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Introduction to the Gym

Posted on March 17, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Black Stripe Promotion – Flying Side Kick – 2004

Working our physical bodies is an important aspect of finding balance in our lives. This Gym was setup to help people reconnect to their body using protocols from the martial arts. I’ve trained with Grand Master James Lo for 10 years, obtaining a 3rd Dan Black belt in Tae Kwon Do and I also ran my own school for several years. I will be recording warm up exercises, stretching protocols and other techniques that I’ve learned in the martial arts to help students should they be interested in exploring this aspect of life. Martial Arts have been practiced by artists for thousands of years and the knowledge has been handed down from generation to generation. It has also benefited from modern advancements as well. I won’t share the art of war here, but I will explore how we can connect with our bodies using the techniques I learned.

As I say to all new students, take it easy. Listen to your body and don’t try to keep up with the black belts. I don’t want anybody to get hurt and it will take weeks or even months to start conditioning your body so that it can start working out harder, faster and stronger. Ego often results in people getting hurt as they think they can perform like a black belt. It often results in injury and having to withdraw from training. When your body starts to reach the point of proper conditioning to train, we can then slowly push the body, stretch it and teach it how to exceed the capabilities we think it has and find the limits it actually has. This takes years of training. It is a slow process and requires patience, dedication and commitment.

The video was recorded in 2007 when I was testing for my 3rd Dan Black belt. We don’t have new students doing this for several reasons. Firstly, their body has not been trained and conditioned, much like what I just shared with you. The second is even more critical in that the mind has not been trained either. Doubt, fear and anxiety prevent us from achieving these types of results, even though our bodies are capable of performing far beyond what we think it can. Our minds are often the barriers that we have to overcome. This applies to the Martial Arts as much as the Pacem Arts. It is my hope that we can help that process here in the Pacem Arts by using some techniques from the Martial Arts to overcome these self limiting beliefs.

Also note that I’m not there to watch, observe or correct you. So this still requires that you take full responsibility for your training and do your best to be consciously aware of what I’m sharing. It is no replacement for having an instructor or trainer in the room there with you as they can see things you cannot. As such, the gym is setup to be an introduction and I encourage people to go out and find an instructor near you to help. It does not matter if it is Tae Kwon Do, other martial arts, yoga or sports in general. The goal is to get out and move our bodies, connect with them and explore what they are actually capable of performing while we also discipline the mind at the same time.

Core Recommended Videos

Posted on March 15, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Below is a series of videos that are found on line and covers specific areas to help people through the content being presented on this website. Without comprehending these basics, it may be challenging to move forward with the concepts and principles being discussed in the classes or other videos. This information is here to help people ‘see’ the relationship they currently have with the state and its fictional constructs, so that we can navigate out of it and establish different peaceful relationships.

Money As Debt

Money As Debt II

Money as Debt III

The Causes and Effects of the 2008 Financial Crisis

This is an example of the unlawful conversions that the financial institutions do to convert promissory notes into asset classes that are traded on the open market. It is also an example of how the original agreement can be question and why asking the original corporation that signed the agreement if they can prove they still owe it or sold it, would go a long way towards making it problematic for them to prove that their claim that the debt payments are owed to them or some other third party that the home owner has no contract, duty or obligation.

I say this is unlawful because usury is a violation of spiritual law. The problem is that the earthly masters have made it ‘legal’ despite its unlawful nature. I personally avoid these people at all costs.

Don’t Talk to the Police – Part 1

Don’t Talk to the Police – Part 2

BUSTED: The Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw

The Corporation

Owl Guided Meditation

Posted on March 13, 2021 by White Walking Feather

In this guided meditation, we invite Owl to connect with us and share its knowledge and spiritual wisdom. May we connect with the spirit of Owl to help us navigate life and to peer deep into ourselves, but also see past the noise and observe what is really going on around us. Sit back, relax and welcome Owl in this meditation and explore what Owl has to show us.

This picture was taken by me on my birthday in 2019 and owl let me get to within 6 feet. I am honoured and humbled that owl was patient and trusting with me.

Introduction to the Library

Posted on March 12, 2021 by White Walking Feather

The Pacem Arts relies heavily on knowledge, training, experience, healing and wisdom. This library is designed to provide as much information as possible on all areas of study, whether it be physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. To help sort through the high volume of information, categories have been used.

The Core will contain key and foundational videos, recordings or documents that every student should go through prior to moving on with other content. Without the basic teachings, it is common for people to get confused or misinterpret the work being done. This is especially true of people want to work towards decolonization and freedom. It is recommended that people attend the Sacred Heart Circles and start here.

The Decolonization category will hold all recordings and documents that come out of the Decolonization classes. The majority of them will be audio recordings, but there will be some documents from time to time.

The Sanctuary is where meditations and other spiritually related material will be placed. This is a space where and individual can come to listen to those meditations or find other local or external resources to help with their spiritual journey.

The Gym will hold videos to help us connect to our physical body through breathing exercises, warm ups, stretching and other physical activities based on the ancient teachings of the martial arts.

The Repository will contain miscellaneous documents, URL’s to external websites, videos, audios and other resources that are important to the study of the Pacem Arts.

There will be two blogs, one for the public and another just for students. Both blogs will be accessible within the library and the public blog will also be accessible on the home page for the public to view. Students will have access to both as current events, specific insights, teachings, etc is shared through the blogs to help challenge or facilitate training in the Pacem Arts.

Rights vs Responsibilities

Posted on February 28, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Exploring the difference between rights and responsibilities is a profound concept when exploring how we can decolonize ourselves. Isaac Murdock made a public post a few days ago on Facebook, which spawned this discussion. You can connect with Isaac and his post on this link.

I encourage people to go visit Isaac as I like his teachings and I learn much from him. This class also had a lot of profound things being said, but I wanted to highlight something that Danielle said at the very end. Her words spawned an idea on how I can explain the principles I’m trying to express.

“We each have an innate response that either fight, flight, freeze or fawn, in the moment, but if you can catch yourself, if you can catch that split second where there is a choice to be made, if you can catch it, it is very, very very subtle, very muted, very quick and it goes by in a second, but if you can catch it there is always a choice. In certain moments of that experience, I was able to pinpoint certain moments of choice.” D.L.

Recorded on February 28, 2021

Deconstructing Constitution of Republic of Alberta / Natural Law

Posted on February 21, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Tonight’s class had profound implications on our interpretation of Natural Law, the Law of Love and how we implement that in our lives. The discussions as we explored the constitutional document brought up some important moral and ethical questions. In the end, this class was not about the constitutional document at all but ended up being a confrontation of our selves and the foundations of how we govern self and interact with others in our lives, whether they are a part of our tribe or still a part of the colonial empires.

Be prepared to be confronted with questions that most people have not contemplated but is important to ask, especially when exploring finding alternatives forms of governance to counter act the violence of the state and the world war that continues to rage on around us. How do we peacefully stand up as a witness to it all and testify to what we see? Well that depends on what moral and ethical foundations we stand on. Very tough questions were asked tonight and it may take months or years to fully explore what those answers look like.

Recorded February 21, 2021

Project Management Techniques for Tribe Development

Posted on February 7, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Back in 2005 I graduated from the N.A.I.T. Project Management program, which also reinforced a lot of the principles I learned during recovery as well. I was moved to draw upon that training and the years of project management experience in the IT industry to help build stronger relationships within tribes. While the scope is different, the intent and spirit is very much the same.

I was talking to Claude and he also reminded me of the masculine and feminine energies involved in this process as well. When going through this journey, the beginning part involves strong feminine energies, where inclusion, involvement and making sure all is heard and the problems are flushed out and identified. The following processes involve masculine energy, where solutions are identified and targeted objectives are reached to bring about the results. This dance between the feminine and masculine is within each of us, but also between us as well and upon reflecting on this journey, this process is a good introduction on how the two energies can work together for the betterment of each individual and the whole tribe.

I also want to make it clear that my intent is to help facilitate this process for people to learn and integrate within their own tribes. I also believe it is our duty to hold space for one another along this path. While most are not currently willing to do this work, by walking the path and leading by example, it is my prayer that it inspires others to find that will and learn the skills, heal and participate in a way of life that is very different than the one currently facilitating our relationships and controlling our lives. By using techniques learned through tried and tested project management protocols in business, industry, etc, we can target those lessons to help us with our day to day relationship challenges as we explore decolonizing and working on rebuilding our lost tribes. This is done in the spirit of peace, decolonization and tribe building.

To break down the process, I surveyed the tribe to see where they are currently at. This can be done with 10 or 12 simple questions to see how people are feeling, allowing them to rate each one from 0 to 9.

Next step involves doing a root cause analysis. I used ideas from the project management course to do this, but this site comes close to what I did.

I then performed another survey of the group to prioritize the problems. By addressing the top 20%, we can address 80% of the problems (80:20 rule).

We then brainstorm solutions for those top 20% and then assign teams to work through the details of prioritizing and working on implementing those solutions.

Each team will then report back to the group and obtain a consensus on the solutions. When consensus is obtain, they solutions can then be implemented.

I will then perform another satisfaction survey to see if we actually improved the situation for the tribe. That is measured by an increase in satisfaction within the tribe.

Recorded January 31, 2021

Income Taxes

Posted on January 24, 2021 by White Walking Feather

I know that a few people in class did not necessarily hear what the wanted to hear. I want to clarify a few points for those listening to this audio recording.

If you are wanting to play their game, you will need to do a lot of research and studying. I looked into walking this path years ago, but for me it took way too much energy. This is the foundation behind me choosing to get out rather than play the game. Either way, risks are involved as with anything in life. Some people are good at thinking on their feet and dealing with confrontation, stressful situations, etc. Some people are not so good at it. In the end, as with anything in life, checking in with your heart to help you decide what to do is the only way to go. I don’t ever want people to make choices without checking in with themselves. All I can do is share my experiences and I pray that people ‘see’ and ‘hear’ the conversations in this class for what is being shared.

As always, the choice always remains with the individual. I hope this class helps.

Recorded January 24, 2021

UNDRIP, Decolonization & Reconciliation

Posted on January 17, 2021 by White Walking Feather

We dived into the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Canada’s implementation through Bill C-15, which lead to the Constitution Act of 1982, Royal Proclamation of 1763, Treaty 6 of 1876 and a lengthy discussion of jurisdiction, decolonization and reconciliation. It was a heavy class, but well worth the effort to explore what the UN and Canada is not doing and where the true reconciliation will come from … each individual doing the work! I hope you enjoy the discussions. If you have questions or feel moved to share your thoughts, feel free to leave a comment below.

Recorded January 17, 2021

Colonization History & Love

Posted on January 10, 2021 by White Walking Feather

Batchelor, Lawrence R., 1887-1961., Public domain

Tonight we reviewed the 2000+ year history of colonization in Europe and it’s migration to Turtle Island, along with some key moments that had a huge impact on the whole process. While we were discussing law forms between these fictional constructs, we got onto the Law of Love and that ended the class in a beautiful way. I hope you enjoy the class. Homework for class next week, so make sure you check out the beginning and end of the class for the assignment.

Recorded January 10, 2021

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