My experience of the BhaktiChi workshop lead by Don Hanson was very different from this person calling herself Girija11. Every one has a right to express their own view, so here is mine.
During the workshop uncomfortable feelings and strong reactions rose up. I have experienced this in my self and others many times just before a breakthrough. It is challenging to stay with the process and if you do, a profound transformation occurs and you can heal traumas in deep level.
If you are not willing to look at your own stuff, no healing happens. If you keep pointing a finger to the teacher, how he is doing it all wrong, how the expression on his face apparently is wrong and how he has an issue with victim energy - sure, you can do that, but why to come to a workshop if you don’t want to look at your own issues? The meaning for these kind of workshops is not to have an intellectual debate - which the teacher several times pointed out - but to look deeper, feel energetically what was going on. Supporting victim energy is not something this teacher does. And what kind of a conscious teacher would?
My feeling is that a person got triggered and instead of looking at themselves, they point the finger out.
Now, I am this person who went to her afterwords. I was hoping we can bring through healing and perhaps get past this. It was very obvious she had no willingness to hear what I felt or saw. According to her this is a cult and I am so brainwashed, therefor my insights have no validity. Interesting. In my 55 year life experience and working on my self decades with many teachers and working in the area of health and wellness myself, I would have thought my views do weigh at least a little.
Healing takes vulnerability, openness and willingness. Wanting to demolish a healer and teacher who has dedicated their life to helping others, even if not understanding what they are doing, or how, is just beyond me. I understand that not everything is for every one. But claiming to be an expert in the area of spirituality and healing and consciously wanting to hurt an other person in that field, aiming to destroy them, is traumatic and devastating for all concerned.
I have over my many years attending healing spaces understood the strict confidential nature necessary for people to open up to what they do not even know themselves and can only find through exploration. I personally feel violated on how events have unfolded and how my willingness to attend in my vulnerability, this workshop, has been gone so far past by the public airing of these opinions.
During the workshop uncomfortable feelings and strong reactions rose up. I have experienced this in my self and others many times just before a breakthrough. It is challenging to stay with the process and if you do, a profound transformation occurs and you can heal traumas in deep level.
If you are not willing to look at your own stuff, no healing happens. If you keep pointing a finger to the teacher, how he is doing it all wrong, how the expression on his face apparently is wrong and how he has an issue with victim energy - sure, you can do that, but why to come to a workshop if you don’t want to look at your own issues? The meaning for these kind of workshops is not to have an intellectual debate - which the teacher several times pointed out - but to look deeper, feel energetically what was going on. Supporting victim energy is not something this teacher does. And what kind of a conscious teacher would?
My feeling is that a person got triggered and instead of looking at themselves, they point the finger out.
Now, I am this person who went to her afterwords. I was hoping we can bring through healing and perhaps get past this. It was very obvious she had no willingness to hear what I felt or saw. According to her this is a cult and I am so brainwashed, therefor my insights have no validity. Interesting. In my 55 year life experience and working on my self decades with many teachers and working in the area of health and wellness myself, I would have thought my views do weigh at least a little.
Healing takes vulnerability, openness and willingness. Wanting to demolish a healer and teacher who has dedicated their life to helping others, even if not understanding what they are doing, or how, is just beyond me. I understand that not everything is for every one. But claiming to be an expert in the area of spirituality and healing and consciously wanting to hurt an other person in that field, aiming to destroy them, is traumatic and devastating for all concerned.
I have over my many years attending healing spaces understood the strict confidential nature necessary for people to open up to what they do not even know themselves and can only find through exploration. I personally feel violated on how events have unfolded and how my willingness to attend in my vulnerability, this workshop, has been gone so far past by the public airing of these opinions.