A Polarity session can support you in ~

* Accessing and Expressing your Creativity
* Opening your Heart
* Accessing your Intuition
* Owning your Power
* Finding Clarity and Focus
* Transforming Procrastination into Action
* Honoring, Feeling, and Responding to Emotions
* Finding your Voice ~ Expressing Yourself
* Releasing Stress and Anxiety
* Resolving Trauma
* Grounding and Centering


Polarity Energy Balancing is the most profound modality I know of for honoring and sourcing core life issues -- issues of an emotional / mental / spiritual nature. I know I've done a good Polarity session if a client later tells me they've made major changes in their life -- changed jobs, started or ended a relationship, taken action to express their creativity or manifest their dreams. The subtle combination of energy balancing bodywork and gentle spiritual counseling techniques supports you to explore these issues at every dimension of your being (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual). Where talk therapy may take weeks or months to get to the root of an issue, listening deeply to your body will quickly reveal your truth and support you to find your own way to a resolution.

Honoring and touching these issues multi-dimensionally (physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually) generally results in energy releases from body tissues, deeper awareness of emotional responses, and greater clarity and insight. In the most powerful sessions, transformations at the spiritual level may result in the clearing of false beliefs and a movement into deep alignment with your truth and a deep connection to Source. The touching of all dimensions of your being in relation to the issue opens up the possibility for powerful energetic shifts as you move towards alignment with your truth and fullest expression of your highest self. Energy balancing bodywork supports you to easily integrate the subtle and profound changes that come out of these sessions.

Polarity Therapy is based on the same energetic principles that are foundational to Acupuncture/Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, Hermetic healing, and most other indigenous healing systems from around the world. Polarity uses the Ayurvedic Five Element system of Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Ether. It also uses the concept of Yin-Yang, the Ayurvedic version being Rajas-Tamas-Sattva, or Positive-Negative-Neutral.

Polarity Therapy is comprised of Bodywork techniques (from deep structural work to light-touch energy balancing connections and off-body energy work), Spiritual Counseling, Polarity Yoga, and Energetic Nutrition. Every session I do incorporates the Bodywork and Counseling....

~~ It's incredible what your body will say if you listen!


For more information, go to www.andreasea.com/polarity_therapy.html

Cranio-Sacral Therapy is one of the first modalities I trained in, because it resolved the chronic headaches I'd had all my life.

Of all the modalities out there, this single one is absolutely the most useful for any sort of physical issue. If you've just been in a car accident, had a sports injury, or experienced a fall or any other kind of physical impact, Cranio-Sacral Therapy is the first treatment to seek, and as soon as possible after the injury. Cranio-Sacral Therapy works with the nervous system, and can actually prevent traumas from settling into your organs and tissues. It is gentle enough to be done within minutes of an injury, on swollen or inflamed areas, broken bones or torn ligaments, bruises, and muscle sprains/strains. (It is best to first let your system complete a natural discharge of the adrenaline energy related to the injury. See Somatic Trauma Release for more info on discharging the energy of the fight or flight response.)

If you have an older injury, Cranio-Sacral Unwinding is one of the best ways to release held trauma from the physical tissues, from the nervous system, and from the energy body. Tissue trauma is stored energetically in the fascia, the connective tissue that encases every muscle, tendon, ligament, bone and organ in your body. Cranio-Sacral Unwinding can release restrictions in the fascia, restore fluid motion, and allow the energy of the trauma, recent or old, to be released from your system.

While excellent for physical issues, Cranio-sacral Therapy is not limited to that dimension. It is amazing how gently and safely this work can ease emotional and spiritual issues into awareness so that they are available to be embraced and transformed. The simple act of gently supporting the body to move as it wants to, often finds its way to moving into tissues and postures that are related to mental, emotional, or spiritual challenges. In allowing those energies to move and express themselves through the body, an opening is presented for insights about their meaning to come into your awareness. Sometimes these insights are readily available to your conscious awareness, and sometimes they're not. And still, the unwinding of energetic patterns from your physical tissues can change the way you relate to those issues.

All dimensions are simply denser or finer vibrations of Energy. I approach Cranio-Sacral work as an energetic modality which can be combined with physical touch or not, as needed. I generally do use physical touch, but it's not necessary, and immediately after an injury, it's sometimes not optimal. Some of the most powerful Cranial work can be done off the body, working through the auric field, and emotional and spiritual issues often respond best to this touch.


For more information, go to www.andreasea.com/cranio-sa...erapy.html

I am offering discount sessions for the month of September ~~ $35 / hour, $50 / ninety minutes.

Somatic Trauma Release can address any kind of trauma, old or new. Physical traumas, while also begging some cranio-sacral unwinding, can be completely energetically cleared using these techniques. Emotional, mental, and spiritual traumas can also be addressed with STR.

This work is based on Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing, and further developed by Sharon Porter, founder of the HealthWave Institute. It is generally done with the client in a sitting position and without me using any physical touch, yet it results in releasing trauma energy from the physical body and nervous system. This is accomplished by getting the frontal lobes of the brain to relax and get out of the way, and let the hindbrain temporarily become dominant; this allows animal instincts to take over, and frozen trauma energy held in the nervous system and fascia begins to melt and discharge, signs of which can obviously be felt by the client.

The beauties of this modality are many. As frozen energy melts, you tend to feel warm and tingly, so healing from trauma is actually enjoyable. You don't need to know what traumas are discharging to release frozen energy -- you don't have to re-live all your traumas. You may get images and emotions and other information as the energy leaves your body, or you may not, and the energy will release just the same. And once released, always released -- energy released in an STR session is permanently cleared from your being at the nervous system and physical levels. These energetic releases generally inspire simultaneous shifts in the mental, emotional, and spiritual dimensions as well.


For more information, go to www.andreasea.com/somatic_t...ution.html

I hosted a meditation group in my home for over six months. We met once a week, missing a few sessions over the summer for low attendance, but basically had a strong core group and kept it going for a good run.

The specific form of meditation was "Integrative Awakening", developed by Neil Cohen, who came and led the sessions. Two years later, this is still my main spiritual practice, and so I'm keeping the original post here, which was written as an open invitation to join the group.

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I'm hosting an Integrative Awakening / Living Dharma Satsang meditation group in my home.

Why am I doing this???

Because the work is so profound that I want to share it with my friends, and continue to deepen the experience for myself. My own work with my clients has already deepened incredibly, and ultimately I intend to learn this work from Neil, so that I can better assist people in their evolution towards awakening.

I got my first phone session with Neil Cohen last April, and have continued working with him ever since. By the end of that session, my consciousness had shifted dramatically. Neil had managed to guide me past my fears and defenses into the center of my heart -- into deep connection with my own core, with Source. I actually felt my heart chakra open...and he felt it too, over the phone, and said something before I did!


I feel that the results of this practice are the ones I've been looking for all my life:

* ability to drop out of anxiety and into calm with just a few breaths
* access to a deep sense of peace and spaciousness in my center, and ability to rest there as I move through my day
* greater focus and clarity, which seems to spring out of a deep awareness of whether something is or isn't in alignment with my heart
* and most importantly, a deepening ability to connect authentically and intimately within myself, with source, and with clients, friends and loved ones, through the heart


Here are some recent comments from friends who have known me for a long time:

"You're more still in your center than you've ever been."
-- G.C., Kundalini Yoga teacher and past partner

"You're more in your body than I've ever seen you."
-- J.K., Martial Artist and friend of seven years

"Wow, you dropped into Theta."
-- K.W., when it occurred to me to relax into my heart while she had my brain wired up to her computer for a Neurofeedback session


Here is Neil's most succinct description of the work we are doing in this group:

"One level of this work takes on a very psycho-emotional flavor. A deeper level of this work is that all so called emotional challenges are simply a call to deeper transformation and are disguised in emotional clothing. An even deeper level of this work is loosening up our personality (ego) fixation and cultivating a deep, consistent and direct experience of Heart Radiance, the Silence and Intimacy of the Heart, the Love/Wisdom of the Soul. The deepest aspect of this work, and I will be bold here, is that we are opening our humanness (personality/ego) to become a trained and willing vessel for the conscious embodiment of the Christ Presence, the Soul, Buddha Nature, the Goddess. This is the ultimate destiny of the ego (not annihilation!). These are not fluffy new age terms that I throw around lightly. These are words for describing the experiences and transformation that I have facilitated for many years, and this is in total alignment with the evolutionary momentum on our planet."


The group is not a silent sit. There is an expectation that we all do an individual practice throughout the week, and the group time is to get guidance and support with challenges that have come up during the week, or are arising in the moment. Neil is gifted at guiding people through the layers on the way to center, through the map of consciousness.

We start out with a short meditation, then there is some teaching on a subject relevant for our embodiment and awakening. Then we have another short meditation, dropping deeply into the heart space and creating a resonance in the room. And from that place, we open our eyes and hold the meditative presence, and Neil begins working one-on-one with anyone in the group who is wanting to share their experiences or evolutionary challenges. As Neil is interacting with someone, the rest of us are witnessing and entraining into that space in our own hearts, learning from each others' processes. This is gentle, yet highly accelerated work, because when someone in the group starts transforming layers of consciousness that the rest of us haven't gotten to yet, we are all bathed in the resonance of that experience, and the vibration calls us to move to that level.


For more information about the Integrative Awakening group, please scroll down my profile to "More on Integrative Awakening", because my event listing has expired.

Also, check out www.IntegrativeAwakening.com

I posted the listing in the Buddhism tribes because Buddhist Dharma teachings are foundational to this work, as are Hindu Advaita teachings and the Esoteric Psychology of Soul Integration (Alice A. Bailey).

I also posted the event listing in tribes focused on awakening and enlightenment because dedication to this practice will definitely shift your consciousness in that direction. (Warning: be sure you want this, it's not for everyone. My perceptions and relationships are already changing.)

And I posted the event in the Tantra and Conscious Relationship tribes because doing this work with a partner is incredible, and if you are in a partner relationship, I highly recommend you both come to the Satsang, so that you can practice together. In my first "in person" session with Neil, we sat eye-gazing while doing the navigation into deep meditation that previously I had only done over the phone. After about an hour and a half, moving through layer after layer, I realized that the intimacy I was experiencing, sitting there fully clothed, was a form of making love, full of sweetness, tenderness, incredible vulnerability and surrender, boundless acceptance, and a mingling of energies through the spaciousness at the center of the heart. As a result of this practice, I am now more capable of true intimacy than I ever knew was possible, both within myself, and with my partner. Communing from the place of peace deep in one's own center truly is Tantra, and lovemaking from that place truly is Union, and the map to get to that still center could be described as the Tantric Psychology of Awakening.

I didn't post this event in most of the psychology tribes, although much of this work addresses psycho-emotional layers of our being, and offers a powerful map for the resolution of emotional issues. This approach is more about transforming and moving beyond drama, emotional fixations, and unconscious fears into a direct experience of Truth. This work is based on the understanding that we are not "broken" and nothing in us needs to be "healed." We simply have cognitive and emotional misperceptions that are not in alignment with Reality, and need to adjust and transform our perceptions to an understanding of how Reality/Life actually flows.


The group is limited to 15 people each Sunday, and while consistency supports your practice, you do not need to attend every week. We meet from 2:00 pm to 5:30 or 6:00 on Sundays in West LA. The donation requested is $20.

If this sounds of interest to you, please send me a PM or call Neil directly at 805-682-3338.

The group meets every Sunday, with RSVPs requested by the previous Thursday.

Infinite blessings,

Andrea

This is the Event Listing I posted on tribe.


The Intimate Embrace of Awareness

Living Dharma Satsang

Facilitating the direct, body-centered experience of awakening,
conscious connection with Source, and
the integral union of emotion, mind and body.

www.IntegrativeAwakening.com

Being psychologically and spiritually integrated and awake is a natural condition which belongs to all of us. There is a precise map, an actual psychology of awakening ― a way of understanding how our psycho-spiritual awakening unfolds ― which makes this experience possible! As we navigate our awareness through the layers of fear and misperception which obscure our Essence, we touch the Heart, the True Self. As we learn to assimilate this experience of Heart directly into our body, without contracting in fear, we begin to know and feel authentically who we are. As we learn to share this experience with one another, this is tenderness, this is intimacy, this is awakening.

We are gathering together with the intention to accelerate our personal transformation, awakening, and our ability to benefit others with unconditional loving service.


Topics We Will Address and Spontaneously Explore
During Our Time Together:

* The actual bodily location of awakening

* Why more people do not wake up: The ego’s hidden fears associated with the process of awakening

* A simple, powerful method for awakening and empowering the heart

* Opening to, experiencing, understanding and assimilating Soul Essence or Heart Radiance free of fear or resistance

* Learning how to relax out of externalized egoic projections, grasping and identification and into the natural openness and spaciousness of the Awakened Heart and Body

* Cultivating one’s Primary Relationship with Source

* True intimacy

* Making the shift from seeing our emotional challenges as problems or pathologies, to understanding them clearly as “symptoms of awakening” and “transformational opportunities”

* Entering the doorway of Sacred Vulnerability and the Newness of Undefended Feeling

* Retrieval and integration of personal power and will

* Recognizing and understanding the psychodynamics of our unconscious ‘avoidance dramas’ in life

* Ending our internal war: exploring right relationship with the ego or humanness (personality)

* The practice of ‘descending’ into our primal humanness: Softening and cultivating the abdominal area (lower Tan Tien or Elixir Field)


Personal Invitation to Participate in Living Dharma Satsang

Tenderness, intimacy, and awakening...

Friends, I would like to invite you to participate in Living Dharma Satsang. Satsang is a Hindu term which means “a gathering dedicated to Truth.” During our time together, we will bathe in the Silence of Being, and we will explore, navigate, and deepen our conscious connection with the Heart, Source, the Soul, through verbal dialogue and direct experience.

Conscious embodiment, emotional balance, and spiritual awakening will take place gradually and naturally as we learn how to come into right relationship with our bodies (our humanness), and into a more intimate relationship with Source within our heart. The ability to open fearlessly and compassionately to our own humanness, and the ability to open our heart to the undefended intimacy of awakening, happens when we can have this experience directly and personally in our own body!

This work is deep and mature. In our time together I will facilitate those who are interested in consciously navigating their awareness into layers of the psyche which are fearing and resisting transformation, love and awakening. We will lovingly and gently unwind these layers. I find that combining short periods of meditation with periods of conscious inner work and exploration is an extremely powerful combination. I have used this combination with groups for many years and the experience is always quite profound. I will also offer precise instructions for navigating one’s awareness past the surface layers of fear and resistance and directly into a more intimate experience of Source, one’s own True Heart! Meditation practice, when engaged in properly, can truly soften the habitual defenses of the psyche/emotional body. This allows more space for embracing and understanding our unconscious resistance and for having a direct, body-centered experience of Source, Self, Love. This work is always gentle, deeply respectful, and absolutely noninvasive. This group experience will unfold naturally and spontaneously under the guidance of the Heart.

One level of this work takes on a very psycho-emotional flavor. A deeper level of this work is that all so called emotional challenges are simply a call to deeper transformation and are disguised in emotional clothing. An even deeper level of this work is loosening up our personality (ego) fixation and cultivating a deep, consistent and direct experience of Heart Radiance, the Silence and Intimacy of the Heart, the Love/Wisdom of the Soul. The deepest aspect of this work, and I will be bold here, is that we are opening our humanness (personality/ego) to become a trained and willing vessel for the conscious embodiment of the Christ Presence, the Soul, Buddha Nature, the Goddess. This is the ultimate destiny of the ego (not annihilation!). These are not fluffy new age terms that I throw around lightly. These are words for describing the experiences and transformation that I have facilitated for many years, and this is in total alignment with the evolutionary momentum on our planet.

I am not putting myself out as an "enlightened" teacher, but as a facilitator. I have gained the ability over almost 30 years of working passionately in this area, to literally assist people in "navigating" awareness from the outermost edges of psycho-emotional fixation, challenge and pain, into and through the deeper layers of the unconscious, and all the way into the "tender, intimate spaciousness of the opening heart." I hold a powerful, gentle and clear space and have cultivated expertise in understanding and navigating the subtle layers of the psyche into a full experience of Soul Infusion.

I am dedicated to assisting people in becoming more comfortable and more understanding of their evolutionary processes. I invite you to participate in Living Dharma Satsang, as we come together to explore and experience the Awakening of the Heart and Mind….together!

- Neil


Currently meeting on Sundays in West LA from 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Requested donation $20
Please call to introduce yourself and confirm your desire to attend
Address and directions will be provided at that time


Neil Steven Cohen has been developing the work of Integrative Awakening for over 25 years. This work is a creative synthesis of Buddhist Dharma, Hindu Advaita teachings, the body-centered emotional support of Western and Jungian Psychology, the esoteric psychology of Soul Integration, and the power of direct personal experience. Please feel free to call with any questions regarding the nature of this work:

(805) 682-3338
info@integrativeawakening.com
www.integrativeawakening.com
www.naljorprisondharmaservice.org
www.naljor.com