Congratulations to Charles Savaiano, CST

[Scott Sonnon]

When an individual creates a personal expression of CST, I believe s/he's nailed how to internalize it personally. One must find a private identification with the material in order to 'own it.' Charles found his in a very beautiful visual which I wanted to share with you, as it is very primal and has been reflected throughout recorded history: the tree of life.

"Three summers ago I was in Boulder doing the Advanced Structural Integration Training. Out of who knows where came an image of a mandala like form that I later discovered is very old and is called the tree of life. I went down to art supply store and purchased a compass and attempted to draw it out on graph paper. I quickly discovered that this was a job for a computer and some months later I hired an architectural illustrator to do this for. I now have a 30-inch in diameter poster of this on my wall. The basic form consists of a circle. Within the circle are four circles that are half the size of the first circle. The circles are evenly spaced within the larger circle and share a common meeting point in the exact center of the first circle. Each of the circles also contains four circles arranged according to the same criteria and so on and so forth. The planes that this circle exists within can be horizontal and vertical or anywhere in between. Its center can be anywhere. It can be arranged as spheres. Placed on the floor, imagined within any joint in the body, imagined as a sphere that we move within, imagined as a sphere that moves with us etc. etc. as you can imagine there are great number of ways to use such a symbolic matrix."

Now compare this with this old illustration from ancient traditional club swinging:

There's something very visceral which renosonates among those who truly 'grok' CST.
Charles, you have a very unique and interesting background and I look forward to all of the exploratory depth you go in CST.
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[Connie Brown]

Wow. Welcome Charles, and congratulations. !

[bill cogswell]

Congrats!!!

[Ryan Murdock]

Conratulations Charles, and welcome aboard!!

Does anyone remember a toy called Spirograph from the 80's? The illustration reminded me a bit of that, it let you draw all these funky designs with plastic things you stuck on your pencil (I think). Now, of course, we can draw them with clubbells 8)

[Cody Fielding]

Nice work Charles!

Cheers,
cody

www.empoweredhealth.com

[Scott Sonnon]

Ryan,

My daughter plays with one on our long plane trips. :wink:

Alive and kicking - kids mandalas.

[Randell Waddell]

Out of who knows where came an image of a mandala like form that I later discovered is very old and is called the tree of life.

Beautiful concepts have a way of "reasonating" / "appearing".

A search and research on "the Seed of Life" and "Flower of Life" will uncover a lot of really interesting material. Kenny Johnson and his people, utilize this material extensively.

Cheers
Randell.

[Coach Hurst]

Charles, great stuff. Congratulations!

[senorblanco]

Charles, truly amazing!! Congratulations!!

[KEVIN TEAGLE]

Charles, thank you for that. I touched a deep part of me.

I seem to be blessed every time I come on to this forum.

What a tribe.

Kevin Teagle