Offerings

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Spiritual Mentorship is walking along the path with you, the path of your own inquiry into authentically living a life of wholeness, of body, speech, and mind. Or perhaps to start, just exploring what we are, what we are made of, why phenomena is the way it is- changes, dissolves, arises again...even unwished for at times. 

Wherever you are in your wonderment of how to and what is the meaning of all of this- to be supported, affirmed, and guided by the mentorship of someone who is on the journey with you, and has had direct experiences of the questioning and the discovery life and wonderment can bring-  Mentorship can be the next step to feeling strengthened and clarified as you journey. 

To be a mentor is to have been mentored, and still be- we share what we practice and teach what we are in love with. To be a Spiritual Mentor is to then be in love with the spirit, in awe of, and in devotion to the uncovering and willful creating of our ability to be with our whole self- from the physical to the intangible yet perhaps very much known or sensed. And not just to learn who we are, but who WE are as a whole, all beings, all phenomena inseparable and so alive- in communication and intentional relationship. Just as the wind is not separate from space, how could you piece apart the water and the wind? The heat of the sun as warmth from ocean's water? The earth from the shore and the waves? The land from the breath of seasons? Your body from the breath, your wind, the wind of life?

What is creation? What is under creativity? Creativity as movement, as play, as dance, as destruction, as growth, as rainbow light without an ending or an edge...Where is space? Where is your mind? What if your body were all the elements? To be in touch with spirit is this: to be in-touch with the oneness of our elemental nature, the nature that is all...and to be curious. As my teacher Lama Drimed once said to me, What is life for but to be curious? What an invitation!!!

The ground from which I offer Spiritual Mentorship, is nearly 20 years of studying & practicing the Buddhadharma; and most significantly, from the 12 years in devotion to Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's Dzogchen lineage holder Lama Drimed, and, Lama Chöyang.  The interdependent opportunity to live in strict solitary retreat for 4 1/2 years with Lama Drimed as my guide, following traditional Tibetan Buddhist practices to refine the perception of our being- rooted me in the awe, commitment, & humility the path and practice of spiritual awakening, or mystical being offers. 

Since retreat, my life expression only continues to be a song of gratitude and wishfulness to be ever more embracing, ever more expanding, ever more here for all beings. And so, with the expressed direction by Lama Drimed for me to offer what I have received and now hold in my heart to anyone whose heart is asking & aligned- Spiritual Mentorship is another song of my devotion.

Sarwa Mangalam

May it be Auspicious

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Therapeutic Bodywork is a modality of  healing touch for deepening our capacity to relax and restore our own knowing and our body's innate knowing of how to heal, hold, and be vital in life. Whether acute, chronic, or in the recovery of injury, illness, grief, upheaval, or in the enjoyment of they impermanent calm waters of life- Therapeutic Bodywork, provides a support and reminder for healing and wholeness, strength, empowerment, and confidence in our well-being, however things are. 

 Vitally interwoven with this support of hands-on responsiveness- is providing self-care education and methods, encouraging the refinement as well of the age-old wisdom of our intuitive knowing as a guide, and increasing awareness of the natural affect all aspects of our minds and bodies and spirits have. This modality has been described most often as leaving you feeling deeply touched, met, and transformed, however subtle and gentle the touch. For the intention is to find that place-space which truly is the root of needing support, not just the subsequent symptoms-  integrating them all into a new moment and way of being. 

The doorway, or beginning to a treatment with a specific need, is not always linear or obvious, as all parts of us affect they other. So with communication, exploration, intuition, and intention we find where the yes is in the body, and we follow that openness- integrating the whole soma spirit and mind, the whole physical body as well. For where is the ending of arm and of leg when you really think about it, whether by movement or musculature, let alone fascia!?! Step by step then, a new message of well-being arrives to our whole being- stepping into, returning to innate wholeness. 

In the body- as in all phenomena!- there is no "normal"- as our own health and well-being continuously changes as we move through experiences. How do we genuinely be with our body’s experiences then of pain, holding, discomfort, openness, joy? When we align physically, we strengthen naturally. And when our body is strong, strength ripples into our minds, our spirit and our soul.

This modality is a unique synthesis of the many techniques learned & received from myriad practitioners over nearly twenty years of my personal healing journey and training. While my approach is primarily from an intuitive place, the form of my work is based on my training with Somatic Educator Tobin Mckee, and mirroring as well the inspiration drawn from several other mentorships of multiple techniques. 

Influenced by Myofascial Release, Craniosacral, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Somatic Education, Voice Dialogue, embodiment, dance, & the training in presence mediation brings. For with presence all comes to rest, resolve, and be known- held, allowed, and even understood ultimately to be no problem at all, just a process of learning & loving- even the pain never strays from the wholeness of our being, which is love.

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Energy Healing supports the body's remembering of it's ability to release, recover and be whole. There is no telling, rather a question or a suggestion- a listening of where and how the unwinding of your whole being wants to go, or is ready for. Providing an opportunity to relax into naturally arising awareness, perceptive knowing, and deep rooting into the parasympathetic state- the  offering of witnessing, holding & reflecting is always holistic, for we are not just parts but many wholes.

This is the powerful practice of simply being with, invoking one of love's most important qualities- allowing. In the loving embrace of our own ability to rest with ourselves, and with the guidance, support, witness, and reflection of not being alone but rather held in that whole process- the possibility and offering is to deeply let-go and drop-into the ocean of waving energy that we most naturally are. 

As meditation can teach us, so can touch, or really all sensorial experiences- every phenomena, whether experienced "within" or "externally" is like a wave on the ocean. Here is the beginning of one way, one direction into remembering we are the ocean- and all things, just beautiful waves to learn how to ride.

 This is a distilled, nuanced, & refined modality, inspired by the essential qualities of each technique and modality thats has informed my work. As with Therapeutic Bodywork, this offering is a distinctive synthesis of the various techniques learned & received from diverse practitioners over nearly twenty years of my personal healing journey and training. While my approach is primarily intuitive, the training I received from Tobin McKee in Somatic Education is most evident as the form I offer, with inspiration as well from additional mentors. 

Other major influences are Myofascial Release, Craniosacral, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Somatic Education, Voice Dialogue, dance, & presence, Awareness itself- our nature which I have most clearly come to know through a life of meditation. In presence there is a letting-go, and a being-with that subsumes and surrenders everything. And that is, relaxing. And relaxing is, quite a way to be...with every thing. So begins again and again, the practice!

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Individual mediation guidance is available under the offering context of Spiritual Mentorship, see above.

Melong Yeshe Mandala is a meditation group gathering on Mondays 3 to 4 PM, beginning October 21st.

Offering guidance, techniques, and the establishment of new patterns for our bodies, minds, spirits & souls to learn how to truly relax, settle, open, and begin- as we are always beginners in the freshness of this moment!- the blessed journey of discovering our great potential for love, wisdom, peace, and benefit. 

Gathering is a gift and great opportunity to support one another in the practice of waking up to the love that is all pervasive. In community we are encouraged and strengthened in our discipline and devotion, and perhaps most profoundly- we are reminded in that "field" created by our shared presence, who and what we truly are, and thus reminded of our capacity...for our heart is big enough to hold all, all this world, all this pain, all this suffering, and all this beauty simultaneously. 

By the expressed wish of my teacher Lama Drimed to teach from my heart to the hearts of others whom ask & are aligned- guidance for both individual mentorship & Melong Yeshe Mandala is drawn from nearly 20 years of one-pointed practice in the Buddhadharma; 4 1/2 years of solitary retreat under the guidance of Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche's Dzogchen lineage holder Lama Drimed; & most importantly- simple, genuine, love & devotion to learning how to be with all that is, right now. 

Contact Mukttī Shravana for more information on Melong Yeshe Mandala's gathering, or booking a session for individual Spiritual Mentorship.

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