The Tethered, Nested, and Adaptive Selves – IHOW #10

Aviv Shahar with Rita Lampen, Eleni Makri, and Beth Simpson

November 26, 2025
The Tethered, Nested, and Adaptive Selves – IHOW #10

Portals Practices are a wide array of activities and processes that can enhance well-being, inner balance and harmony. Practices help us integrate our inner lives and awareness and connect to our natural creative potential. We’re also tuning our lives to the greater intelligence, strength and support that is always available to us.

The practice of the Tethered, Nested, and Adaptive Selves is a beautiful expression of these distinct aspects of our energetic life, and of their service to support and guide us safely, to enable communication within and without, and to keep us in touch with the source of life that sustains and nourishes us.

Think of the Internal Human Orchestra Work (IHOW) series as a way of “tuning” our inner instruments — the energies, qualities, and subtle lives — that together form the symphony a human life can become.

Steps

  • 1: Clear a mental and physical space for a time of sensing the energy field around you
  • 2: Consider standing up, or staying seated, provided you feel at ease
  • 3: Prepare yourself to meet new parts in the finer layers of your systems
  • 4: Follow the suggestions and instruction visually or with eyes closed
This practice offers an opportunity to experience the intricate cooperation between the three dimensions of our self: the one that can adapt to situations in the world, the one inside you that forever comes back home and has an agentic power that directs you into whatever it is that you choose to do next, and the one that's forever caring and connecting you to the even greater purpose that you express in this life, one that carries a universal memory beyond this lifetime.
Aviv Shahar

Rita Lampen

Rita Lampen

A lifelong explorer of human expression and liberation through multiple arts. Passionate about integrating all facets of our humanness - mind, body, soul and more - through as many creative pathways as possible. Movement teacher by profession, motivated by love of well being and the glow this brings into life. Active in various international collaborations that seek to deepen and update understanding of the human systems, to cultivate grateful appreciation of the extraordinary faculties we are gifted with, and to develop and pioneer new skills and practices to offer grounding, balance and liberation into greater fulfilment of human possibility.
Beth Simpson

Beth Simpson

Life moves and when we move with it there is a happiness, a fullness and it feels purposeful. Beth works with individuals and small groups in healing, and moving with change to come into living fully. When we live purposefully, anything is possible!

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Eleni Makri

Eleni Makri

A lifetime researcher on human body systems, in its energetic and physical ways. Combining and integrating different movements and styles, as a martial arts practitioner, creating international trainings for children, youth and adults around the world on safety and self-defense practice and application, and collaborations with other facilitators to explore more from different domains and perspectives about human life.
Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar

Aviv serves as the Portals' sherpa. He curates transformational journeys and is a storyteller of the epochal evolution culminating at this time. Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.

Visit: Aviv Consulting

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