the work...

there was a week long workshop led by eva and jose on family constelations, which also included active meditations in the morning, and other work in the evening such as osho meditations, tarrot readings, story telling, walks in nature. there were 11 of us total including the leaders, we all slept at the house, and took turns cooking.

this was the first time either of us was receiving tarrot readings, and they were powerful! very. (thank you octavio for dedicating your time for this and for your insights and advice.) and this was also the first time we were participating in a family constalations workshop, although i had served as eva´s translator in delhi once. it was intense!!! there was a lot of deep and hard work for both of us, which sometimes left us exhausted, overflowing with energy, confused, dazzed, in pain, angry, light, surprised, and everything in between.

the effects of the work are surely to be felt in time to come. as of right now, we are very proud and excited about the personal work we have done. and we are honored to have been led by eva and jose, they have great experience and are wonderful facilitators, pushing us further then we thought we could go but knowing when to stop and let the energy settle. for those who don't know about family constalations, here is an explanation i found in a quick search on google. if you do your own search i'm sure there is plenty more. and if you are interested in eva and jose's work, or their blog, and you read spanish, you can visit: www.elviajedelalma.com .

http://picasaweb.google.com/nisargaanddeepa/TheWork?authkey=2B4Eh-SBVEU#


What in the world is a family constallation?

Our deepest wish is that we and our loved ones thrive and that our families be filled with love and joy. When instead we experience ilness, failure and conflict, we want to know why. Allergies? Dysfunctional family? Bad genes? German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger has a different answer. His Family Constellations begin with the idea that instead of originating in an individual‘s biographical history from birth to the present, dysfunction and suffering often relate to painful events in the family‘s past.

In his work with several thousand families, Bert Hellinger uncovered what he calls age-old “Orders of Love ” deeply embedded in the unconscious of family groups. disturbances in these orders, and in the sense of belonging that is essential for a sense of well-being, often manifest in dysfunctional patterns that reappear in a family system generation after generation. Sometimes our way of belonging is to suffer like those who came before us. One may become “entangled” in the difficult fate of an ancestor and unconsciously draw unhappiness, failure, addiciton or illness into one‘s own life. the purpose of a family constellation is to reveal the hidden dynamic of such a situation and point the way toward resolution.

An individual wishing to work on an issue chooses representatives for various members of his/her family from among the circle of participants at a Family Constellations workshop. S/he positions them spatially in a way that seems right. In a short time the representatives begin to experience physical sensations, emotions or urges belonging not to themselves but to the family members they represent. It is as though they have become antennae, receiving information from the “family soul”. Through questions, observations, trial statements and repositioning, the facilitator and client come to see the situation in a new way and create a resolution picture that enables the client to break his/her identification with the ancestor‘s difficult fate.

Illness and healing occur at five levels (physical, energetic, mental-emotional, intuitive, and spiritual) of health. Any disturbance in the physical realm manifests also, in another form, on the other four levels. Family Constallations address the fourth (intuitive) level, an area previously ignored by more familiar interventions. Many practitioners now acknowledge this and incorporate constellation work into their practices.
from: http://www.theconstellationsgroup.com/articles/constellation_summary.html

for more information on bert hellinger and his influences for family constallations: http://www.hellinger.com/international/english/about_bert_hellinger.shtml