Corey Hess Healing Arts

10/29/2024

Someone asked me recently if I am still doing in-person healing sessions. I guess they thought I was just teaching now. Well the answer is yes, I definitely am still working with people 1:1 in-person.

I am doing about half in-person sessions, and half teaching classes, doing distance sessions, and mentoring. Thanks!

09/11/2024

https://youtu.be/ZnOlZ8xaOTo?feature=shared
A few moments of Non-directed standing in our retreat in Denmark.

08/16/2024

I have a beginner class starting in about 40 minutes at 8 AM Pacific time for anyone who would like to join. If you’ve been interested but not sure where to start, this could be a great chance.

We’ll do some simple warm-ups, some static postures, some movement, work on getting into our bodies, plant some seeds for developing a sense of how to creatively interact with our internal energies.

Donations welcome! It’s a sweet, good hearted class.

Please DM me for link.

05/30/2024

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https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/reassurance-and-friendship-on-the?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

05/25/2024

https://zenembodiment.com/2017/06/09/bob-dylan-folk-songs-koans-and-the-transmission-of-art/

Something I wrote a while back. Posting in honor of his birthday yesterday.

Today I was listening to Bob Dylan’s lecture to the Nobel foundation (it is a requirement for all winners to give a lecture), hearing him talk about his formative time as an artist, playing m…

05/21/2024

“The current level I am allowing to happen is something familiar to me. I know the map. I understand that dimension.  But the new level of opening there beneath the surface is a new dimension. I have to allow something to happen which my system feels is unknowable and does not understand at all. I cannot understand it. If I understood it, my system would just naturally allow it to happen. But this is a new way of relating to life, a new way of relating to my process, and this requires an incredible amount of creativity and expansion. “

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/we-must-find-our-own-way-some-notes?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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05/14/2024

This is an older post from my Zen Embodiment blog. It is one of my favorites. I will make a new post about the Second Breath soon so I am putting this out beforehand. If you want to know what this work is about, please check this out.

Thanks and please subscribe, share, like, etc. your support is so helpful and appreciated!

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/the-second-breath?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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05/07/2024

When I was younger

I knew there was truth, but had no real faith in anything

I saw that everything changes. Everything is continually changing

But I needed to find out, is there something that does not change?

In my experience, there was chaos, Noise in front of my experience. I could not touch life directly, but lived through this screen of noise

I studied ideas, but ideas were always changing. Ideas were exciting, but always changing, so ideas could not be that which is unchanging

Practice, meditation, states would come and go, even deep states, amazing states

But was there something which did not come and go?

I could hold onto nothing. I could grasp nothing. Everything was fleeting

And so I set out to discover something that was always there. That did not go away

In my lowest point of desperation, when I was very ill, I finally saw that there was something always there, which did not go away. Something closer to me than technique or skill. It did not require that I do anything for it to happen. Or to be good at it or skillful.

It was where I was already

I called it a second breath, but it was really just the vein of life

Touching this directly changed my life

I rode it through that screen of noise to an open vista. This is a death. And rebirth

And so I then began exploring what I could do and it still be there.?

Was it there when I was walking? Talking? Sitting in the wrong posture? Having s*x? Thinking?

I tested it

And yes, it required me to feel and listen to it. This was like listening to the most delicate thread of silk. It’s like being obliterated by the wind. Being in the center of all things.

But it was always there.

So my life became about that, and I have never had a doubt since.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/everything-is-changing-but-what-is?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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Thank you all so much for the support. !

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05/01/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/integrating-practice-into-daily-life?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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Thank you so much for supporting this work!

04/23/2024

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“At a certain point, this process is no longer an energy moving through us and interacting with other energies. This fascination with energy shifts to a spectrum of unity. Life being lived, relating with itself.

Everything is in this true mind. It is absolute and relative. It is you and me and everything and also without substance.

Thoughts of love or you and me disappear in this harmonizing, in this fluid field of oneness. It moves in and out and is effortless. It is everywhere and can’t be hidden. A clear autumn moonlight night. A baby cries, a bird fluttering through the air. Empty, it is the Sword of Prajna. It takes a long time to learn to wield it. We feel like unskillful fools for a long time. But it will feel unmistakably right. Our heart will burst open in it.

Instead of praying to God, we will be constantly listening to God with our total being. And letting go into this will spontaneously bring great wisdom instead of from a place of manipulating.”

04/12/2024

“I’m actually interested in our subjectivity. Pure opinion. Pure feeling.  Pure emotion. Nothing objective.  And in that, there is the universal
I want you to challenge what you assume is real or unreal.  I want you to move into a life of wonder and what Kazuo Ohno called, madness“

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/living-in-madness-splitting-the-void?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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04/04/2024

Those who are struggling with life.

Physically, psychologically.

Can’t find a way to feel good in life.

What if there was a way to study your experience, and see where you are in the way of life?

What if that could be a physical process?

What if there was a way to grab hold of our experience and change how we relate to it?

What if in that grabbing hold of our experience, we saw that we are not alone, life talks back to us.

What if we saw that we could let go and that life would hold us.

That it is always holding us.

We are held by life.

We are living in a sea of support.

The environment around us is that support, and we just have to learn to feel that support and give in to it.

Where we are lacking trust in this, we are gripping for dear life.

And our job is to let go of that grip and be held.

And that being held will melt out of us and hold others.

Our faith in this, our being a vessel for this, saves others.

In this we are saved.

But it is not even about our own salvation, as we see that there is something much more happening.

What a relief, we can surrender and that surrendering just increases that being held, that love through us.

It’s okay if we don’t understand it, we just give in, surrender, and it transforms us.

















https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/to-those-struggling-with-life?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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04/01/2024

Please join us for our 4 week online immersion. Starting tomorrow.

This immersion is for anyone wishing to go deeper into their own personal creative internal process. Beginners or advanced practitioners will find a way to plug into this group. Dancers, meditators, embodiment teachers, artists, healers, etc will find these practices a venue to explore their process more deeply.

Practices will include qigong, Zhan Zhuang, creative movement, seated and standing meditation, etc.

This is a welcoming, talented, and supportive community of practitioners working and playing together. The group energy is quite tangible.

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03/29/2024

Most of you will never do Koans, and you don’t need to.

This post is not about presenting esoteric aspects of koans, or glorifying them, but about personal discovery

Practice is about discovery

And one thing working with Koans showed me was that

In the process of creatively engaging with a koan

I could grab the old master and I could know them

I could become them, become the Old Master

I could know their mind in real time

Part of what that revealed to me, in the sandbox of engaging openly, as it was essentially impossible, was that I could become other things.

I could become other situations

Situations in my life

I could become moments.

I could touch people and know them.

I could feel into life and know it intimately

I could even touch people in another

location across the world.

Life was much more permeable than I had thought

Touching things, knowing them, is not based on time and space

They are just different situations we can know

Different flavors to meet

And You can touch things

You can know things.

You can feel them and know them

You can grab the Old Master. Know them

You can touch the person in front of you and know them

You can feel situations, become them, know them

You’ve got to learn to get out of the way.
It isn’t like you imagined.

This is your playground, this present moment is so huge

I can’t stress enough that you must be in this place of fascination and discovery

It’s impossible. Let go of that mind. Feel into it. You can do it.



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03/26/2024

https://coreyhess.substack.com/p/true-practice-makes-us-into-innocent

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I very much appreciate the support! Please enjoy!

03/19/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/how-non-directed-body-movement-shaped?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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03/12/2024

My early days of discovering practice.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coreyhess/p/life-is-being-lived-how-non-directed?r=3all0u&utm_medium=ios

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03/11/2024

Join us at the Heart of Wisdom Temple in Portland Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm!