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We all:

• long to be whole, 
• to connect with another in an intimate and meaningful way,
• to find our place in the world, and 
• to be passionate about life. 
  

The path to these noble aspirations leads through the heart to the very depths of our soul. It awakens our awareness of the unique gift that is ours to nurture and ours to give. Rumi called this depth of soul the Beloved, that place within that:

• can bear all sorrow, 
• feel all joy and 
• express our deepest calling as an expression of the One

When we touch that place of the Divine Within we can fully inhabit our body and are no longer tethered to our past or held back by our wounds.  At the same time we become aware that we are more than our sensations, feelings and thoughts without distancing from any of them. We experience our self as an Immanent/Transcendent expression of the Divine, and can become the passionate subject of our unique life. We are no longer filled with fear or focused only on our individual worries and concerns. 

• This life,
• in this moment, 
• in this body 
  

becomes an eternal gift to ourselves, to our loves and to the world. Every great teaching aspires to this gift as a lived experience, the experience of living from our soul no longer bound by the rigid identities of our conditioned personality.

Too often, however, the teaching or practice that awakened a spiritual teacher is not the right fit for their students. Only recently have we understood both how we are alike and how we are different.  Each of us takes birth with a unique soul-print, and only by awakening to that divine template can we live into our intimate fullness and offer our unique gift.  Spiritual practice takes a new form in this light; in order for it to open our awareness to our deepest self it must be personally fitted to the blueprint of our soul. The good news is that today we have an understanding of human development that the great saints and sages of the past where unaware of, and we have access to an unprecedented range of teachings and practices from the entire heritage of human wisdom. 

Informed by the notion that "All Life is Yoga", it now becomes possible to develop an Integral Spiritual Practice (ISP) that cultivates an Integrated Body-Heart-Mind.  Such an integrated self sense is spaciously transcendent and fully embodied at the same time.  Ken Wilber refers to it as the Centaur, half animal body and half human mind that can more easily access the soul.  

This integrated body/mind is capable of shedding limiting identities and using every life experience or relationship challenge as an opportunity to wake up to our inner heart.  No one has explored this frontier more fully than Terry Patten. In his interviews with world teachers, his writings and his online course he highlights teachings and practices, ancient and modern, in a style that is easily accessible. In this 2 day intensive with his partner Deborah Boyar and his colleague Michael Pergola (powerful teachers in their own right) you will taste an approach to spiritual practice and embodied presence that was never available before in human history.

We each want a sense of belonging without sacrificing our authenticity and emotional freedom without becoming disconnected from our bodily experience. The energy that drives human development lies in two polarities:

• one between the human drives to be ourselves and to be connected to others; and...
• the second between our embodiment, including emotions and sensations (or immanence), and our freedom, including a capacity to transcend our emotions and sensations (transcendence).