The Mentation System originated in a mystery school high the mountains of Afghanistan and was brought to the modern world by Oscar Ichazo who founded the Arika Work.  I learned it from my teacher, Claudio Naranjo, 30 years ago.  It is a system designed to bring light of consciousness into the body in order to integrate your entire physical being with Divinity.  I have adapted it and improvised on it for many years and am sharing it to be used for a speedy and ecstatic way to fully align body, mind and spirit.  Doing this practice also melts down the body's rigidities and allows for fully surrendered movement.

 The body is considered as twelve distinct parts, each with its own specific form and function. When the mind is Mentated, focused, into each area, your physical consciousness becomes transparent to multi-dimensions, information is received and your energy is greatly accelerated.  When you add to that the musical influx and your full surrender to the inner essence flows, the body is danced by its own inner energies. This movement is beyond all habitual body memory and creates deep centering, ecstatic healing and delightful liberation.

An effervescence happens which allows your soul energy to merge in.  It also opens you to the light and lift of universal energies and the grace of spiritual blessings from each other, from the saints  and enlightened masters.  This Mentating of your mind into your matter also creates a permeability to spirit which assures that your intentions magically manifest.   

One focuses on the body via 12 sectors.  Your hands and feet together are the first sector and the meaning associated with them is your “GOALS”.  Your lower arms and legs come next and are associated with the “MEANS” to your goals.  Elbows and Knees follow and are imbued with the idea of the “CHARISMA” you generate out into to the world.  Your upper legs and arms are your “CAPACITY”, or strength...etc. etc. When each sector is turned on, the effect is multiplied exponentially.  The goals or intentions that you can set into vibration manifest out from you into the universe.

I first learned this practice in San Francisco in 1973.  I was working as an art therapist in an adolescent treatment center. A 17 year old boy who I had been working with became catatonic and would not speak or move.  His psychiatrist had scheduled him to be removed to a state institution.  Having just learned this system, I sensed I could use it to match his energy and thus be a safe haven for him to venture out from.  I did a full mentation on turning my body to “stillness” before slipping into the mental hospital to find him.  We sat it total stillness for about three hours during which time we rekindled a non verbal artistic way of communicating which we had established together earlier.  I did one simple line…put the pencil down and waited in stillness for about 30 minutes until he picked up the pencil and did the next connected line.  After that catatonic freeze had melted, it only took a few weeks for him to come out of it completely.

We will be working with movement and sound mentations in the forthcoming class. 

The hands and feet together effect almost 2/3rds of the space in the sensory and motor areas of the brain.  That means when you mentate, (bring attention there and saturate the physical body presence with the essence presence)  your body, mind, hands and feet become one light filled wholeness which communes with universal space and energy. 

The first Mentation is Hands and Feet and it relates to understanding and stimulating One's Goals.   Each mentation expands the Area and the Ability it is related to.

For example, seeding your awareness of your hands and feet with a suggestion (a goal) such as "Sweet", will turn your essence sweet.  The next mentation, "MEANS" relates to lower arms and lower legs. These are the means to your goals.  These forces unleashed allow you to empower your goals.  "Sweet" takes on new dimensions of feeling when fully mentated in your Means.  That MEANS lots MORE sweetness. Thus can you imagine the power and beauty of mastering MENTATING with MOVEMENT using the full 12 arenas?  That's some of what we will be doing in the workshops.