Walking the Five Bodies: First Term Reflections
As we near the end of the first term of our 11-week Freedom to Create Residential Programme 2025, there’s a quiet amazement in the air. In just a few months, we have moved through all five bodies, physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and astral, not as theories, but as lived experiences.
From the very beginning, the core group built a cohesive, supportive community, welcoming the single participants who joined each week with generosity and openness. It hasn’t always been easy, everyone brings their own baggage, and the practices of the world don’t always meet all the needs we carry. Yet, together, they created a field of trust, curiosity, and courage, showing what is possible when hearts and minds come together in shared exploration.
At The Transmission School, we don’t claim to resolve the challenges of a lifetime. What we offer are ancient tools, embodied practices, and a big heart, a space where each person can process, experiment, and awaken their own insight. And over these first weeks, we’ve seen the seeds of transformation begin to take root.
Physical Body:
We began with raw vegan cuisine, garden time, and restorative massage. Each meal, each movement, each touch reminded us that freedom begins with responsibility for life itself. Hands in the soil, harvesting olives alongside grandi e piccini, grounded us in the rhythm of living.
Emotional Body:
Satyamo and Abbha opened the field of honest relating. We laughed, cried, clashed, and discovered that real freedom is found in relationship, even with all the characters of the soul.
Mental Body:
Astrology became a language for awakening. Faye Blake asked: What if the sky is not telling our future, but inviting our participation? Pluto in Aquarius reminded us to reclaim our true technology: the heart, intuition, and inner authority.
Spiritual Body:
With Zen and Qi Gong with Jeroen van Deutekom, we explored the paradox of effort within effortlessness. We practiced keeping quiet, made peace with boredom, and trusted the subtle movements of the mind. Observing the Five Hindrances became a practice of disarming them with awareness.
Astral Body:
Bruno and Carole guided us into dreams, symbols, and archetypes. Here we meet the hidden stories that move us from the inside, beyond roles and identities, where imagination becomes a tool for self-discovery.