Greetings!!  Reconciliation has been fulfilling and exciting so far.

I am currently describing my studies as a look onto the connection between yoga, psychology, bodywork, and shamanism.  My yoga class offering starts tomorrow and I have been putting into practice how to navigate starting your own practice, advertising ect... This class is even more special that other classes that I have taught because I am incorporating many new ideas as well as being very specific and thourough in the planning process.  I would consider it more of a workshop than a basic yoga class. This class is a preperatory for deeper work we will be doing this winter.

Inside of the yoga realm I am creating my own teaching reference guide for myself  It is a handmade leatherbound book and will continue to be executed artistically.  I am learning all about preganancy and birth in order to teach a pregancy yoga class that I will be offering starting next week.  This is a private free class, so if anyone knows someone who would benefit let me know!

I just completed a grant request to continue my training in Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy.  This is a form of yoga bodywork that infuses hatha yoga postures with techniques in psycotherapy.  The work is based on the belief that we unconscoiusly hold emotions and other unresolved issues in our bodies that come out during the practice of yoga postures.  In hopes that I recieve this grant I will be training further starting in January.  wish me luck!

As far as my inquaries into Process work I have read several of Arnold Mindell's books so far and plan to complete reading all of his works by the end of next quarter.  I am seeing a proces work counselor to further my understanding of this complex and deep work.  In addition, I am going to participate in a class based on the work of Arnold Mindell led by my counselor.  It is entitled process oriented spirituality.  I have been a photoshop fool creating advertising for this class and my own yoga class. I have plans to visit the Process Work Center in Portland and continue to compile a list of prerequsites of entering their masters in Process Work program.  I will be intervieing various therapists in this field.  Due to my interest in alterd and lucid states before death, as well as a sincere urge to open my heart in service, I will be continuing a community service project as a hospice volunteer.

In addition to studying Yoga and Process Work I am interested in shamanism and it's connection to healing work (particularly yoga bodywork and Process work).  Perhaps the end result will be that I devise my own form of bodywork and healing that incorprorates accupressure, yoga, psychology and energywork.

The books that I have read and have begun to read this quarter are

Dreaming While Awake:  Techniques for 24 Hour Lucid Dreaming;  Arnold Mindell
Working on Yourself Alone;  Arnold Mindell
Quantum Mind and Healing;  How to Listen and Respond to your Bodies Symptoms; Arnold Mindell
Preparimg for Birth with Yoga; Janet Balaskas
Memories, Dreams, Reflections; Carl Jung
Journeying:  Where Shamanism and Psychology Meet; Jeannette M. Gagan PHD

Due to my interest in the shamanistic practices in Central and South America I would like to ask Raul to be my faculty.
 Satya C                                                                               RETURN