Dear Friend, For most of my life I was filled with striving and inner drama. I was constantly trying to achieve something that rarely felt embodied and felt hit or miss depending on a host of circumstances seemingly beyond my control. I sought to control those circumstances and strived to reach for goals that even when reached lacked a sense of authenticity inwardly. I sought goals that seemed to match what I hungered for inside but seldom gave me any sustained peace. The drama inwardly felt like a ping pong ball. I bounced from anxiety to frustration. I pushed myself constantly into situations that felt uncomfortable and exhausting. Seldom did I feel at ease. My practice of life was like a bouncing ball carried by forces beyond my intention. I felt an almost constant undertone of anxiousness fed by emotional and physical exhaustion. Over time I began to experience the ball bouncing over less and less erratically but I still felt out of alignment with a practiced embodiment of authenticity. I would practice meditation for a few months and see subtle shifts in my life. Id take courses with spiritual teachers and see more and more of myself come to light. My life was a shade of gray with a hint of color within a larger world of vibrant color and possibility that I touched occasionally but lacked a sense of embodied relationship. My life began to change radically a little over three years ago. My first step was to practice more fully a personal responsibility for the state of my life. I spent an ever increasing amount of time in quiet and in rest. This quiet was meditation, walks in the woods, time building a treehouse, journaling/writing, and most importantly, practicing listening to my soul/inner light. At first this inner light had a lot of static however with practice and hours a day of meditation the connection to my inner light (soulful self) began to get clearer and clearer. As this clarity developed I made a personal commitment to honor this inner light and follow its guidance. I made the decision to turn over my decisions in life to this inner voice. Many of those decisions were extremely challenging to make as they effected my friendships, my finances and most importantly, challenged me to be truthful with myself and my relationship to the world. I clearly saw the difference between my souls vision of life and my egoic understanding of life. I faced both emotionally and physically the challenges that blocked me from going inward and connecting deeply to who I am as a soulful being. Integral to this process of healing and growth was my willingness to take my stillness practice (energy meditation) and apply it to the remainder of my life. What I call embodied presence. My intention was and is to be present every moment of my life. In doing so with dedicated practice I experienced an ease to my life, a connection to personal truth and authenticity and an unfolding into a sense of purpose that I had never experienced in my life. I now embody presence in my life. It is a practice. It is a forgiving, kind and truthful practice that allows me to share my gifts as an intuitive healing and growth teacher that I could not have imagined three years ago. I continue to heal and grow and beginning last May 2014, began to share my work with groups of students. First with the Embodied Presence class (meets every two weeks over a 20 week term and then renews itself for those who choose) and beginning in July 2014, the first group started Cultivating an Intuitive Life (a year-long class). A second group started Cultivating an Intuitive Life in November 2014. A new term or session of the Embodied Presence begins February 9th 2015 and I am gathering a new group of people to share in Cultivating an Intuitive Life to begin February/March 2015. I welcome you to look into what I share in healing and growth and ask yourself deeply and quietly if either of these classes resonate with you. Inquiries and questions are encouraged. There are descriptions of both courses available at martinperkins. It is my inner work to share how I come to be offering these classes and thank you for taking the time to read my story. It is my intention that you see some part of yourself in my unfolding and will inquire about how I guide my students. Please share this with others. Be well, Martin Why choose to take a course with Martin Perkins? Highly individualized guidance The path of healing and growth is an unfolding that is optimally navigated without the limitations of dogma and doctrine (see how tos and stepped ways as doctrinal in nature). There are many well-intentioned systems of growth that ultimately fall short of skillfully guiding the student because the doctrine doesnt fit the need of the student. Healing and growth does not fit well into systems of understanding, especially when the intention is to fully connect with ones soul. It is a unique puzzle or creative process of healing and growing that is distinct in every human being. Healing and growth honors the individualized soul path every human endeavors upon and encourages this unique set of doorways in every student. Embodied Knowledge There is nothing I ask of my students that I am not practicing myself. It is embodied within my practice of life. The knowledge you will receive is the knowledge of the self. It is a practice focused inward that reveals itself uniquely within you. Healing and Growth A key element of my work involves helping my students interrelate healing and growth into an interconnected loop of knowledge about themselves and their connection to life. Too often ones health and the need to grow as a human being is disconnected. In the world today health problems are largely seen externally and without connection to life choices. This journey is explored fully within my courses and my students see how their choices play a significant role in their health. Life Mission A key element of connecting with ones soul with intention and clarity is the way that my students connection to purpose opens up within them. Inner knowledge is illuminated as the path of healing and growth unfolds within the student. Time and Money The most common excuses (or reasons) potential students give for not choosing to take a course is they dont have the time and/or they dont have the money. Universally I have observed that when the student lets go of those excuses the financial resources as well as time avails itself to healing and growth as the soul opens doors that the egoic mind cannot anticipate in advance. Empowerment I have found that students who have come to my work from other teachers find my courses incredibly empowering as they come to realize that what they have been seeking simply needed the guidance necessary to unblock what has been present all along. This empowerment comes from connecting deeply with ones soul voice and creating an inner language of self that allows for a relationship with soul within the practice of presence.
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