Essence Training
with Avikal, Vasumati, Rafia & Turiya
This training is now fully booked, please click here for the 2020 Essence Training

The Essence Training is a six part experiential training (31 days) for people with experience in previous group processes and meditation, who are looking to expand their understanding of themselves and deepen their meditation.  It helps to create an inner map about where you are and if you work as a therapist, where your client is.  Many participants take this training as a follow on from the Osho Therapy Training.
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The training explores the work of A.H. Almaas and Faisal Muqaddam, pioneers in psycho-spiritual work who used an ancient Sufi map of consciousness, combined with modern in-depth psychology to develop a system that opens the dimension they have called 'Essence'.  Essence is often understood as a bridge between the spiritual realm of the Absolute and the personality of the ego structure.  

​The heart of this work is the subtle energy system of the Sufis, called the 'Latifa' and the way it connects to in-depth western psychology.  It functions as a pathway to understanding our essential nature and towards retrieving lost essential states such as will, strength, love, value, compassion, peace and joy.  

In this training we will explore the six main Latifas or dimensions of Essence.  Each section will be devoted to working with a particular Latifa, each of which is different and has it's own colour, quality and set of issues.  The issues of each Latifa also provide a way to understand our loss of contact with the Essence, as well as a way to come in contact with it again.

2019 Schedule

Part 5:  Green Essence with Vasumati
14 - 19 May 2019

​Part 6:  ​Yellow Essence ​with Turiya
3 - 8 September 2019

All sections start at 20.30 and finish at 15.00.

This training is now fully booked, please click here to apply for the 2020 Essence Training.

Part 1:  The Superego & Self-Inquiry

The Superego runs our life through judgements, prejudices, standards, guilt and shame.  By understanding how it functions, how it began, how it controls and limits our experience, we can learn how to defend against it's attacks.  You will then discover an inner spaciousness that can allow transformation and creativity.  Self-inquiry is one of the main tools in the Essence work.  It allows you to navigate your inner landscape and to more fully uncover and understandant your personality.  this way it opens up for the possibility to be the master of your own life.

Part 2:  White Essence

The White Latifa, known as the Will Essence, has to do with a feeling of inner solidity, inner support and a sense of value.  It is the relaxed confidence that comes when we are in contact with our Being.  It is grounded, resourceful and committed.

Part 3:  Red Essence

​​​The Red Latifa, known as the Strength Essence, has to do with our capacity to be an individual.  It brings the strength to separate from old structures that no longer serve our evolution and uniqueness.  It is passionate vitality, enthusiasm and has the strength to go into the world with all its challenges.

Part 4:  Black Essence

The Black Latifa, known as the Peace Essence, is the Latifa about our love of the truth and longing for peace.  It is a very deep dimension of looking in and realizing a state of inner mastery.  Here we face our concepts and fears about death and confront the main layers of ego defense.

Part 5:  Green Essence

The Green Latifa is known as the Essence of Compassions.  This Latifa gives us a profound understanding of and compassion for our ego structure.  It is the compassion and understanding that allow us to go deeply into our wounds and heal them.  It gives us the capacity to do the same with others.

Part 6:  Yellow Essence

The Yellow Latifa deepens the connection with the heart and is the Latifa of Joy, signified by the sun.  It is also the Latifa of curiosity and innocence.  When we look outside for what we need, for love, support and approval, we invariably encounter suffering, pain and frustration.  Here we turn away from carrying the shame, guilt and depression that was in our family lines and turn towards the deep joy that lives inside us.