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Watch what goes on
inside as often as
you watch what
happens outside.
When you see
The inside as it is
The outside will
Reflect the same.
Prajna
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"Hakomi is the absolute cutting edge of modern psychotherapy." John Bradshaw,
author of "Bradshaw on the Family"
"Hakomi Therapy fills a crucial need with a very detailed map of creating
change on a deep emotional level. Hakomi presents some astounding methods for
getting to core material. It is well grounded in theory and revolutionary in
its results." Association of Humanistic Psychology Book Review
Hakomi is a "psychology of awakening" to our authentic selves. Loving presence
and the healing relationship are central to Hakomi. We learn to develop an
exquisite sensitivity and attunement to ourselves and others. It is the
integrated use of mindfulness, sensitivity (or non-violence), and the body to
study and transform the organization of experience. It is a
present-moment-centered, graceful, paradoxically powerful method for support,
growth and healing. The power flows from the congruence of Hakomi's methods and
techniques with the underlying principles and assumptions which guide it.
The UNITY
principle assumes that, as people, we are living, organic systems who are
integral wholes, made up of parts, who also participate in larger systems. The
interdependency of all levels of the system from the metabolic, to the
intra-psychic, to the inter-personal, to the
family-communal-cultural-spiritual, are taken seriously in Hakomi.
ORGANICITY
assumes that when all the parts are communicating within the whole, the system
is self-directing and self-correcting; that it has an inner wisdom or mind of
its own. Many Hakomi techniques revolve around helping persons negotiate
barriers to communication between inner and outer parts, so that integrity is
regained through immediate contact with what is needed or wanted in relation to
the self and the world.
The principle of MIND-BODY (SPIRIT) HOLISM
affirms that mind and body jointly manifest and reflect the beliefs we hold
about ourselves and the world, which in turn organize how we creatively
experience and express ourselves in life. Hakomi has a number of ways of using
the mind-body connection to help bring to awareness the memories and beliefs we
employ to construct meaning in our lives.
A powerful tool for helping persons study the organization of their experience
is MINDFULNESS
: an explanatory, relaxed and alert, non-ordinary (though non-hypnotic), state
of consciousness, which allows us to get beyond our normal, habitual thoughts
and actions to the often richly-non-verbal intuitions of our deeper truths. The
process also supports the mobilization of our essential or core selves, which
have a presence, centeredness, compassion, and wisdom which transcends the
limitations of our historical experience.
NON-VIOLENCE
is a principle which promotes safe, non-forceful, cooperative exploration
through honoring the signs and signals of our organic processes, especially
those that manifest as 'resistance'. In contrast to confronting or overpowering
such 'defenses', Hakomi methods respect and literally support such occurrences,
which then allows them to be befriended for the wisdom they contain, and
willingly yielded when appropriate.
TRANSFORMATION
occurs in Hakomi when awareness is turned mindfully toward felt, present
experience; hopes and fears unfold into consciousness, barriers to new ways of
being are attended to, and new experiences are integrated that allow for the
reorganization of core beliefs, which in turn allow for a greater range of
mental, physical, emotional coherence and movement. Transforming core material
often involves working with Child Consciousness in the context of
re-experienced memories, and working supportively with the spontaneous release
of strong emotion and energy, as well as eliciting the cooperation of the
unconscious to dialogue directly with it in mindfulness.
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"In Hakomi therapy, we form a therapeutic partnership that accesses your
essential or core self, flushes out limiting belief systems or strategies and
integrates divided or parts that feel split from wholeness. Ideally we foster
the spontaneous unfolding of your unique expression of your true self as fully
embodied spirit." - Prajna
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"We are organized psychologically around core memories, beliefs, and images
that influence who we view ourselves, our world and all our habits, feelings
and perceptions. Universal and core organizing themes include safety and
belonging, support and membership, freedom and responsibility, control and
power, sexuality and intimacy, productivity and worth, honesty and
authenticity. Hakomi is a method for helping people change their way of being
in the world through working with this core material and changing core
beliefs." - Hakomi Trainers
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"The impulse to heal is real and powerful and lies within the client. Our job
is to evoke that healing power, to meet its tests and needs and to support it
in its expression and development. We are not the healers. We are the context
in which healing is inspired." - Ron Kurtz
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"You can't do what you want till you know what you're doing." Moshe
Feldenkrais, a favorite saying
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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anonymous
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Those interested in body, mind and heart integration.
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Anyone interested in learning how to access, process and transform limiting
core beliefs in safe and non-invasive ways.
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Anyone who has a "felt sense" or glimpse of their undivided nature or
fundamental wholeness and wants to participate in a healing partnership that
will foster the actualization of this deep truth.
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Anyone interested in exploring what some of the barriers to true nourishment
are and how organic experience is "organized out." In turn, naturally learn how
to "organize in" missed experiences.
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Anyone who finds themselves stuck in any kind of relationship including lover,
partner, maternal, paternal, work, spiritual, body, mind, and wants to explore
new possibilities for change.
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Anyone interested in working with their direct "felt sense" experience rather
than a conceptualization or interpretation.
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Anyone interested in accessing their deepest essence and creating updated
options for being in the world with an underlying sense of wholeness.
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Those interested in transformation of experience that allows for a greater
range of mental, physical, and emotional coherence, clarity and movement.
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Anyone who is conscious or unconscious of their impulse to heal and wants to
access this energy.
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The Hakomi Method can be facilitated in one to one partnerships, with couples,
in small groups, and offered as an introductory experiential workshop.
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About Prajna
Prajna has worked with alternative healing and health resources since her early
twenties when she began her studies at The Himalayan Institute and at Kripalu
Yoga and Health Center. She did her graduate studies in Theology, Jungian and
Transpersonal Psychology, and is a long-time student of Advaita Vedanta
(Non-duality) and Universal Mysticism. After graduating from Boston University,
Prajna moved to California and founded one of the first on-site massage and
yoga businesses in Silicon Valley. She was in private practice for 12 years
prior to her new role as Mom. Prajna has a passion for "liberation" and has
found the most transformative spiritual awakenings to come from "ordinary life"
and parenting her special children, as well as her close encounters with Zen
Master, Adyashanti and worldwide Satsang teacher, Isaac Shapiro. She is
presently a post-graduate student in Hakomi Experiential Body Centered
Psychotherapy and offers Hakomi and Satsang in the local area. She is also a
professional member of the U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy.
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Prajna N. Ginty, MA, CMT, CYT
is presently seeing clients
in Nevada City, CA. For more
information, please contact
Prajna at prajnang@yahoo.com
or at 530-477-8867.
For more information about Hakomi Therapy or other Hakomi Resources see
hakomiinstitute.com.
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