I just published a “my journey” video where I tell some of my story. I had long been planning on doing this but it felt weird to make myself the subject of a video (I explain some of my reservations and resistance at the start of the video).
I finally resolved to make the video not so much about me, but about what I learned from various teachers, mentors, and life experiences.
I tried to make it succinct, but it spans 20 years of learning and practice (covering teachers, therapy training and practice, festivals, psychedelics, and more), so it still ended up being 40 minutes.
I’ve long known that vulnerability helps to make a connection, and we learn best when we feel a connection with the person we’re learning from. So this is my first stab at that, and I’ll be sharing more personal anecdotes soon.
You can watch the video here.
(**Oh hey as an aside, I switched to Substack. I had long contemplated the switch, and then got an email from Mailchimp saying they were going to start charging me, so the move has officially been made.)
WORKSHOP STARTS THIS WEDNESDAY
I’m excited to offer this workshop. It’s essentially the things I most love teaching, boiled down into two sessions.
The first session explores the mind-body connection, and explores practices deepen our understanding to bring about more inner harmony. This is the perspective and core tools that I have found are most effective in softening long held patterns of thinking and feeling.
The second session is all about the spirit-soul dialectic. These are our “spiritual” dimensions, the parts of being that we’re trying to connect with in meditation by going beyond our conventional mind.
This is what really helped me to understand what this spiritual stuff is all about. It’s about self-realization, but also self-transcendence. And it’s actually through transcending our more conventional sense of self that we come to know our more unique and authentic self (which we’re referring to soul here).
I made a little video on this workshop here, and practical info (time and cost) here.
ACCESSIBILITY
I like to keep my prices accessible, in fact my whole thing is accessibility. I know a lot of people in this field charge a lot. If I was selling business advice or entertainment, I’d be ok to charge a higher fee.
But those things are luxuries. This is healing. Healing should be accessible. It should be like universal healthcare. It shouldn’t only be for those who can afford it.
So if price is ever a barrier for you, for this or future workshops (or my Meditation for ADHD course), please reach out and we will figure out something that works.
That’s also why I launched a Patreon, in hopes that those who can afford will support my work and I can continue to make it accessible. The more support I get, the more time and energy I can devote to making accessible healing stuff. And thank you to all my current Patrons! <3
OK that’s it for right now. I will be posting a lot more videos on YouTube soon, so stay tuned…
Much love,
Jude