<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Karen,<DIV>What a wonderful invitation! Thank you for extending it.</DIV><DIV>The theoretical underpinning of my PhD thesis (presently entitled: 'Embodied Relativity') relates to integral consciousness.</DIV><DIV>I am especially interested in Jean Gebser's writing as it relates to my gentle bodywork practice of Ortho-Bionomy.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So I would love to join your group, except for the issue of distance - I live in South Eastern Australia - and I rarely travel.</DIV><DIV>If I can 'virtually' meet with you in some way, that will be great for me.</DIV><DIV>Warm regards,</DIV><DIV>Allison.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 26/02/2006, at 8:09 AM, Karen Sella wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Greetings All,</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I am writing to invite you those of you who may have an interest to join an </SPAN><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN style="font-style:italic;mso-bidi-font-style:normal; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; font-style: italic; ">iPraxis Practitioners’ Circle</SPAN></SPAN></I><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, a series of monthly gatherings of and for integral practitioners to awaken, cultivate and contribute to individual and collective integral practice (please visit </SPAN><A href="http://www.luminacoaching.com/iPraxis.htm"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.luminacoaching.com/iPraxis.htm</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> for more details).</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Integral practice as I am defining it is a practice that is essential for wholeness for ourselves, our organizations, our communities, our ecologies, and our world.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">This may be informed by the work of theorists/practitioners such as Sri Aurobindo, Jean Gebser, Georg Feuerstein, Ken Wilber, William James, Robert Kegan, Jenny Wade, Michael Murphy, etc., or simply grounded in your own experience of what it is to be an integral being in the world.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">What is most essential to me in extending this invitation is that those of you who choose to come have a genuine commitment to awakening, cultivating and contributing your knowledge, experience, and resources to grow within an emerging community of practice—that you want to broaden and deepen who and how you are in your integral practice—and that you are willing to offer yourself and your own practice in service of broadening and deepening the larger community of practice in service of broadening and deepening our world...</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I realize that some of you may not be interested in integral practice.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Others of you are far from Bainbridge Island and cannot commit to such a local endeavor, and that still others of you are already participating in other groups that may fulfill this purpose for you and that you may not feel called to join this particular manifestation of the larger field of integral practice in the world.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">However, I invite those of you for whom this is true to participate in Spirit, to hold the space for another group to form, and hope to find ways to cross-pollinate the fields within the Field as we are mutually moved to do so.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">This current Circle is limited to 12 participants.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Please let me know if this is of interest to you…or if you have an interest in hosting a Circle in your area.</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun:yes; color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I would love to continue learning with you in this latest context and would be happy to provide any additional information if you’re interested.</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">With love and light,</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Karen</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="#487e9c" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:#487E9C; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(72, 126, 156); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="1" color="#446d7b" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:#446D7B;mso-no-proof:yes; 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