Body Suspension with Ritual Arisings

[~Tszura~]

By using your body, modifying your body, you can go into [different] states of consciousness and discover the true nature of life and yourself.

-Fakir Musafar

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

-Marquis de Sade

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

-Kahlil Gibran

God enters by a private door into every individual.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”

-Kenji Miyazawa

Suspension is freedom. It involves the act of letting go, of becoming one with the pain, and using it as a portal to go beyond what we typically think are the limits of our minds and bodies. For some people, indulging in ice cream, or fancy cars makes them feel free and like a kid again. For me, its when I’m swinging from a couple of hooks in my back. Though I have been fascinated with the act of suspension since childhood, I have only recently been able to cross over into the actual experience of it. My first time up, when I closed my eyes, I actually felt like I was flying. Phenomenal!

So how can I learn more, and possibly do suspension, you say? I’m so glad you asked! We are lucky to have a wonderful group of people in our area who practice together under the name, Ritual Arisings. I have been to a couple of events thus far, and have a blast each time I go. I would love it if more of my friends could come and experience this with me. There is a fee for each type of suspension, but let me tell you, its bloody worth it! These guys/gals put their hearts and souls into this, and do it because they love it. The hooks, equipment, and other materials get expensive, so they have to charge. I have seen people charge more for way less. At the last event I attended, there was even someone who drove here from Chicago just to get on some hooks from Ritual!

Please go to their MySpace and Facebook sites listed below, and “friends request” them if you are interested. They hold monthly events, which are for actual participants only. You are allowed to bring a friend for support if you are hanging, but as these events are not shows and held at private residences, they don’t want it turning into a big party hardy event.

The next event is actually Sunday, June 27th, so if you’re interested, get moving on the friends requests! I’ll be there for sure!

To connect with Ritual Arisings on both MySpace and Facebook:

http://www.myspace.com/ritualarisings

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/ritual.arisings?ref=sgm

To view the ad for the next event:

http://events.myspace.com/Event/View/5051609

Good sites for exploring the beauty of suspensions, and other body modifications:

http://www.suspension.org/

http://www.bmezine.com/

http://www.bodyplay.com/

http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Suspension

If you have any other suspension/body mod sites you think would be helpful, please feel free to list them here.

All private Ritual events are held in the area, so you will never have far to go. I will keep posting the new dates as they happen.

I hope to see you at the next event!

Edited June 23, 2010 by ~Tszura~

[~Tszura~]

Hello everyone!!

There's another Ritual Arisings suspension event happening this Sunday, November 7th!!

WOOT!! WOOT!!!

Go to the links above if you'd like more information.

I will be attending, so maybe I will see you there!

XO

[torn asunder]

wish i'd had more notice - i don't think i can get over there this weekend...

still interested in doing this though!

[~Tszura~]

wish i'd had more notice - i don't think i can get over there this weekend...

still interested in doing this though!

So sorry Torn Asunder!! I need to post about this on DGN sooner next time!

I hope you can make it to the next one!

[Rev.Reverence]

You know...these activities, are just as addictive as hard-drugs...I have seen many kiddz go 'over the deep end' doing this...just saying...

ALSO...public view, is not the BEST place to 'hang out' & pray...just sayin'...

[~Tszura~]

You know...these activities, are just as addictive as hard-drugs...I have seen many kiddz go 'over the deep end' doing this...just saying...

ALSO...public view, is not the BEST place to 'hang out' & pray...just sayin'...

Agreed. It's certainly not my ideal place to hang, like in the desert, or in the middle of a forest where I could commune easier with the world, but its where its available. Everyone has their own addictions in life, food, sex, comic books, drinking, drugs, exercise, etc. People who are going to go over the deep end, are going to do it no matter what. For me, I enjoy hanging out with the people who go, and the experience is uplifting all around. lol People go to church to pray, and "practice." When I do this for meself, I'm practicing, in a way, for other things in my life, and when I do get to that point where I can have the experience of hanging surrounded by Mother Nature, I will be in good practice, and actually know what to do with the experience. **insert suspended smiley here**

[Stymie]

I cannot wait to go! :D

[~Tszura~]

I cannot wait to go! :D