Why Healing? Why Connection?

Kali Rising (Be who you truly are)

I have just re-read Kali Rising by Rudolph Ballentine and it is amazing how much of it I hadn’t picked up on the first couple of readings, no doubt due to my lack of appreciation for trauma informed work previously.

Being Trauma Informed

I have just completed a Trauma Informed Certificate for Coaches through the Centre for Healing which I loved and can’t recommend highly enough. One of the people Ryan Hassan and Matt Nettleton refer to quite a bit is Peter Levine, who wrote the book Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, a brilliant book, which interestingly, I’d just finished re-reading. So healing and trauma is very much in the forefront of my mind at the moment.

Tantra and Healing

As trauma is held in the body (the physical and the energetic/subtle body) the very cultivation of breath becomes a form of healing and empowerment, with breathwork being a fundamental practice within the classical tantra idea around entrainment where we bring focused attention through the breath.

Are you relishing beautiful sense-objects?

Following tantra tradition we let our attention linger, relishing beautiful sense-objects, often referred to as feeding the goddesses of the senses. This is a form of aesthetic awareness, rather than as consumption. The trick, is to know the difference.

What is kundalini awakening?

Kundalini awakening has been called an expansion and contraction process. It is a coming together of these two aspects through a purification process, so we can come closer to the truth of who we are and overcome duality.