Bodhisattva Training

The Bodhisattva Apprenticeship

The Bodhisattva training is designed to cultivate the capacity for selfless service and the ability to support others’ healing and change in personal and professional settings. Participants receive deep training in maintaining Presence and cultivating compassion and understanding for all life. Students develop the capacity and willingness to encounter, engage, and remain present to all forms of suffering with an open heart. They also become skilled at making exquisite and wise contact with any being to support their psycho-spiritual unfolding.

In order to access this state of being, students explore and heal all the ways they have lost connection with their unconditional nature and love through the stages of conception, gestation, birth, infancy, childhood, and individuation. The feeling of the course is permeated with the nurturance and compassion of a fully awakened heart. The essence of the Bodhisattva class is an unremitting willingness to align the body, heart, mind and soul with life's creative force, to evolve through love. This training teaches one to embody and practice these principles in daily life, thus opening the path of deep knowledgeable service.

One is also exposed to the theories of utilizing integrated approaches to facilitating evolution in others, primarily through breath work. Thus, apprentices are prepared for clinical training in Integrative Breathing, and can choose this option if they so desire after the completion of the first year of Bodhisattva class.

Details

Next class begins on Sunday, March 20, 2011, from 10am to 5pm.

(Payment plans available.)

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Each class spends some time developing more learning, depth and practices of the six core tracks of the curriculum:

1.  Presencing practices
2.  The Essential Bodhisattva Meditation
3.  Book review
4.  Inner work on the developmental stages from conception to individuation
5.  Increasing tolerance for being present to suffering and joy
6.  Development of skillful means for supporting healing, transformation and awakening in self and others

Prerequisite: The One-Year Spiritual Apprenticeship.

The class meets for an 8 hour day once a month for 12 months. Requirements include reading 6 books and doing 12 individual breathwork sessions.

Graduates who continue on to the path of Breathwork Practitioner will continue meeting after the first year.

Comments

"For me the Integrative Breathing over the past several years and, in particular, the Bodhisattva program, has been all about establishing connections with the whole idea of life being One. All life is holy; all life is One. And in particular my own personal experience has been moving through pain to joy to pain to joy to pain opening the heart and realizing at some point that what I'm experiencing is not just my pain, or my joy, but that of others as well. Experiencing the collective joy and pain which is the Pain or the Joy. Ultimately through that experience — through opening the heart to that experience into the experience of God, ecstasy where both joy and pain, beauty and terror become one — at that point everything feels connected. So for me that's been what the journey is — the journey of rebirthing and most particularly what the Bodhisattva program is all about — coming into the realization of One. All life is holy; all life is One and being part of that experience."
– Dick Schreder

"Training to become more conscious was at first a kind of fascinating, exhilarating kick — kind of like falling in love. The Bodhisattva apprenticeship moves me into a more mature relationship with my inner work. I still, at times, feel the giddiness of being awake but I also learned that I have a responsibility to be conscious. I've learned to trust my access to a more expanded awareness. Thus, I am more giving, more at home with myself, more honest and more accepting of life's trials."
– Barbara Johnson