Dimensions of Being - A doorway to Essence...
A Teaching retreat with Vasumati and Turiya

"I teach you undivided existence.
Remain undivided. Never think
yourself separate from your sexual
energy, or anything for that matter.
You are it! You are sexual energy,
you are love energy. You are
consciousness. You are your body

You have many aspects. Your
Diamond has many aspects to it.
And all those parts together make
you precious."

~ Osho

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This Work

This work has been created and developed by Faisal Muquaddam. Both Vasumati and Turiya have been trained with Faisal Muquaddam since many years. He has left a very deep and profound impression on both of them wtih his teachings.

This work is based on the understanding that separation from Essence is one of the primary causes of our suffering, and therefore, any therapy that does not retrieve our connection with Essence is incomplete.

Likewise, any ideology that acknowledges only the need to know the absolute, without including the personal, leaves us without the true guidance of how to integrate the awakened view into the context of ordinary human life.

We are precious, magical beings, but in a form of sleep - living through concepts and belief systems that do not allow us to perceive and participate from who we really are in the unlimited reality we live in.

We learn strategies of behavior that hinder us to develop and unfold fully. Through painful and disappointing events throughout our lives, we close our hearts, and shut down. We live a minimized life, pretending that everything is okay, while at the same time attempting to protect our inner wounds. What is lost is our connection to our natural being, to our Essence. We are reduced to a collection of fear, desperation and restlessness, and deep knowing that this is not all there is.

It is this knowing that gradually unfolds a path before us to see how these knots were tied… and begin to untie them consciously. With each realization, and subsequent relaxation, more space is created. Each time more space becomes available it becomes easier to move towards another layer of unfoldment and understanding. As we continue, this unfoldment becomes more and more interesting and fun.

This work offers a gentle approach, that slowly unfolds layer by layer our hidden potential and possibilities

A Taste of Essence and the Enneagram:

3 Day Seminar NOV. 23.-25, 2007
Times: Fri 6:-9:pm, Sat & Sun 10:am-9:pm

‘Essence’ courses are inquiries into the nature of Being and the obstacles that led us to lose our connection to our Essential Self. Each retreat has a different theme, creating both the opportunity for new participants to be introduced to the Work, and those continuing the work to participate with a sense of deepening progression.

There are so many beautiful aspects to our Essence: various forms of love, joy, and strength, as well as a true sense of value and peace. We find ourselves more capable from a depth of restfulness and ease that allows the old ways of efforting to drop away while knowing and residing in true support and will.

Sometimes Essence arrives like an ecstatic angel, and though it can feel like enough to simply enjoy the release of our true self, it is also useful to get to know this wonderful experience from the inside out. We inquire and track our experience through the body and learn to conceptualize what we find so we build a path and then a station for direct access.

The understanding of our personality structure is a very important aspect of the work. We will introduce the basics of the enneagram as a deep and very soulful way to understand our behaviour and ego defence structures, so we can differentiate between essence and conditioned behaviour. Only through inquiry, knowledge and a deep understanding for your own limitations and possibilities are we able to embrace ourselves in our totality.

These groups are gentle yet comprehensive in their ability to touch the very core of us, and offer much knowledge that becomes useful guide-posts along the way.

This group will focus on the subtle organs of spiritual perception called the Lataif as a pathway to retrieve lost essential states.
Each weekend of the retreat will be devoted to working with one of the primary Lataif.

Through deep understanding of our conditioning and personality- structure, we will rediscover different dimensions of Being, that we had lost contact with in our early development. We were born in Essence, and slowly had to give up certain aspects of our being, in order to get the love we needed to survive. The loss of this essence is experienced as a feeling of emptiness or deficiency, or felt as compensation or tension. In this retreat, we will rediscover, several major aspects of being, for example:

Strength, Love, trust, peace and power, compassion, joy, objective presence and clarity. Each section will be an in depth exploration of these dimensions of Essence.

Each quality has it's colour and it's own set of issues, and it's own resolution by reaching to an essential state.

By retrieving these lost aspects of essence, an understanding and a joy is created, through which we heal and bring ourselves back into integrity and order. It's a very nourishing process, through which completeness can happen.

This work is done in a very non pressuring , gentle and accepting atmosphere. There will be periods of silence, and there will be times of sharing, according to the quality we are exploring.
The purpose of this work is ultimately to reclaim all the different facets of our being,to become the full shining diamond that we truly are.

The approach works through presence, inquiry and understanding. Meeting truth with openness.

The main methods used in this work are:

• Self-Inquiry
• Presence
• Meditation
• Understanding
• Dyads
• Explorational Exercises
• Understanding of the Enneagram

Who can do the group?

Anybody interested in deep self- exploration, counselors therapists, body workers and medical and helping professions, people of the creative world and artists, people of affiliated religious backgrounds, such as Sufis , Buddhist etc.

What will you get out:

• A map of deep understanding of consciousness
• Self acceptance and forgiveness
• Healing of Trauma, Body and Emotions
• Capacity for objective discrimination
• Inner Guidance
• Trust in your innate ability to be a soulful human being
• Skills in relating and intimate relationships
• In your work and Creativity
• Insights, revelation and intuition.

"Just go within; deeper and deeper. Be a diamond thunderbolt."

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About the leaders

Turiya -

Turiya Hanover has been working with people for over 35 years. Trained in all various techniques like GESTALT , BIODYNAMIK, EGO PSYCHOLOGY, TRAUMA- HEALING, and FAMILY THERAPY. She has been  trained in the Diamond Logos approach by Faisal Muquaddam. She is one of the founders and leaders of the "Path of Love" process, and is traveling and working worldwide. She loves working with people, and is passionate in her own journey of feminine Awakening.

Vasumati -

Vasumati has been a therapist for 30 years, working in the field of relationships, sexuality, tantra and couples. She has trained extensively in the field of codependency and addictions, and has studied with John Bradshaw in the USA. She also has been trained by Faisal Muquaddam in the Diamond Approach.

Vasumati combines her approach with the meditative disciplines of the Eastern religions and the result is a unique synthesis of Eastern and Western approaches to understanding the human condition, that is both effective and holistic.

Suggested Readings:
Essence
by A.H Almaas

The Diamond Heart Series
by A.H Almaas

The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram
by Sandra Maitri

Bookings:
For more information or to make a booking -
Please concact: Rupda -
Telephone: 0432 686 597
Email: rupda@studiopresence.com

Where:
#152 Victoria RD.,
Bellevue Hill,
2023 NSW

Times:
Friday 5:00pm - 9:pm
Sat. 10:00am - 6:pm
Sun. 10:00am - 6:pm

Price: $450.
You will need to bring your own lunch.
This is not a residential group,
accommodations are not provided.