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In the Now…

2010-04-24T22:25:00.000-07:00

Stillness, love and clarity were certainly at the rendezvous at the end of the 5-day ‘returning to the source’ that took place in Shenzhen this late March. Participants gently yet surely made their way back into the timelessness of now.
And existence is always at work to bring us opportunities to move from the unclarity and confusion of our conceptual mind to the clarity and joy of being in the present moment.
Some of Shanghai’s participants of the ‘meditation, a key for a transforming life’ seized the opportunity at hand and were rewarded with a sense of Joy and Love at the end of these five days. Some did not take the opportunity and missed…. Such is life!
Moving through these opportunities is also a constant learning and a joy for me. It is like seeing existence at work and it brings gratitude in me towards existence for presenting me with such opportunities. It also forces me to recognize – in case I forget it - that I am in the service of this vast existence that we call ‘life’, that there is no right or wrong, only a neutral happening that arises from some silent depth and manifests itself through love. Some call it the power of now. Existence is truly compassionate!
Some of the Shanghai participants took the occasion of my extended stay to support themselves with individual sessions in order to clarify an issue or disperse a difficulty that they face in their life.
After a short yet busy week, I took off for Shenyang, in Liaoning province to set up the basis of a future cooperation in this Northern part of China and in Mongolia. Despite the cold temperature – just around 1° or 2° Celsius – the welcome was very warm and heart-full. Thank you Deva Masta for providing the means and supporting a new possibility for meditation to arise in these parts of China.
Visiting friends and students at West Lake Hangzhou concluded this Chinese journey. Next step is the southern UK for a series of events and the now regular spring time 'Love in Awareness intensive' at Osho Leela.
The month of May will see me back in Shanghai, yet this time simply to visit friends and delight in my favorite Chinese activities… massages and drinking tea.

Keep in touch and feel free to connect with me for any info you may require or question you may have. Do check Upcoming events for time & dates of the next courses.

Looking forward to meet ‘you’ along the way
With Love and a passion for awareness
Namaste to you all
Rakendra

Primal Healing & Self-enquiry

2010-03-11T06:18:00.000-08:00

Taking time for myself, I plunged into intensity during these last weeks. I started with a 2-week Primal Intensive at the Janov’s institute, in Santa Monica, California, followed by a 10-day self-inquiry intensive based on the teaching of Ramana Maharshi at the AHAM Retreat Center in Asheboro, North Carolina.
It might seem strange to walk concurrently these two different paths which can appear contradictory or far apart at first glance. In reality they are very much connected and interlinked. To me they work hand in hand and I see them as complementary on this path towards oneness, towards my true nature. They actually serve the same purpose, dis-identification from non-reality and rooting oneself into that space of ‘pure or naked awareness’ of the ever present moment.
If you’d like to read more on this theme, do check the monthly perspective section where I’ve just posted a new article on this very subject as well as a comment on my experience during the self-enquiry intensive. You can also check the ‘about awareness intensive’ page if you feel drawn to this type of work. Now comes the time for me to get back on the road again and after a short stopover in Paris, France, I’ll head for Shenzhen, China to facilitate a 5-day ‘returning to the source’ and then on to Shanghai for a 5-day ‘Meditation - a key for a transformed life’.
Meanwhile this website, www.livingourtruenature.com is under ‘reconstruction’, to be in alignment with the Chinese one that came to life last November.

Well, that’s all for now,
Check Upcoming event for time & dates of the next courses and connect with me for any info you may require or question you may have.
Looking forward to meet ‘you’ along the way

With Love and a passion for awareness

Namaste to you all

Rakendra

Incredible Pune, India

2010-01-24T19:06:00.000-08:00

Spending some time at the OIMR in Pune is always both rewarding and challenging for me.
Rewarding in the sense that whenever I am ready and open to meet the challenges offered, something positive comes out. This time challenges knocked on my door more than once, testing my ability to let go of old patterns and jumping into new unknown spaces.
The end of the year party had a soft and light-hearted ambiance and I’m certain that 2010 will have a similar flavour. No doubt that it will also be a promising year for all and I take this opportunity to express my desire that 2010 carries lots of Joy, Love and Laughter for all during this coming year.
It was soon time for me to set up the practicalities for the 12-day Awareness Intensive training. Although small in numbers, this training carried the flavour of a ‘special vintage’, maybe because all of us have this same love for this process. It certainly was a joy for me to share this passion.
The 3-day Awareness Intensive embedded in the training gave them opportunities to experience the awareness intensive retreat from a different angle as well as offering hands on opportunities to practice and test their newly learned skills. All of them recognized that with this training they gained more understanding about their own growth process as well as being more at ease with the awareness intensive process.
The 3-day helped participants experience spaces of de-identification from the mind and serene tranquillity for some and freedom from old patterns and beliefs for others. Quite a number of grateful hearts met on the follow up day.

Time flies and it is already time for me to pack my case and move on. First to Chiang Mai for a short relaxation time and then to the Usa where I will participate in an intensive at the Arthur Janov’s Primal Institute. I will also take part in an ‘intensive self-enquiry training’ based on the work of Ramana Maharshi.
Quite a program indeed for these first months of 2010!

Check Upcoming event for time & dates of the next courses and connect with me for any info you may require or question you may have.

Looking forward to meet ‘you’ along the way
With Love and a passion for awareness
Namaste to you all
Rakendra

Tao in Phoenix Arizona…

2009-12-16T23:52:00.000-08:00

During the last two week intensive that I participated in, I was working on the question/koan ‘what sexuality is’; little did I know at the time that this would lead me some time later to the Phoenix Taoist center and help me letting go even more of preconceived ideas and beliefs around sexuality, as well as learning many transformative practices.
Tao, ‘the way’, well…. it seems that the concept of ‘Zorba the Buddha’ was something well known from the Taoists since the earliest time. They certainly have a different way of naming and mapping the ‘path’ yet it is all the same, it does lead “From Sex to Super-consciousness”.
I really enjoyed my time there, learning in a different way, playfully and heartedly. It seems to me that like the legendary Phoenix who is reborn from his ashes, I too, am reborn from my ashes and certainly my ‘Tantric Awareness’ courses will take another turn after this new experience!

Finally it happened; ‘Living Our True Nature’ is now available in Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. I used this opportunity to give the site a new look and soon the English and French sites will benefit from it too.
And in preparation, I have a 7 months stream ‘Life is Relating’ which should take place next year in Shanghai.
Now it is time to get a visa for India and journey to Pune for the next months. I’m looking forward to be back to the OIMR and meet old and new friends as well as facilitating a 12-day awareness intensive training mid January. I’m sure it will be a fruitful experience.
See you there...
Check Upcoming event for time & dates and connect with me for any info you may require or question you may have.
Namaste to you all
Rakendra

Meditation & Inner Child in Shanghai….

2009-12-07T13:03:00.000-08:00

Time is certainly relative and this whole month that I spent in Shanghai really felt like just a few days, even though my schedule was full on and now it’s already time to move on!
I arrived just in time to celebrate my birthday at the end of October and to get over the jet lag, after these few relaxing days, it was then full on with putting a last touch for the 5-day course ‘Meditation – a key for a transformed life’ which I co-lead with Santa and on we sailed… introducing participants to what meditation is and is not, slowly yet surely, leading them into experiencing what meditation is.
It was a first time adventure to co-lead with Santa and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed this joint venture of leading participants into becoming more familiar with ‘turning in’, with turning the focus inwards rather than outwards and thus experiencing awareness more and more until a space of meditation arise on its own accord. And it certainly did for some of them, not a smooth sailing for all though, yet many harvested a lot from these 5 days. And I take the opportunity of this blog to salute their courage and perseverance during these 5 days.
Then time came for me to do some sightseeing around Shanghai, enjoy nice diners with friends and treat myself with wonderful Chinese massages. I also took time to indulge in my favorite passion…. drinking tea. Since my tea experience in Taiwan some years ago, I always take time and opportunities to discover more about Chinese tea. They are so exquisite and of such a variety!
Next was a plunge into the ‘inner child’ world. Childlike and happy faces were shining at the end of this 5-day course.

It was a joy for me to playfully lead participants into reconnecting, healing and supporting their inner child. I trust that all of them will now enjoy a new way of relating in their daily life.
As this time there were no requests for individual sessions, I used that time to complete the Chinese version of 'Living Our True Nature' as well as a brochure that will come out soon.
And with Serena we have also put together the basis of a 7 months stream 'Life is relating’ that will take place next year. Check here soon for more on this project.
And now it’s already time to move on!
I left Shanghai with a little sadness in the heart, the time left too short, I wanted to stay a little more, just to enjoy friends and doing nothing! Yet I’m happy for all the richness that I’ve experienced and also happy to have been able to share my passion for awareness and meditation with so many friends, also pleased to know that I will be back soon in Shanghai for more.
I cannot end this blog without a warm thank you to Serena for organizing these courses; she and her staff put a lot of energy and care into setting this up in a beautiful way, including the translation which was ‘first class’, thanks to Miranda’s mastery of English and I’m sure that all the participants will have appreciated her skills.
My inner journey is now taking me to the Usa for a couple of week to learn and experience more about Tao. Then it will be time to return to Pune, India for a month or so where I’ll be leading a 12-day 'awareness intensive training' mid January.
So long Chinese friends, do check these blog pages and the website, I’ll post new blogs from time to time.
Namaste to you all
Rakendra

The long and winding road to enlightenment….

2009-11-02T03:09:00.000-08:00

‘Being at the source’ is certainly what we all long for and those who participated in the Odessa 'Awareness Intensives' really put all their effort into just doing that; intending to be at the source. So did all the Uk participants, whether in the ‘Love in Awareness Intensive’ or working on ‘another’ during the community intensive at Osho Leela.

Some reached the source, some regain contact with their ‘amness’, others with their childlike innocence; for sure all of them did face their ever creating mind!
I’m always blown away by the amount of openness and love that these ‘Awareness Intensives’generate. And I also find it amazing and sometimes challenging too, how each participant seems to be just here to reveal a facet of my own mind.
I’m ever so grateful for what I receive through facilitating these intensives.
Yet what puzzle me the most is how we all go on looking away from ourselves for something that is already there, present and available each second of our life.
Nowhere to go really, nothing to look for, just being in one own presence is all that is required. A true existential joke!

Shanghai, China is my next stop. First a 5-day ‘Meditation - a key for a transformed life’, it will be a joined venture with a Buddhist monk to introduce awareness and meditation to busy busy people.

As a vital and essential step on our path towards oneness I will also introduce ‘Innocence Regained’, a 5-day to restore and support our connection with the inner child.

Check Upcoming event for time & dates or connect
with me for any info you may require or question you may have.

Looking forward to meet ‘you’ along the way
With Love and a passion for awareness
Namaste to you all
Rakendra

Summer was a lovely time for showers… of blessings that is!

2009-09-09T07:32:00.000-07:00

I’ve now settled in a beautiful garden - almost of Eden, near Chiang Mai, Thailand. It offers me lush green surroundings, a bird chirping paradise, beautiful starry nights, silence, serenity and sipping coconuts by the swimming pool has now become my regular afternoon activity - what a life!
All this does not make it easy for me to be back on the road again! Yet I cannot do without sharing my passion for self-enquiry work.
I’ll be on the road again tomorrow, first heading for Odessa, Ukraine to facilitate a 7-day ‘Reaching the source’.
And then on to the UK, Bristol, Edinburgh - Osho Jagarity Meditation Centre - and last but not least a 3-day 'Love in Awareness Intensive' in Gillingham, Dorset - Osho Leela.
Shanghai, China will be my last stopover before reaching Pune, India mid December.

Check Upcoming event for time & dates or connect with me

for any info you may require or question you may have.
Hope to meet ‘you’ along the way
With Love and a passion for awareness

Namaste to you all
Rakendra
September 2009

Awareness in motion…Shanghai

2009-07-06T08:26:00.000-07:00

The beautiful green and lush surroundings of Chong Ming Island, just of Shanghai were the perfect set up for this 'Awareness in motion'. It was an invitation to stillness and silence and each participant took this invitation wholeheartedly and turned the focus inside intending to directly experience 'who is in'.
During these 3 days, the readiness to cut through layers of identification was no doubt prevailing and the courage to drop ideals, to let go of security was also very present. As self-denial and self-betrayal slowly gave way to truth, contented hearts and smiling faces started emerging. A 3-day course is indeed a short time, especially when one is new to self-enquiry, although a beginners' mind is more often a plus than a hindrance. Yet, the way towards our true nature, the way towards the empty heart – the 'Chan way' – as Chinese like to call it - certainly requires a little more time and dedication!
As for my own 'Shanghai experience', it turned out to be full of surprises for me. I've really enjoyed my stay in Shanghai, meeting new friends, learning more about Chinese teas and about 'relaxing' in massage salon. The art of tea and massage are really a Chinese must! Now is a time for me to rest and enjoy the coolness of Chiang Mai, Thailand. As well as practicing Chi Kung and learning the art of Chinese abdominal massage – Chi Nei Tsang.
I will be back in Shanghai in November to offer a 5-day 'Innocence regained'. It will be an opportunity for all willing hearts to reconnect with the innocence, with the childlike qualities that we are. Restoring and supporting the connection with the inner child is a vital and essential step on our path towards oneness.
Do check Upcoming events for more information
You would like to share something or ask a question… feel free to connect with me
Namaste to you all

Rakendra

Letting Trust Be….

2009-06-07T07:35:00.001-07:00

Well… open hearts and gratefulness were certainly at the 'rendez-vous' during the 'awareness in motion' and the 'letting trust be' that took place in Taichung, Taiwan.

Just as Oolong Tea reveals its fragrance with the right water temperature, it seems that the Taichung heat that prevailed during these 2 weeks helped our Taiwanese participants release their own fragrance.
Conditionings, projections, shock and shame are certainly part of everyone's mind reality. Yet all it takes to lift off their veil and un-cover the naturalness, the innocence of one's own being is a willingness to open. And certainly, intention, openness and a willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along the way, were the drive that helped participants regain their naturelness.

Touched hearts and gratefulness were also at the 'rendez-vous' during the 'letting trust be' closing talk!
Existence certainly has its ways!

A short stopover in Chiang Mai, Thailand to rest and take care of some practicalities and I will be eastbound again, this time for a 'Shanghai experience'!
A question or something you would like to share…; feel free to connect with me
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Gratefulness simply is….

2009-05-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

I cannot help not noticing that each course that I facilitate turns, for me, as an invitation to deepen my opening to this 'inner space' where everything disappears. When this happens it seems that only gratefulness remains. Gratefulness and with it, love and simplicity come as a fragrance. Ordinariness is just round the corner.

The 'Love in Awareness intensive' that just took place in Odessa, Ukraine, was no exception. Sometimes with a burst of laughter, sometimes with tears flowing down, participants came in contact with this inner sky and no doubt, love was at the 'rendez-vous' too!

Let's see what will be at the 'rendez-vous' in Taipei and in Shanghai my next stopovers. Trust for sure, since I'll be facilitating a 3-day awareness intensive retreat 'Love Trust & Trust Love' in Taichung, Taiwan followed soon after with 'Self-awareness in motion' in Shanghai, China.

Promising times ahead!
Any questions or something you would like to share? Use this link to connect with me
Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

Creating trust & awareness in Bucharest…

2009-05-05T14:35:00.000-07:00

A friend just sent me the lyrics of a song and the words fit quite well with the light hearted 'Self-awareness in motion' that just took place in Bucharest, Romania. Trusting and opening, participants playfully entered the world of awareness. As they reconnected with long forgotten aspects of themselves, joy filled their hearts and faces. Gratitude also arose at the end of these 2 days of willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along this discovery path towards 'the one who is in'.

Next was a stopover in Bucharest; a time for me to rest and let the Zorba in me enjoy the thermal waters, the different saunas and…. taste the local delicious food & wine!
I'm now en route to Odessa, Ukraine for a plunge into three days of 'Love in Awareness intensive'.
Join us there!
I'm looking forward seeing you somewhere on this planet…and, do feel free to connect with me for any question you may have or to simply to share your experience.
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Weaving love in Kiev…

2009-04-29T12:24:00.000-07:00

With their willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along the way, with their openness and their integrity, participants of the 6-day 'Tantric Awareness' that just took place in Kiev, Ukraine created a lively and warming atmosphere that really counter balanced the briskly cold of these late April days.

Awareness certainly paved the way in this journey from the base chakras to the more subtle ones. Resting in the heart.

The different structures, the communication exercises and the active or sometimes the guided meditations helped weave love as well as a playful awareness.

And it is always a touching experience for me to witness this 'transformation' at work, to see light replacing darkness, to see self-love emerging in place of ignorance or hatred, to see understanding taking place.

My heart is filled with a big 'whoah!' – So simple and yet so deep – Gratefulness. It certainly heartens my passion for sharing this work.
Next is a 3-day Opening to self-awareness in Bucharest, Romania and strait after a 3-day 'Love in Awareness intensive' in Odessa, Ukraine.
Sounds promising!

Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

Love is in the air…

2009-04-08T15:48:00.000-07:00

Blossoming like the nature in this time of spring, love was certainly in the air during a whole week of 'Awareness Intensive' at Osho Leela in Devon, Uk.

The Osho Leela community members kick-started this self-inquiry week on the Monday night by tackling koans/questions such as 'Who is in?' - 'Who am I?' – 'What relaxation is?' or 'What sexuality is?'

As most of them had participated in a Humaniversity course the week-end just before, the energy was quite high and to merge into that energy was certainly a joy and for me. The community 'Awareness Intensive' ended by midday on the Thursday and the 'Love in Awareness intensive' open to all, started on the same evening.

All participants, whether newcomers to this type of work or 'old timers', gave their best to directly experience 'love' and the fragrance of innocence and trueness were certainly present during those 3 days. Combined with the love that was emerging, it made it a truly beautiful time.

Although slightly different in their fragrance, both these 'Awareness Intensives' gave me the opportunity to deepen my own process. In the second one, I experienced myself as one with the group; there was no real separation between me in the role of facilitating this process and these people in the role of participants. A unity had been created; a sense of 'oneness' and of humility was there for me along with gratefulness towards these participants. In a way, I felt I was a participant myself in the vaster process of growth that existence provides every moment.I did feel privileged to support these participants' inquiry process and seeing the blooming of all of them emerging after just 3 days, made me feel blessed by existence to be in this facilitator role. It also gives me the incentive to expand this work in the UK by offering more opportunities of this kind. Let's see how existence wants to flow!Last but not least, I do want to take the opportunity of this blog to salute everyone's willingness, courage and integrity to move through this intense and arduous process.
For those interested, I've just posted my account of the Darkness retreat I took part in a few months back; check 'a darkness adventure', on www.livingourtruenature.com

Coming next for me is a week near Bordeaux, France, to let my 'Zorba nose and palate' delight with the delicate flavors of St Emilion red wines; certainly a preparation for the 'Tantric Awareness' week that will take place in Kiev just after that.

Check the 'Upcoming events' page for more.

Looking forward meeting you again soon somewhere…

Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

On the road Koans...

2009-03-19T03:28:00.000-07:00

I'm now back in France and sitting in a cozy friend's home near Bordeaux; I turn around and look through the window to be amazed by a blooming cherry tree in the garden dancing in the light breeze and silently sharing its fragrance and white flowers with whoever cares to pay attention.
The sound of silence is never too far away!
My Thailand days are now over for now and soon I'll be on the road again to facilitate Awareness Intensives – there will be 2 'Love in Awareness intensives' at Osho Leela at the end of this month, the first one for the community there and the second one open to all.
A week of love and awareness; what more would one wants!

Whilst in Thailand, 'riding the bull home', existence gave me the opportunity to come in contact with some living Koans, like...
Beauty is!

And also, testing my own direct experience with them.

Tell me what Trust is!

I also had the opportunity to take part in a 21-day Darkness Retreat. Imagine, 21 days in full darkness! Nothing else to see but darkness wherever I turned my eyes, whether outside or inside! It was like being in a dark cave with only one thing to do, turn in!
For the full account, check 'a darkness adventure'.

As the financial crisis strikes everywhere, the March 'Returning to the source' in Odessa had to be cancelled; it will be replaced with a 'Love in Awareness intensive' early May. Dates are now confirmed; check the 'Upcoming events' page.

Looking forward meeting you again soon somewhere…
Namaste to you all
Yves-Rakendra

Cruising and Healing...

2009-01-03T21:00:00.000-08:00

It so happens that I've had to cancel my entire winter schedule – my body was claiming its time. And rightly so if I look at what has happened since I started this 4 months cleansing and healing. I've being staying in Thailand, Koh Samui at first, and now Chiang Mai, where I'm spending my time between healing and meditation.
Thailand local events have also given me a chance to move here and there and visit Laos for 'turn arounds'.
Cruising on the Mekong River, riding elephants and simply enjoying life has also been part of this healing time. Just as this year is at an end and the new one is about to set, the same seems also true for me. Although my cleansing/ healing program is quite full for the next 2 months, I feel on the rising slope and looking forward to spring time!
I also feel grateful towards existence who is giving me this opportunity and I also would like to wish everyone – all the Joy, the Love and the Laughter that its hearts can bear.
And it truly can bear a lot!!!!!

Looking forward meeting you again soon – next on schedule is the Odessa, 'Returning to the source', see you there and check the 'Upcoming events' page for more.
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Love in a lychee garden…

2008-10-22T03:23:00.000-07:00

5 days dedicated to letting go of preconceived ideas, beliefs and conditionings around 'what love is'. That's what these Chinese friends set themselves for in this beautiful Lychee orchard near Shenzhen. It certainly was not an easy task at times, but their readiness to move inwards, their willingness to face themselves took care of the obstacles that came their way and for sure new faces and open hearts were at the 'rendezvous' at the end of these 5 days.
It is always a very touching experience for me to witness these changes. And the more I let my passion for this work flow, the more joy comes in too.
Now it is time for me to enjoy the Chinese art of drinking tea. Whether, Green, Oolong or Pu'her, there is always a chance for direct experience in a Chinese cup of tea!
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

True nature shines at Osho Leela

2008-10-07T06:37:00.000-07:00

For a whole week existence gave me the opportunity to offer and facilitate two 'Love in Awareness intensives' back to back. A first one for the community residents and straight after one open to all. As I look back on this week, I just feel baffled and in awe by what this opportunity created. So many open faces, so many open hearts, so much love and care flowing. Joy, gratefulness and a delicious sweet smile arises on my face as I feel so nourished by the willingness, the constant intention and the integrity shown by each and every one of these participants, each in their own way, each in their own measure. To be the witness of this happening certainly touches a sense of beauty in me. To me it is like seen a flower blooming or a butterfly spreading his wings for the first time. The idea of beauty may be a man made concept; yet existence does certainly provide the material for it!
Abundance and generosity also overflowed from to the community members when they supported the second intensive. One could feel that their heart was also in the food they prepared for us, in the all the little practical details that goes around such a process. Everyone felt happy to hear that there will be a similar opportunity next spring.
Living our true nature can only make the world a little 'greener', a little brighter, a little more playful, joyful, a little more loving. Come and join the 'dance' next time it happens….
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Flowing love in Ukraine

2008-09-26T02:58:00.000-07:00

Magic certainly happens… it is always a touching moment for me, when at the end of a group I see how much openness is reflected in participant's faces, how much love is flowing from everyone's heart.

The readiness of participants to move through dark uncharted and unknown spaces to them always amazes me. Trust, love and Joy certainly did flower in this Odessa 6-day 'Tantric Awareness'. The 3-day 'Riding the bull home' in Dneirpetrovsk, certainly had a different tinkle, yet nevertheless, many did get a glimpse of their true face.

What a joy it was for all, and love was certainly in the air too!!

Let's see what the 'Love in Awareness Intensive' at Osho Leela in a week's time has in store!

Gratefulness to you all

Namaste

yves-rakendra

September... back to full swing...

2008-09-06T09:42:00.000-07:00

I hope your summer months were as fructuous as mine!!
15 days of Kundalini Yoga and Tantra, a 2-week intensive and … doing nothing in Koh Samui, Thailand were my lot for these past 2 months. I was blessed with so many gifts during that time, it felt like a shower of existence.
As September sets in, I'll be back facilitating Intensives. First in Ukraine for a 6-day 'Tantric Awareness' and a 3-day 'Riding the Bull home' and then at Osho Leela for the 3-day 'Love in Awareness Intensive' and last but not least China with a tailor-made 5-day 'Opening to Self-awareness'.
So... come, come, come yet again come to directly experience 'that' which 'is', moment to moment, at your own pace and possibility. Remember, Only Truth Liberates.
Looking forward meeting you in Love and awareness!
Namaste to you all
yves-rakendra

Relaxing in Koh Samui, Thailand

2008-08-21T20:52:00.000-07:00

It has been quite a while since the last 'Love in Awareness intensive' in Shenzhen, China. Well, I did not 'stay put'; I took this time off to take care of my own growth process, by taking individual sessions and participating in different workshops. I spent most of July attending Kundalini yoga and Tantra workshops and during the first half of August I participated in a 2-week Enlightenment Intensive. Through these different processes, I was able to meet, heal and transform different aspects of myself. It is said that 'Truth liberates', well I can certainly guarantee that; yet not quite the way I thought it would..!
I wanted to finish of this transformative and liberating program with a body cleanse, so here I am in Koh Samui on a fasting and massage program... doing nothing but getting pampered...

September and the next 'Tantric Awareness' is still far away, for now relaxing is the motto!
Namaste to you all
yves-rakendra

Shinju, Taichun, Shenzhen…

2008-06-16T21:50:00.000-07:00

'Opening to self-awareness'… 'Love in Awareness intensive'… each time an opportunity for our Chinese friends, whether from Taiwan or mainland China to discover 'who' they really are, to experience 'what' they really are, to experience aspects of their true nature and most certainly to drop ideas and beliefs about themselves.
These 'Awareness Intensives' are really moments of truth, sometimes relative truth and sometimes absolute truth. They are also moments of joy, of celebration when the mind gives way and no-mind simply is, when the truth of oneself is revealed and the face radiates like a shining full moon.
The willingness to open to oneself as well as to another certainly does contribute for a great part to these experiences and it certainly helps me to experience gratefulness. I feel grateful towards existence for allowing me to see 'existence' at work. I feel grateful towards these participants for allowing me to witness their enthusiasm, their courage to encounter themselves, to dis-identify from beliefs, from pre-conceived ideas, thus entering the space of witnessing.
Thank you all for offering me this gift of your 'authenticity'.

During the Intensives I like to quote 'the guesthouse' a poem from Rumi. It carries a quality of acceptance, of openness that is certainly in tune with the Awareness Intensive process.

Namaste to you All

Yves-rakendra

Blooming cherry trees - Pond – Frogs!

2008-05-09T19:34:00.000-07:00

Participants on this Awareness Intensive did experience this same space 'painted' by Basho in his famous Haïku – The old pond, a frog, splash! A space stripped of all mental buzzing, a no-thought space, where everything becomes so utterly simple, so vividly alive, so colourful - 'Returning to the source' – a return to a natural perception of the world around, the simplicity of the moment, the perfection of the moment… where gratitude flower.

I also feel grateful, grateful towards existence who is gifting me with such moments of shared silence, moments of shared bliss.

Next stop, Hshin Chu & Taichung City, on Taiwan island.

Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Black sea, Caviar and Buddhas…

2008-04-20T06:42:00.000-07:00

The waves of the Black Sea breaking or dying gently on the shore resonated well with what the participants of this 7-days intensive – 'Returning to the source ' – were going through. To be total, totally present to each and every moment certainly did pay off for a large number of them and this led them to directly experience their inner source, their True nature. Tears, laughter, outburst of joy, gratitude – certainly did take place! Words fall short – mind is no more, the chair is empty; yet what a presence!
I feel honoured, filled with gratitude to be able to witness, to receive these experiences. A different type of meeting opens up. Thank you to you all for these wonderful gifts.
These 7 days were also, for some, an opportunity to aim more towards 'what they are', or towards 'what life is' and taste, experience directly the 'fragrance of being' – love, beauty, freedom, truth or of life. It was an opportunity to de-identify from beliefs and/or pre-conceived ideas.
What a joy it was for me to be the witness of these transformations, of these flowerings and with it the magnificence of existence at work. Thank you all for your generosity, I feel blessed.

And… the eastbound road continues for me…

Osaka, Japan and the blossoming cherry trees

for another “Returning to the source”

then Taiwan and China for more.

Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

From Brasov, Romania to Guillingham, Uk

2008-04-04T04:02:00.000-07:00

‘Riding the bull home’ was schedule to happen in Brasov, Romania during Easter week-end; yet, as intensity does not quite ‘resonate’ with Romanians, a 2-day ‘Opening to self–awareness’ took place instead and it fitted. With playful structures, participants could experience self-awareness and tackle the ‘Who is in?’ koan for a while. A dozen of happy faces and lightened hearts went home.
At Osho Leela, in Guillingham, Dorset the 3-day ‘Love in Awareness Intensive’ opened the possibility for some daring souls to directly experience ‘what Love is’. The outside gale and stormy weather was certainly matching the inside rumble that took place for some of the participants; just as the clear blue sky that magically showed up on the last day of the Intensive acted as a pointer towards the ever unscratched inner sky.
Awareness does not leave any footprints in the blue sky!
After having supported the 3-day ‘Love in Awareness Intensive’, it was the turn for those living at the Osho Leela to participate in a dedicated 3-day ‘Riding the bull home’. A search to directly experience this witnessing quality that we are; many layers of the personality got seen, identified, recognized for what they are and… discarded during this intense time. Love, openness and understanding took place and I felt touched to see this arising for this ‘family at large’ – no doubt that their everyday relating, working will be different after this!!

It’s now time for me to leave Osho Leela, next stop will be Odessa, Ukraine for a 7-day ‘Returning to the source’.
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra