True nature shines at Osho Leela

For a whole week existence gave me the opportunity to offer and facilitate two 'Love in Awareness intensives' back to back. A first one for the community residents and straight after one open to all. As I look back on this week, I just feel baffled and in awe by what this opportunity created. So many open faces, so many open hearts, so much love and care flowing. Joy, gratefulness and a delicious sweet smile arises on my face as I feel so nourished by the willingness, the constant intention and the integrity shown by each and every one of these participants, each in their own way, each in their own measure. To be the witness of this happening certainly touches a sense of beauty in me. To me it is like seen a flower blooming or a butterfly spreading his wings for the first time. The idea of beauty may be a man made concept; yet existence does certainly provide the material for it!
Abundance and generosity also overflowed from to the community members when they supported the second intensive. One could feel that their heart was also in the food they prepared for us, in the all the little practical details that goes around such a process. Everyone felt happy to hear that there will be a similar opportunity next spring.
Living our true nature can only make the world a little 'greener', a little brighter, a little more playful, joyful, a little more loving. Come and join the 'dance' next time it happens….
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Flowing love in Ukraine

Magic certainly happens… it is always a touching moment for me, when at the end of a group I see how much openness is reflected in participant's faces, how much love is flowing from everyone's heart.

The readiness of participants to move through dark uncharted and unknown spaces to them always amazes me. Trust, love and Joy certainly did flower in this Odessa 6-day 'Tantric Awareness'. The 3-day 'Riding the bull home' in Dneirpetrovsk, certainly had a different tinkle, yet nevertheless, many did get a glimpse of their true face.

What a joy it was for all, and love was certainly in the air too!!

Let's see what the 'Love in Awareness Intensive' at Osho Leela in a week's time has in store!

Gratefulness to you all

Namaste

yves-rakendra

September... back to full swing...

I hope your summer months were as fructuous as mine!!
15 days of Kundalini Yoga and Tantra, a 2-week intensive and … doing nothing in Koh Samui, Thailand were my lot for these past 2 months. I was blessed with so many gifts during that time, it felt like a shower of existence.
As September sets in, I'll be back facilitating Intensives. First in Ukraine for a 6-day 'Tantric Awareness' and a 3-day 'Riding the Bull home' and then at Osho Leela for the 3-day 'Love in Awareness Intensive' and last but not least China with a tailor-made 5-day 'Opening to Self-awareness'.
So... come, come, come yet again come to directly experience 'that' which 'is', moment to moment, at your own pace and possibility. Remember, Only Truth Liberates.
Looking forward meeting you in Love and awareness!
Namaste to you all
yves-rakendra

Relaxing in Koh Samui, Thailand

It has been quite a while since the last 'Love in Awareness intensive' in Shenzhen, China. Well, I did not 'stay put'; I took this time off to take care of my own growth process, by taking individual sessions and participating in different workshops. I spent most of July attending Kundalini yoga and Tantra workshops and during the first half of August I participated in a 2-week Enlightenment Intensive. Through these different processes, I was able to meet, heal and transform different aspects of myself. It is said that 'Truth liberates', well I can certainly guarantee that; yet not quite the way I thought it would..!
I wanted to finish of this transformative and liberating program with a body cleanse, so here I am in Koh Samui on a fasting and massage program... doing nothing but getting pampered...


September and the next 'Tantric Awareness' is still far away, for now relaxing is the motto!
Namaste to you all
yves-rakendra

Shinju, Taichun, Shenzhen…

'Opening to self-awareness'… 'Love in Awareness intensive'… each time an opportunity for our Chinese friends, whether from Taiwan or mainland China to discover 'who' they really are, to experience 'what' they really are, to experience aspects of their true nature and most certainly to drop ideas and beliefs about themselves.
These 'Awareness Intensives' are really moments of truth, sometimes relative truth and sometimes absolute truth. They are also moments of joy, of celebration when the mind gives way and no-mind simply is, when the truth of oneself is revealed and the face radiates like a shining full moon.
The willingness to open to oneself as well as to another certainly does contribute for a great part to these experiences and it certainly helps me to experience gratefulness. I feel grateful towards existence for allowing me to see 'existence' at work. I feel grateful towards these participants for allowing me to witness their enthusiasm, their courage to encounter themselves, to dis-identify from beliefs, from pre-conceived ideas, thus entering the space of witnessing.
Thank you all for offering me this gift of your 'authenticity'.

During the Intensives I like to quote 'the guesthouse' a poem from Rumi. It carries a quality of acceptance, of openness that is certainly in tune with the Awareness Intensive process.

Namaste to you All

Yves-rakendra

Blooming cherry trees - Pond – Frogs!

Participants on this Awareness Intensive did experience this same space 'painted' by Basho in his famous Haïku – The old pond, a frog, splash! A space stripped of all mental buzzing, a no-thought space, where everything becomes so utterly simple, so vividly alive, so colourful - 'Returning to the source' – a return to a natural perception of the world around, the simplicity of the moment, the perfection of the moment… where gratitude flower.

I also feel grateful, grateful towards existence who is gifting me with such moments of shared silence, moments of shared bliss.

Next stop, Hshin Chu & Taichung City, on Taiwan island.

Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Black sea, Caviar and Buddhas…

The waves of the Black Sea breaking or dying gently on the shore resonated well with what the participants of this 7-days intensive – 'Returning to the source ' – were going through. To be total, totally present to each and every moment certainly did pay off for a large number of them and this led them to directly experience their inner source, their True nature. Tears, laughter, outburst of joy, gratitude – certainly did take place! Words fall short – mind is no more, the chair is empty; yet what a presence!
I feel honoured, filled with gratitude to be able to witness, to receive these experiences. A different type of meeting opens up. Thank you to you all for these wonderful gifts.
These 7 days were also, for some, an opportunity to aim more towards 'what they are', or towards 'what life is' and taste, experience directly the 'fragrance of being' – love, beauty, freedom, truth or of life. It was an opportunity to de-identify from beliefs and/or pre-conceived ideas.
What a joy it was for me to be the witness of these transformations, of these flowerings and with it the magnificence of existence at work. Thank you all for your generosity, I feel blessed.

And… the eastbound road continues for me…

Osaka, Japan and the blossoming cherry trees

for another “Returning to the source”

then Taiwan and China for more.

Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra