The school's own system
Night Work explores what appears when habitual control diminishes: sleep, intimacy, deep perception, the collective body and the relationship between consciousness and nature.
It is a system of somatic, perceptual and communal cultivation. Its name does not designate merely a time of day: it points to a territory of practice where other rhythms of the body, attention and bonding become perceptible. Sleep, intimacy, stillness, hypnagogic states, breathing and the presence of others become fields of investigation.
It is not an isolated technique nor a synonym for Taoist sexuality. It brings together individual and collective practices, exercises of wakefulness and of repose, forms of meditation, rituals, bedchamber arts and procedures for observing the transition between different states of consciousness. One of its central questions: how does a human being regulate themselves when they stop thinking of themselves as a separate unit and recognize the importance of co-regulation, safe contact and community?
This page presents the principles and some basic practices. The advanced sequences, the rituals and the bedchamber arts require context, consent, preparation and direct transmission. That reserve does not respond to secrecy as a form of power, but to the care of the experience and of those who take part.
The practices
Each practice indicates which part is open and which part is transmitted directly.
Open practice
Standing practice during the night modifies the habitual relationship with space, balance and perception. The smaller amount of visual stimuli allows tensions, supports, oscillations and alertness responses to be observed with greater clarity. Its general principles are taught publicly; the progression and duration are adapted to each practitioner.
Open practice
A practice of breathing and bodily listening that explores the continuity between inner movement and the surroundings. It does not seek to impose a perfect breathing pattern, but to recover amplitude, rhythm and the capacity for adaptation. The introduction is public; the deeper variants are transmitted within the guided practice.
Open practice
It explores the bodily experience of cycles, changes of rhythm and the continuity between wakefulness, rest and activity. Its general presentation is public; the precise sequence and its applications are taught progressively.
Open practice
A practice of stillness linked to the passage between wakefulness and sleep. It allows one to investigate how the body preserves attention without sustaining a rigid state of vigilance. The basic orientation is shared publicly; its developments require accompaniment.
Public introduction · developed through transmission
The term elixir names here a process of bodily, respiratory and perceptual integration — not a substance nor an extraordinary promise. States of ecstasy are studied as possible human experiences of expansion, intensity or diminishing of the habitual separation. The framework is explained publicly; the practices are reserved for guided and gradual spaces.
Public introduction · developed through transmission
Compositions of sound, gesture, breathing and intention that organize attention and collective experience. They are not presented as magical objects nor as procedures of cure. Their existence and meaning are communicated publicly; their sequences are transmitted within direct teaching.
Public and progressive
Exercises of stillness, breathing, listening and observation of the changes of state. Some basic practices are open to anyone; others require continuity and preparation. The criterion is not hierarchy, but that the practice be comprehensible, safe and appropriate for whoever receives it.
Public introduction · direct transmission
They create conditions for investigating synchronization, belonging, care and shared regulation. They do not seek to impose beliefs nor produce group obedience. The philosophy is explained publicly; participation requires clear agreements, context and direct transmission.
Direct transmission
They form part of Night Work, but do not exhaust it. They address breathing, sensitivity, pleasure, intimacy and presence from a meditative and relational perspective. They are reserved for specific settings, with explicit consent, care, maturity and clearly defined frameworks.
Open practice
A brief practice for recovering bodily orientation in the midst of everyday activity. It uses supports, breathing, contact and perception of the surroundings to interrupt automatisms and reorganize attention. It is one of the most accessible doors of Night Work and is taught openly.
Public and progressive
Night Work observes the transitions between being awake, beginning to sleep, dreaming and recovering wakefulness. It does not aim to control sleep nor replace the treatment of rest disorders. It offers a framework of bodily and meditative investigation; the more delicate practices require accompaniment and an appropriate progression.