Spiritual Mentoring

A True Teacher

"One of the biggest challenges of spiritual evolution is the cultivation of humility. We need to have enough humility to enable us to recognize those who have genuinely reached a higher stage of development than our own, and then we need to have enough courage to aspire to meet them where they are. If a spiritual teacher is authentic, he or she will never finally be satisfied until the student either equals or surpasses the teacher's attainment. A true teacher is someone who doesn't want followers but rather wants authentic partners in this great task of evolutionary transformation." Andrew Cohen

Spiritual mentoring

"The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of your life, to get behind the facade of conventional gestures and attitudes which you present to the world, and to bring out your inner freedom, your inmost truth." Thomas Merton

I am a spiritual mentor and work with individuals who wish to work at a very deep and core level on expanding their being....who they are and working with core themes that keep them stuck or limited in moving forward.

Spiritual mentoring is a gentle and supportive process in shifting areas that by any other way of shifting them, hasn't. The sessions are an hour, and the number of sessions required is unique to each person, depending on what we are dealing with.

Some of the areas I specialise in are:

• Woman who feel "disconnected from their bodies" getting reconnected or back into their bodies at an energetic level
• People who suffer from addictive behaviour, in any way this may come about
• People who are not connected sexually and want to reclaim their full sexual self expression.

In exploring what others have written about spiritual mentoring, I found a beautiful website which captures of the essence so succinctly - so I refer to Endless-Satsang.

In general, a teacher or mentor is a person who guides, instructs, or helps another in the process of gaining knowledge, understanding, or skills. What about a spiritual teacher or mentor? What is their role?

A spiritual teacher/mentor's role is unique in that the goal is not to transmit knowledge or understanding as much as it is to somehow bring about a recognition in the student of the student's own pre-existing nature. This is a much more subtle thing than simply teaching someone a skill or understanding. It is not that a spiritual teacher never provides spiritual teachings or knowledge or understanding, but that knowledge or understanding by itself is not the goal. A student can have a broad knowledge of spiritual principles, and yet can still not have truly recognized those principles as being inherent in his or her own being. So spiritual teachers or mentors may teach a lot or they may not teach anything, depending on what the student needs in that moment to experience this deeper recognition of their own true nature.

So the teaching function of a spiritual teacher operates on the relative level until it's simply no longer needed because the student has realized his or her deeper nature.

If you are drawn to this, make contact with me to explore what can become possible for you.