Menla Training (Contemplative Healing) – Intrinsic health and healing
Menla is a Tibetan term, which means teacher of healing, medicine Buddha or healing Buddha. This is an authentic tradition of practice, that trains and strengthens our ability to heal ourselves and others.
Menla training is a 15 month study and practice training in contemplative healing.
Participants
The training is suitable for people engaged in healing and caring professions, as well as persons who care for chronically ill people; in particular for those people who engage in their profession with all their heart and have the tendency to overexert themselves and burn out.
The following are recommended for participation :
• Participants should have an active interest in improving the relationship between healer and patient. Work with speech and body language play an important role. Medical or care experience and training is very welcome but not required.
• No previous experience with Buddhism or other spiritual disciplines is required. All that is required is openness for new ways of seeing our situation.
Universal and basic techniques of mind training, developed over 2500 years within the Buddhist tradition, will be used in this training. This will be paired with modern process work.
The methods that will be presented include:
• Special meditative and awareness exercises, perception and cognitive methods.
• Experiential process oriented methods. These will be presented by experienced therapists who will assist in the training.
• Group work. Between the seminars the participants will meet for discussion and exchange in contemplative healing groups.
Phase I: Preparing the Ground
Encountering sickness and fear
• Seminar 1: The hidden fear of health
We start by trying to discover the sense of balance. It exists in everyone, but is often covered over. We discover it through four gates: Unfolding of wellbeing, compassion, discriminating analysis and trust. Through this we also discover sickness inducing habitual patterns that prevent us from coming in contact with our basic health.
• Seminar 2: Touching the heart of healing
We learn methods of working with our own fear and pain and discover our wish to cover up as a spiral of suffering. We also can discover our own sensitivity and tenderness as the driving force of healing. This weekend is especially dedicated to the personal experience of being touched.
• Seminar 3: The threat through illness
We face the facts of sickness and fear, and explore, against the background of the principles of contemplative healing, the causal bodily and psychological dynamics of becoming ill in our own personality. For this we apply the experiential aspects of the three life processes from the tibetan healing arts.
Phase II Walking the path - Sickness as a path.
• Seminar 4: The discovery of humour in healing
The exploration of the personal life dynamic from the point of view of the present moment gives rise intelligence and humour, which can help us explore the healing process, so that through mindfulness of our experience and perceptions, we can bring forth our healthy aspects.
• Seminar 5: The struggle with the body
We discover the power and the depth of our own emotional resistance that prevents us from re-examining our habitual bodily patterns, and to overcome the elemental psychosomatic illusions of being sick. Through this we give rise to a discriminating awareness that explores deeper and examines.
• Seminar 6: Sickness as a path
Every sickness offers us a precious opportunity to gain deeper insights in our own personal body-mind confusion. Accepting this confusion with clarity. This strengthens our ability to take sickness as a path.
• Seminar 7: The inexhaustible healers
The final weekend will provide us with an overview and practical advice as to how we can maintain a natural healthy balance in each moment of our daily life.
Dates for new Menla Training cycles starting in 2010:
• Seminar 1: The hidden fear of health
PL: February 19-21, 2010
• Seminar 2: Touching the heart of healing
PL: May 14-17, 2010
• Seminar 3: The threat through illness (4 days)
PL: August 20-22, 2010
• Seminar 4: The discovery of humour in healing
PL: October 15-18, 2010
• Seminar 5: The struggle with the body (4 days)
PL: December 3-5, 2010
• Seminar 6: Sickness as a path
PL: February 18-20, 2011
Seminar 7: The inexhaustible healers
Dates to be determined
Place: Warsaw, Poland
Price: 3,500 PLN
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