“Meditation is a tool for developing awareness. This awareness can be applied to any aspect of our living experience; relationships, work, creative expression, personal growth or spiritual practice.

I teach meditation in the Self as Instrument workshop series as a means of developing self awareness.This practise specifically develops our capacity to focus as we explore the various ways in which we prevent ourselves from being fully present; present in the sense that we occupy our bodies, sense our experience, integrate our rational processes, and interact with our environment with all of our being.

Most of us have been traumatically displaced from our true self and have come to identify with our adapted ego structure. This is but a facsimile of who we truly are. Like a drop of water is to the ocean, our constructed self has all of the properties of our greater self but lacks the breadth and depth of our true nature.

There is no mystery here, when we begin the journey into ourselves, it becomes painfully clear why we left in the first place. On the whole, we, in our evolution, have not yet developed the ability to “truly hear and see each other”. We’ve become accustomed to pretending, identifying with the limited egoic sense of self and perpetuating the original wounding. To master the capacity to truly see and hear each other and to participate in this greater unfoldment is our gift to ourselves, our fellow humans, and the planet earth. This workshop provides the tools for unraveling this misperception. Our unfoldment is natural, we need only get out of the way.

This process is very simple yet requires enormous courage. Some of us do not have a choice, our collective soul senses the urgency; perhaps for our very survival.

This is the most radical of revolutions and it begins with the next breath. Please join me and we’ll learn to listen while we share our stories and give birth to this emerging dimension of our human evolution”.
Jean-Paul Soares, June 2001