World-renowned meditation and spiritual teacher davidji is returning to Dublin this month to offer an amazing weekend retreat called ‘Saoirse 2019 – Power, Presence and Grace.’ It’s all about helping you to step into your truth as a spiritual warrior … and Positive Life readers are offered a special discount on the ticket price! Intrigued? Read on to learn more.
We are thrilled to share this sneak peek of our exclusive interview with the renowned spiritual teacher and author Marianne Williamson, which appears in our Autumn 2018 issue. Click here to find a stockist near you, or subscribe to receive a copy straight to your door.
by Aisling Cronin
Marianne Williamson is one of the world’s most renowned spiritual teachers, authors and speakers. Seven out of her twelve published books have been New York Times bestsellers. One of her powerful statements in the classic A Return to Love – “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us” – has become a guiding light for spiritual seekers around the globe.
When we asked her to summarise her extraordinary career, Marianne simply said, “If I’ve learned anything, it’s that life isn’t about the big dramatic moments that stand out, so much as it is about the consistent effort to live a better life. It’s up to us to make any one moment stand out, by standing tall within it.”
Marianne will be speaking in Ireland on Wednesday October 10th 2018, from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. in the Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Co. Dublin. Ahead of what is sure to be an inspirational talk, we spoke to Marianne about her thoughts on Ireland, world politics, Aretha Franklin, and how the famed A Course in Miracles – a remarkable 1976 book written by Helen Schucman, who said that she channeled the words directly from Jesus – has touched her life.
During your seminar in Dublin, you’re planning to talk about how we can learn how to transform our lives for the better, based on the insights you have gained from A Course in Miracles. We would love to know more about that subject. Have you had the opportunity to travel to many places in Ireland before, or are there any particular locations in the country that are special to you?
One trip I took that remains with me is when I went to Knowth and Dowth. Extraordinary. What amazes me about Ireland is that, unlike most civilisations, it was as amazing in ancient times as in contemporary times. That’s not all that common, you know. Newgrange and James Joyce? Seriously. Not many countries can claim that kind of thing.
The world has heard a lot about Ireland recently, and I’m curious about your own transition from external emphasis on religious dogma to the internals of spiritual growth. Obviously there have been some tragic lessons learned, and hopefully the principles of A Course in Miracles can help to shed some light on your path ahead. People studying and teaching the Course in Ireland are doing tremendous work, and I just hope I can add to the conversation with whatever insight I’ve gleaned.
The teachings within A Course in Miracles have been central to your life and work over the years. When did you first encounter this book, and what is the greatest gift that its teachings have given you?
I first saw A Course in Miracles when I was in my mid-twenties. The greatest thing it has taught me is that the lesson to be learned is always my own: my own need to forgive, to rise to the occasion, to be kinder, to be more generous, to accept people as they are, to be less judgmental. There’s always a temptation to make the problem about other people, but the Course is adamant that the work is always on ourselves.
‘Only a politics of love overrides a politics of fear.’ This is a truly beautiful quote from your book Healing the Soul of America, and as the book celebrates its twentieth anniversary, that quote has never been more timely. What do you envisage when you speak of a ‘politics of love’? We all know what a politics of fear looks like – all we have to do is switch on our television or read the news online – but how do you envisage politicians, or indeed, ordinary people relating to each other when they come from a place of pure love?
The same principles that guide us in our individual lives should guide our politics. If the point is to be a good person, then the point should be to be a good society. A good economy. And so forth. I think the economic principles that now organise our societies should be replaced by humanitarian ones. We’ve allowed money to become a false god, seen as the source of human happiness; but in fact, it’s the other way around. Money doesn’t create happiness so much as happiness creates money. When people are happy we’re naturally creative. We naturally manifest. A politics of love is one in which we see love as the bottom line, politically and economically as much as in our personal interactions. Politics is the work of our collective journey, and the effort to increase our compassion should be a political as well as a personal goal.
To read the full interview, pick up a copy of our Autumn 2018 issue in a stockist near you, or subscribe
to get a copy delivered to your door. Marianne’s upcoming Irish seminar will take place on Wednesday October 10th 2018, from 7.30 to 9.30 p.m. in the Royal Marine Hotel, Marine Road, Co. Dublin. For more information and tickets, go to seminars.ie. To learn more about Marianne and her work, go to marianne.com.
Meditation teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips – founder and CEO of Empowerment Holdings and co-founder of the Mindful Leadership Online Training Conference – is coming to Dublin to deliver a special weekend workshop from Saturday the 29th to Sunday the 30th of September in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. Read on to learn more!
Dawa is greatly appreciated by his students for his joy, insight, and clarity of presentation. He has taught on five continents and travelled to over 30 countries. He embodies the unique perspectives of Western scholarship and neuroscientific research, combined with the traditional training of an authentic Buddhist Lama.
He is the Founder/CEO of Empowerment Holdings and the co-founder of the Mindful Leadership Online Training Conference, the world’s largest online training conference for mindful leaders. He is a mindfulness and meditation expert, author, serial entrepreneur, experienced spiritual teacher, researcher and educator. He co-founded the Center for Mindfulness and Human Potential at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the President of the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, the first global independent professional organisation for Mindfulness teaching professionals. He is also the founder of The Mindful Leadership Tribe, an online community of mindful leaders.
Dawa is a contributing author for Mindful magazine, Tricycle magazine, and the Association for Talent Development. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Men’s Fitness, Forbes and Fast Company.
If you have been looking for an effective, meaningful retreat experience and an opportunity to delve deeper into your exploration of authentic mindfulness, meditation and awakening, his weekend retreat and workshop in Dublin this September is for you. During this weekend, you will explore personal access points to awakening more mindfulness and meditation in your life. Through periods of silent meditation, personal inquiry, liberating wisdom teachings, interactive exercises and live Q&A, you will be guided by Dawa to take your mindfulness, meditation and leadership practice to the next level.
Dawa’s weekend workshop, entitled Awakening Mindfulness and Meditation: Leadership Lessons for the 21st Century, will take place from 9.30 a.m. on Saturday September 29th to 5.00 p.m. on Sunday September 30th in the This workshop is being facilitated by Seminars.ie. Click here for further information and to book your place.
Liz Koch is an international educator, author and creator of CoreAwareness, focusing on awareness for developing human potential. She will be visiting Ireland this September for a special workshop called Stalking Wild Psoas, aimed at helping participants to nourish their psoas muscles. The workshop will take place from Monday September 24th to Wednesday September 26th, 2018, in the beautiful location of Inchydoney Island Lodge & Spa in County Cork. On Monday, it will take place from 1.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m., and on the Tuesday and Wednesday it will take place from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Read on to learn more!
Liz’s three-day retreat and process-oriented workshop focuses on nourishing and restoring the bio-intelligent psoas muscles using micro non-linear, multi-dimensional, fluid movement, and sound frequency. Our setting with a salt water pool offers the opportunity to heal psoas issues both in and out of water to awaken your core integrity. Just as a tree, grown in a restricted container, never reaches its full potential, so too a domesticated psoas never fully expresses itself when bound within social decorum, linear patterns, and repetitive movement. Be moved from deep within and awaken your inner strength and creativity!
Liz Koch is an international educator, author and creator of CoreAwareness, focusing on awareness for developing human potential. With 40 years’ experience specialising in the psoas, Liz is recognised in the somatic, bodywork and fitness professions as an authority on the core psoas. Both nationally and internationally published, her works include The Psoas Book, Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise and Dance, Unveiling Socliosis CD, Psoas and Back Pain CD, Mother, Maiden, Crone: Our Pleasure Playlist, and Stalking Wild Psoas: Emodying Your Core Intelligence (North Atlantic Books 2019). She is approved by the USA National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a continuing education provider.
The Stalking Wild Psoas workshop will take place in Inchydoney Island Lodge and Spa, County Cork, from Monday September 24th to Wednesday the 26th, 2018. You can register online at www.coreawareness.com.
Our Summer 2018 issue has officially hit the shelves, and we couldn’t be more excited! We wanted to share an exclusive sneak peek of our interview with the world-renowned spiritual teacher Adyashanti (this issue’s cover star). He spoke to us about awakening on different levels of our being, the student-teacher relationship, and what Ireland means to him. Adyashanti and his wife Mukti will be visiting Dublin this August. To read the full interview, pick up a copy of the Summer issue in your local stockist, or subscribe online today.
by Aisling Cronin
Interviewers: Daizan Kaarlenkaski and Paul Congdon
Adyashanti is an American-born spiritual teacher who is devoted to serving the awakening of all beings. He promotes non-dual teachings, based on recognising both the infinite spiritual possibilities and the everyday simplicity of our lives. He is the author of a number of successful spiritual titles, including The Way of Liberation, Resurrecting Jesus and Falling into Grace. We were thrilled to interview him recently and hear about his thoughts on the student-teacher relationship, his relationship with his wife Mukti, working with his father, and what Ireland means to him.
Could you tell us about the way you share your dharma teachings? For example, you never answer questions directly, but instead offer questions for people to ask themselves.
When I am dialoguing with somebody, my goal is to help them discover an answer or a resolution inside themselves, for themselves. All true realisations come from within the individual. In my style of teaching, I put a lot of responsibility on the students because I think that in the spiritual community, the students are far too often infantilised and treated like children. It is often encouraged for students to relate to the teacher as a child would, rather than interacting as two adults in a state of mutual trust. Grown-ups make their own decisions.
Do you think there can come a point when the student-teacher relationship needs to evolve for the student to gain true autonomy?
Yes, I think if a student has too much projection around the teacher – if they’re projecting all of their own holiness and light onto them – then the teacher does become a barrier. People put these projections onto the teacher because they hope that the teacher is going to be able to ‘save’ them. To the extent that we allow ourselves to become involved in that projection, the projection is what becomes a barrier. I was with my teacher for about fourteen years before she asked me to teach, and I noticed then that our relationship changed. I was still open to what she had to say, and open to her direction and guidance, but I related to her as an adult and not as a child. Teachers are best regarded as mentors, rather than as ‘gods.’
How do your teachings translate into your day-to-day life, in terms of your relationships?
Mukti and I have one of the most harmonious relationships that I know. I’m not saying it’s the most harmonious relationship in the world or anything, but it’s always been something that comes relatively naturally to both of us, which is really lucky. It has felt so natural for us to be together and part of that may be because we never imagined that it was the other person’s responsibility to ‘make me happy’. It has certainly matured over time. It had a lot of those effortless qualities from the very beginning, but nothing stays static – you are either maturing or regressing, one or the other. For twenty-two years, I have kept thinking to myself, ‘it can’t get any more profound than this’ and the next year, I find myself thinking, ‘wow, it did!’ Relationships can be one of the greatest areas of growth there is. To have a successful relationship, you’ve got to be a clear, adult, mature human being. That applies to relationships of all kinds: lovers, friends, family, even strangers.
Adyashanti and Mukti will be visiting Dublin this August for a Special Intensive teaching event. This will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday August 19th, in the Gibson Hotel, Point Square, North Dock, Dublin 1. For details, go to: www.adyashanti.org
On Tuesday June the 5th, we will be welcoming healer Errol Campbell to Positive Nights. He works with a principle of Empowered Being: a transformational healing state that allows people to make positive changes in their lives. He will be with us from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. on Tuesday June 5th in the Bewley’s Café Theatre, 78/79 Grafton Street, Dublin 2. Tickets are available through Eventbrite, and you can find the Facebook event page here.
Errol Campbell – a powerful healer from Bali – is visiting Ireland to deliver a stunning workshop in Belfast. We are thrilled to announce that he will also be appearing at Positive Nights on Tuesday June the 5th from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. The venue is the stunning Bewley’s Café Theatre, Grafton Street, Dublin 2.
Errol works with a principle of Empowered Being: a core transformational state that empowers you to experience and embody positive change within yourself. He helps people to release inherited, learned, and accumulated identities, limiting beliefs, fears, feelings and patterns stored deep within their subconscious: in short, anything that prevents them from living and experiencing their true authentic selves.
He specialises in teaching tried and tested tools and techniques to enter your subconscious mind, locate the programmes holding you back, and rewire them to empower you to create your desired life, goals and dreams. We are pleased to be hosting Errol and hearing more from him about how we can quickly bring about a meaningful shift in the way we live our lives.
Join us on Tuesday June the 5th from 7.00 to 9.00 p.m. in the Bewley’s Café Theatre. The Eventbrite ticket link is here.
Errol will be delivering a special weekend workshop called Empowered Being prior to his visit with us. This workshop will take place from the 2nd to the 3rd of June 2018 in the Culloden Estate & Spa, Bangor Road, Holywood, near Belfast. Errol’s website is errolcampbell.com. You can find information about his workshop in Belfast at events.cheriemagee.com.
Ian White is the founder of the Australian Bush Flower Essences (ABFE), a fifth generation Australian herbalist and author of numerous books on the use of ABF Essences for everyday family life. Ian will arrive to Dublin this month to share with an Irish audience, the healing potential of these gentle yet powerful remedies.
In advance of his arrival we spoke about his upbringing in the Australian bush, the journey which led to the founding of ABFE and his vision for ABFE to be incorporated into family life all over the world.
Essential Healing: Flower into your full potential
By Alison McEvoy
INITIATION
Ian was introduced to the healing power of plants during his upbringing in the Australian bush (meaning outback or countryside) by his grandmother. Their homes backed onto a National Park and it was here, when he should have been at school, that Ian was initiated into a deep respect for, and understanding of, the health-giving capacities of Australian bush flowers. This continued for the first nine years of his life until his grandmother passed away.
Ian went on to study a science degree and it was in a roundabout way that he was led back to his grandmother’s teachings and the decision to continue the family tradition of herbal healing. It was during his own herbal, self-healing journey after he became ill in India that his passion for plant cures was reignited.
THE HEART OF THE ISSUE
The premise of flower essences is that physical symptoms stem from emotional imbalances. To treat emotional upsets is thus to treat a potential, or actual, cause of physical illness. The beauty of flower essences is that they are vibrational in the same way that emotions are. They are constantly sending out healing signals/vibrations. All we have to do is tune in to find out which essence can help us in this way.
Speaking of Waratah, the plant logo of the ABFE, Ian observes, “They’ve got this beautiful heart shape, and it’s very much working at that heart level, giving strength, giving courage, it’s for faith. We tend to use this flower for black night of the soul.” These flower essences are helping hands for humanity to gain and maintain equilibrium on all levels, especially during our darkest moments which call for great strength.
A NEW WORLD THROUGH ABFE
Ian would like to see every household stock the ABF Essences so that children can be brought up with the support they provide. For every hurdle in a child’s life there is an essence which can make these transitions and challenges so much easier. He wants to see children grow up supported emotionally and mentally so that their hearts can stay open, expressing their love, so that they are given the confidence to pursue their dreams and goals, and their physical health remains in balance. Who would not want to life in the world created by these children as adults?
Ian’s workshops will take place from Friday May 25th to Sunday May 27th at Malahide Castle in north Co. Dublin. No previous knowledge is required to attend and you are promised a fun, enjoyable day and to leave confident in your ability to use the essences on family, friends and/or patients. On Monday 28th there will be a special event for health food retailers and pharmacist staff.
Friday May 25th – Female Health Issues (Fertility, Pregnancy, Relationships…)
Saturday May 26th – Spotlights mental and emotional health
Sunday May 27th – A question and answer masterclass with Ian
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