"This moment is Spirit having this experience." - Adyashanti
Although this Intensive is not faith-based (do you need to believe in or trust anything to simply be, be simply... to be present in this moment?), I wanted to mention something I was recently reacquainted with:
"The Spiritual Exercies of St. Ignatius of Loyola are a month-long program of meditations, prayers, considerations, and contemplative practices that help Catholic faith become more fully alive in the everyday life of contemporary people."
Now, this was interesting since this Intensive is slightly longer than a month, and also since I wondered if everyone wrote their own program of short, daily, contemplative practices that they might use down the road, or tomorrow, to notice being fully alive in everyday life....
Your exercise could be silly or sublime. For instance, here's silly from Keri Smith's book, This is Not a Book: "This is a RANDOM ADVENTURE. 1. Go outside. 2. Walk until you see something red. 3. Take ten steps. 4. Look down at your feet and describe what you see in detail."
Can you imagine one contemplative exercise or prompt that you'd like to try out? Write it out for yourself (this one I could easily see being expressed as a music composition).
Here's one contemplative exercise/prompt with music from a short clip from Jed McKenna's book (as read by YouTuber AhabCapn). One of my favorite parts: "We spend our lives burrowing down into our own graves like that's a clever place to hide from death. This is about climbing out of our graves, and living our lives, and discovering who and where we are, and what we are a part of."