Assiyah: Finding the Ground

Finding the Ground Finding the Ground is the transition from morning wake-up to a more expanded consciousness. Often, this is a time for warmups and movement. Of course, movement is not limited to the world of action and also, the body is not restricted to any one world. With that in mind, we often do try to find ways to involve the body here, doing sitting adjustments, exercises with the eyes, and other Assiya-like physiological sharpening, which we can refine later in the services. Fun stuff, welcoming with heart, and serious humor are appropriate here. Sufi dances, ma tovu! Section This section is where normative morning davvenen starts. Everything up to now has been preparation to more fully experience each of the forthcoming stages of davvenen so that the map of development is once again imprinted, the primal experiences of ones' creation/ evolution are triggered and the world of Atzilut/ Amida most vividly experienced. This ts a first attempt to relate the grid of davvenen to recapitulating creation rather than reversing the downwards evolution by climbing "back" up the ladder. Feldenkrais This is a first attempt to correct the habitual association of the body to the coarsest realm of Assiya. Of course, all our experiences of holiness are experienced In the body in some form, and It is only our poverty of language which continues to view the body in its most superficial aspect. Alphabetical Collage of Verses for Name Recitation When someone needs prayers, the tradition is to recite the letters of his/her Hebrew name following Psalm 119 in which each letter is associated to eight verses. This is an English adaptation which can be used in a group praying for a person. Premise