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What
participants say about
Inward Bound:
Participating in Rashani’s 4 week intensive was the single most
transformational experience of my life, and is the unwavering foundation
upon which I am now building my dreams.
-Lea Endres, Program Director, Worldlink Foundation
What a simple and rare gift: to be encouraged to meet ourselves Just as we are, day after day. Through example, Rashani offered us a constant invitation to examine the mystery of each unfolding moment; to undo lifelong stories and to live in a state of sustained inquiry.
-Bryan Feltham, Engineer
To
be at Kipukamaluhia is to come back to one's true nature through the revitalization of the body & spirit, reconnecting
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Participants
of the 12 week retreat/intensive:
Rashani's
wisdom and skill invited me moment to
moment
to see all of myself with the eyes of love and
inclusiveness, welcoming and reclaiming every part of
the dream of my life as a gift. I learned the
cultivation of
freedom and compassion through a
commitment to
inquiry, as she lovingly and masterfully
guided me in
following the thread of
every thought,
gesture, and
symptom to my deepest truth. To share
that immediacy
with the support of a group, for the
duration of 12
weeks, shedding the burdens of
conditioning together,
was a profound experience.
In the beauty and magic of
Kipukamaluhia and the
sacred space of unconditioned
presence held by
Rashani, I touched the freedom of
natural and
authentic BEING. What a great revelation -
the
radically intimate practice of simply being present
with life as it is. The true "living dharma." For that
gift I
will always be deeply grateful.
-Jennifer
Bonadio, Certified Yoga Instructor
Rashani invites us to not be anybody, to die to all we
so fiercely think we are. She invites us to observe
everything with curiosity, to go inside, into the stillness
and emptiness, into the roaring of the mind, into pure
awareness, into our heart, our toes, into the unknown,
the undefined, so that the universe of our being can
rise, unencumbered by thoughts and offer its voice to
the chorus of our totality. She hands us a microscope
and an impeccable toolbox the way that mothers hand
their children brown bag lunches to take to school. By
example she shows us how to love the deep ecology
of our humanness and the belovedness of being.
-Lindsey Vona,
Singer/songwriter.
At
Kipukamaluhia we receive teachings while tending
the gardens and
taking care of baby goats & sheep as
well as during
formal periods of self inquiry and
sharing.
There
is no separation between "practice" and
living.
One
discovers that the 'awakened mind' is none
other
than the
natural mind, not enhanced by any
glamor or
fixations. The 12 week retreat allowed me to
see my
habitual
patterns with curiosity and compassion
instead
of self
hatred, to find new, undefended ways
of relating,
especially with my family, and opened me
to the
intricate, interconnected web of life.
Participants
have
the opportunity to discover who they
are beyond their
broken identities and how to use
everything as a
doorway into deeper awareness.
-Sonja Trier, Student of Life
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