Yet, the vibrancy of our life-force and creative energy is often stifled by the weight of unresolved emotions.  Many journey through life carrying within themselves dense and heavy sacks of encumbered emotions. Common escape routes include the numbing through addictions, relentless work, obsessive health routines, hyper-individualism, denial, or the cold withdrawal into oneself. Such strategies, while providing temporary relief, fail to touch the deep-seated roots of our emotional turmoil, ultimately leaving us depleted and disconnected.

Regrettably, even seasoned meditators, untrained in the art of engaging with challenging or intense emotions, find their practice dry and unfulfilling. Even after countless hours of meditation, their practice may still seem sterile, mechanical and abstract - never experiencing powerful shifts and juicy realizations that herald true spiritual awakening.

This immersion invites us to discover the intricate workings of some of the most sticky or messy emotions. Revealing emotions not as adversaries, but as messengers of a deeper truth. Here, emotions are not the problem; rather, it is their freezing, or their relentless looping within us that breeds suffering. By engaging with our emotions, we unlock the potential to truly experience life's Rasas — its richest juices.

The practices of meditation and investigation, offered in this immersion, have helped many people open their hearts and unlock well-springs of joy, vitality and clarity.

Learning Outcomes:

• We will learn through meditation and insightful inquiry, the skill of parsing through ‘what is mine’ and ‘what is not mine’ without emotional or spiritual bypassing. 

• We will find clarity of our needs and boundaries in different contexts and relationships. We will learn to ‘hold’ accountability towards others.

• We will learn to take radical responsibility for our actions (and inactions). 

• We will learn to work with some of the most charged emotions such as Shame, Anger, Hatred, Fear and Jealousy.

• We will learn the basic principles of Fierce-Vulnerability framework and healing conflicts.

• We will learn the Buddhist guided meditation of working with mind-states (citta- saṃskāra).

• We will fully immerse and delight in the deliciousness of life and wholesome emotions, such as humor, eros, and joy.

Through Tantric transmutation we will learn to honor all emotions, to alchemize their intensity in the flowing river of our being.

We pray that this sacred pilgrimage that we will begin together in October will illuminate the hidden threads that bind us to the cosmos, and help us discover the heart of beauty and bliss, pulsing at the core of our shared humanity.

[Note: This immersion is based on the ancient teachings of Tantra and Buddhism as well as Psychology, Restorative Justice and the praxis of Gandhian and Kingian Nonviolence i.e. Ahimsa].