I. Healing the Emotions and the Heart

Embracing The Shadow

Often we complain about an emptiness we feel inside our guts, right in the midst of the complex demands and busy-ness of our lives. Deep inside, many of us feel lonely and needy. Many of us are struggling with a heaviness laden with guilt and despair. We might have learned or inherited this as young children from our parents, or from our past lives. Very often the same debilitating themes weave in and out of our life cycles and become a whirlpool that mercilessly sucks us in. There is an achy feeling, or a nagging voice that gets progressively louder as we try to muffle it or run away. The voice is a plea for help from our inner self. If this voice remains unattended, it manifests in other ways—obsessive/compulsive patterns, substance abuse, alcoholism, chronic fatigue, guilt and depression, dysfunctional sexuality, and emotionally abusive behavior.

The nagging voice is actually a wake-up call from our "Shadow”, the disowned self that contains the solution to our sorrows. If we continue to ignore it, our shadow could eventually consume us. If we begin to work with our shadow and embrace it, we will open up the wellsprings of renewed vitality, self-acceptance and the joy of creating a new life! This workshop is about "owning” our stuff, the dark side. Only by acknowledging the shadow can we integrate it into the Light and make it our most powerful ally.

Themes of this workshop:

• Dealing with loneliness and seeming meaninglessness of life
• Archetypal themes and Rites of Passage
• Self-Referencing Awareness: scanning and monitoring your
own "presence”
• Fine Tuning into the Lessons: what is your Soul trying to learn?
• Releasing negative beliefs (about money, sex, health, self-worth,
pleasure, etc) that no longer serve you
• Dancing with the "Shadow”
• Forgiveness and letting go of self-punishment
• Integrating multiple selves
• Self-acceptance and Self-love
• Co-creation/Manifesting Your Heart’s Desires