It had rained before the weekend of the seminar in Los Angeles and Saturday, my first day in L.A. was beautiful and clear. The sun was dazzling and the islands opposite Santa Monica appeared much nearer, etched clearly on the horizon, just like the coast line up past Malibu and the Santa Monica mountains.

The day of the seminar there was a fresh breeze blowing and again a clear blue sky with a beautiful dazzling sun. It felt like a cool Spring day. The venue was a sports hall with a lovely arched ceiling in Redondo Beach.

We started with the Intent series. The variation was: Grinding energy with the feet with the balls of the feet on the ground moving the heels, and then grinding energy with the heels on the ground moving the toes. Then mixing energy by striking the floor with the heels, kicking energy in front and back of the body, lifting energy from the soles of the feet (putting on a stocking), fusing right and left energy, stirring up energy for the adrenals (hands on knees), cracking the circle of energy and finished again with grinding energy with the feet

Nyei gave the first lecture:
The title of this seminar is calling Intent for the new year. We want to begin with the exciting news that there are nearly 20 first time practitioners here. New practitioners bring in a new silence, a new attention, a new mood. They learn fast, right away. They can do the new passes in moments. Hands up for beginners, please (to experienced practitioners) go and stand by and help the newcomers.

Acknowledgement to the LA practitioners. We admire your warrior spirit and we feel a new mood, that you uphold your purpose with the magical passes and other warrior arts which aim for freedom of perception, which includes freedom from our judgments.

You uphold that purpose for each other, this is like a pool that you can dip in to during your day at any time, even with no one else around. That common purpose unites. You have been noticing a quicker movement out of judgment thanks to the other practitioners. You still have disagreements, but you laugh at yourselves.

We want to explore the possibilities of this shared purpose, we want to tap into this shared purpose and reach inner silence for the new year. We want to make a bridge into the New Year and bring this awareness.

Seers use everything for their purpose. When something ends or begins we don't ignore it or fight it, we use it. We take a look at what worked and what didn't work, and we use that for intending into the next year.

We will do magical passes for Inner Silence, so that from Inner Silence we can move into a new direction.

Seers see that when we are born we have huge amounts of energy. Our daily judgments causes us to form a crust with that energy (you're crusting!) our judgments form a crust on the edges of the luminous sphere.

Stalkers get rid of what is unnecessary and crusting is the biggest waste of energy we have. It costs us our freedom. How do we crust? How do we make this crust? We find out and then we re-deploy that energy.

We want to navigate, life is a tour of awareness. We come from the stars, from infinity, from the Sea of Awareness. We enhance that awareness by exploring, by finding a thread and following it - it could be music, it could be anything, and we follow it through.

Interaction really helps us to become aware of ourselves and of the universe. We do this as much as we can and then we return it to infinity. We return this gift to the Sea of Awareness, we return this life gift.

With our energy, we can re-deploy it, we can choose, we can make a crust or enhance awareness.

A warrior chooses his playing field, his field of action.. The choices. She didn't call, I know I shouldn't think of her badly, but I bet she is messed up her day and she eats too much and why does she wear that shirt anyway. Or we can say maybe she needs help? This is redeploying energy. Redeployment in our actions.

Impeccability is the wise use of energy, away from self importance, towards our journey of perception.

Dreaming is the volitional purposeful movement of the assemblage point to a new view, and stalking is fixing the assemblage point in a new position. We have a beam of energy that goes through us, this beam of energy can move, when it shifts we have a shift in our perception of the world. To see other views is dreaming.

The instructors used to ask the Nagual: Yes, but what am I? A dreamer or a stalker? We are no longer in the same format of the lineage, that is a small group of warriors. Our possibilities come from our number and combined purpose. We need to learn both stalking and dreaming and we start in our daily interactions. (Dreaming a new direction would be taking a new view of a situation, such as in the example Nyei gave, to think that when she didn't call, it is maybe because she needs help, and stalking would be to maintain that new view)

We dream a new direction for the New Year. How can we do that? With our number and dreaming together. We are going to practice "Forging the Dreaming Attention" Scanning, we realized that this form is ideal for intending together a new direction.

A warrior strikes out on his own, not blaming anyone, or expecting to be bailed out. A warrior takes full responsibility for his actions. The masculinity series is ideal for this. In other series we rub the energy into the different vital centres. In this series we strike the crust and the energy goes where it is most needed. It is a form for dreaming and it is ideal for dreaming together. With the sticks we make a vibration and with this vibration we intend together because we are vibrational beings, luminous beings.

Our concreteness is not our essence or our nature. With the vibration of the sticks we make a link with the vibratory force that permeates everything. Intent is the force of intelligence, we are all linked to it and we must polish our link. The vibration of the sticks can stir the vibration of our own nature, we polish that link with the vibrational force. We entice it with the sound, the sound gives a jolt to our internal dialogues, to the judgments we repeat to ourselves.