Reginald Ray – Awakening The Heart – Sounds True
A Somatic Training Program to Open Your Heart to the World
There is no more powerful vehicle for knowing yourself and others than the human heart. For it is through the opening of the heart that we touch our own deepest experience, and come to connect with each other. In Awakening the Heart, Dr. Reggie Ray presents a 24-CD somatic training curriculum designed to help us dismantle the walls around our hearts and dwell in bodhicitta (literally “awakened heart mind”).
Rediscovering the Vast and Mysterious Domain of the Human Heart
“In the modern world,” explains Reggie, “we often feel lost in our relationships and uncertain in our ability to care about other people. But at the same time, as social creatures, we share a very deep inspiration toward connection, loving, and communion with others.”
We find ourselves in this predicament because of our culture’s emphasis on the left-brain or “thinking mind” as the primary lens for viewing oneself and the world. In Awakening the Heart, Reggie will lead you through a progressive series of teachings and body-based meditations for rediscovering the vast and mysterious domain of the human heart—and accessing the depths of wisdom available within your body at this very moment. This is the path of bodhicitta, a compassionate commitment to be present to life and transform oneself in order to love everything that is in a way that is infinite and unconditional.
“Who we are in our essence is a living field of awakened and boundless love,” teaches Reggie. Awakening the Heart is your invitation to the lifelong journey of reconnecting to our fundamental goodness and cultivating our capacity to love.
What You’ll Learn In Awakening The Heart
More Than 20 Somatic Meditations Including Practices of:
- Ultimate Bodhicitta
- Opening the central channel
- Exploring the energy of awareness
- Entering the territory of the heart
- Opening the 1000-petal lotus
- Breathing the Fire Up from the Depths of the Earth
- Maitri for challenging situations and people
- Citta Maitri (literally “benevolent heart-mind”)
- Somatic meditation for working with a traumatic event
- Directing compassion to yourself and others
- Somatic Tonglen
- The four immeasurables
About Reginald Ray
Reginald Ray, PhD, is the co-founder and spiritual director of Dharma Ocean Foundation, dedicated to the evolution and flowering of the somatic teachings of Tibetan Tantra. He is a lineage holder in the tradition of Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche. Reggie is the author of several books including Touching Enlightenment. He makes his residence in Crestone and Boulder, Colorado.
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