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Kintsugi
Quante volte ci sentiamo vittime di problemi e di un destino di fronte a cui sembriamo impotenti. È difficile comprendere e accettare il dolore, quando bussa alla nostra porta. Al contrario, è facile anestetizzare i sintomi del male con diversivi e palliativi. Finché quel dolore apparentemente rimosso ritorna puntuale, spesso più forte di prima. Eppure esiste una strada meno battuta. Quella della consapevolezza di sé, della bellezza, dell’amore, per la quale l’arte del kintsugi è di ispirazione ed esempio. Nella filosofia spirituale giapponese, infatti, il kintsugi è l’antichissima pratica che consiste nel riparare gli oggetti rotti con l’oro e può essere considerata, in senso lato, come l’abilità di trasformare le nostre ferite fisiche ed emotive in una eccezionale occasione di crescita e cambiamento. Selene Calloni Williams ci guida in questo originale percorso di guarigione. Grazie alla coinvolgente narrazione della sua vita e di leggende ancestrali e simboliche, l’autrice ci illustra nove leggi per riparare le ferite dell’anima, iniziandoci a pratiche meditative quotidiane che ci aiuteranno a superare ansie, sensi di colpa, rabbia, insoddisfazioni e a ritrovare libertà, entusiasmo e gioia di vivere. Per conquistare infine una piena realizzazione di noi stessi.
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Selene Calloni Williams
44 books13 followersSelene Calloni Williams - a contemporary mystic who, through her books, videos and seminaries, has taught how to imagine and create a new reality to an incredible number of people.
Her book "Mother Mantra, the ancient shamanic yoga of non-duality", published in several languages, is a key to making great positive changes in life. It is an initiate’s guide to the ancient healing practices, spiritual exercises, and secret rites of the Mother Mantra tradition. A powerful tool to overcoming subconscious programming, releasing your fears, and spiritually fusing with divine joy.
Selene Calloni Williams is a writer, documentarian and anthropologist.
Her spiritual journey started in Sri Lanka where she met her root teacher who initiated her into shamanic yoga and where she practiced in a Theravada Buddhist monastery.
On her return to Europe she studied psychology and went on to get a graduate degree in screen writing. She then had the good fortune to encounter the psychoanalyst James Hillman, who initiated her into the world of deep psychology and imaginal vision. Selene has refined the “symbolic - imaginal method” or “imaginal approach” to serve personal growth and development. Imaginal approach serves the path of “soul making” by allowing the real to be experienced in a dematerialized and depersonalized way. SCW spent many years in Siberia and Mongolia deepening her understanding of Shamanic traditions from the teachings of Turko-Mongolian, Altaic and Buryat shamans.
Selene wrote several books on Turko-Mongolian shamanism, available in Italian and Russian and has made several documentaries in Italian on this subject. Selene’s first book translated into English and published in the US by Inner Traditions is Mother Mantra, The Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality. The tradition of Mother Mantra is at the core of Shamanic Yoga practices. Shamanic yoga facilitates expanded states of consciousness uniting body, mind, and soul. Shamanic Yoga is very broad with practices that include deep meditation for healing and deprogramming, working with ancestors, regression into past lives and psychopompal yoga, i.e. the travel into invisible world.
All these shamanic yoga practices can activate skills and facilitate the gifts of knowledge, vision and imagination.
Selene founded a school of Imaginal Counselling in Switzerland and a school of Shamanic Yoga and Mother Mantra. Selene leads international retreats and sacred trips to places of power.
"Selene is playing a very important role in a world that is moving from an old, oil-based economy to a new economy. The change of economic and political models is fundamental if we want to create a new ecologically sustainable world. In order for this change to take place and grow, the symbols and myths that underlie old economic and political models must change. These are also the symbols that shape the behaviour of individuals. Selene is one of the people who play a decisive role in helping individuals and systems to evolve by understanding and transforming the symbols that lie at the heart of our common behavioural patterns. Her students and followers, in practicing her methods, flourish in surprising ways, find paths to economic well-being and reinvest in ecological and humanitarian projects that strongly influence the change of systems.”
Silvia Turrin, writer and journalist.
Her book "Mother Mantra, the ancient shamanic yoga of non-duality", published in several languages, is a key to making great positive changes in life. It is an initiate’s guide to the ancient healing practices, spiritual exercises, and secret rites of the Mother Mantra tradition. A powerful tool to overcoming subconscious programming, releasing your fears, and spiritually fusing with divine joy.
Selene Calloni Williams is a writer, documentarian and anthropologist.
Her spiritual journey started in Sri Lanka where she met her root teacher who initiated her into shamanic yoga and where she practiced in a Theravada Buddhist monastery.
On her return to Europe she studied psychology and went on to get a graduate degree in screen writing. She then had the good fortune to encounter the psychoanalyst James Hillman, who initiated her into the world of deep psychology and imaginal vision. Selene has refined the “symbolic - imaginal method” or “imaginal approach” to serve personal growth and development. Imaginal approach serves the path of “soul making” by allowing the real to be experienced in a dematerialized and depersonalized way. SCW spent many years in Siberia and Mongolia deepening her understanding of Shamanic traditions from the teachings of Turko-Mongolian, Altaic and Buryat shamans.
Selene wrote several books on Turko-Mongolian shamanism, available in Italian and Russian and has made several documentaries in Italian on this subject. Selene’s first book translated into English and published in the US by Inner Traditions is Mother Mantra, The Ancient Shamanic Yoga of Nonduality. The tradition of Mother Mantra is at the core of Shamanic Yoga practices. Shamanic yoga facilitates expanded states of consciousness uniting body, mind, and soul. Shamanic Yoga is very broad with practices that include deep meditation for healing and deprogramming, working with ancestors, regression into past lives and psychopompal yoga, i.e. the travel into invisible world.
All these shamanic yoga practices can activate skills and facilitate the gifts of knowledge, vision and imagination.
Selene founded a school of Imaginal Counselling in Switzerland and a school of Shamanic Yoga and Mother Mantra. Selene leads international retreats and sacred trips to places of power.
"Selene is playing a very important role in a world that is moving from an old, oil-based economy to a new economy. The change of economic and political models is fundamental if we want to create a new ecologically sustainable world. In order for this change to take place and grow, the symbols and myths that underlie old economic and political models must change. These are also the symbols that shape the behaviour of individuals. Selene is one of the people who play a decisive role in helping individuals and systems to evolve by understanding and transforming the symbols that lie at the heart of our common behavioural patterns. Her students and followers, in practicing her methods, flourish in surprising ways, find paths to economic well-being and reinvest in ecological and humanitarian projects that strongly influence the change of systems.”
Silvia Turrin, writer and journalist.
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August 3, 2024
Abbandonato a poco più di metà
Per apprezzare questo libro bisogna essere in un momento di spiritualità e apertura mentale. Personalmente mj reputo una persona abbastanza aperta e anche spirituale, però evidentemente questo non era il periodo giusto per leggerlo.
Inizialmente mi è piaciuto molto, la prima parte introduttiva è chiara e diretta. Andando avanti però ho fatto sempre più fatica a cogliere il messaggio e trarne gli insegnamenti che l’autrice avrebbe voluto trasmettere.
Si alternano in ogni capitolo una storia antica giapponese, episodi della storia dell’autrice ed esercizi di meditazione da fare una volta al giorno per almeno sette giorni. Questo continuo passare da una cosa all’altra crea un po’ di confusione e si fa fatica a cogliere il punto.
Peccato, magari più avanti proverò a leggerlo di nuovo
Per apprezzare questo libro bisogna essere in un momento di spiritualità e apertura mentale. Personalmente mj reputo una persona abbastanza aperta e anche spirituale, però evidentemente questo non era il periodo giusto per leggerlo.
Inizialmente mi è piaciuto molto, la prima parte introduttiva è chiara e diretta. Andando avanti però ho fatto sempre più fatica a cogliere il messaggio e trarne gli insegnamenti che l’autrice avrebbe voluto trasmettere.
Si alternano in ogni capitolo una storia antica giapponese, episodi della storia dell’autrice ed esercizi di meditazione da fare una volta al giorno per almeno sette giorni. Questo continuo passare da una cosa all’altra crea un po’ di confusione e si fa fatica a cogliere il punto.
Peccato, magari più avanti proverò a leggerlo di nuovo
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