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Learn to use Swami Shankarananda's brilliant method of inquiry to transform and uplift your life.
‘Self-inquiry is the mother of all spiritual methods and the crest-jewel of meditation, removing obstacles like a laser. By Self-inquiry you not only attain the Self, but you solve the problems in your practical life.’ -
Swami Shankarananda
Next courses
Level 2: starts February 1, 2012
Cost: $2950 or $2450 for subscribers. Deposit: $500
Includes 6 months Shiva Process group attendance, an intensive, mentoring and the following workshops:
- Sunday March 18, 10.30am–4.30pm
- Friday April 13, 7.30pm-9.30pm
- Saturday April 14, 10.00am-1.00pm
- Sunday May 27, 10.30am–4.30pm
Registrations close December 20, 2011.
Level 1: June 30 to July 8, 2012
Cost: $1500 non-residential, $1990 residential, $1095 for subscribers. Deposit: $500
More information
Contact Bindu at 03 9775 2568 or bindu@shivayoga.org
About this course
Taught by Swamiji, Devi Ma and other teachers, the Self-inquiry course offers three cumulative stages of training to suit students' goals:
- Deepen your personal practice and expand your inner world (Level 1)
- Become certified to lead privates and groups, and learn how to help others (Level 2)
- Learn to apply to therapy and counselling (Level 3).
Course brochure (PDF 2,200 kb)
Discover: Personal Inquiry (Level 1)
The training is held over 4 days and culminates in the 3-day Shiva Process retreat.
Learn the foundations and refine your practice:
- Deeper personal experience of private and group sessions
- Introduction to leading private and group sessions
- Lively exploration of spiritual texts
- Personal reflection and mentoring
Eligibility: to register for this course you must have completed the Learn to Meditate course, an Intensive and have been participating in Shiva Process groups for at least 6 months.
Transform: Facilitating Others (Level 2)
This training is held over 6 months and includes regular groups, mentoring and 3 weekend workshops.
Turn insights into action through intensive practice:
- Leadership training
- One-on-one mentoring
- Specialised guidance on obstacles and subtleties of group work
- Certification
Participation in level 2 involves:
- Attending a Shiva Process group each week
- Weekly training session for privates or group leading with mentor
- Monthly review session with mentor
- Reading and assignments after each workshop
While training, you will be required to:
- Maintain a daily meditation practice (30 mins)
- Attend satsang at least once a month (or watch online if interstate)
- Not take any other training courses (except hatha yoga)
Eligibility: to register for this course you must have completed level 1.
Expand: Professional Inquiry (Level 3)
Take your teachings into the world:
- Adapt Shiva Process to counselling
- Complementary therapies
- The therapeutic relationship
- Specialist counselling techniques
- Mental health and working with trauma
- Spiritual psychology
- Referral
- Business and legal issues
- Professional ethics
About Shiva Process Self-Inquiry
“The yogis of inquiry commit themselves to live and die by the spanda principle: the upward shift of feeling, the expansion of Consciousness. The spanda principle is the watermark of the Divine discerned within. Following it constitutes devotion to the expansion of divine Consciousness, and raises a practitioner to a higher level of being. You no longer evaluate life according to external success or failure, but by the pulsation of spanda, the quality of aliveness.” - Swami Shankarananda
The Shiva Process is a groundbreaking technology developed by Swami Shankarananda and Devi Ma, based on the ancient art of Self-inquiry and the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. The Shiva Process heals the split between spirituality and outer life.
Swamiji, Devi Ma and other skilled group leaders and facilitators have created a training course that will provide the groundwork for becoming a confident Shiva Process group leader and facilitator. The course will deepen your personal inquiry, teach you how to effectively process individuals, and give you the skills needed to run a dynamic group process. There will be discussions and training not only on the advanced technology of Shiva Process, but also about the obstacles and pitfalls that can arise.
To be brilliant at Shiva Process, we need to become adept at following the inner shakti—the spanda principle. The Shiva Process Training Course will teach participants how to live more profoundly from this awareness by gaining a deeper understanding of the shakti, and what blocks it and expands it.
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