ivy ray 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”

“We rise rapidly when we fill our consciousness in moments with thoughts evoking in us Admiration, Respect and Veneration for the World and for Life.” Rudolf Steiner

WELCOME.I AM in the process of reconstructing this site. There’s Much Coming and I Look Forward to sharing. In the meantime, 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 current, Testimonials for some reflection from others and Working with…for many ways to be together. Find me via CONTACT I will Gladly Receive and Respond.

Enjoy your Spring, Your Lives and Each Another.

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 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 DISCOVER IF WE ARE WILLING TO PROVIDE IT.

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY WORLDS, EARTHLY, HUMANLY, 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, 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 Science 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 honestly, courageously, articulately,creatively 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 perhaps 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.

THIS Delivers Us Unto Ourselves, so we CAN Unify.

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 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 26 Year Interdisciplinary Educator of Multidisciplinary Means and Senior Teacher of Nevine Michaan’s Lineage of Katonah Yoga©, A Native New Yorker. A Communicator.A Collaborator. A published song and still writer A Business and Life Consultant a Speaker. GREAT Influences:in no specific order: ALL Relationship, Mothering, Music, Nature, Life, Teaching, The Vast Volume of Chinese Philosophy,TAO,Confucianism, Number, Mathmatics, Nevine Michaan, Ken Wilbur, Rudolf Steiner, Hermes, Chögyam Trungpa, A Course In Miracles, Gurdjieff, Friedrich Nietzsche, Alan Watts, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Geometry, Music, 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, the Natural World, Music, ALL Relationship, The Body, Her Family and Dear Peeps, Pups All of those she’s Blessed to Work with Especially in the Private Lab :) everyone who makes Art In Response to Being Alive here, The Awesome/The Awful and the Daily Grace, Grit and Beauty of All Things Life.

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