Dear Friends,

My New Equations year started April 2007 with the first class. From that time on I have felt a deepening of my being as I have found my soul strength grow over the year. What has happened to me is best described as a peaceful and full feeling about my place in this world, understanding the connection to others, and a realization of my part in making our world more peaceful . Although I have always been a loving person there has been a gradual quiet feeling of love for all people regardless of how I might have felt towards them before.

I have also learned to feel with my body, not process the world in my head (this will take more work of course). I have been able to practice the concept that "their will be enough time" and I can actually move slower and still get everything accomplished. This is an ST1 problem or at least it has been for me. I have begun to slow down it without processing it in my head.

Most recently I have felt myself connecting at a deep level to others. One example would be a consulting job, it involves the news media and other opposing political forces and could be stressful. The person who hired me to manage the issue said to me recently " you are so very present and not stressed. It helps me to talk with you." His words were interesting because I know I have changed but it must be obvious to others. A nice reinforcement, although the feeling of peace, connection, and love for others is beautiful enough for me.

The work I have done in my personal life this year has been huge. The year was a dramatic one- I retired, moved to a new state to live with my new "husband" ( a bachelor), tended to my mother's 3 surgeries , placed her in an assisted living apartment, and negotiated with my 5 siblings to clean and sell the family home. Through this I remained calm, very sensitive to force, happy, and woke each day to practice and learn more about my soul strength and the joys of living with intention. I have so much more to learn but it has been a very good year. The NE growth had deepened my life.

Joyfully,
Sally Latimer, Ed.D
Soultype 1

Life’s Journey With New Equations

New Equations has been an integral part of my life for the past 8 years. Two years ago a school was created. It has been instrumental in helping create a life that is fulfilling beyond my wildest imagination! It has helped in manifesting an exquisite family life. Work is now play. Life itself is an adventure rather than something that one endures. We dream about living life in a way that brings us happiness and fulfillment in magnificent abundance. New Equations has been and continues to be the ignitor.

To be more specific, I embrace change. My being is in service of the world and I am learning to give without an agenda. I am not letting the ego run life. When it is, I can consciously recover. It is wonderful to create life by letting go of what is not working. By aligning with all that is good and following the path of life that is fully alive, everything becomes easier. Having mental clarity so that the mental chaos doesn’t feel overwhelming, guides me. Learning to be with another in a way that serves the relationship enriches everyone. It is wonderful to feel the joy of being alive, in a body, and being connected to the spirit! It is refreshing connecting deeply to our inner being. In taking this time to center, relationship with self enhances the relationships with others. From here we are connected intimately with everyone and everything. Having it all come together and going with the flow of life, we can dance with whatever we choose or chooses us. New Equations gives me the basis for living my highest value. I can consciously “Be the change I want to see in the world!” The world of New Equations has been the vehicle for achieving a magical life!

Mike Fricke
Soultype 8

The second year of the New Equations school has been one of assimilation of learning into my body and a much deeper understanding of myself and others. There is so much to learn in the first year and it does take time to integrate it all. I am much more at peace with myself through learning what "no force" and "non-judgment of self and others" means. I have always been a high achiever and it has been good to relieve myself of that burden.

It has also been one of refinement of the understanding of the basic concepts of New Equations. There is a joy that fills the body when you practice New Equations principles. It allows you to see the world in a different way... a more peaceful way. Now with the discovery of the triads, my life has truly changed. Through the integration of other energies I feel I am a much more well rounded human being. And I am just beginning to understand the full impact of it.

The New Equations journey takes you to many uncharted lands within yourself and is sometimes stormy, sometimes frustrating, and always joyful and enlightening to the human soul.

Allan Komarek
Soultype 4

My name is Anita Costa and I am a ST 3. I could tell you what New Equations has done for me, for my children, for my relationships; all of which are amazing. What has me really excited, being a student of New Equations, is the glimpses I have for what is possible for the human race, the planet, if we all embrace this new way of being.

What would it be like to live in a world where every person is honored, where every person is included, where every person knows their gift that they bring to the whole and where the community counts on each person contributing their gifts? A community where every person feels safe, where no-one has to prove themselves, no one has to feel as though no-one listens to them or no-one understands them, where no-one has to fight to have their voice heard. What would it be like to live in a world where people are not in it for themselves? A world where people give more than they take? A community/world where we all know that we are in this together, we are all on the same side? My 10 year-old daughter, Mikayla, recently asked me why adults are not listening to the children. She knows that she has something valuable to say. "Why do people make the poor people wrong? Why are the grown-ups not taking care of the trees and the earth?" she asks. She wants to make a DVD where she can convey her ideas and then "maybe people will listen to a 10 year-old". Imagine a community where we listen to the young ones with curiosity and we honor creative ideas. Imagine a world where we know we all need one another? Imagine a community where we honor the elders and have them feel a vital part of the whole?

Sounds great. Sounds very different from the world we find ourselves in today. So how does this happen?

It actually all starts with you -this is what you will learn about in the New Equations School. Through body-based learning you will discover how to really honor yourself. You will get to know yourself and your strengths in the deepest and most authentic way possible. You will realize that most people cannot do what you do naturally and that the world needs more of your gifts. You will know that you are a vital part of the whole. And once you get clear with who you are, you are then available to be in relationship with others in a deep, authentic, honoring way. When we move away from our "ego-centric " or "me" world to the world as it is in real time, you open yourself up to a whole new level of consciousness.

"The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us..." -- Morihei Ueshiba, ST -6
When we honor the divine within ourselves, when we honor the divine in each other, we can create a world where everyone is honored and growth happens that moves humanity forward. A world of love and peace.

There is a lot here we do not know. What I do know is that Alan and Barbara are showing us a new way. What I also know is when you are on the right track, there is ease and flow and the the right people show up. I look forward to our journey together!

Anita Costa
Soultype 3

When I look back over the last 2 years of being in the school and remember
that in signing up for the school I had 2 clear goals: the first was to try
and understand what the heck it was all about, the second one was that if a
miracle might happened I might find a way to soul type.

2 years on, I can't believe how limited my thinking was, there is so much
more to this than learning to soul type. This training operates on so many
levels, that I don't know if I can try and explain it in a few paragraphs.

The first thing to name, is that for much of the training I feel like how
Harry Potter feels when he is standing at Paddington station looking and
going through the stone wall at platform 9 3/4/. I just love the sense of
being a part of something that is truly different, so much so that I don't
have a clue what is next, funny, and yet incredibly real and can touch
humanity in a way that I and humanity for that matter, does not know how.

The next thing is that training has taught me to create my inner calmness
and yet own my intensity, and not back away from it, or if I do, I am
conscious of when I do this and get back in there with the tools that are
available. It continues to teach me how to make connections that I thought
only belonged in some fairytale, or some Hollywood production. It has
touched a deep spiritual part of me I thought was only available in the
afterlife.

I used to think I was an enlightened individual, that I knew how different
we all were and that I valued the diversity. I just did not have a clue,
and can say now that I am more available to accept the fact that each soul
type brings such a different perspective of life, that previously I did just
see people as an extension of myself..... and this will be a work in
progress for life.

It continues to teach me about how my ego can get in the way and I know now
that when I am aligned physically and spiritually life is a more delicious
place to live, for me and those around me.

There is just so much more to this, that I am sure in future generations
they will laugh at our ineptness to see the obvious.

Ann Stevenson
Soultype 5

My experience of New Equations has been to stretch beyond known paradigms and open myself to a new awareness of integrity in my body and of the flow of energy within my body. I have gained a new confidence and ease in my body and in my interactions as I have learned to stand in and move from my soul strength energy.

I have learned to identify and begin releasing attitudes and behaviors
that have limited my ability for deep connection with others --- such as approval seeking and judging of myself and others. This has been possible through the supportive and positive community found in New Equations. I love the laughter and joy we feel when we are together and the depth of meaningful and moving moments as well.

Before I started this program I wondered if we were just creating a new set of boxes in which to place each other and if this had any relevance. I am now intrigued that this process helps all of us to see and understand ourselves and each other in a new way. I have been given an opportunity to know how vastly different the 8 other soultypes experience the world. It added a
new layer of understanding of how intelligent people can see the same thing so differently. This frees me to engage others from a place of great respect for diversity and an honoring of the gifts we each need to bring forth to create balance and healing in our world.

Anne Pierskalla
Soultype 8

One year ago, I was on the cusp of discovering a new way of being. I had gotten Soul Typed and really didn't understand what being a Soul Type One meant. I had seen the change in a person that is very close to me and I knew that she was living more in the present and coming more from her soul. How that was going to take hold in me, I had no idea.

Fast forward to one year later. I have over 50 new friends that are closer to me than family. I have traveled within the US and Europe to continue my New Equations training by learning a new way to bring my gifts forward. I have found a peace within me that has brought a softness and a light to my life and my relationships. I have internal resources to handle any situation and to treat others with dignity and respect, honoring them for who they are and what they bring to the situation. I have learned to give more than I take, to live with the intention of leaving any interaction better than when I joined it and to bring my gifts fully to all situations. I have witnessed the joy on someone's face and in their body as they connect soul-to-soul with another person. I have felt what it means to be fully alive in my body so that it can feel and interpret the energy around me. I know what it feels like to be completely joined in love, peace and harmony with nature, God and man.

I originally thought that New Equations was some kind of personal development training that I could use to re-ignite my career in training and development. What I have gotten, is far beyond my initial expectations. Words cannot express what I have found here. I have a new relationship with myself that transfers to all of my relationships. The stronger I become in my Soul Strength, the more alive my passion becomes to bring my gifts to humanity. When I am at my strongest Soul Strength, I no longer put myself and my needs first. I live from my heart, I do the things that serve us all and celebrate the joy of connection.

As a Soul Type One, it is easy to see the beauty in you. What I learned in New Equations is that I can also see the beauty in me. When I let my inner beauty shine, I allow myself to go beyond the surface of my interaction with you and go deeply into a connection with your soul and mine. Words are insufficient in describing that feeling that transcends time and space. What I am left with is a moment that is indelibly etched in my inner being that is nurtured and cherished for my lifetime. For those moments and this new way of being, I am grateful.

Anne Dundorf
Soultype 1
Charlotte, NC

New Equations has been a part of my life for about 10 years now. It has influenced dramatically how I hold my relationship with myself as well as how I interact with the world around me. The deep body learning that I have developed with the on-going training and school experiences has allowed me to trust that deepest knowing in my soul and has led to a peace and calmness as I interact with others in the world. The understanding that there are nine different realities and being able to experience the differences of how these realities manifest themselves in the physical body has allowed me to be more compassionate and accepting of others differences as well as being in gratitude of the unique gifts that each of us brings to the world.

Jerry Boardman
Soultype 9

I returned home from New Equations Retreat three, nineteen days before my Mother died, with an experience of precious contentment. I had a sense of being so right with planet, it almost hurt. The vigor of that connection pulsed through me, quieted me and slowed me down. I moved through the daily chores of taking care of my Mother with a new attentiveness, time had no meaning. The tasks of everyday life were elevated to sacred rituals.....Let me be very honest here...the description of this time may sound melodramatic or heavy handed but the combination of one’s Mother being terminally ill and having experiences of connecting to Source, at the NE Retreat, are enough to make any gal sound a little over the top. What I am trying to say is, this NE retreat and the two before it prepared me in the most profound way for what I was about to know, my Mother’s death.

Catharine Reid
Soultype 8

In my first year of The New School I became more aware of Source energy. It became real for me in a way that I never could have imagined before.

In the New School learning is a wonderfully alive, never-ending process of discovery.The second year brought continued learning about and practice embodying my own soul, as well as huge learning about and appreciation of the distinct expressions and gifts of all the nine soultypes.
Pivotal for me in the second year was the awareness of how, when one is aligned with one’s own soul, there is NO FORCE. Being in a place of NO FORCE is essential to learning to soultype, and it is a concept that is hard to describe. NO FORCE is a dynamic joyful dance that one does with oneself, with other, with the earth and all around us. And, this is not in general how most of us have been taught to be in this world. So, NO FORCE requires a new awareness and lots of letting go.

At times it seems we will do almost anything not to let go of the ways that we operate in our lives even if those ways involve force and do not get us what we truly want. The New School is a place of letting go of what keeps us from soul connection, and a place one finds and strengthens the capacity in each of us for true soul connection.

The container in which all this learning, growing and shifting happens is the New Equations School community. For me it has been and continues to be a community like no other.

Catherine Dickey
Soultype 4

I can’t write about my relationship to New Equations and especially to Alan and Barbara without talking about the deaths of my parents. My mother died unexpectedly last March, 2007 and my dad followed in May, 2007. With both parents, I was able to utilize my knowledge of our soul types to facilitate their crossing over into the light. Because I was not able to physically be with my mother (ST 1) at the moment of her death (that is another story), I will say a few words about my father’s death.

My father, John ST 6, died on May 10 after a very short illness. Alan was scheduled to arrive in Minnesota May 11 to stay at our home and lead a workshop for interns and students. Alan’s decision to stay with us in spite of my Dad’s recent death was one of the most loving acts (and I’ve seen many) by Alan and Barbara. While I had known that my facilitation of Dad’s death was deeply enriched by my ability to hold ST 6 energy, connect on a soul level with him, speak ST 6 language to him as he found the path, and go partway with him into the light, it was Alan’s subsequent, careful guidance and listening to my story that helped me to more fully own and embody the experience.

With Alan’s help, I retrieved a body memory of Dad’s soul leaving his body through his heart, the movement center for ST 6. At the time of his death, I had held his heart for about 20 minutes after the life support had been stopped until the cessation of his breathing, another 15 minutes for his heart to stop beating, and another 15 minutes or so until the drum-like vibration in his chest stopped. I have never felt such profound love and peace. The sound I heard and felt in my body was indescribable. At the time, I referred to it as a “loud silence” and I later recognized it in the Great Pyramid King’s Chamber music we heard at the next school session.

My experience has left me with a body- learning of death and going into the light that was possible because of my New Equations training that includes being with intensity and plunging into the unknowable. I can tap into and share my experience in my continued New Equations training as we all strive to create and sustain soul-to-soul connections. It is this energy of the light that I feel is the well or eternal source from which I can draw while practicing the words “give more than you take.”

Theresa Fricke
Soultype 4

The NEO Training program provides a path to take a profound inner journey into discovering one's soul. This journey will open the door to your soul’s beauty, strengthens and in the end answers an inner yearning.

Felicity Peniston
Soultype 7

This year I am frequently struck by the way that Alan and Barbara model the principles that we aspire to:

1. No judgement, positive or negative of self or others
2. Use no force
3. Give more that you take

To be on the receiving end of these principles is inspiring, moving me to practice these behaviors in my daily life. The impact on me and those around me is transformative.

Gerina Gaffney
Soultype 1

One of my favorite joys is being with my friends as they are soul typed. It so enriches our connection and gives us new and wonderful and completely positive ways to play and deepen life together. Knowing my soul type has helped me understand my talents better and celebrate the different talents in those around me. The differences become more and more beautiful and more and more complementary.

Gwyndolyn Grace
Soultype 5

New Equations has meant a new identity for me, a new learning about myself that has changed every aspect of my life.  Through the work at New Equations, I have discovered a part of myself that was always there but needed to be uncovered, an integral part of me—my soultype and my soulstrength.  When I access my soul strength I am filled with a new form of energy, a wonderful, warm, endless energy.  I feel deeply connected with myself and with the world, the earth, nature, and all the beautiful souls around me. 

I have gained a deeper understanding of the nine soultypes and have learned how different each soultype family is and yet how each is integral to the whole.  I have learned to appreciate and understand the vast differences between these soul families.  I am learning to not enter into judgment.  I am learning to quiet my mind so I can listen to my body. I am learning to trust my body and what it tells me. I am learning to wait for truth to emerge so I can follow and live by that truth.

There is nothing more delicious than a clean soul-to-soul connection.

In New Equations, I have gained a whole new family of friends.  This family wants to pursue this work in order to find a better way to live, to take care of the planet, to find peace and harmony in humankind.  We are deeply committed to this work, to its integrity, to its cleanliness and to bringing it out in the world in service of the whole.

Hillarry Werhane
Soultype 9

My introduction to the New Equations work 10 years ago fundamentally shifted the way I understand and experience myself and others. The physical typing process left me with a profound sense of familiarity and ‘rightness’ of my own soultype. What I experienced was deep, real and enduring; I recognized this instantly and the feeling has never subsided.

Aligning my life with the innate wisdom of my soultype and opening myself to receive the wisdom of other soultypes has been a much longer journey of discovery. This journey feels as familiar and ‘right’ as my experience of being soultyped. I joined the New Equations school because it offers a precious opportunity as a group to do just this. Everything in me knows that the way forward is together. There is nowhere that I would rather be than joining with others to strengthen the blossoming of this wisdom in the world.

Jen Rusk
Soultype 9

It is hard to believe that I have almost completed my first year of study and training with New Equations.  It is difficult to find words to describe this year, but just a few are…awesome, incredible, unimaginable transformation, and soulful community building that brings glimpses of the unifying potential for living in a world that acknowledges, utilizes and lives from each individual’s unique and indispensible soul gifts.

AWESOME, is an adjective that will barely suffice in explaining itself.  I love the setting chosen for our learning.  Held on the IONS campus in the Sonoma hills north of San Francisco, I can feel its rich geological history, current landscape, and abundant wildlife cradling and nurturing us throughout our New Equation training days.  

Awesome also describes the IONS staff.  Administration… has been very attentive in helping resolve critical needs.  Culinary… mmmmmmm, I wouldn’t have imagined food so healthy and so delicious, for so many!  And I don’t have to do anything except fill my plate and enjoy the company of my colleagues.  And the service staff members are always polite and helpful making “service” a word they live by with full integrity.  

Then there are the wonderful masseuses and body workers that are brought in to attend to keeping our bodies as finely tuned as possible throughout the physically rigorous days of movement.  It’s sheer heaven.   

And last, but certainly not least, Alan, Barbara, and Jenna, thank you for shepherding us through our learning, with the assistance of the interns of the class of 2006/2007.  I am amazed that you are able to do this, all while living and modeling to the best of your abilities the school principal of “no force” allowing each individual’s path of learning to unfold in it’s own time with no judgment, even when bodies and minds are very, very, full, and most probably very, very tired.  
These are just a few examples of the awesomeness I’ve experienced.

INCREDIBLE, see “awesome” above.  And then add learning that cannot be found anywhere else in the world.  Participating in the cutting edge learning that is constantly unfolding organically, from tracks found in antiquity, and is always going where no one has gone before is truly an incredible experience.   

UNIMAGINABLE TRANSFORMATION, there is transformation and then…there is transformation!  I have not spoken with any intern or student who has not acknowledged that this work has contributed greatly to our personal growth, the growth of our personal relationships, and created greater depth of connections with our families and communities.  And I understand this, as it has been my personal experience as well.  I believe that together, we are building a foundation for the possibility of soul led, soulful living across the planet.  If we can accomplish that, there is nothing that we cannot accomplish.  Personally, I can feel that there is an ongoing inner metamorphosis which has transcended and made good use of the foundation of the many systems of learning and knowledge I have participated in previously.  There are few words for it.  It is a sense in my body that my cells are shifting and realigning.  It is a realization that I am ever shifting to even more Being and less doing.  I am curious and wonder where it will lead me.

SOULFUL COMMUNITY BUILDING always seems present during and in between training sessions as we facilitate each other’s learning processes.  I have witnessed, received and given patience, compassion, love, support and assistance, laughter and tears.   I wonder at the experiences that are unfolding, and stand in anticipation of the realization of living in a world that acknowledges, utilizes and lives from each individual’s unique and indispensable soul gifts.  The international commitment, of this community, to bring the learning of New Equations to the world is a goal held near and dear to my heart.

And so, a year filled with awesome, incredible, unimaginable transformation, and soulful community building is coming to a close. It has been a year that has brought glimpses of the unifying potential for living in a world that acknowledges, utilizes and lives from each individual’s unique and indispensable soul gifts.  As I reflect upon this year, I am aware that we are always at choice, and choosing well is choosing the most alive path.  I rejoice that I chose to spend this year with New Equations.  It has been a year well lived with no regrets! 
With anticipation of more to come,

NE training program has deepened my learning about my self and other. When I look back I have been part of a change that had never occurred without this science. I have developed myself so much and learned how to lead others. The last year has been an amazing journey. All the training and learning I have had through these years with NE I have used in my daily life – private and professional. Block by block has been laid down and created a fundament for my life. Important building blocks with my spiritual and physical body, with people and with my soul.

My spiritual growth has been in many dimensions and there is so much more to explore.
I have learned more about my impact. How I can lead coming from my soul strength and how that make me understand much more of the reality I am in.

My physical body has changed a lot. I am now much more aware of how and when to exercise, rest, sleep and eat food that gives me energy. I have learned to access the information from my body through knowing how to stay with self.

My relationship with people has changed. I have learned that being authentic me and live my life the way that keep me in balance and harmony will bring more to the people around me. I have learned to create deep connections with other people and honour them for who they are. Everyday I meet so many inspiring people that teach me about life.

My soul's wisdom guides me to the place of serving a bigger purpose. I have learned and experienced that serving a bigger purpose is giving more than you take and that will lead to many new interesting directions and magical moments.

My relationship with New Equation has opened a new door to consciousness and taught me about how I can live my life in a more fulfilling way. I am now creating a life with more wisdom, joy, love and growth.

Love the aliveness of the earth

Kaja Magnussen
Soultype 8

I’ve been trying to write this for weeks. Words can’t possibly capture the extraordinary expansiveness that I’ve experienced in my being:

· Experiencing the New Equations School Community as a living organism

· Honoring the magnificent differences of the 9 soul strengths embodied in my colleagues

· A knowing that judgment is piercing like an arrow

· Making soul to soul connections with others

· Feeling the ONEness of all humanity

· Having Alan and Barabara’s teachings land with great impact

This school is like no other. It is not a school where the curriculum is developed, written down in words and static. It is experiential and is constantly evolving. We are on a magnificent journey together of growing the New Equations body of work in service of humanity.

Kay Dundorff
Soultype 6

Right now what comes to me is about joy...
a joy that includes riotous, tear provoking laughter, the kind that just happens and then you can't stop even though you can't remember why you were ever laughing to begin with...
it's a joy that also encompasses peace, a peacefulness that comes from within yourself and can be accessed no matter what your external circumstances might be...
it's also a joy that comes from a place of being in service, not a sacrificing service, but an inclusive kind, the kind that takes yourself and the rest of your fellow human souls into account...

This joy is about the body and its relationship to that all-encompassing, unlimited Source of well-being...
it's about an experience of being so deeply connected with each bodily cell that you feel a passion unlike anything you ever imagined possible...
there is happiness here, in this space of intensely satisfying connections with others...
Before my work with New Equations I had never understood or imagined what was possible simply by working with my body in certain, specific and quite interesting ways to make this alignment with soul and access to Source so available...

laughter, peacefulness, passion, service... ...joy...

Laurel Avery
Soultype 7

I first heard of Soul-typing from some of my teachers at CTI (Co-Active coaching education). I did not pay any attention at that time. I was later, in 2005, introduced to NewEquations by Kaja (senior student). Alan and Barbara typed me in Norway 2006 as a ST5. For me it was an amazing experience to feel the strength in my body and to be acknowledged for the gift I have got, and what I am able to bring into the world.

In early 2006 I thought going to school in San Francisco would be both financially and practically impossible for me…..but things just started to happen and to be honest I cannot really say why I joined school, but I am totally satisfied with my journey. To be able to have the experience from New Equations learning, as  basic knowledge of human beings, has given me a new dimension both in being with (connect with) myself, my family, friends and others.

I have got a new toolbox where the tools are being invented in the process when needed! What I mean is that as the more I trust and am able to stand in/with the unknown, I develop my relationships and being

 I think we all search for harmony, and the tolerance needed to be able to be who we really are. New Equations has made it possible for me to see myself in a different perspective and consequently see others for who they are. When you are able to have real soul to soul connections, it brings out feelings you  never knew existed. And it does not matter whom you connect with, we are all beautiful souls that want to be explored, loved and seen.
I have got my whole family soul-typed (my husband and five children) and it is a blessing being able to see and meet them from their place of being.

 Other benefits from NewEquations are a lot of new friends from all over the world. Wonderful people using the same “compass” or “navigation system” even though we are on different journeys.

Lill Alver
Soultype 5

I have become calmer inside – the turmoil of being in certain situations where I mess up with all the useless, historical, judgements, and where I seem to just go down the same path at the flip of a switch, has changed into something so much richer. This is the place where I can now honour the other people from the secure position of accepting and honouring myself. What a difference this has made. I am so enjoying the liberating effect that this has had on every aspect of my life. And the happiness just bubbles up from inside. And I can see how many of the people around me need this liberation (my perception of course). I would love to be able to assist fellow South Africans to experience this. Probably in a changing society such as we have here, it is so much more important that we see the bigger picture and appreciate those around us for the specialness that each one brings.

Kind regards

Linda Costa
Soultype 7

I remember the night that I was SoulTyped by Alan Sheets like it happened yesterday instead of nearly 10 years ago (Aug 21, 1998).  I knew that night that something very meaningful and significant had just happened to my body and my soul felt it’s calling.  The past 9 ½ years have been a continuous journey of deepening the experiences of my soultype (ST2) and learning how to trust my body to guide me in connections with the other 8 soultypes.

The culmination of this year with the New Equations School has offered unbelievable opportunities to nurture the work and to watch in awe as phi growth (gigantic strides) is experienced by the entire community.  The combined energies of all 9 soultypes and over 60 bodies connecting in service to humanity is nothing short of phenomenal to be a part of.

The greatest gifts of New Equations have been the opportunity to be part of this International Community of passionate souls who want to bring this work out into the world, and to witness so many people connecting with their own soul when they are typed.  It is such a beautiful thing to see.

Lynell Hage
Soultype 2

I stepped into internship totally clueless – probably more clueless than I had been on joining the school.  I simply knew that whatever life was going to present to me was part of my learning as a New Equations intern. Could I soul-type?  No.  Could I make a soul to soul connection – probably yes.  Could I sustain it.  Probably not.  And it was on this basis that I set forth as an intern, totally convinced that I ‘needed to learn how to type’.

It’s amazing how easily the mind takes over and convinces you of the possibility of the impossible – and so we (Ann – ST5 and Kaja – ST8) began our efforts to type with the support of Alan and Barbara via Sightspeed.  Despite our intentions that the whole process be easeful it proved to be far from that, the main hurdles being the timeframe, the quality of the technology and our own personal lack of preparation. 

This is where I started to fully understand the notion of the ‘endless circuit’, doing the same things over and over again, even though I was trying desperately to do things differently.   For me the Universe decided that I needed to learn in another way; I was faced with a potentially serious illness necessitating lots of tests and surgery.  I am absolutely convinced that I was able to grow through this period only because I was able to face the possible seriousness of the situation as the person I had become through studying and working with New Equations.

The notion of becoming an ‘independent’ being - that is, one that is not pushed or pulled by what is going on around - made total sense at an intellectual level; putting it into practice was a whole different ball game.  However, faced with illness I realised that I was indeed the only one who could do anything about it, I was the one with the choices, I was the one to go through whatever I had to face.  No amount of sympathetic noises, of apparent understanding by others, of positive energy (and there was lots of that) could take away from the fact that I was alone, an independent being.  I had to find my inner strength for myself.  My preparation for the various tests and surgery was totally different to anything I had done before, or indeed would have ever thought of doing.  I would have been so consumed by worry and fear that I’d have reached stasis.  So I prepared myself and then gave myself over to the unknowable (with the aid of anaesthesia!). 

Since then I have endeavoured to carry this learning through to the whole of my life and when I’m ‘there’ I can see and be with others in all their glory, not as projections of myself.  I have learned how to activate the different power centres in my own body though this can never deny my own soul strength as a 5.  It adds to it rather than detracts.  I have noticed how I can be with the intensity of another’s moment of deep emotion and hold the space for them.  There is no need to fix them, just to be.  Do I slip and slide?  Yes, and I know not to dwell there.

Mathematically phi growth is a difficult concept for me; I believe and know from experience that growth occurs always in another direction and in one that is least expected.  This is what makes the experience totally enthralling and fun.

So, if you’re thinking of joining us – which I hope you are – please feel free to interrogate past School members about their experiences.  At the same time, remember that there is no point in having expectations based on these findings, for the programme will inevitably take a new turn in its growth and the experience will be a totally different one for you.

Lynn Hull
Soultype 5

ps They will have the joy of making the deepest connections they have ever had in their lives. That some of the experiences will be better than sex. They will become much more free-flying beings, strong in their own soul strength and deeply aware of the gifts that others bring to any meetings, gatherings, etc. This creates greater tolerance/love towards other members of the human race whether this be family, friends, colleagues or absolute strangers - and cuts down on the need to ‘be right’, ‘be better’, etc - all those feelings and emotions that create tension and make life hard. The learning and experience – which will be different and so we can’t say exactly what will take place – will impact on the person’s whole life AND they will be moving towards their ability to type other people. They will join a growing community and benefit from the learning of those that have gone through the School before them.

"We wish you held yourselves in the high regard with which Alan and I hold you."
These words, spoken by Barbara Tovey at session 3 of the New Equations School have echoed in my head and heart for weeks. What a gift to be part of a school where the teachers truly hold you in high regard. What a gift to align your spiritual growth with your physical growth and with physically supportive activities. What a gift to be part of a multi-generation learning environment where respect underscores every action, every interaction. What a gift to be on a learning edge, bringing new energy into the world.

The New Equations School offers each person a learning environment which supports their unique needs. I am a teacher, having taught both children and adults. Alan and Barbara teach (and learn) in the most respectful, individualized manner I've ever experienced. Everyone in the room learns together, learns from each other, teaches together, finds joy together and strives to serve the greater good of humanity at all times. We are a community that is open, growing, learning and fun.

ML Rice
Soultype 1

New Equations has changed my reality of how I see the world and relationship between people. This change helped me discover that people has different energies. Knowledge about the 9 different soultypes, supports the understanding of life from we are born, until we die.

This knowledge has been in great service for my relationship with my family and my son. We knew about his soultype and energy from he was 1 1/2 year old. Through the New Equations school I have learned to support his energy, so I got a chance to be with him and honor who he is from an early stage. The feedback I have gotten about him, is the harmony and peace he has
with himself, and in relationship to his friends. This shows for me the work in practice.

The New Equations School teach us to honor each other's energies. The teachers Alan Sheets and Barbara Tovey - Cofounders of New Equations - have lived a life from their souls' actions for many years. Alan and Barbara are seen as the main teachers of this new way of being, where we live a life from our soul's action. As a student I am honored to be a part of this journey and to bring this work out in the world with joy and integrity.

Morten Nygard
Soultype 3

NE school is the way that makes a question how do you want to be in your life? And I believe that NE works help you to find your own way. We need to know new way to learn who you are. For me, my way is to support peoples they show the leadership in their life. I think that anyone has the mission that the universe gave to make the world better. I want to help them finding their gift for better life and world!

I think that the NE school gives me very important permission. "Just stay my soul" "Feel and believe my body sense" " No judgment me and other"

Those words became more important as the intern. I had not known I can feel deeper sadness and joy and a pain like shaking the heart. That was so intense. It’s mean life is wonderful and we have more possibility in our life. I got my possibility to feel stronger, too. I think if you want it, you can!

As an intern, I would like to make a connection from my place to connect my soul always. In other words, I would like to talk to their soul including their persona and all. Then I make relations with the feeling that a hard bud grows the partner slowly, and a flower opens with me. That’s so beauty and wonderful experience!?I want to show everyone how beauty it is!

The ?? school gives you many consciousness to show your own leadership from natural existence. The nine soul gifts make the new world that develops into peace with harmony. When you connect source of creation, not only you, but also anyone around you have a rich experience of life. At the school, in order to make a relationship to the whole, you learn about making soul to soul connection. The road which you now desire has many common points of the road that the source of creation asks you!

Namiko Yoneda
Soultype 9

My experience at the New Equations School
has allowed me to accept a long denied internal directive.
That is to wait and do nothing.

I have resisted this all my life.
I have worried about creating my nitch in business
and creating a network of friends.
I have worked hard, have strived and struggled to achieve
and have had relative success.

Now I have learned to let go of striving.
I have let go of scheming.
I have let go of the struggle to have more
to know more and be better.

The answer has come in the form of letting go,
in the form of allowing the inner magnificence,
that divine element within me to be in control of my body,
my words, my actions, my mind chatter.
Not that I am truly living a life like this, not even 10% of the time,
but I am seeing the benefit of shifting slightly in that direction,
relaxing into my intuition and accepting the place
of not knowing what is next.

I have been seeing the evidence in my life
in the form of having more of what I want
and having greater success with less striving,
less wanting, less having to make things happen.

New Equation has been a practice of opening my heart,
lifting my spirit, owning my unique gifts
and shamelessly speaking the truth
that rises up out of a moment of drawing a blank
where I accept the void of not knowing.

My New Equations experience has allowed me to let go of
impatience, sadness, shame, anger and the strivings of my ego.
I still have all of these elements present
in my life and my personality.
It is just that there is far less of it and that shift
has made room in me for far more.

New Equations has been a place to learn
how to be with the present moment
without regret, with anticipation, with awe and wonder
and has been a place to find many friendships
especially one with myself.

Paolo Scoglio
Soultype 7

New Equations is a remarkable school. I feel honored to be a part of such a
loving, generous, brilliant, and accomplished group of people. It was just
luck, or something that had nothing to do with luck, that I stumbled onto
New Equations at the time that I did...just in time to join the second year
class. My children were grown, my husband was supportive, I was halfway
through my "year off" from work. I happened to be in the right time at the
right place.

A wonderful professor at Boston College GSSW who is no longer living opened
his briefcase to display a " Practice random acts of kindness..." sticker
and spoke matter-of-factly about his anxiety, not evident to me, then popped
a lifesaver into his mouth to alleviate the resulting dryness. He also gave
his students the assignment to read a chapter from a book from the '70's
whose title may have been "Risk. I took his advice and took a risk by
signing up for the school, a leap even. I saw this professor at Herbert
Benson's Mind/body Institute 3 day seminar maybe 10 years ago. Institute of
Noetic Sciences(IONS) was passing out information at the seminar. Larry
Dossey was speaking of intercessary prayer from a distance. Herbert Benson
spoke of yogis being able to withstand extremes of hot and cold, about
meditation and the relaxation response, and a physicist, or perhaps a
chemist, spoke of everything being about separation and attraction. There
seemed to be answers for special education, for mental health, for "man's
search for meaning' that I was only catching whispers of in grad school, in
church, at work, from my family and friends. When I heard that New
Equations school would be held at the IONS campus, well, how could I resist?
And I have not been disappointed.

I had been quite fascinated by the Meyers-Briggs and Enneagram for years. A
friend who came to yoga class said she had a sister who was interested in
something called "soultyping" and did any of us want to see what it was all
about? And so it began. Because my experience upon being soultyped was
fascinating, and there was something that I couldn't explain, I felt that it
was important for me to learn more, to find out if "the emperor had new
clothes." I have now learned more but feel it is just the tip of the
iceberg. I have difficulty explaining what it is that I have learned because
the teaching and learning isn't conventional. It is experiential, active,
alive, challenging, interesting, and profound. Peripherally, I have learned
new technologies and can video conference and phone conference with multiple
people. I have become more familiar with fun and interesting music, and
ipod, youtube, and I have danced...without the lights off and without
tequila, with great joy,

Phoebe Whipple
Soultype 8

I was a student for 2006 School and an intern for 2007 School. My experience with NE School gave me a true sense of connecting with others. With that kind of connection, you will certainly feel your power inside you stronger and more freely and with more relaxed manner. Please imagine when you are connecting with others from where who you really are. That is how I experienced through the NE School.

Also, New Equations work taught me that there is no difference for gender, nationalities, race, etc., when soul to soul connection happens. With soul to soul connection, you would believe more in the power within them and be willingly empower them.

Huge appreciation goes to Alan and Barbara who treated students/interns on the way of our learning/growing journey. They treated us as one big naturally growing organism, not taking too much how we are individually doing. Alan once said this is a totally new way of learning. I didn’t get it when I heard it for the first time, however, they modeled how we appreciate each other as a whole in a new and natural way.

Satomi Aoki
Soultype 8

I resisted being a 4 when I was first typed by Barbara in Vancouver in 2001. Most of the things I read about 4 were just, I thought, not ME. “I don’t do slow and I don’t do deep”… I thought.

This last year was an eye opener into myself. I had to undo all the processes that I learned to experience living. I learned to lead with my body rather than my mind. I get to experience the “deep” consciously. It is very much like coming home, sinking into the most comfortable bed, sinking deep within myself, and feeling the lusciousness and passion that flow under the skin.  For me, it is very much like deeply hugging your best friends, your lover and family all rolled into one. Time slows and stands still in this space. I also learned that when I come back out and connect, I bring with me the calmness and stillness. I have seen the impact on others.

I am experiencing a side of me that I was not conscious of.  I can see now why I do/see things in certain ways.  I am having a harder time walking fast like I did. Perhaps, that is an aging factor. But it is definitely more fun slowing everything down, experiencing my words as I talk, enjoying my body as it moves. I learned to kill the song, ”Quick is productivity, Slow is lazy…move, move, move”, that had been playing in my head.

I am experiencing a deeper understanding and acceptance of myself.

Soon Loo
Soultype 4

The New Equations school has opened up my horizons and world in an extremely positive way. Its teachings offer new tools and ways of being in a community supportive environment. These practiced ways allow me to lead my life with more congruence, compassion and understanding. They have also shown me a different way of navigating and being in the world with other, a space more congruent with our soultype gifts. We have learned ways to connect more deeply with others... and this has brought me great joy. Our student community, along with its founders, offer a continuing evolvement of how to relate with others and honor them more effectively. I am immensely grateful for being a member of this supportive community and am in awe at the way it organically comes together and functions as a whole....a huge gift in my life.

Sue Ann Roy
Soultype 3

My experience with New Equations has been a journey of “coming home”. In the early moments of connecting with my soul strength I had an experience of thousands of energy particles reclaiming their rightful spot in my body and holding me in unconditional love. I was profoundly aware that we are all connected and that, despite our attempts to protect ourselves with impenetrable barriers, our souls can find each other and ache to do so.

I have grown to know the place where my body is at peace, where there is a sense of strength without force, light without shadow, surety without ego. I know unequivocally, that I am being called to live from this place – where my spirit leads and my body learns; a place where all is filtered through a lens of compassion and consideration; a place where I am able to receive others in a way that honors their soul and embraces their spirit; a place of no judgment; a place of love.

The physical practice of New Equations reminds me of who I am and how to find myself when I am lost. It has helped me remember how the body holds wisdom and reminds each us of who we are at our core. It has taught me that one of the greatest gifts we can give each other is simply to “be” allowing our souls to connect to each other without restraint – without restriction. And in those moments, it has shown me that we can find our way to the purity of another’s soul. I am grateful for this journey and the absolutely amazing people on the same path.

Sue Reading
Soultype 8

The New Equations community is an incredible group of individuals who are committed to being the change they want to see in the world. The more we each practice coming from our own soul, the deeper the group experience is - more harmonious, loving and appreciative for everything that is and that which comes into our lives. It is a tremendous experience.

Sue Renner
Soutype 3

When I was soultyped in 2002 the experience shifted my reality - all my life experiences clicked into place, I knew they had prepared me for this path. I have now been working with Alan and Barbara and the New Equationscommunity, essentially, since that moment. I have stayed unwaveringly on this path, unwavering from the place of knowing that I had found my soul's purpose. Wavering all the time in my ability to keep myself connected to this greater purpose, but never losing the deep knowing that I have no other choice.

From New Equations I have learned about my responsibility - to include all, to use my great gift to stay on the spiritual path, and once on the path tofocus all my energy on moving forward for the benefit of humanity. This has changed everything in my life. My relationships are stronger, clearer,and more intimate. My work is in alignment with my path. My spiritual growth continues, surprising me with what is available at every turn.

My life is not perfect, nor have I stopped all the behaviors that take me away from my purpose. However, I made a commitment to myself to continually find my way back. I have developed physical practices to help me get to this place of alignment of body and soul, a place where I feel completely strong, clear and purposeful. It is who I am when my soul leads my body.

This place is so joyful and easy, that I know for me it is right. It is not the place of adrenaline-high and excitement. It is full of intensity, but so calm and clear, that I know what needs to come next. In this place I do not care what others think, I do not care what I think, I am not attached to
any outcome, I have no agenda, I am just filled with love. Love is source. That source energy provides clarity for where to go next. There are no questions or doubts, there is no ego, it is not for me in those moments, it really is for the benefit of the whole. Finding those moments, rare though they are, makes every step on this road worth it.

To learn to soultype I had no idea it would mean shifting everything I know about myself, and everyone around me, and everyone I don't yet know. I didn't know it would entail looking in the mirror and seeing what was really there, rather than what I wanted to perceive to be true. I didn't know how unhappy I was. I didn't know what being happy would be. I didn't know that
this was actually a path to happiness. I didn't know I would understand and have to live what R.A. Schwaller De Lubicz says about the wilderness of the light:

"They who have already glimpsed the light must now endure the wilderness of this light, it is their last but terrible prison, the great fast, because they must fee themselves from within. Light without shadow, light that consumes everything. They must know that the damned is the one who knows how to pray. They wanted the light and recognize that they have lost that which within themselves, wanted it. They must now be the light or else they will fall irretrievably and finally into what is, in the face of what is not; into what is heavy in the face of what is light; into him who only perceives, into him who still prays."

Susan Van Horn
Soultype 6

Every teenager asks me about soultyping. It wouldn't be hard to explain because it helped me in so many different ways. Because I learned so much about my body, and how to bring it more forward and see other people, who they are, instead of shutting them down. I try to bring my soul forward even more and help them to see the path and the future that could happen.

I think the RA music is helping me and my family a lot. Because it helps me feel the different energies of others in my body more. It makes the experiences much bigger and clearer. When I have something big to deal with it helps me not to leave it, but to integrate it. It helps me take in what I have to absorb in my body, so I can take the information into my body and
feel it again and have a deeper experience for myself. I don't ignore what I have already learned or am learning still.

I think doing this work, it means to never give up and you are never going to succeed, because you can always go to a deeper place, every single time. Every experience you have is amazing and wonderful. And that is why when you have a deep experience you plant a seed so you can find it again and again and have an even deeper experience next time. And I think this work is helping for everyone to not judge yourself where you are or others where we each are in the process. It also teaches us not to exclude people, but to let them in where they are and help them to see where we need to go.

That's what I want to write to you - see you at the New equations school.

Love,

Jeannette Denny
Soultype 8

The second year at the NE school is nearly ending. While I am sitting here in my living room in Norway, the sun is shining on me and I`m thinking of the last school year. What is all this about? Hmm, it is realy about "the life". It is about my life, yours, our lives toghether. How can I support myself so I can be in "my soul strength" and then be able to support you and all the human beings in a good way. This is what NE is about for me and what has landed in my body this second school year.

With using my function word "stretch to source" my body has been more calm and I can feel my whole body lifting up to the beauty of source. And when I make a connection from this place it feels so real, beauty and peacful.

Some months ago something new start to shift in my body. It was when I start to add soultype 5 and 7 into my oneness. I made my own music mix with songs of soultype 1-5-7 and listen to them a lot every day. I also had connections with wonderful sultypes 5 and 7 on sightspeed and also personal here in Norway and I could feel things start to changes. What`s happend in my body was when I add 7 and 5 I could feel that I didn`t got so easily stuck in "things", and it was easier for me to see new posibilities. And it was like I got a bigger picture of what to do in a peacefull way.
I started to feel more alive and happy in my body.

The real thing here is that this is what people have been telling me for years to do, but now with including the 5 and 7 energy I feel it in my body. And, with adding these 2 wonderful soultypes to my own, I feel so much stronger in my oneness. And to end where I started, to live my life from this place where I more easily can see the beauty of each one is so wonderful.

My life with NE has just started..............

Lots of love,

Toril Berg
Soultype 1