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Facing the Shadow Seminar Series

Join Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati and Jayne Stevenson from anywhere in the world for 2 x 90 minute Live Online Seminars.

Includes: Western Psychology & Yoga Psychology Theory, Guided Meditation, Q&A. PLUS a Master Meditation download to practice ongoing!

A rare opportunity for you to learn from a medical doctor, psychotherapist and yoga master in the comfort of your own home.

Enjoy meditating as part of a global community with like-minded people.

Facing the Shadow Online Seminars explore the journey from darkness to light, from limited consciousness to blazing self-awareness. You’ll learn about the force that separates you from wholeness and how the shadow operates in the world, in society, and in relationships. You learn about the shadow from both Eastern and Western perspectives, and in relationship to ego and identity.

Mostly, you will discover how an unexplored and unconscious shadow hides your true nature and prevents you from living a full and expressive life. You’ll gain knowledge and tools to remedy this.

Discover how to:

• engage with the disowned parts of you
• manage negative feelings; shame, resentment, anger
• understand why you may project your shadow onto others
• establish a positive relationship with your shadow
• integrate the shadow into your higher self (and not become absorbed into it)

Presenters

Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati is one of the forerunners of Yoga Therapy. A Yoga Acharya (authority of yoga), MD and Psychotherapist – all in one, he authored several Yoga Therapy books including Yogic Management of Asthma and Diabetes, The Effects of Yoga on Hypertension, and The Practice of Yoga for the Digestive System. He is also contributor and editor to 5 classical Bihar School of Yoga books. 

Big Shakti Co-founder and collaborator with Swami Shankardev, Jayne Stevenson has studied Daoist philosophy and martial arts, Eastern and Western esotericism for over 30 years. Her in-depth studies of the mind through the works of Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell have evolved into deep insight, intuition, and knowledge about the human psyche and dreams.

Western Psychology and the Shadow

From the western perspective and in Jungian psychology, the shadow refers to the unconscious aspects of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify with. It contains the parts of us that we cannot accept and that we therefore reject.

We tend to reject the least desirable parts of our personality and therefore the shadow contains largely negative elements. The shadow also contains many of the strengths and abilities that we cannot accept in ourselves.

Everyone carries a shadow and the less embodied it is in the individual’s conscious life the blacker and denser it is.
Carl Jung

The shadow can drive us to think, feel and act in ways that are very destructive. Therefore, in order to develop a healthy psyche we need to engage with and enlighten the shadow. Certain forms of yoga and meditation are wonderfully suited to this task.

Yoga Psychology and the Shadow

In yoga psychology, the shadow refers to the psychic sheath which connects our ego to the universal self. Certain yoga and meditation techniques, which we teach in this seminar, enable us to illuminate the psychic sheath and integrate the shadow elements contained within it into our conscious mind.

The knowledge and techniques taught in this seminar enable us to be aware of the shadow in everyday life so that we are not driven by it, and to develop the psychic maturity to be able to integrate elements of the shadow into our conscious ego to become a more sane person. We move from being a divided self to a unified self.

It’s important to be aware that your shadow exists and that you are driven by dark forces no matter how much you wish to relate to and project the light forces.

Join the Facing the Shadow seminars live online and/or view recordings later!

Online Live Seminars
Recordings available post-seminar

Seminar Schedule

SCHEDULE A

Session 1. Sunday 23rd October 7 pm, Sydney (Check Time In Your City)
Session 2. Sunday 13th November 7 pm, Sydney (Check Time In Your City)

SCHEDULE B

Session 1. Monday 24th October 10 am, Sydney (Check Time In Your City)
Session 2. Monday 14th November 10 am, Sydney (Check Time In Your City)

Seminar Components

2 x 90-minute Seminars
Theory
Guided Meditation
Q&A
Reading List 

This Seminar is equivalent to 3 Continuing Education non-contact hours with Yoga Alliance USA.

Publisher Info

Title: Facing the Shadow 

Authors: Dr Swami Shankardev Saraswati & Jayne Stevenson

Publisher: Big Shakti

Media: Online Seminars

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