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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I have another
thought about OS which comes as a result of talking with a friend of mine who
is a movement therapist. The sort of work she does involves what they call “on
hands work” which means that sometimes she takes bodyparts of clients (head,
legs, but also organs like liver, kidneys) in her hands and moves with
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>What she does is tries to
find the natural rhythm of different systems within the body (the blood, the muscles,
the lymph system, etc.) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>It is
something that at least for me is a great experience but that’s something else.
In any case, her work means that when she is with her clients she is very tuned
in to the rhythms of the body and she explained to me yesterday that when she
heard me talk about OS what amazed her is that the Priniciples and the Law are
exactly what she has to do when working with the body. <span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>She has to focus on what is there, (not
on what she wants to be there or what she hoped she’d find) she has to let
whatever happens happen (if she wants to move an organ to the left but the
organ doesn’t want to it creates stress, blockage of the system, and a big
fight between let’s say her hands and your liver), things have their own time
scales and she can’t rush things either to start or to finish (each rhythm will
manifest itself, and her actions to stimulate it don’t work, she just places
her hands and is patient to see what is there) and when she feels she needs to
move on, she does.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The most
interesting thing to me about this was how she explained that this is what a
body worker like her needs to learn in order to be successful because otherwise
(in their work) the body rebels, becomes hard, and doesn’t respond.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Perhaps it’s a bit
far but if this is true on a physical level of the organs, the blood, they
lymph etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>then maybe another
reason that OS can be used all over is because it is picking up on very deep
human (and molecular even) rhythms that transcend culture and move into the
realm of biology. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Of course beyond
that it seems really obvious to believe that certain cultures are more in tune
with this biological rhythm than others….<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I don’t know enough
about working with the body in the way she does, but I thought it might be
interesting to add to this discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Doris Gottlieb<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl15><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face="Century Gothic"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Century Gothic"'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>-----Oorspronkelijk
bericht-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Van:</span></b> OSLIST
[mailto:OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU]<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Namens
</span></b>Mikk Sarv<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Verzonden:</span></b> woensdag 11 juni 2003
16:55<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Aan:</span></b>
OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Onderwerp:</span></b> American and native OS</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I agree with HO that OS is in a great
extent native and natural thing, what has been practiced in one or another form
around world for thousands of years. This is perhaps the reason, why it
is so easily applicable in whatever language and environment.</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Another question is the renewal of this
ancient and powerful tool. There is a nice rule: don't fix it if it
works! Most of facilitators of OS around world seem to stick pretty punctually
to the way OS facilitation is proposed to convene in Users Guide, repeating
carefully all sentences etc. </span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>As the OS in English (American) works so
powerfully there seems to be no need for it's alteration. In many
languages even the name of it, Open Space is often left untranslated.</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I am passionate to find the contact with
native OS traditions. I am much grateful for any guidance to resources in
listserve archives about this topic. I am also much interested to develop
here further ideas and experiences of OS in other languages and traditions.</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>August 15-17 there is going to be held the
second OS conference Earth and People in a small village Shongui of Murmansk
region, Russian Saamiland. Russian Saamis (lapps) are rediscovering their
native ways of OS nad plan to have annually a meeting on that topic in their
country.</span></font><font color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;
mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>We from Estonia invite people to face2face
OS meeting "Native OS as Practice of Peace" in Tartu
University for the first week of February 2004.</span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>With greetings,</span></font><font
color=black><span lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Mikk Sarv</span></font><font color=black><span
lang=EN-GB style='color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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