Tomorrow night at 8:30 Eastern, I am teaching the first session of a new weekly class called Starfire Spark, and I want to explain what it is, because it is a little different from anything else I run.
Starfire Spark is for anyone who makes something and is stuck. You might have a page that has been blank for a month, a song that has been half finished since last winter, a painting you keep walking past, or a book you tell people you are writing. You know what you want to make. You have just stopped making it, and every time you try to start again, it feels heavier than it should. That usually has nothing to do with talent or ideas. It is a state your body and mind have gotten into, and states can be changed.
I help you change it for yourself with Hemi-Sync audio. Hemi-Sync is a kind of audio, developed by Robert Monroe and tested in laboratories for more than fifty years, that plays a slightly different tone in each ear through your headphones. Your brain responds to the two tones by creating a third tone that neither ear is actually hearing, and that third tone gently shifts your brainwaves. In this class, it shifts you into a relaxed, open, focused state, which is the opposite of the tight, avoidant state that your creative blockages inhabit.
Here is how the two hours go. We open with a short check-in, where you say what you are working on if you want to. Then you put your headphones on, I play the audio, and you let it take you into that open state. When the audio ends, we start a timed sprint. Before the sprint, you set one goal that is small enough to finish, such as one verse, one page, one sketch, or one section of code. I start a timer, and you work on that goal until it rings, without stopping and without deleting anything. When the timer rings, you have made something that did not exist at 8:30. If you want to share it with the group, you can. If you would rather keep it to yourself, that is fine too.
You need stereo headphones, a quiet place, and whatever you make with. You do not need any experience with meditation or with Hemi-Sync. Every class stands on its own, so you can come to any Thursday without having been to the one before. A session is $22.