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Falling In Love With Yourself
Joy, peace and inner power through making friends with your feelings - even the bad feelings
A personal development workshop with Moumina Jeffs.
Next workshop:
evening of Fri Nov 12 - Sunday Nov 14 2010
(starts 8:00 pm Friday and runs to around 5:30 on Sunday. Please don't plan to leave early on Sunday.)
Residental at Osho Leela, www.osholeela.co.uk
Thorngrove House,
Common Mead Lane,
Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4RE
01747 821 221
Cost: £240, or £220 if paid in full by Friday Nov 5th
For questions about the workshop, ring or email me,
Islam Andrew White 0845-3510604 / andrew@themagicofyou.co.uk
To book, or for questions about accomodation and travel, contact Osho Leela as above.
Below on this page:
● Full details ● About Moumina Jeffs
● Practical information ● Contact details ● Moumina's mailing list
If you’d like to feel more alive and more at peace, more loving towards others, and more in love with yourself, and more able to act effectively and dynamically, then this workshop can help you to do that.
It is aimed to help you to make the next step in your life no matter what that is, what your background is, and no matter what is in the way.
Moumina is a very old friend and I can testify that her work is exceptional: playful, non-confrontational and yet very powerful and going very deep. Working with the body and with breathing, she creates a healing atmosphere where it is safe to explore the most intense issues and emotions with love, with respect, and with inner silence in the way that leads to real transformation. This work is profound.
Moumina leads workshops and trainings all round the world, but this is, amazingly to those who know her, only the third open workshop she has run here in England since 1988. If you want something in your life to change, this is an opportunity not to be missed.
Falling in love with yourself
The art of making friends with your feelings
How do you feel about your feelings?
- Are there feelings or emotions you strive to get rid of? (stuck, grieving, crazy, weak, oversexed, angry, frustrated, needy, lifeless …) Or do you trust that even with the most painful feelings, acceptance is the doorway to healing?
- Do you have feelings you keep secret; or do those you love know and accept everything about you?
- Do you feel the same emotions over and over again, or does life arise fresh and new each day?
- Are you addicted to pain, or open to joy?
- Do you avoid feelings, and stick to facts, or can you flow flexibly between passion and rationality in the right time?
- Are you a man? Typically, men slide right past the world of feelings! - and without realising it, lose much of their capacity not just for love, but for truth and for action.
- Are you blown about by constantly changing emotions, or do you have a quiet centre where you are always at peace?
- Do you feel very little beyond “just surviving,” or do you feel vibrantly alive?
- In short: are your feelings your enemies or your friends?
This workshop will show you how to relate to even painful feelings and emotions in a trusting, friendly way. When you trust even the “bad,” forbidden or un-feelable emotions, obstacles start to turn into openings, darkness into light, stress and tension into deep relaxation about your life. It will help you to fall in love with yourself and to have a close and loving connection with others. It will help clear away barriers to action, feel your inner truth, and let you move in life more strongly and effectively.
Moumina creates a safe and protected atmosphere in which to feel, to express, to relate with love and inner truth. This work is profound.
There’s a very direct route to transformation: your body. Even when the mind gets lost in pain and worry, the body remains spontaneous, impulsive and alive. So the workshop starts with playfulness and fun. Playfulness steps right past the crushing censorship of the critical mind and frees forgotten aliveness. Playfulness liberates a great source of vitality, fresh energy, creativity and new ways of seeing things.
Light-hearted playfulness is the spirit of the workshop even if very dark and intense emotions surface – in fact, especially then!
The other theme of the workshop is to relax into yourself, dropping down into the silent inner place which exists behind all thoughts and feelings. From that inner centre, no emotion is to be feared, all can be welcomed. It’s the place where you can just fall in love with being you, the place where delight and joy bubble up from inside you. In this place, simply accepting thoughts and feelings is enough to transform them.
If this sounds similar to the language of advaita and the “nondual” school of enlightened satsang teachers, that’s correct. It is the identical truth.
But this truth isn't always easy to experience. Thoughts and feelings can in many ways be difficult to let into our consciousness. They may be deeply buried, or highly charged, or split off as “not me.” When this happens, practising advaita-style meditation can be difficult or impossible.
This workshop uses contact with the body, with other people and with our natural aliveness to help us find the home inside us, the inner source of tranquillity and delight, from where thoughts and feelings can be transformed through tranquil acceptance.
The workshop is also in harmony with a very different-looking vision of life, that of tantra. The language is different from advaita, but in fact the understanding is the same. Tantra is profoundly non-dual, rejecting nothing, accepting all experiences, including the body and sexuality and “bad” feelings, and using that acceptance as a doorway to enter meditation. In the tantra vision, to find the inner home the body needs to relax from the tensions which come from stuck feelings and repressed emotions so the body flows in its natural aliveness. This workshop helps you to do that.
Practical information
Where
The workshop is residential. It will be held at Osho Leela, Gillingham, Dorset. Osho Leela is a unique place, a wonderful haven of aliveness, love, dance, creativity, music and fun. Most accomodation at Leela is in small dormitories; single accomodation may be available at a small surcharge.
Osho Leela, www.osholeela.co.uk
Thorngrove House,
Common Mead Lane,
Gillingham, Dorset SP8 4RE
01747 821 221
When
Next workshop:
evening of Fri Nov 12 - Sunday Nov 14 2010
(starts 8:00 pm Friday and runs to around 5:30 on Sunday.)
IMPORTANT: Please do NOT plan to leave early on the afternoon of the Sunday. Sunday afternoon is the culmination of the workshop and a lot of important things happen then.
Book early!
We are attempting to roughly balance the numbers of men and women in the group. To avoid being on the waiting list – book early! Cost is £240-00, reduced to £220 if paid in full a week before the workshop starts. This includes accomodation in a small dormitory and dinner on Friday evening.
Other practical details
The workshop involves dance, breathing and energetic activity and requires normal physical mobility. If you have any doubts or questions, or to ask about special arrangements, please ring to check.
You should bring: loose comfortable clothes for dancing in, a notebook and a blindfold, umbrella, outdoor shoes, a shawl, your own towels, and a drinking water bottle with your name on. All accommodation at Leela is in small dormitories.
Enquiries and how to book
For questions about the workshop, ring or email me,
Islam Andrew White 0845-3510604 / +44 (0)117 968 7307 andrew@themagicofyou.co.uk
To book, or for questions about accomodation and travel, contact Osho Leela as above.
About Moumina Jeffs
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Moumina Jeffs is an outstanding therapist and workshop leader with an international reputation. Formerly Director of the Centre for Transformation in the Osho International Meditation Resort, (www.osho.net), she works all over the world, and in the past 25 years has run highly popular workshops and trainings in England, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, India, Brazil, and Finland. She leads practitioner trainings in Family Constellation therapy, counselling, Pulsation (neo-Reichian emotional release breathwork), and neo-Reichian body type reading and co-leads trainings in Star Sapphire psychic energywork. She also runs personal development trainings and workshops in tantra, tantra for women, relating, primal feeling, neo-Reichian emotional release, shamanism and Family Constellation. She has a magical way to create a safe, non-confrontational atmosphere in which to feel and express the deep emotions which lead to real transformation. |
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[So] fall in love with yourself; … that is a basic requirement to love the world, to love others. … The person who is not in love with himself cannot love at all. … If you love yourself, you will love others. If you are flowing within your being, you will be flowing in relationships also.
Osho (enlightened meditation teacher)
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