ML Rice, SoulType 1

Dear Prospective New Equations Student,

Please allow me to tell you about my involvement in the 2006 New Equations School by inviting you into my family. I especially want you to meet my mother and my husband.

I am a SoulType 1 woman from Minnesota. I am fortunate to have had my mother typed and she is also a SoulType 1. My beautiful 91-year old mother has spent nearly two years in a nursing home 200 miles from where I live. At the December, 2005 school session, we explored SoulType 1 in depth. There were three SoulType 1s in the school and while our bodies knew the beauty of SoulType 1, our minds were not quite there. Alan spent time with us, acknowledging how sensitive and tender we were, emphasizing the fact that we are connected to Source in a way that's different from the other eight SoulTypes. He talked about our inherent "moral code" and how we could make an impact in the world just be being who we are--we didn't have to work so hard. I recall being touched deeply and recognized how hard my mother had worked all of her life. I felt gratitude that I was learning this at such a "young" age. I saw Mother right after that retreat and I remember being even more gentle in my touch with her than before. She's sometimes confused in the nursing home and wonders why she can't fix us something to eat when we visit. I remember telling her that she had been a wonderful mother, had fixed her kids and grandkids and great-grandkids lots of meals and now it was time to rest. I was able to be different when I was with her, more present, more aware of the beauty of her soul. What a joy it was to gently stroke her throat and look into her cloudy eyes.

Between the March and June sessions of the school, my handsome and healthy husband of 36 years experienced a total-surprise heart attack and underwent extensive open heart surgery at Mayo Clinic. I called on everything I had learned from New Equations to connect deeply and at a soul level with him before his surgery. I tapped into the vulnerability of SoulType 1 to ask for help in understanding what he would go through. I connected our entire extended family to Source energy the day of his surgery which literally transformed the large waiting area at the hospital to one of community. I can't imagine what that day would have been like before New Equations. My husband is now healing and energized in a way he hasn't been in five years--thank you for wondering about him as I close out this paragraph.

Just before the final retreat, we got to experience a bonus session when Alan flew to the Midwest to join the 5 Minnesota students at a cabin near my hometown. Having the opportunity to work with Alan as he helped me re-align my body to truly let in Source energy was one of the most profound experiences of my life. As I elongated my throat and "stretched to Source" I felt like I had come home in so many ways. Tears came to my eyes as I realized that my body had been hungry for this posture all of its life. At that moment, I felt like my Soul was able to visually manifest itself in this body that it had been inhabiting for over 50 years.

Back to my mother--I got to go see her immediately after this cabin experience with 3 other New Equations students. They witnessed that fact that I interacted with her in a way of total acceptance and soulful beauty. Her beauty got to come our and play with my beauty and that was such a gift.

And, here's the wonder of it all--because I understand my own SoulType so clearly and so physically, I now have the capacity to understand and be with people who make up the other 8 SoulTypes. Admittedly, this understanding is new, but I feel it growing as I incorporate the practice and the principles of New Equations into my life.

Thank you for visiting with me and my family. I would love to talk with you personally. Perhaps soon....

ML Rice

We just completed the 2006 New Equations School. As a continuation, of their school training the thirty people from around the world who participated in this first program are now in an internship program to become fully certified to teach New Equations workshops, classes, and private sessions.

We are now ready to launch our next year long program.

We invite you to join us in the New Equations school for our 2007-2008 session.

Allan G. Komarek, Soultype 4

Imagine the ability to connect and see another soul in its purest form without any of the “noise” of the outside or inside world interfering with that connection. Feel the joy of seeing that being as the Source meant them to be seen and know the joy that they feel for being seen in that way. Know what it means to truly honor another’s soul.

Over the past year I have learned what it is to be aware of my own energy and it’s impact on another. I learned that it is natural tendency to see myself in that person and that it doesn’t have to be that way. I can move myself out of the way and keep my energy within myself. I learned, and hold dear, the practice of seeing beauty in each soul and how to honor that soul. I was taught, and am in the throws of practicing, how to hold and support that soul by seeing the person and not an overlay of me on that person. This is the deepest learning, and the most important learning of them all, for to honor another soul in purity is to honor all of humanity.

The difference between the soul’s gift and the persona has been an important learning for me. It is important to understand that difference so that people do not become stereotyped. In order to make a difference in the world it is important to understand that everyone is an individual and has individual behaviors that do not represent their soultype. Yet each person of a certain soultype shares an incredible gift that can be recognized and honored.

I also learned that, as a Soultype 4, my function is to “move it forward.” Though they sound like funny words, they are the core of what must be done by all Soultype 4’s so that we can bring our gift into the world. It is a natural tendency for us to retreat within ourselves and in doing that, we serve no one but ourselves. This work is about being in service of others.. of humanity and the only way that will be accomplished is by coming out and playing. Wanna play with us?

Mary Cayon, Soultype 5

My experiences with the 2006 New Equations School were profoundly life-altering in ways that mostly defy my capacity to express in words.

My body has altered and is stronger and healthier than it has been in many years. I’ve learned that exquisite self-care is not a luxury, it is a way of life required to prepare and tune my body as an instrument in service to humanity.

I have been gifted with tools that allow me to become aware of and shift from persona-based ways of being to aligning my body with my soul and connecting with life from the soul’s way of being.

I have been fully supported as the unique, Sacred Human I am, and have grown with being held in this Light. And I was blessed with the opportunity to witness 29 others being held and growing in their totally unique ways as well. For the first time in my life, I have been fully seen for who I am.

I have learned to be completely with myself in order to clearly see others without projecting any of myself on them. I am learning in an ever-more embodied way that there truly are nine unique expressions of humanity and am learning to stop searching for myself in each person I encounter. This is essential for creating soul-to-soul connections.

For the first time in my life, I had the simultaneous experience of becoming more deeply my unique Self while joining in being One with thirty-two other humans.

I have been given the support and tools and have been shown the path of how to create soul-to-soul connections at will. These connections are the most powerful and intimate connections ever experienced in my lifetime.

Namiko Yoneda, Soultype 9

I learned new communications with body and soul. It's so wonderful! I can connect to my soul anytime I want. It makes me powerful and beautiful. And I make new relationship with my friends and my co-workers and my family. I can see the beauty of their soul and feel intimacy. It leads me to my life purpose. My life really changed to the way I prayed for.

To Japanese and the person who is not good at English, you don't have to worry about your English. I proved it. Believe an ache of your soul.

Susan Van Horn, Soultype 6

The New School was nothing like any school I have ever experienced. At the school I was taught, and I discovered, what it means to be a soul-type 6. I was given the tools to keep myself on my path. Which as a six is what it is all about, staying on the path. In finding my path, I was able perform my soul's function as part of the organism of students and teachers formed by the school, and since the end of the school, out in the world at large. I was challenged to bring the cleanest, most source connected place in myself forward over and over again. From that place I learned what it means to be a leader by virtue of my spiritual purpose, not by the desire of my mind or ego. I learned to be part of the whole, to contribute my gift, to hold the space for others to contribute their gift and to honor the gift of all and the gift of the source that is at the core of this work.

I could not have imagined the intensity, the powerfulness, the peacefulness and the intimacy of creating soul-to-soul connections. Now I cannot imagine my life with-out them. A great deal of detailed preparation went into creating the path for the students in the school. Then each day of the school we jumped into the mystery, not knowing what needed to be created next, learning that it would come from a new direction with each iteration of the learning. No one was left behind, each souls energy was considered essential and drawn forth. The Learning was that with spiritual growth, one grows faster in more surprising ways than could ever be possible with physical growth.

I am left with a knowledge that I am blessed beyond belief to have daily access to connection with source through connection with my own soul and the souls of other people. It is there for me to receive if in every moment I am willing to pay attention. I am completely excited about what is possible to come - all the limits of consciousness have expanded and my willingness to allow my soul-consciousness to lead, and the limits to drop away , shifts my human experience all the time. I can no longer imagine my life without this body-level understanding. I hold that what is possible for humanity is not known, but that this experience is the key to opening the door to those possibilities. Now what is behind the next door...New equations School 2007 another leap into the mystery.

Paolo Scoglio, SoulType 7

I attended the New Equations School (NES) sessions 2005-2006. It was a process of continual unfolding of my personal awareness, of my soul and the expansive capacity of being in the moment with another person. For the first 6 months, with a scanning skepticism, I held to wondering questions, "Can this be true? Can this be real? Can this be just collective imagination? Of course I had had the experience of soul-to-soul connections before and during the NES session and knew through intuition that the experience and process of it – is real and true and not imagination. Yet I regularly wondered if I was kidding myself.

With each session I accumulated more and more self-validating experiences, where I could say, I felt her energy, I felt his presence and felt the swirl of energetic connection that envelopes us. Those experiences were not enough. The next step was to stay with them and not pull away from the experience. Pulling away was my automatic response to these very intense and intimate experiences.

Much of the learning occurred outside of the 6-day sessions. It was in my home state, with fellow students that I learned to stay with the process and not run away from it. It was with these collaborators in learning that I began to understand how I had to surrender. The next step, was to allow myself to be moved by the swirl of connection and then proactively move with it. Along with that I had to do this without use of the slightest force of body or mind and without any ego-based intention.

This understanding and these practices were taught at the four NES sessions and then practiced over and over with people in my day-to-day life and with fellow students. I finally accepted that I must care for my body in a consistent way in order to tune into the subtlety of bodily experiences that inform my intuitive body. This meant sleeping well, eating well and being vigorous with exercise. Holding to this is a life long challenge.

Fortunately I recognized that my skepticism was holding me back from moving forward in the process of learning how to create soul-to-soul connections. I needed to counter the skepticism with an intention of success in learning. The intention was for a miracle. It seemed outside of my ability to "get it". It was outside of my ability to "get it". This experience and ability that I was chasing is not something that can be gotten intellectually. This experience and ability was/is already present in me. I simply had to find a way to get out of the way. That was the miracle. I /we (all the NES students) learned how to get out of our own way, long enough to allow our souls to meet and call out the soul of another.

The NES experience was a powerful collective process of leaning and moving with an ever-growing awareness of Divine participation in this life. (Divine being that unknowable creative-force that we might call love, compassion, peace, effortless strength and/or timeless intimate connections with others. NES provided an experiential blast through my fear and through my ego. Not that either is gone. Yet there is now a path available to me to get through them. On this path I can experience and receive the gifts of the divine nature in others in the moment of being with them. This is done by allowing the Divine to move and glow through my body. In the Christian perspective this would be called "being moved by the Holy Spirit." In Taoism this might be living the Tao. Whatever it is called, NES teaches the path of allowing the soul to fill with the Source of all creation in order to lead relationships.

Theresa Fricke, soultype 4

I just finished an incredible year in the NE School. What an honor it was to be present to the amazing energy and work of 30 students plus our beloved teachers, Alan and Barbara! Through the course of the year, I found myself shedding more and more of the old way (ego or persona) in order to connect more deeply with myself and with others. The physical nature of NE was prevalent throughout all 4 sessions. Over and over in many activities, mostly involving movement, Alan and Barbara found ways to lead us back to ourselves, rooting us deeply into our bodies. In session 2 we had the delightful experience connecting with the Unknowable.

While the 30 of us came together more and more as a group, both during the sessions and in between via working in triads and most recently via live camera internet connection, Alan and Barbara brilliantly modeled a unique teaching style that moved me beyond my comfort zone so that I can own and live from my soul strength’s potential. We were all consistently held and seen for who we were in each moment. The teaching was always dynamic and changing, following the energy that was called for. I moved from carefully testing the water with my toe to moving more powerfully towards the intensely intimate connections that I as a ST 4 am capable of creating. I can now say that the experience of learning in my body, actually accessing the physical expression of my soul in this body, created a body memory of accessing my soul upon which I can easily draw, leading me to deeper, easier and judgment- free interactions and connections in all my relationships. Of course, I fall off the path, but recognize it quickly and now have tools to find my way back.

Being a person who has always cared well for my body, I found that by the end of the year this process had expanded to noticing that I needed more sleep, and that my body is constantly informing me of energy shifts within myself and others around me. I have experienced actual changes in my posture and mobility that help me move with greater ease. I have always believed that our bodies are temples for our souls. This is no longer an idea, but a physical, able- to- be experienced reality. As an energy healer, I have observed dramatic shifts in the way I am able to connect more deeply, much more intuitively, and use my energetically changing body to facilitate healing in others, physically, emotionally and spiritually in way that honors all for where they are and holds no agenda.

Achieving the goal of creating and sustaining soul to soul connections is only a beginning. I see limitless possibilities for bringing this beautiful body of work into the world into such areas as business, education and relationships. As we continue to prepare for the 2007 school and our roles in getting NE out into the world, I am filled with excitement and deep gratitude.

Jerry Boardman, Soultype 9

I always knew that I had a capacity to hold on to a lot, be it feelings, work, activities etc. With this always came the feeling of overwhelm and with that the attempt to control. The more I tried to control the more I disconnected myself from what was coming at me. I thought I was pretty good because I could hold all this and not let it effect me. But, I also felt very isolated.

After experiencing the gifts of New Equations as a Soultype 9, I finally understood that yes indeed I had tremendous capacity to hold and feel everything, nature, people, experiences, emotions and was given body experiences that would help me feel my gifts. I understood this, but still did not feel what it was like to fully accept this in my body and from that place hold everything. Years of trying to control what was around me did not release easily.

It was only after being in the New Equations school that I fully felt the enormity of the gift of my body as the container for my soul. My body could actually be available to hold the intensity of feeling needed to connect to another person’s soul and to hold them in their beauty while being present to my own beauty. This had never happened to me before and is where I want to live my life.

The gift I have given to myself by being in the school is to allow the beauty of my soul to be present and fill my body fully and be open to connect with the beautiful souls around me and through this connection they get to see their own beauty.

Kris Kington, Soultype 3

When first introduced to New Equations and soul typed in 2001, I had a profound feeling of a release from the confusion I had about why I wasn’t able to be like my parents wanted me to be as I was growing up. My desire and need to “always have friends around and be on the go” was viewed by my parents as a sign of insecurity and weakness. As much as I tried to approach the world as they did, I simply couldn’t. All of it fell into place … I am a ST 3!! Of course I have a desire to connect with others. Of course I have more energy and a need to “be on the go” more often than others may. To suddenly experience these as my gifts rather than my weakness was an amazing shift. As much as I personally appreciated this new experience it wasn’t nearly enough. I had an intense desire to learn more and bring it to others. In fact, sharing this new way of experiencing the world to others was more important than my own relief. I didn’t have any idea how I could make that happen but knew there had to be a way. I continued to participate in as many other NE workshops as I could, the whole time feeling a passionate yearning to convey my learning and to open opportunities for others.

I saw a notice on the New Equations website about the summer workshop scheduled for August 2005 and while I didn’t have a clue what it would be about, I trusted it was going to take me into a direction I wanted to go. I had no idea the summer training would be an entry point into a New Equations School. The summer retreat was magical. Each moment and experience was an invitation to an unfamiliar place. Rather than reinforcing how much I knew, the experience confirmed just how little I did know and how much I had made up about everything from who I am to who others are. While unsettling, I was also realizing I was learning a new language, the language of the soul. Through it I was periodically able to experience connection and communication with another soul in unfamiliar yet exquisite ways. At the closure of the Summer Session, I knew that whatever I had to rearrange in my life, becoming a NES student had moved to my top focus.

Between the end of the summer session and the first of four 6-day NES sessions I entered into the unknowable with a decision to end a 34 year marriage. It was difficult to focus and for a ST 3, inability to focus is like suddenly loosing the use of a limb. The world has to be approached through other and far less familiar ways. We talked about the fear yet need to be willing to go into the unknowable to connect at a deeper level. To be open to experience what comes up rather than what we make up or want to show up. While the session lasted only 6-days, I now think I was living in the unknowable 24/7 the past year. I won’t say it always felt good or inspirational. There were certainly days when I exhaustingly searched for a way to return to familiarity. However, I gratefully realized that once I move into a new place there is so much more ahead I don’t want to turn back.

Each NES day was unlike the one before. There was ongoing learning for both the teachers and the students. Each day, something unplanned occurred that shifted us in a new or cleaner direction. Even when we created messes, they enhanced the learning of the entire group. As I am trying to recall specific incidents of each session, they run together and I cannot differentiate them. What I do know is that over the past year, the 6-day sessions provided a foundation for the learning and experiences I had every moment of every day in between.

But, what about learning to soul type? When I first attended the summer training, it didn’t occur to me that I could learn to soul type. I attended the session to learn whatever I could to apply it to my life. When the discussion at the end of the session turned to creating a New Equations School, I didn’t see it coming. I had been so focused in other directions. I really didn’t know if it was something I could do. Was it the “right” time in my life? Shouldn’t I take care of other things and clear the way first? Could I commit the time? And above all, “What if I fail and can’t learn it”? In spite of all the negative self talk, I felt at a very deep level that this opportunity was a chance for me to step up and into a very unknowable place and to bring my gifts to the world in a way I have always longed for.

I can’t say my experiences during the NES were always positive. But, every one of them was necessary for my movement toward a place that allows me to connect with another’s soul. As a ST3, I have experienced intense connections throughout my life. But, always by overlaying my personality and seeing others through a filter that is a projection of how I experience the world. Connection with another person from a clean place of seeing only them was easily the most beautiful and moving experience I have ever had.

Recently I was recalling what I was experiencing and thinking about my 29 NE fellow students the first 6-week session. How I saw them through myself and filter. Who I made up they were, was so far off from what I now see that it is startling and humbling. Can I now soul type? The answer is absolutely “yes”. Unlike what I was doing a year ago, (observing behaviors, seeing a person’s persona or a projection of my own) I am able to see another person’s soul. And just as important, I am able to know when I don’t. But, being able to soul type isn’t about me and my success. It’s about having received a gift and treasuring it, wanting to nurture it and share it with others.

Being a part of the first NE school has been an honor. It is also the beginning of a commitment to further my work with New Equations and to help move it out into the world. I have always admired individuals who “had a calling”. This is my calling and just having written those words bring a smile to me.

Bruce Fabric, Soultype 5

Participating in the New Equations School has been and continues to be of enormous value to me. The biggest impact this has had is to let me uncover a way to sustain being completely comfortable in my own skin. While I have in the past studied and integrated many spiritual, energy and healing approaches all of which are valuable, I still found myself needing to retreat from others and life to rebalance and recenter myself. With the shift from participating in the New Equations School, I can sustain myself with others and in the midst of an active life. The cost of the school is small compared to the value of this new sense of sustained well being.

The beauty of each individual soul and soultype also deepened. In my work with others more and more their soultype is becoming apparent to me; at that point from the knowledge and experience of the school, I have been able to support them in specific ways that are the most beneficial to them.

Love,
Bruce

Lynn Hull, SoulType 5

I can only say that I was drawn to follow through with the New Equations School - there was something compelling about it even though the costs were high (not just the fees but the costs of the flights and accommodation). In the event these were paid with relative ease. By that I mean the amount of fees were paid monthly and the flights were booked at regular intervals and the accommodation seemed also to fit in the intervening periods such that at no one time did I seem to be paying the astronomical amount I thought I was going to pay. So, that got over the economic situation.

As a teacher of many years' standing I faced classes that seemed to come from nowhere and be heading who knew where?! One minute we'd be going in one direction - everything focusing on the Eloquent Peasant (a Middle Egyptian document) - and then focusing on something else with no apparent follow-through. This called forth lots of cynicism at times that we were 'going round in circles'. However I had always seen this program as a huge research project - simply because no-one, not even Alan and Barbara knew the way. I don't think I have ever seen anyone trust their intuition and their reading of the energy as Alan and Barbara did. The risks were sometimes enormous insofar as no-one knew what was going to happen (but then that's true of all life!). It also called forth a great deal of trust in me, and, most important of all, the realization that I needed to get over myself, over my judgment, over my doubts before any shift really could start to take place. Taking a step back right now I can see that there was a pincer movement going on, little by little, exercise by exercise, tactic by tactic edging us ever nearer to that point of being able to put ourselves to one side and really come from soul. Without it there is no way to see another's soul.

Did I ever doubt I was going to be able to do it? Yes, most of the time!!! Especially between retreats when because of my geographical situation I sometimes felt isolated and remote from the energy that makes things seem possible. Old habits really do die hard and when we have been faced with years and years of competition, of comparison it is difficult to believe that one genuinely is in a situation where everyone is equal, everyone is contributing what they need to contribute in service of the whole (particularly when most of the homeworks are 'wrong'!) and that whole's ability to move forward and grow will benefit from each individual's efforts. Talking of growth, maths has never been my strong point so the notion of growing according to phi had no meaning for me until I was able to see it explained graphically. What took my breath away was that growth really does occur in a new direction every time. Get it? That's why we'd been going in one direction, and then another!! What a learning experience: inspirational, visceral, transformational, lifelong. Need I say more! And I approach the ensuing internship with joy and curiosity.

Morten Nygård, Soultype 3

The living organism, the New Equation School has been a life changing experience to be a part of. The way Alan and Barbara have held the energy in the group and built on the embodied wisdom that we have achieved through the year has been very powerful to be a part of.

I have learned to be more of who I am and learned that I am a spiritual being who is connected to Source energy. Through this embodied wisdom I can create and bring goals into fruition through my intentions for the benefit of all.

A part of the inspiring learning is that I am able to observe and see more that I could ever dream of. I have wisdom to be with people in a new way and to soultype.

Carol Allison, Soultype 8

I loved my time in the New Equations School. I loved being with my diverse, wonderful classmates from all over the world; I loved eating delicious food in the art-filled dining room or on the charming outdoor deck; I loved meeting deer as I walked the trails; and I loved being part of an alive, evolving process that was exhilarating, challenging, unpredictable, intense, deeply satisfying, and a lot of fun. We were learning from what our teachers brought us, and we were -and still are - creating the path of where the learning will go next. Alan and Barbara come to us with deep commitment, extensive preparation and a wealth of resources. From there, they constantly assess the energy and move towards what is most alive and of service to the learning in any given moment. They are teachers and role models of the highest level, and true pioneers of a new frontier for humanity.

My life has changed in fundamental ways. I am less concerned about what people think of me, and more interested in how they feel because of me. This has nothing to do with trying to please them and everything to do with being available to receive them at their deepest level. It could be with a client or a loved one, or for just a few seconds with the grocery store clerk. When people experience being met at this place, they feel good. When I see that reflected on their face, I feel it in my body, and I feel good. I know I am part of bringing new energy to the world, and bringing humanity closer to living in peace and joy. Everyone, everywhere, all the time.

I have begun my journey, along with my fellow graduates, of soultyping and teaching New Equations. I am so excited to step ever more fully into the expression of my soul and my purpose in life. And what's more - I get to go back to the New Equations School, this time as a mentor and co-teacher! I'll be walking those trails again, eating more divine food, and meeting a whole new group of diverse, wonderful people. I can hardly wait!

Kaja Magnussen, Soultype 8

Hello, my name is Kaja Magnussen. I was soultyped May, 2005, in Leadership CALL's New Equations-based program in Norway. From that moment my body knew that this path would lead me to a bigger place. The place of being more present—present in my own life and present for others. The joy and happiness with all the people I have met on this journey as a student in the New Equations school has been the most successful decision a have ever made.

My curiosity expanded from the first moment when I started to learn more about my soultype and the other soultype families. I have experienced what I can bring into my life, so my impact can be more authentic. I have also learned about other people’s strengths and how different we see the world. This knowledge gives new dimensions in life. A wonderful gift is how we can be with each other so we can have balance and harmony.

In relationship with other, this knowledge has given me so many new ways to look at things. First, I have a wonderful soultype 5 husband and our relationship has had a big shift—we understand so much more of each other. To know that my mother is also a soultype 8 gave us some new understanding. My college and some of my friends have been soultyped and our connection is so much deeper by knowing. The school has taught me to create deep connections and see behind looks, persona, ego, intellect, clothes, etc., and see the “unique soul”, this gives me a different perspective on a lot of things. Wonderful relationship with life has been created for me on this journey.

Do you want to make a difference in the world? 

Myrna Jones, Soultype 8

The way that I view and experience the world and people has changed radically since I participated in the New Equations School. I am much clearer about knowing who I am and understanding how different and unique the 9 different soultype families are.

Something that really stands out for me is that as participants in the school, we are able to be in our own experience. We are not directed on how we should feel or what our experience should be. Barbara and Alan are brilliant in leading the way and allow us to find our own way by experimenting and feeling the energy. The school is a supportive environment where the #1 rule is to not judge self or others. We are honored and acknowledged for who we are. Also, we are consistently reminded that we are exactly in the right place for our own personal learning and growth and we are not compared to each other. We also are learning many practical tools like how to be able to get back into alignment if we are off course. For example, by using our function words we are able to realign our bodies with our souls and regain our strength. As a ST 8, my function words “Push Down” remind me to feel grounded and aligned.

I am learning so much about how the other eight soultype families view the world in a way that is so different from my reality. This knowledge is extremely valuable in relating to others such as my family, friends, business associates, clients and especially with my ST 6 daughter and ST 5 son.

I now know how to feel my strength in my body. I am able to align my body and soul and to connect to another from that place. And it is from that place that I see the beauty and experience the magnificent soul of another. There is nothing that brings more joy to me than to be with another in a soul-to-soul connection. New energy comes into our world. Anything is possible from that place. Chaos disappears. There is peace, love, openness and the feeling of being solid and clear.

Through our process together, we are one as a living organism. No one is left behind. We progress together. When one of us steps into the Unknowable and lead the way, we all step into the Unknowable and go to the next level of learning. We have a stable and strong community. We know each other in the most intimate of ways…soul-to-soul. It is a very fulfilling way of being. I want this way of being for all humanity, for people to connect to others on the level of the soul. I am grateful to be a part of a community that is committed to moving humanity forward in a way that honors and empowers the individual, as well as embracing humanity as a whole.

And, what is really exciting to me is that this is a beginning. The way of the soul is always new and mysterious and I believe it will be a life long process. That is the good news: there is so much more!

Pushing down with love,
Myrna Jones
ST 8

Catherine Dickey, Soultype 4

Clearly my experience in the New School has been life changing and I don’t know where to begin to describe it. I find myself so moved and so grateful, I am rendered speechless. There has been an unfolding and opening up to know the richness all around me….an experience of energy that I can only describe as from the Source…to feel it, and to know that this is the only thing it could be. To know that I am not alone…we are not alone. After that it is hard to have any words…And I will try....

For me the past year has been a process of transforming my relationship with my self. During the New School I began gradually to open up to the group. I was able to share my life experience and in so doing reveal my most vulnerable self. Again and again I was held by the group. I began to trust that when I share of my self fully wherever I am and with whatever is here for me, I will be received by others. By allowing my self and others to more fully experience who I am, I connected in a deeper way to a group than I ever would have thought possible. By connecting to the group in this way I moved my self and the group forward.

Again it is challenging to find words…how do I find words to describe being part of a group/organism that is so easefully connected and always growing in that connection so that I know that I can trust that I /we are connected all the time... I know that when someone else learns I learn too. When someone else in the group masters the next step, and when someone else succeeds in doing the impossible, I and every one else in the group will do it too. It is like nerve endings firing and working together responsively for the whole.

This work is compelling. Like others in the group I have a loved one who has supported me, and who has at times been reluctantly patient, through long trips to California. And…every time I have come back, every time the work and I have moved forward, there has been a richness that has come to this and to other important relationships in my life. As I have begun learning ways to consciously be in soul connection I have brought this gift home with me. It is a work in progress, and again words are difficult to find to describe the fulfillment for all when I/we find this place of connection.

Catherine
Soultype 4

Toril Berg, Soultype 1

Dear all wonderful souls out in the word!

I am sitting here in Norway, in my home. Have some candles on the table and I am looking out on the full moon. So, where to start!!?

I was a participant at Leadership CALL`s training here in Norway, in the Spring of 2005, which is a leadership program based in New Equations. From that day my life started to lead in another direction. I got Soultyped, and I am a Soultype 1. I have always been looking for something in my life that gives more “meaning”. I believe that I am on this earth for a reason. So, when I got introduced to the school, I said yes at once! Suddenly, I found what I had been looking for.

This year at the school has been amazing in many ways. As a Soultype 1, I have learned that not everyone needs to look me in the eyes when I talk to them. Before, when I didn`t know that, I used a lot of energy to get people to see me in my eyes when they talked to me. Now, I connect with my source energy, be who I really am, and the connections are so easy. As a soultype 1, I want everything to be perfect around me. My home, my work, everything. Now, I have learned that good is good enough. I don`t need to be perfect. And, I've learned how to show other human beings that we all are beautiful no matter what!

The wonderful part of the school is that Alan and Barbara teach us to communicate on a new level, a level that is based on the way we human beings are different, but in a positive way. It`s a level past our persona and our intellect. And from this place I see that each one of us have so much to give to each other by respecting, honouring, and loving, each of us as we are. We are all equal.

So, to end where I started, this year has been a wonderful journey in many ways that I recommend from my heart to all of you to join.

Toril

Ann Stevenson, Soultype 5

The last year has been the most profound experience of my life. On joining the New Equations School I had no idea of the transformation that would take place not only in myself but in everyone connected to the school.

I have spent years reading books, attending courses, and of course they have all been useful in an intellectual capacity. However THIS body based training is totally unique in that it gave me full permission to accept the whole of myself at the deepest level. And what a great place to start when you want to see the joy and beauty of the people around you!

There were so many powerful experiences from the training that I carry with me now, however the fundamental one for me, was the sheer gentleness and respect that was created by Alan, Barbara, and Jenna for the whole training community. This gentleness is a model for how we can all be with each other every second of every day of our lives. I feel incredibliy grateful to be a continuing part of the evolution of New Equations.

Ann

Kay Dundorf, Soultype 6

Why go to the School? If you are ready to learn a new way of being in the world – one that enhances your relationships as well as your physical being - then sign up now for the next School year with New Equations.

Why did I commit to four sessions of intensive training – beginning with a week in December – a most inconvenient time for me – as it was for many of us? While at the Summer Retreat in 2005, the idea of the New Equations School evolved. I was very drawn to it and knew that I really needed to be there. I couldn’t tell you then exact why – other than I was drawn to the work and had just spent a week or so with people from around the world in a

way that I felt totally supported by each and all of the rest of the participants and the teachers, Alan and Barbara. I intended to learn more about this way of being.

Ah, the power of intention! Shortly after returning from the retreat, my friend called me to ask if it was okay to change our travel plans from December to the second week in January 2006. I was not yet sure about the financial piece, yet I knew that I needed to be in the School. With the calendar cleared so easily, I held the intention that the financial piece would too and it did. I signed up.

What a fantastic school year it was – beyond what I could have hoped! I learned a new way of being in the world – one that enhances the being that I was created to be.

All nine soul types were represented in the student body and it was very clear that each type has different gifts. That is now something that I have personally experienced and can definitely affirm. Through our different gifts, we forged a community that celebrates the differences and uses those gifts to benefit the whole. No longer 30 individuals but a living breathing organism that feels the impact of what happens to each member – impacts us all.

Like an onion, I continue to peel layers that no longer serve and that allow more of the core of my being – my soul – to come forth. With the supervision of Alan and Barbara, through video conferencing, we are soul typing individuals. We are teaching ways in which to deepen the typees experiences. This is just the beginning. One of the magnificent aspects of this work is that it is constantly evolving. Us graduates of 2006 are now actively on the path of bringing this ‘work’ into the world for the benefit of all humanity.

Gerd Løland, SoulType 7

Show your strengths to the world.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to see the true potential in your friends, children and family? Wouldn't it feel good to know the true potential in you, to start living and including your main strengths in your life? What if you could just be You, and design your life from who you really are. In the New Equations School you will learn to see the main strengths in you and in the people you love.

I am not religious. I do not believe in any God. I believe in People. I believe that each person really can make a big difference in the world. I believe that each person deserves to show their strengths to the world. The NE School will give you a deep, profound knowledge of yours and others's strengths. You will learn to see people for who they are. You will learn to communicate with all sorts of people. You will learn to respect and acknowledge that there are nine different soul types.

There are students from all over the world in the NE School. It is hard work and a lot of fun. We were 30 students in the School and we have 30 different stories of what we learned. No words can explain how deep the learning was for me. I am excited to find out what your story will be. When your true potential is unleashed, anything is possible!

Love,
Gerd Stilloff Løland

Chika Hasagawa, SoulType 4

In 2002 I started to realize my dream of ‘A world where every single person in the society is respected for who he/she really is – People are different, difference makes world peace and joy.’

I intuitively knew that New Equations work is the path to make my dream world come true. And I didn’t know how that time.

Through this 4 years being a student of New Equations, I gradually discovered what I am up to, what this New Equations work is up to. It is BIG!! It is the shift of how people live, shift of civilization. And, we are all at the door of new civilization.

The path is a long, unknown path. It is profound and scary at the same time. Knowing what can be possible through this path, I am committed to continue this journey on this path.

Especially in the school of 2006, I learned what it really means to ‘respect others, respect difference’. The leaning was totally physical and it lands in every single cell of my body. People are different and each has such a beautiful soul inside. To be in soul to soul connection with other person is totally new way of being with others, to respect others. In this place, there is no space of judgment, hatreds, or discriminations. There is only a gratitude of others existence, the beauty of being. There is no need of words, just be. This learning shifted the way of my being with myself, my family, friends, clients, and anybody around me. My relationship with myself and others is more passionate and alive.

My hope is that more and more people will have the experience of soul to soul connection so that there will be no war, but peace.

Martha Kolman-Davidson, SoulType 5

Join and embrace a tree as it grows from a tiny seedling.
A tower of nine stories rises from the Earth.
—Tao Te Ching, Soultype 1, Chapter 64

We started the school year as 30 seedlings, representing all nine soultypes, from which we built a tower that we called the New Equations Organism (NEO). In the process, we shared many new experiences and learned how to learn by listening to our bodies. This brought us closer together than any group I have ever been part of.

Just before the second retreat, I realized I was doing the group a disservice by holding back information about what was going on in my life. At the first retreat it was clear that I was not as healthy as I had been at previous trainings. At that point I did not want to burden the group with details of my body's decline.

Then I talked to Alan and realized that my withholding information was actually impeding the group's progress. Alan showed me that sharing details of my situation would make the New Equations practices more real and more powerful for everyone.

For quite a long time, I did not want to use the word "cancer" to describe what is happening in my body. That word often brings with it intense fear and a sense of impending doom. I do not see myself as a person who is about to die any day, but the reality of death is more immediate for me than for most people. I was able to use that immediacy to my advantage as I learned to go into the realm of the Unknowable in order to make soul-to-soul connections.

As I did this, I modeled facing death for everyone, and the New Equations Organism grew much more cohesive as a result. We learned to be more present with each other and to leave behind the strictures of persona that limit so much of life in the world today.

The more I connect up to the heavens and down to the center of the earth, the more aligned my body is with my soul, and the more effective I can be in my relationships with everyone I meet.

Being an integral part of the New Equations Organism that developed during this school year is an experience I would not give up for anything in the world. Who knows what it could be like for you...

Martha

Christiene Freel, SoulType 2

Hello, hello!!

Thank you for taking the time to visit the graduate's portion of the web site. It's wonderful that soul work is of interest to you, as it is to myself and the other graduates who's words you'll find shared in this section. When I started the school, I didn't have many defined experiences of what it felt like or meant to be a soultype 2. Nor did I have much understanding or experience of the other types. To my delight, that quickly changed as I had the priveledge of witnessing other's growth and soul (they so go hand in hand!) just as I was challenged to grow past the edges of familiarity to get in touch with my own soul. Yet more often I began to feel the electricity of excitement and playfully alive expansiveness fill my being. I recognized probably half way through the school year at a deep level that knowing about my soultype, and the soultypes of others, would HUGELY shift how I was in relationship with myself and others in the world. How I experienced relationships and began to see people in the world as a whole was significantly impacted and continues to be as I hold the intention to see and honor the soul that is before me - and to have as much quality time and fun as humanly possible together while we're in this thrilling dance of life.

What I also love is that this very real soul education and discovery was available to all of us and it can be taught and learned - such good news! During the school year and today we each continue to hone our skills to recognize when we can every unique soul's beauty, so training is and was all about how to actively draw out and enhance this beautiful, often ready to emerge contribution in ourselves and in others. As first year students, it was a sufficiently challenging and beautiful course of events. No day was like the previous day, just as no moment is like the one before it or like the one which will follow. That is heaven to those who enjoy spontaneity and surprises! For those who like some structure, there was always an amazing breakfast, lunch and dinner at it's regular time and the occasional planned event.

The values I hold dear of beauty, connection, movement, play, purpose, meaning, shared understanding, intimacy, to see and be seen, and many others were intricately wrapped up in this school year experience and met with this very cool community...culminating in what it means and looks like for each of us to meet the world soul-on and create soul to soul connections as we continue to live, learn and contribute. Thank you, everyone! I appreciate how each personal soul contributed to the school, my life and the bigger world picture by their willingness to come out and truly play in the New Equations School 2005-2006.

Love,

Christiene Freel

Gerina Gaffney, SoulType 1

This year has changed my life.

It’s been a year of learning something new….learning to trust and use my body’s intelligence. One of my newest learnings is the process of using my function words (for SoulType 1 they are “stretch to Source”) and my function posture. The SoulType 1 posture is to stretch my head, neck and spine so I can feel the stretch both upward and downward through my legs into my feet. As I do this I am aware of flattening my back, scooping out my core, expanding my chest. It feels really good. So, I say to myself, “stretch to Source” and allow my body to respond by taking this posture. When I do this I am aligning my body with my soul. I am lighter, freer. This gives me a way to easily quiet my mind and I become aware of the peace that comes with connecting to my soul. From this place, I am able to follow my soul’s direction, which is always the path of ease.

I mention this process because it has had the deepest impact on me in all parts of my life; in managing my thoughts, my emotions and my relationship with others. It keeps me out of judgment and self-judgment, which I know are destructive to my growth and my ability to connect to Source Energy. I now practice non-judgment and non-self-judgment. What does non-judgment look like? An openness to others' ideas, new ways of doing things, different ways of doing things. What does non-self-judgment look like? Being kind and compassionate with myself. Seeing my so-called failings with lightness, amusement, and as a way to grow and learn.

Ultimately, this ability to manage myself is the key to being able to make soul-to-soul connection with others. (This is also the pre-requisite for soultyping.) When I am in this place of non-judgment, non-self-judgment, I can hold the other person with unconditional acceptance and love. Now I am fully present to myself so that my body is the vessel that receives the other person’s soul, trusting that the other will feel the invitation, feel the safety, feel the opening to connect soul-to-soul.

I have learned to really know what it means to be a SoulType One…to own the gift of SoulType One which is to be a conduit of Source Energy. And to know that this gift is enough…more than enough…..That I don't have to do what the other Soultypes do so well, I just have to align body and soul and experience the ease that living from soul can bring.

This year has changed my life…..did I already mention that?

Embracing you with Source,
Gerina Gaffney, ST 1

Laurel Avery, Soultype 7

To tell about this, where do I begin?
There's so much to say, it could go on without end...
I'll just start by saying I have been deeply changed,
My being is different, my cells rearranged.

In December '05 the journey was started,
And from the old way we soon had departed...
At the solstice of winter about death and rebirth
To find a new way to be here on earth.

Alan brought us some stories from long, long ago...
Saying they could teach us things we needed to know,
We learned quite a bit from this Eloquent Peasant
About proactively using our gifts in the present.

In March of '06 there was oh so much more...
As yet one more time, we were changed to our core --
Though no architects among us, bridge builders we became
Into the Unknowable (there's no other name).

There were videos we watched -- again and again...
To see the soul in movement and find the magic from within;
The joy of discovery -- the nine types so diverse,
That unique expression we cannot rehearse;

In retreat three we worked on finding the groove,
Because that's where the energy needed to move...
Lots of "two dancing" to match the soul of the other,
To get over ourselves and truly be with another.

Then the principles of growth according to phi --
Though many a bit baffled, we were all willing to try...
First this growth must begin from right where you are,
No need to compare, that won't get you far.

The second is about knowing the direction will be new,
And when that was found, then together we all grew;
The last principle of phi growth took us farther because --
Not linear but much bigger than the last always was.

In between the last retreats, the phi growth was vast
so much more learning could happen than had in the past...
We worked on postures and aligning our bodies with Source,
Lots of throws and with the practice of not using force.

This led to the discovery of a most useful tool...
Which became a central focus for the rest of the school --
The function words that came from the soul's innovation,
Provided a vehicle, a path, for a body/mind rennovation.

They provided a new direction for the work to evolve...
We practiced them often with an added resolve,
With coming from soul, the only intent,
The pull of persona we wished to prevent;

Thus a new set of principles we needed to learn
So our gifts from this pull, we could better discern.
The first is no judgement of other or self --
Either positive or negative, it all goes on the shelf;

And when we speak and act in service of the whole,
Much easier it becomes to align with our soul;
Then if we get challenged with either of these two,
Our function words allow us to know just what to do.

Then together in September for one last retreat,
Each day a new adventure, not once a repeat...
As always we never knew what to expect,
Except that fun would be had with transforming effect...

To support every other in silence we remained,
So that from speaking from persona we all refrained,
It was quite powerful having that silence be the case --
Because every person in the group got to a new place.

Every single one a soul-to-soul connection did create,
Each person finding this new way to relate,
To see the soul of another, so mysterious and new --
Being honoured this way happens to only a few...

So we truly became one -- the connection always there,
The experience of this in our world is quite rare.
Yet, that is our purpose -- to learn, then to teach,
So that together new places and more people we reach...

The planet will change -- of this be a part...
Come join us next year and together we'll start
To create much more joy, acceptance and peace,
To break down the walls, understanding increase...

For when we are one and from our souls live,
We are fully embodied and available to give
To all of humanity -- a new way to be,
A vision so clear, the world will soon see...