Therapy can be seen as doing the work of closing the gap between our humanity and our Divinity. This work is a direct path to Nondual & Spiritual Awakening... awakening to our full essential nature and embodying this nature in our everyday lives. Therapy is an examination of both our Beauty and our Shadow (the aspects of our egoic nature where we still struggle). It provides [...]
Recently, the great therapist and teacher John Welwood passed on. John was the wise mind who first coined the phrase “spiritual bypassing.” Spiritual bypassing is the art or unconscious movement of using spiritual concepts, teachings or experiences to deny, transcend or ignore our human life. If left unchecked, the art of spiritual bypassing leaves us deeply divided in our spiritual and human self. We may have great spiritual insights and experiences, but if we are proficient at spiritually bypassing our human lives, we just may become deeply unintegrated, detached and defended in our spiritual super ego. The more we spiritually bypass our human lives, the greater the chance our shadow will haunt us or cause trouble both in our human and spiritual experience.
This is a video recorded on January 20, 2019 during our beautiful meditation retreat weekend in Carbondale, CO. In this guided savasana, we are learning how to relax the body into a state of total surrender. After the savasana, I speak about the secret of yoga and the necessity of yoga practice, as well as offer teachings on Prayer.
Not being ruled by pain; being ruled by Love. Here is a video of the opening satsang of our meditation retreat weekend in Carbondale, CO.