But what do you DO with clients? Help them master life – including the corporate annual review. Here’s a story. She’s a mentoring client, who’s had a kundalini awakening, is working a corporate job, and is focused on integrating her awakening and medium-term transitioning into running her own business. Her annual review was coming up, …
Reflections on Operating Within the Gift Economy via Dāna
Oh dāna, that virtue referred to within Buddhism and Tantra teachings where we practice opening ourselves up to freely give with generosity and to therefore receive the benefits that accrue from this experience. I’ve deliberately been leaning into operating from dāna for a number of years now, as part of using a mixed model for …
The Golden Ticket Game & The Gift Economy
I’m playing a new game for fun, and it involves golden tickets and the gift economy. Here’s how it works. There are five Golden Tickets, each with a unique serial number. Anyone who is in possession of a Golden Ticket can book a session with me in return for dāna. Every time a Golden Ticket …
New Zealand’s Best Transformational Festivals
Transformational Festivals – What are they? My definition is that the purpose of the festival is not just to entertain, or party, but also to have a transformative effect on participants. If there are workshops like yoga, meditation, personal development, growth-orientated, green-focused, breathwork or education-focused, then it’s likely a transformational festival. If the organisers share …
How do I learn Classical Tantra? Here’s where to start
So you’re interested in Classical Tantra. Maybe you’re already dabbled in Neo-Tantra or have done the Buddhist thing, the yoga thing, the New Age thing, and you’re like – Classical Tantra! I want that! However you ended up here, welcome. This article is designed for newbies and gives an orientation to the vast system that …
The Unfolding of a Samskara Digestion
It’s rare that I don’t immediately turn inward when there’s a disturbance in the field, to meet what’s arising, no matter how painful. Yet that’s what happened this week. My partner had been fairly stressed over the last few weeks as he raced against a deadline to deliver a product for his business. This weekend, he …
