Course Overview

The Path of Love is both a well known modern day transformational group process, and an age old spiritual tradition of the heart made well known in our times by Rumi, Hafiz and Sufi mysticism. Living the Path of Love is an 8-part course designed for both those new to Path of Love to experience key elements of the process, and for those who are familiar to dive deeper.

The course is comprised of 4 core modules, with 4 additional Q and A sessions answering students questions and facilitating a deeper dive into the material.

Module 1: Longing (Rafia)

This first module introduces the idea of longing as the force of guidance in heart-oriented spiritual development. By understanding longing in the world as the heart’s yearning for home, for freedom, for love…for truth, we can start to respond to it in a healthy and effective way.

With a combination of teaching and practical exercises Rafia guides students through an exploration of how longing works as inner guidance and how you recognise it, the difference between longing and desire, what your heart is truly yearning for in life and how you can start to actualise it.

Module 2: Pain of separation (Turiya)

In the second module, Turiya explores the pain of separation and its origins in our inner sense of disconnect from our true heart and innocent being. Turiya goes on to help identify different ways the pain of separation can show up in your life, such as in the fear of being abandoned, being unhappy and dissatisfied with our life, constantly having to push oneself to go on and prove ourselves.

Turiya then goes on to explore how we can experience a sense of connection to our being such as after the birth of our child, in the face of death, or sometimes in very ordinary moments, when we are in nature, or when we have fallen in love, or when we are deeply absorbed by creative expression. Realising these moments is important because a sense of connection is often not recognized for what it is. The module culminates in a series of exercises to help identify and cultivate deep connection in our lives.

Module 3: Shadow (Rafia)

Rafia introduces the concept of shadow, providing helpful explanations to more easily identify it in our lives. He explains the importance of taking responsibility for our shadow and learning to metabolise and learn from it, and how if we don’t do this we will not be integrated in the expanded states of consciousness and energy that come in spiritual work.

Rafia goes on to introduce a powerful series of exercises to help directly identify and work with one’s own shadow. This includes learning to identify, shadow, take responsibility for it, see the gifts of that part of ourselves, and ultimately learn to integrate it. The module ends with a guided meditation.

Module 4: Walking your talk (Turiya)

Turiya opens the module by explaining why walking our talk is so critical to actualising our spiritual work. She shares the story of how her own deep inner remembrance happened when she received her name and looked into her own teachers eyes, but that her life is now about realising and actualising that experience.

Turiya explains that we have to be willing to make mistakes, and to not only confront the beautiful and truth of essential states, but also our fears, vulnerabilities and inadequacies. Ultimately, we don’t become real by running away from difficulties, we become real by understanding them. Fulfilment, love, and satisfaction happen as a by-product of being real. To be real, we have to bring forth what is real in us. We have to start doing it, being it, acting according to it, expressing it, saying it, and living it. The module climaxes in a powerful meditation and exploration of why prayer and celebration are important ingredients to sustain on the spiritual pursuit.

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