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My talk is about my inner quest that led me from a materialistic stance to spirituality. I review the transitional moments in my life: an encounter with a Tibetan lama with distant visions and memories, psychoanalytic research, numerous seminars at the Monroe Institute, meditation experiences in the Buddhist field, holotropic breathing experiences, shamanic experiences, encounters with great people. The long journey has taught me through experience that there is a source of love, harmony, wisdom within us, a refuge where we would always want to be and act from. We are spirit in a body, death does not exist, consciousness is eternal. We must try to live consciously in the here and now. It is already all in us, it is our natural consciousness.
My inner quest is the theme of my book “A Long Journey. Returning to the Source. A spiritual autobiography.”

You will experience archetypal original movement sequences, movinmeDi (with lines, circles, lemniscate and spirals) that promote neuroplasicity and reorganise the nervous system. This not only leads to a better physical condition, but also contributes to the development of all vital processes of the person, making him or her the creator of the overall well-being of one’s own essence, one’s own body-soul. MovinmeD: – promotes mental serenity (managing anxiety and stress) and meditative states – re-harmonises opposites-complementary: masculine/feminine, out/inside, high/low, slow/fast, etc. – does muscle-tendon and meridian stretching – develops ambidexterity and independence of the neuro-muscle chains.

An invitation to co-create meaning. What do we mean when we refer to sexuality as a “sacred space”? More than a lecture, here is a space to have an open conversation on principles such as: – Sexuality is beautiful and sacred. – Sexuality is pure in its inherent primordial matter and made of the same substance as cosmic matter. – There are no limits that can apply to its expression apart from consent. You are all welcome to contribute with reflections, ideas, and personal experiences.

Psychedelic medicines have their roots in centuries of ancestral knowledge of indigenous peoples, supported by the most modern clinical and neuroscience research. We will discuss the advantages of a dynamic training program focused on the pathologies of our time, in line with the realities of the current global times and climate crisis, adjusting to the needs that are emerging at a collective level. Also we will discuss the importance of the personal process and mental health of future psychedelic therapists and researchers, giving special attention to the internal process of transformation of non-functional patterns. The ultimate objective is to train professionals who can be active agents of change in favor of the health and wellbeing of people, in coherence and balance with social contexts and with the living ecosystems that support us.

This workshop lays out an embodied inquiry into the felt dimension of empathy in the relational space of human-to-human transpersonal connection through the lens of integral and transpersonal somatic psychology. Recent research shows that the embodying process of the experience of empathy has received little scholarly consideration regarding the felt dimension, the epistemological integration and the methodological articulation of embodied empathy in the research process. The session will attempt to fill this gap through the guidance of the research question, what is the experience of embodied empathy? The guidance will aim to develop an in-depth co-participatory embodied transdisciplinary inquiry into the gradual unfoldment of the shared event of empathy in the relational space of each two-person group of participants. The qualitative research approach will be embodied narrative inquiry by using one-to-one interviews in couples. This data collection research method will capture the body stories of each participant in real time. By framing the research question as both an individual’s lived-experience study subject and as a method-in-action process, the research will address the gap by analysing and coding empathic findings and identifying patterns of embodied meaning-making or themes in the data. At the end of the workshop, the facilitator will collect both the participants’ impressions and the research themes to open a collective discussion. The aim will be to explore the theoretical and practical implications of the themes in the development of co-embodied empathy as an epistemic category on its own right in the field of transpersonal somatic psychology.