Friday, 20 May, 18:15 – 20:15 CEST
“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom”
– Rumi
Growing Through Both Pleasure and Pain
Life has many unexpected turns in store for each of us. Sometimes we can enjoy abundance and fulfilment of our dreams and at other times we are facing loss or dissatisfaction. As part of life, we get a share of each side of the spectrum. Even the most skilled, the most talented, the saints and enlightened beings are put in situations that make us tremble, are difficult and hard to take.
So far, we went through the emotions of fear and wonder in our past webinars. This month we will take a closer look at the emotion of sadness and how it can help us to open our hearts and be an instrument for spiritual awakening.
How We Connect With Emotions
Like in the previous workshops of this series we will see how ego mutilates the possible experience of an emotion. Our ego cuts off dimensions of our emotion that it can’t understand or process. In this way it tries to create a coherent picture, but leaves us with a non-contiguous experience, contracting our consciousness.
In Yoga and Tantra, we aim to expand our consciousness to the fullness of every experience, so we experience reality and not our projections on it. The question arises:
“How we can expand our consciousness to encompass a new extended understanding of reality?”
In this workshop we will use specific dynamics of sadness to help us to experience a transformed perception of existence. To experience how the world really is beyond our projections is a sign of the awakening of our heart and that we transcended the influence of the ego.
Sadness and the Flow of Time
Sadness distinctly orients the flow of our attention towards the past: What we experienced, what we did wrong, or what we didn’t dare to do. This can come up in meditation, in which we dwell in the past instead of focusing our attention on the meditation itself. This requires that we transcend time through facilitating the natural flow of time, which goes from the present moment forward and not backwards. It is important that we are not ignoring a tendency to go back to moments in the past, but by doing something way more creative and outside of the box. For this we add a pinch of quantum physics in the picture.
Sadness and Our Inner Space
Every emotion stretches us in a certain direction. In our inner universe exists a system of coordinates with our heart as a centre. Sadness draws us from the more superficial layers inwards, towards our centre. It offers us the gift of depth. We will use this pull to explore our inner space and to move beyond it.
Who Is This Workshop For?
It is ideal for individuals who are:
- On a spiritual or creative path and seeking of deeper emotional integration
- Interested in presence-based practices, such as meditation and awareness
- Curious about the transformative power of everyday experiences
- Ready to explore the mystery and meaning behind emotional states
Schedule of upcoming Emotional Alchemy Events:
- Alchemy of Fear ➡️ (Replay available for purchase)
2. Alchemy of Wonder ➡️ (Replay available for purchase)
3. Alchemy of Sadness ➡️ 20 June
4. Alchemy of Joy ➡️ 11 July
5. Alchemy of Anger ➡️ September
6. Alchemy of Eros ➡️ October
7. Alchemy of Disgust ➡️ November
8. Alchemy of Courage ➡️ December
9. Alchemy of Peace ➡️ January
Between workshops, we will continue our journey by sharing insights and experiences in the Emotional Alchemy Telegram group.
Watch the replay of the introduction webinar:
In this workshop, you will explore:
- To appreciate added depth to our emotional landscape
- How to answer the call for detachment through interiorization
- That any emotion can start us on the tantric path, not only the pleasant ones
- How sadness softens us and to discover the delicate tenderness of your heart
- To travel from self-centered, isolating sadness to interconnection of compassion
Your Teacher
Adriana Luptakova
Adriana has been exploring Semantics, Art, Ayurvedic Psychology, Alchemy and Tantra in the search for the essence of togetherness for 14 years. Inspired by archetypal stories about heroes and heroines, personal practice and applying tantric approach, she invites to share the paths into the essence of emotions, and discover together how they help us to get in touch with our soul and with the hearts of the others, and to advance on the spiritual path.
SINGLE
Pay for this workshop
7€
Replay will be available after the workshop in case you miss the live session.
BUNDLE
Pay for all 9 workshops
49€
Replays will be available after each workshop in case you miss some of the live sessions, including instant access to part 1 “Alchemy of Fear” and part 2 “Alchemy of Wonder“.
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