Seasonal Changes at Being Human

Greetings from Being Human!

As we have moved through the Autumn into the Winter months so does our journey with Being Human continue to deepen.

Our first Relationship Series was a great success, far outstripping any hopes we had for the launch of this work into the community. We are now considering running the Relationship Series twice a year given its popularity and powerful entry way into Inner Work.

The Path of Self Inquiry is now underway, the first workshop 'Core Wounding Uncovered' took us on a deep dive as we move toward the Centrepiece of Being Human;

'Sustainable Self-Love'.

It may sound a little cliché, however in this workshop we will be opening up how important this piece of the puzzle is for healing. Self-love is much more than a weekly massage and Epsom salt bath; it first requires that we know how to be in 'Self' and then how the wounded parts of us need us to show up for them. Self-love isn't a cookie cutter one size fits all approach, it is highly personal and individual. We need to really know who the are parts are, what wounds they are carrying and what they need, to be able to love them in a way that facilitates their healing. BEING the loving Self rather than Doing Self-love is an important distinction.

This Path will then continue on with Ancestral Lineage Healing; a workshop designed to unburden any 'generational burdens' we are carrying, unwind cultural conditioning, offer healing to those who have come before us and deepen our connection with the land.

Finally the Weekend Intensive 'Healing the Fragmented Soul' will complete the Path with a deepening of the short evening workshops and a comprehensive exploration of the engine room of the Ego and all of it's fuel sources - so often the source of our suffering.

We wish you much Self-reflection, Healing & Hibernation through the next few months and hope to see you on the Journey.

blessings,
Being Human

Being Human is moving House!

For those of you who have already attended a Being Human workshop you will know we were located at Elk Wellbeing Centre in Clifton Hill. Due to an unforeseen event, this studio will no longer be home for the Being Human Work. We are currently looking for a new home that better aligns with our values and vision. We are asking our community as well; if you know of somewhere that might suit Being Human please let us know. Our top priorities are ethical, conscious owners with good communication skills and a solutions focus, a space that can hold up to 30 people and a space that has comfort, warmth and is nurturing for deep inner work .

Due to this change of address, our workshops have been delayed for 1 month. The new dates are as follows:

July 18 Sustainable Self-Love
August 1 Ancestral Lineage Healing
August 10/11th Healing the Fragmented Soul (TBC)

We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Insight Corner

In each of our newsletters we'll give a bit of insight into an inner work process. So far these have been our own, at some point they may be those of our clients or students.

My experience with Self-Love: by Amitayus

If you had asked me at any point in my life, I would have said instantly, that I love myself. I have never had an overly active inner critic, I've always had a good balance of self-compassion, self-acceptance and the ability to challenge myself to grow and evolve. I would have said that it's not my ability to receive love from myself, but rather from others that was my issue.

From my life experiences and my inner work I am very much aware that abandonment is one of my core wounds. If you know anything of my story this is obvious - my sister died when I was 11, and within a year my father went to prison and my mother went from a stay-at-home mom to working full time and going to school full time. Yet it goes a lot deeper than that, and in my inner explorations I've recognised that the abandonment started as a very young baby.

I've been able to reconnect to that baby me, and to hold him, and to send him love. A lot of healing has taken place, in which he has, for the most part, stopped looking externally for that mother figure, and begun resting in the nurturing and love that I have for him. This has happened over the past few years, and has been a spiral process of coming back to him again and again, in my daily life, meditations and sessions with my mentors. And the process is still underway.

Where I'm at now in my experience of this abandonment is the recognition that the original abandonment was not from my mother to me. The original abandonment was from me to me. That moment, completely understandable and natural, yet with powerful consequences, when I made me less important than the other. This movement started a chain reaction in my system, and it's now this movement that I'm keenly aware of, and feel deeply in my soul. The externalising of value and worth.

So my next step in the journey of Self-Love is true Self-Seeing. To see, value, recognise, realise mySelf. In every moment, the moments of glory as well as the moments of pain - and even more important - those mundane moments that fill the frame of life.

And for this, paradoxically, I need support. For the deepest healing work, it's often the case that we're too close to it to see it fully.

All of my current work is circling around this Self-Seeing at the moment. A snippet of my own work to share - I recently received an Art Therapy session, where I drew myself at the bottom of a long and dark well. At the top of the well were my wife and our dog, and my sister - the main sources of love in my life, as well as the main sources of grief. When I first connected with the me at the bottom of the well, there was an intense loneliness and grief. And yet, as I continued to be guided into the imagery and to explore the grief and loneliness, what unfolded was a delicious sense of solitude, and an immense peace in resting completely alone, in a rich darkness, in the warm internal waters within. It's difficult to describe in words, because all words feel hollow relative to the immediacy of the experience. Immense. Peace. In Solitude. Rich, fertile darkness. Surrender. Trust. Self

We hope you enjoy the newsletter where we will regularly add anecdotes and stories from our own healing and soul work. We look forward to sharing the journey with you.
 
With love
Amitayus & Elica