“Me and the SHADOW”, a mystery in Kyiv, 4-12 April 2022

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“.. Who would have thought that the mystery “Me and My Shadow” would turn my brain around by 180 degrees and shake my insides so that I would be putting myself together again out of some spare parts, like a wizard-surgeon in an Eastern fairy tale. And what I have put together I like as I never have before: in childhood, in youth. This is a really cool Me!”

This seminar was carried for 3 years, and for 9 years now it has been held in places far from the city, and every time with new force. Either people come more and more advanced*, or the theme is gathering pace, or the time has come for the integration of the SHADOW.

What is the “Me and the Shadow” seminar?

An extreme laboratory of psychological stretching – a QUEST training. One more life inside your Great Destiny.

What is the Shadow?

There is an opinion that Light is better than the Shadow. That monsters lurk in the Shadow and it is better not to look in there, not to wake them. Not to provoke them. And, in general, that is how it is. But only in general, without the details. And in the details lie the essence, the individuality and the uniqueness of a human path.

So if you want to live quietly, calmly and without adventures – stay at home. Any journey is dangerous, because it widens borders, and that means it destroys what exists. All the more so a journey in the inner world, all the more so into your SHADOW.

I like to call the “Me and the Shadow” mystery a psychic slalom. When the descent from the mountain of the Ego is swift and the result comes quickly. What result? That is up to whoever needs one…

It all begins long before the event – with the decision to come. With the fact that some people are held by the space of their lives with all its might, not letting them go. Others it pushes out, stimulates.

The next important stage is forming a personal request. From the vague “something is wrong with me” to something entirely concrete like “I lack confidence”, or “I want to get married”.

The search for the SHADOW does not come easily to everyone. Especially if the request was vague, something like “there’s something wrong with me”. And what is wrong and off, and where to look for the resource – the whole group helps with that. After the two previous days a lot is already visible.

The resource is in the SHADOW, in the denied (but existing!) parts of the personality. Forgotten, condemned. Suppressed….

– in the brave it is the inner Coward

– in the careless – the inner Controller

– in the boorish – the inner Flatterer

And so on… the list tends towards infinity.

Why are some parts (qualities) suppressed by a person?

The answer is simple: once upon a time someone said “bad” about them. And it was important, significant people who said it. Parents, for example. They condemned a little girl’s coquetry, or a little boy’s sensitivity. And since then the girl has been as if bewitched, her EGO is “dry and strict”, and the boy has been bewitched, his EGO is now “a real lad – tough and strong”. And all would be well, but it means walking all your life on one leg and looking with one eye!

What names can the SHADOW bear? Oh… the variety is impressive! Examples:

– the Attentive Bore (if the ego is a cheerful slob);

– the Merry Parrot (if the person is serious and obsessed with creativity);

– the Iron Lady (if the ego is a wet blanket);

– the Beloved Wife (if the request is about marriage):

– the Sunbeam (if the participant resembles a sad hermit);

– the Wild Barbarian (if the participant is a well-brought-up, modest “boy”)

And so on, there are as many variants as there are people

The mystery is based on the practices of Eastern monasteries, trials from the world of Castaneda and the authors’ own research by the leaders and participants of the mystery, specifically:

Vipassana
Breathing techniques: holotropic breathwork and rebirthing
A blind day and night
Psychodrama

Taking part in the mystery often brings the following BONUSES:

Protection from psychic viruses (like “I must…”, “They are to blame…”, “I can’t…”)
Freedom to choose your path and move towards yourself
The power to be accepted, loved and in demand in different states
The will to manage life situations

“…With my eyes closed I began to see. In my “life” I did what I despised and hated. I have a sense of the ideal, a striving for perfection. What drove me on this path? The wish to seem better, to match the generally accepted standards of “goodness”, so that I would be praised, accepted, noticed…

Now, being honest with myself, I recognise and accept the real me, I begin to live. I have stopped putting on an act and building myself a monument not made by hands, a frozen, ideal, lifeless statue. My path lies towards the real and living me, free in my expression and in showing myself, pushing off from my own I want and my own I can and I will. A thought clothed in feeling and expressed in reality gives completeness and wholeness to my life. Trust in myself and in the world is the basis of how I interact with reality. Life is boundlessly generous, and it depends on me how I accept these gifts, what I create from them. What is my degree of acceptance and interaction and co-creation with the world. I rejoice in my insights. I celebrate LIFE! I see and feel my reality in a new way. Life is a flow, ceaseless movement, in which I bathe and come alive. This is only a small part of the discoveries I made in the mystery, having met my own

“Now I know what clothes feel when they are turned inside out, recut and sewn anew, filled with new contents and shown to the world as a new and perfectly beautiful product of creativity! After going through the mystery I FELL IN LOVE, fell in love with Life, with people, with nature, I felt every cell of my body and my soul! Did I become different? – Yes, I became REAL! “

How does the seminar go?

The first two days of the mystery are the study of the EGO. This is how we are used to being, how we feel comfortable, how we present ourselves to society when we want to please and achieve results. The smiles and looks that are habitual (to ourselves), the buttons and the props. And at the same time – a hunt for the parasites of the inner world, which manifest themselves in speech.

An important part is the format of silence in the mornings, which turns the participants’ attention inward and gives them the chance, out of the outer, familiar world of social rituals: (“Good morning!”, “How are you?”, “Did you sleep well?” and other politenesses and courtesies), to turn to themselves and to follow WHEN exactly you feel like saying an unsolicited courtesy, or something clever, or asking for support like a child. Or to DETERMINE in front of whom and why you absolutely want to look good? For what purpose?
Then the participants look for their Shadow, choose a new name and for the next 6 days live in a role new to them. The last stage is the integration of the Shadow into the personality, and the Exit from the Mystery.
IMPORTANT! Throughout the whole seminar the STOP rule is in force. A participant may refuse to take part in any practice that for some reason “doesn’t suit” them.

We live in a comfortable house, it is warm and has all the amenities. We eat vegetarian food.

+38 (095) 209 76 92 Yulia

+38 (096) 337 71 99 Natalia

skype: natavalitskaya

The cost of the event – 11 500 UAH
Questions and booking: liogrita@gmail.com, juliaisland2008@ukr.net

Besides the programme of the “Me and the SHADOW” seminar, the price includes:

– accommodation in a cosy, warm mansion

– meals

What to bring and how to prepare: will be in the letter sent by email to registered participants.

Sketches from the “Me and the Shadow” seminar
A participant’s diary (a view from the inside)
– http://lifeproblems.ru/iz-sveta-v-ten-i-obratno.html

We are glad of the bold and brave – if that is you, register now!
Price of participation 11 500 UAH