking woven into pragmatic; calculable doable techniques and contributory theoretical material. These means can be used to Work With The Entirety of What you Are into the Wholeness of Your Everyday Life. Wholistic Functional Self Development. These verifiable truths, which lie all but dormant to many, are brought back to Life by incorporating them into our bodies, imaginations, articulations, breath, feelings, senses, actions, creations while running the gamut from the simplicities to the complexities of Being Human.

We learn how to work courageously,articulately, creatively, kindly with Ourselves so we can pivot and do so with Others.

We orient and organize in space and time, work with number, geometry, measure, form, fit, function, maps, rhythm, sound, music, senses, the mediation of polarity, All this is wrapped with metaphor and magic distilling this and more into pragmatic tools and techniques which bring it all into You, where it is designed to be Worn, Used, Lived, and in time Embodied. In an aim of becoming more Evenly Developed/Freely Functional Vibrant, Skillful, Powerful, Creative, Relevant Human Beings, with You as YOU, at the center of it all More Safe, Sane, Certain, Sovereign, Unifying with your Innate Capacity for Adaptability to Challenge and Change.

We Use Our Individual and Collective Humanity as grist for the mill. We Reveal/Remember our Vast Commonality by Revealing, Remembering and Owning Our Own.

The Primary means for this is Experience, in this case, in the Body and into one’s Life, as it is via Experience that information/data is transferred from the head into the body. It is There, that in Time, it will Become Embodied Usable Living Knowledge/Wisdom, lessening the Chasm between Body,Mind, Self and Soul.

Resulting, perhaps, in the gradual lessening of the Great Chasm Between Each, Other and Everything.

~Ivy Ray 2023

“IN ORDER TO KNOW ALL, IT IS ONLY NECESSARY TO KNOW A LITTLE. BUT, IN ORDER TO KNOW THIS LITTLE, IT IS FIRST NECESSARY TO KNOW PRETTY MUCH“
― G.I. Gurdjieff

ABOUT IVY RAY

Ivy is a Mother. A Singer. A Formerly Signed Recording Artist A 27 Year Interdisciplinary Educator of Multidisciplinary Means and Senior Teacher of Nevine Michaan’s Lineage of Katonah Yoga©, A global Trainer of Teachers whose Primary Work has always been Private Instruction (One on One) intimate groups and partnerships for decades. A Native New Yorker. A Communicator.A Collaborator. A Creator. A published song and still writer A Business and Life Consultant a Speaker. Some of her GREAT Influences:in no specific order: ALL Relationship, Mothering, Music, Nature, Life, Teaching, Movement, Natural and Nuero Sciences, The Vast Volume of Chinese Philosophy,TAO,Confucianism, Number, Mathematics, Nevine Michaan, Ken Wilbur, Rudolf Steiner, Hermes, Chögyam Trungpa, A Course In Miracles, Gurdjieff, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alan Watts, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Geometry, Music, Pattern, Measure, Art, Comedy, Design, all within the Intelligence, Power, Medicine and Cyclic Seasonal Patterning of Great Nature herself, as her Primary Living Breathing Blueprint.

Ivy and her work is continually informed by the Emergent Wisdom of what has been, the Privilege and Great Joy of her Son, Her Family and Dear Peeps and Pups. All of those she’s Blessed to Work with Especially in the Private Lab :) everyone who makes Art In Response to Being Human, The Awesome/The Awful and the Daily Grace, Grit and Beauty of All Things Life.

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