A STAND FOR TRANSFORMATION- By Dharm Khalsa

My experience organizing the recent seminars in Florida has been an excellent mirror and challenging pathway for my personal development. Each breakthrough and breakdown has been a gift of awareness about how I relate to my personal power. This has sharpened my focus on how I can grow by choosing to BE powerful at each moment.

I see inviting friends and acquaintances to the courses as simply taking a stand to offer personal transformation. This stand has invoked an array of responses. When the process naturally flows into someone registering for the course, it has been fun. When someone clearly knows they do not want to attend, then my experience has also been light and easy. BUT THEN, there are those who want the transformation they sense is possible, and yet, as might be expected, they feel there are reasons why they cannot attend. It is here that we both face looking inward to see who we are, what do we want to be, and what shall we choose.

When I am assisting someone to look inward, I have often wrestled with my own fears about how I am perceived when the other person is challenged by this process. At those times I have a choice. I can choose comfort, and drop this stand for the growth of the other, or I can be the change I want to see in the world by caring enough about the other person to courageously offer them a chance to grow- which of course means I am choosing to grow.

I took the Foundational and Advanced Course at the end of 2009. The personal transformation I have undergone has been a continually unfolding process these last two and a half years. Being a Satvatove course organizer has shifted my growth into high gear. In this role I’m certainly not always comfortable, but I am so obviously blessed to have this opportunity.

FROM IAN

“I had several personal realizations throughout the course but there is one in particular I care to share. I came into the course with what I thought was an open mind but which in fact was full of skepticism. By giving me the space to be angry with you, I was able to confront my own limiting beliefs that I have used as a protection mechanism. I feel that the confronting of these beliefs in the class is part of the necessary process by which I will be able to make deeper and fuller connections with others. Thank you.”

Ian Pidgeon
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM JUSTIN

“Most involving and transformational course I have ever taken. I realized how much magnificent capacity I have to express myself in a myriad of ways. Also I realized how connected I feel, to myself and others, when I truly choose to be open in my communication with others. I feel enlivened and realize at the core of my being that I can choose to connect to my essence. I have breathed into the possibility of being in a life of love and importance. I see how lack of unconditional self love has been stopping me and I have connected to loving myself and expressing myself unconditionally in this course. …..I also realize the power of the spoken work and the commitments we make to ourselves.”

Justin Bishop
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM GABRIELA

“My realizations are so many. To start, I have the power to let go anything that has caused me any damage in my life. I created my lie and everything that happens in it. I’ve realized that where there’s a will, there’s a way. I am capable of forgiving, and I am more than willing to do it. …I have realized that I can connect and communicate with everyone I know in a deep way….I’ve realized that if I am, then I do and then I have. Nothing can keep me from being happy, successful, safe, reliable, trustworthy….I’ve realized that I can keep my promises to myself and that will make me stronger and my confidence levels will go up…I’ve realized that warmth, empathy and genuineness are more important than any degrees I have.”

Gabriela Touma
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM EUGENA

“David had the ‘sight’ to see into an aspect of a disowned part of myself and confronted me on it, helping me to realize something that I had cast into my shadow. David also, through his astuteness, tuned into how I was using transcendental ideas to deflect painful realities for myself. The way I see it is that David handed me a pin and helped me to see the inflated spiritual ego bubble I had wrapped myself in and then presented me with the opportunity to pop the bubble. This occurred in a demonstration to the group where he used empathic listening and mirrored back to me my own emotions and words. It was life-changing to see this divide between the spiritual ideals that I want to govern my experience and where I’m at. It was very valuable to see where I am at in several ways on my healing journey. I also now see myself as competent to communicate with people in emotionally heightened or distressed states, which I didn’t prior to the course. Profoundly life changing!”

Eugena Rempel-Witten
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM CHRIS

“It was a wonderful course. The content was enlightening, the exercises inspiring. I have done similar work in group therapy sessions but the careful scaffolding of exercises, the clean and concise explanations, the examples, each step of the seminar is so well conceived that I felt I was able, in 3 days, to surpass the 3 years of progress in other contexts…..this course helped me move beyond a plateau I’d been on for a while. Thank you.”

Chris Taylor
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM MOISHE

“‎3 days, over 32 hours… the biggest thing I’ve done for myself and those I care about in years. I walked into the Satvatove Foundational course with uncertainty, now I’m inspired and rejuvenated in every area of my life!! If you’re an individual, a couple, if you don’t constantly feel joy and fulfilment throughout your day, if you want more meaningful relationships, if you want to understand why you don’t feel inspired, connected and confident in every area of your life… consider the Satvatove programs. Don’t settle for your mediocrity and fear, for normal, for what you think is reality.”

Moishe Groger
Foundational Seminar – February 2012, Florida

FROM SHANNON

“…I have identified areas of my life where I must give greater attention- communication, pulling weeds, being sattvic = BEING…….I experienced transformation- FOR SURE and I am totally stoked to do it beyond this wonderful intentional community….I have found greater stillness, gentleness and  preciseness in my communication….I am no longer afraid to feel my pain…I have seen my own light again…I want to experience  profound connection with others and with my own spirit….Thank you, David. I was and am inspired by your skilled teaching, inspired techniques and your quiet radiance. Your smile is wonderful!”

Shannon Reilly-Yael
Edmonton Foundational – November, 2011

FROM MADHAVI

“I just came back from the first Satvatove 3 in Europe Switzerland. It was beautiful- no words to describe it!”

Madhavi
Satvatove 3 ~ December 2011, Switzerland

MY EXPERIENCE OF SATVATOVE 3

“Satvatove 3 for me was like visiting an island where conscious living actually takes place. A few minutes in to the seminar I experienced a change in the quality of my breathing – I had more volume to breathe. It was as though my centre expanded, creating a space inside myself to simply be. I saw very clearly how I am knocked off my centre again and again, how I am responsible for this, and I learned some great tools that bring me back to my centre, the sacred space within myself. I am walking through life now with a deeper connection to an inner peace, trust and joy. It is a connection that cannot be cut so easily, as I had a chance to experience myself living from that place for four full days and I have gained more understanding about how to stay connected to that place inside myself. It was like visiting an island, not a holiday island up in the clouds, but an island where deep spirituality is highly grounded and applied. In my experience it was like a practice field, where we learn to see the divine arrangement and the blessing in each moment of our life, no matter how difficult the challenges are.

I cannot say I am a different person, that I have changed in this course. I am still the same. What is different is that what I present to the outside world seems to be more closely aligned with who I am inside. Whereas before the seminar I found myself feeling not understood or misunderstood in many places, building up a lot of frustration, I now experience more often that people really get me. They get what I mean, what my motivation is, and I walk through life feeling joyful and appreciative of the people around me, and I am open to receive appreciation from them too. In the past years I have worked a lot on assertiveness, setting my boundaries. And also in this area I felt somewhat frustrated, as I was clear about my boundaries, and I would attempt to express them, using all the right tools, but without much power or effect. What I experience now since the seminar is that most of the time people respect my boundaries naturally, sometimes without me even expressing them. They get me without separate endeavour from my side. That is quite amazing and it puzzles me at times!

Satvatove 3 is a beautiful experience, one that I wish for everyone to get a chance to experience. It is a proof that God exists, that Spirit exists, that we are Spirit, that life force is within us, waiting to unfold itself, urging us to sing and dance through life, eager to spill itself out and create a joyful experience of life.”

By Annette
December 2011, Switzerland

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David B. Wolf

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