Dear Friends,
Supernormal. Expanded capacities. Our extraordinary nature. What does it all mean? These ideas are flying about in films we see and books we read these days. In ITP, the notion of our inherent supernature is built right into the DNA of our practice.
What
is growing and evolving for you at this moment in your life?
Read more about the
extraordinary in this issue. Come join us for GKM 2016 to witness extraordinary experiences on the greens and in sports. Attend our ITPI Conference,
The Science and Practice of the Extraordinary, where scientists will shed new light on how the extraordinary is actually ordinary!
New vistas abound with ITPI's reach around the globe, especially with our new member group, ITP France! So glad you are part of our growing community of practitioners seeking transformation and greater effervescence in your life and the world. And as George would say, "Remember to enjoy your practice!"
With love and wonder,
Pamela Kramer,
ITPI President
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Mastery: An Extraordinary Container
for Extraordinary Capacities
by Roger Kenneth Marsh
Mastery Teacher and GLEE Co-leader
Mastery. It means many things, and frankly I'm a bit intimidated by the word. However, George Leonard helped me embrace the concept by defining Mastery as mostly about staying on the path. Of all the things that mastery means, it's mostly about consciously and consistently bringing yourself to something over, and over, and over again. In ITP that something is life.
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Spirituality and the Sporting Life
by Barry Robbins
ITPI VP, Mastery Teacher and
ITP SF Co-leader
For quite some time, the worlds of sports and spirituality have remained largely separated and, in many instances, in opposition to one another. Sporting enthusiasts have harbored certain stereotypical points of view about those in the world of spirituality and vice versa. As we look at the very essence of both of these transformative practices, there is an emerging understanding that sports and spirituality are two souls drawing from the same well, and represent similar expressions of larger world views and shared themes, some of which are enumerated here:
- Sports and spirituality as transformative practices
- The integral in both athleticism and spiritual endeavors
- Supernormalities in sports and mysticism
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The Kata: Launching into the Extraordinary
by Tim Cleary
Mastery Teacher and ITP San Rafael Co-leader
Since its inception, Integral Transformative Practice™ (ITP) has embraced the possibility of discovering extraordinary capacities that emerge as a result of engaging in long-term practice. Many of us already enjoy the benefits of better health, higher functioning and exceptional well being that spring from the practice.
Inspired by Michael Murphy's book
The Future of the Body
, ITP was designed to realize the potential of our entire being - body, mind, heart and soul. Replete with examples culled from clinical studies and anecdotal reports,
The Future of the Body
reveals how people have displayed heightened abilities of various kinds throughout history. Extending across the full spectrum from the accidental emergence of the extraordinary in the pathologically disturbed to the deliberate cultivation of
siddhis
by the yogis,
The Future of the Body
calls us to explore the rich capacity that resides within.
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Energy in Motion:
The Making of the LET Video
by Charlotte Hatch
Mastery Teacher and ITP SF founder
Last summer, Pam Kramer, Barry Robbins, Charlotte Hatch and a group of volunteer practitioners created an explanatory video to accompany George Leonard and Joel Kirsch's LET manual:
Leonard Energy Training: Gentle Exercises For Transforming Body, Mind, and Spirit.
Creating the video was a truly modern experience! Milena Pastreich, our videographer, came to Corte Madera from LA to spend 2 days filming our group at the Aikido of Tamalpais dojo. After filming, the digital video went into a dropbox online, and our editor, Meryl O'Connor, started her work. She began the editing process in Chicago, moved to London and then New York. Pam Kramer worked with her by phone, checking the progress in the Dropbox. When the editing was complete, months later, Pam, Barry and I discovered we needed some more shots of participants performing the exercises, zooming in on hands and feet. We met again at Aikido of Tamalpais, this time with a local filmmaker, Cynthia Abbott, and Alejandro Palacios, a local videographer.
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In the Beginning
by George Leonard
An Outsized, Outrageous Organ
We were 12 billion years or more in the making, our body the
 stuff of stars, our mind a mystery. We were born for learning, for journeying through inconceivable new worlds, destination unknown. We started in Africa beneath the trees and out across the open spaces at a time when there were no words, then traveled far and wide to light this world with speech and fire. From the beginning, we were extraordinary. Our Stone Age ancestors had brains as large as ours, brains with the capability, in potentia, to serve in piloting a spacecraft, playing a Bach partita, designing a computer, and understanding abstract
mathematics. Even today, we are mostly untapped potential.
With one daring evolutionary gamble--the upright stance--our pre-human ancestors had set into motion a process that would lead to complex tools, cooking, agriculture, art, language, religion, cities, nations, worldwide communications, flight, the venture toward other worlds, and--perhaps most important of all--self-aware consciousness. All this would follow the earliest upright ape human within a mere wink of evolutionary time. At last, after 12 billion or more years of life on this planet, the universe we know would get eyes with which to view itself.
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Spotlight on Eric Carlson
Mastery member and ITP Colorado group leader
How did you become involved in ITP?
I became involved in ITP through a recommendation from a fellow sport psychology colleague. We were discussing integral philosophy and she suggested I may be interested in ITP. I had never heard of ITP but had been very familiar with Michael Murphy. I read Golf in the Kingdom when I was 18 and also bought The Future of the Body when it was released.
I spent years trying to track down Michael Murphy, searching for workshops or retreats. In 2012 I pre-ordered the "Golf in the Kingdom" DVD from Amazon and my curiosity sparked interest in what he may be up to. Again, I fell short of tracking him down. Then, in 2014 when my colleague mentioned ITP, I immediately became a member of ITP International and inquired about starting a group in Colorado. 10 days later, I was on a plane for my first weekend session of Mastery.
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"We are midwives to our larger selves."
-Michael Murphy
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Michael Murphy's
Golf in the
Kingdom Marathon
Golf Clinic - Sept. 11, 2016
Golf Marathon - Sept. 12, 2016
Peacock Gap Golf Club
San Rafael, CA
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Save the Dates!
Leonard Energy Training Workshop
October 19-21, 2016
Aikido of Tamalpais
Corte Madera, CA
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Save the Date!
Mastery Reunion and Open Session - Cycle 9
October 22, 2016 - 1-5PM
Aikido of Tamalpais
Corte Madera, CA
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ITPI Conference
The Science & Practice of the Extraordinary
In The Name of Love
EarthRise Retreat Center
Petaluma, CA
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New ITPI Product!
Leonard Energy Training (LET) Video
Designed to work in tandem with the LET Manual,
the DVD provides a description of LET and its application to daily life, summary of the 9 LET principles and a sample of practices focused on balancing and centering for individuals and groups. $24.95
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