Letting Trust Be….

Well… open hearts and gratefulness were certainly at the 'rendez-vous' during the 'awareness in motion' and the 'letting trust be' that took place in Taichung, Taiwan.

Just as Oolong Tea reveals its fragrance with the right water temperature, it seems that the Taichung heat that prevailed during these 2 weeks helped our Taiwanese participants release their own fragrance.
Conditionings, projections, shock and shame are certainly part of everyone's mind reality. Yet all it takes to lift off their veil and un-cover the naturalness, the innocence of one's own being is a willingness to open. And certainly, intention, openness and a willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along the way, were the drive that helped participants regain their naturelness.

Touched hearts and gratefulness were also at the 'rendez-vous' during the 'letting trust be' closing talk!
Existence certainly has its ways!

A short stopover in Chiang Mai, Thailand to rest and take care of some practicalities and I will be eastbound again, this time for a 'Shanghai experience'!
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Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Gratefulness simply is….

I cannot help not noticing that each course that I facilitate turns, for me, as an invitation to deepen my opening to this 'inner space' where everything disappears. When this happens it seems that only gratefulness remains. Gratefulness and with it, love and simplicity come as a fragrance. Ordinariness is just round the corner.

The 'Love in Awareness intensive' that just took place in Odessa, Ukraine, was no exception. Sometimes with a burst of laughter, sometimes with tears flowing down, participants came in contact with this inner sky and no doubt, love was at the 'rendez-vous' too!

Let's see what will be at the 'rendez-vous' in Taipei and in Shanghai my next stopovers. Trust for sure, since I'll be facilitating a 3-day awareness intensive retreat 'Love Trust & Trust Love' in Taichung, Taiwan followed soon after with 'Self-awareness in motion' in Shanghai, China.

Promising times ahead!
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Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

Creating trust & awareness in Bucharest…

A friend just sent me the lyrics of a song and the words fit quite well with the light hearted 'Self-awareness in motion' that just took place in Bucharest, Romania. Trusting and opening, participants playfully entered the world of awareness. As they reconnected with long forgotten aspects of themselves, joy filled their hearts and faces. Gratitude also arose at the end of these 2 days of willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along this discovery path towards 'the one who is in'.

Next was a stopover in Bucharest; a time for me to rest and let the Zorba in me enjoy the thermal waters, the different saunas and…. taste the local delicious food & wine!
I'm now en route to Odessa, Ukraine for a plunge into three days of 'Love in Awareness intensive'.
Join us there!
I'm looking forward seeing you somewhere on this planet…and, do feel free to connect with me for any question you may have or to simply to share your experience.
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra

Weaving love in Kiev…

With their willingness to move through all the difficulties that showed along the way, with their openness and their integrity, participants of the 6-day 'Tantric Awareness' that just took place in Kiev, Ukraine created a lively and warming atmosphere that really counter balanced the briskly cold of these late April days.

Awareness certainly paved the way in this journey from the base chakras to the more subtle ones. Resting in the heart.

The different structures, the communication exercises and the active or sometimes the guided meditations helped weave love as well as a playful awareness.

And it is always a touching experience for me to witness this 'transformation' at work, to see light replacing darkness, to see self-love emerging in place of ignorance or hatred, to see understanding taking place.

My heart is filled with a big 'whoah!' – So simple and yet so deep – Gratefulness. It certainly heartens my passion for sharing this work.
Next is a 3-day Opening to self-awareness in Bucharest, Romania and strait after a 3-day 'Love in Awareness intensive' in Odessa, Ukraine.
Sounds promising!

Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

Love is in the air…

Blossoming like the nature in this time of spring, love was certainly in the air during a whole week of 'Awareness Intensive' at Osho Leela in Devon, Uk.

The Osho Leela community members kick-started this self-inquiry week on the Monday night by tackling koans/questions such as 'Who is in?' - 'Who am I?' – 'What relaxation is?' or 'What sexuality is?'

As most of them had participated in a Humaniversity course the week-end just before, the energy was quite high and to merge into that energy was certainly a joy and for me. The community 'Awareness Intensive' ended by midday on the Thursday and the 'Love in Awareness intensive' open to all, started on the same evening.

All participants, whether newcomers to this type of work or 'old timers', gave their best to directly experience 'love' and the fragrance of innocence and trueness were certainly present during those 3 days. Combined with the love that was emerging, it made it a truly beautiful time.

Although slightly different in their fragrance, both these 'Awareness Intensives' gave me the opportunity to deepen my own process. In the second one, I experienced myself as one with the group; there was no real separation between me in the role of facilitating this process and these people in the role of participants. A unity had been created; a sense of 'oneness' and of humility was there for me along with gratefulness towards these participants. In a way, I felt I was a participant myself in the vaster process of growth that existence provides every moment.I did feel privileged to support these participants' inquiry process and seeing the blooming of all of them emerging after just 3 days, made me feel blessed by existence to be in this facilitator role. It also gives me the incentive to expand this work in the UK by offering more opportunities of this kind. Let's see how existence wants to flow!Last but not least, I do want to take the opportunity of this blog to salute everyone's willingness, courage and integrity to move through this intense and arduous process.
For those interested, I've just posted my account of the Darkness retreat I took part in a few months back; check 'a darkness adventure', on www.livingourtruenature.com

Coming next for me is a week near Bordeaux, France, to let my 'Zorba nose and palate' delight with the delicate flavors of St Emilion red wines; certainly a preparation for the 'Tantric Awareness' week that will take place in Kiev just after that.

Check the 'Upcoming events' page for more.

Looking forward meeting you again soon somewhere…

Namaste to you all

Yves-rakendra

On the road Koans...

I'm now back in France and sitting in a cozy friend's home near Bordeaux; I turn around and look through the window to be amazed by a blooming cherry tree in the garden dancing in the light breeze and silently sharing its fragrance and white flowers with whoever cares to pay attention.
The sound of silence is never too far away!
My Thailand days are now over for now and soon I'll be on the road again to facilitate Awareness Intensives – there will be 2 'Love in Awareness intensives' at Osho Leela at the end of this month, the first one for the community there and the second one open to all.
A week of love and awareness; what more would one wants!

Whilst in Thailand, 'riding the bull home', existence gave me the opportunity to come in contact with some living Koans, like...
Beauty is!




And also, testing my own direct experience with them.

Tell me what Trust is!

I also had the opportunity to take part in a 21-day Darkness Retreat. Imagine, 21 days in full darkness! Nothing else to see but darkness wherever I turned my eyes, whether outside or inside! It was like being in a dark cave with only one thing to do, turn in!
For the full account, check 'a darkness adventure'.

As the financial crisis strikes everywhere, the March 'Returning to the source' in Odessa had to be cancelled; it will be replaced with a 'Love in Awareness intensive' early May. Dates are now confirmed; check the 'Upcoming events' page.

Looking forward meeting you again soon somewhere…
Namaste to you all
Yves-Rakendra

Cruising and Healing...

It so happens that I've had to cancel my entire winter schedule – my body was claiming its time. And rightly so if I look at what has happened since I started this 4 months cleansing and healing. I've being staying in Thailand, Koh Samui at first, and now Chiang Mai, where I'm spending my time between healing and meditation.
Thailand local events have also given me a chance to move here and there and visit Laos for 'turn arounds'.
Cruising on the Mekong River, riding elephants and simply enjoying life has also been part of this healing time. Just as this year is at an end and the new one is about to set, the same seems also true for me. Although my cleansing/ healing program is quite full for the next 2 months, I feel on the rising slope and looking forward to spring time!
I also feel grateful towards existence who is giving me this opportunity and I also would like to wish everyone – all the Joy, the Love and the Laughter that its hearts can bear.
And it truly can bear a lot!!!!!


Looking forward meeting you again soon – next on schedule is the Odessa, 'Returning to the source', see you there and check the 'Upcoming events' page for more.
Namaste to you all
Yves-rakendra