Archive for August, 2009

Facing the Shadow: An Integral Approach to the Dark Side

shadowIn this dialogue with Integral Zen teacher Diane Hamilton, we learn what it means to work with the shadow elements of consciousness before they work with us. For instance, we may be able to access expanded states of awareness, but still get hung up when addressing personal or interpersonal matters. Learn tools to help you address this discrepancy between personal and the transpersonal work, so that your spiritual awareness can be fully manifested in everyday life.

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Sex, Spirit, & Shadow 3-Day Intensive

iEvolve-logoSeptember 18th – 20th
San Francisco, CA

Join us as we explore, engage, and uncover the interconnection of sexuality, spirituality, and shadow. By interweaving wisdom from the three traditions of Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei, Rabbi Marc Gafni and Sofia Diaz, we will explore why it is critical to integrate sex, spirit, and shadow on the spiritual path.Through yogic practice, meditative inquiry, and interpersonal intimacy, we will deeply discover and refine how we engage these domains in our personal and professional lives.

Sex, Spirit, & Shadow: The Three S’s of Personal and Dynamic Evolution

with Diane Musho Hamilton, Marc Gafni, and Sofia Diaz

Standard Registration: $450

Advanced Registration” $299 by August 15th


Sex, Spirit, & Shadow Couples Rate: 2 for $549 by August 15th



What participants are saying about Sex, Spirit, & Shadow:

“I send blessings and my eternal gratitude to all of you who made this last week possible.  Sexuality, Spirituality and & Shadow gifted me with new eyes. Eyes of the heart, of the soul and of the mind.  My life has been transformed.  My husband noticed it the first day and every day after it just got better and better.  He is so thrilled with the dramatic change in my life that he is already making arrangements to be involved in a Men’s workshop that Rabbi Marc Gafni is doing.   Thank you for facilitating a safe environment that allowed me to see into my unique self and discover how I really want to show up in this world.  I love you all so much and I hope to see you again very soon.” ~ Stepheny A.


Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we will:

*  Explore the profound, provocative, and radically surprising relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and shadow

*  Learn why it is vital to include these three domains in your spiritual journey

*  Learn how to integrate all three of these vital domains into your practice life

*  Untie knots in order to experience greater freedom, clarity, and compassion in your life

*   Finally break down obstacles and melt away barriers that prevent you from living your Unique Life mission

*   Uncover shadow material that has prevented you from living with an open heart

*   Expand your mind and consciousness through perspective practices

*   Learn how to conduct body, breath, and energy to gain greater intimacy

*   Offer your deepest presence as love even when you are contracted


Rarely are contemplation, ecstatic movement, holy consideration and community evolution brought together, delighted in, and made manifest as an effective teaching vehicle.

If you crave great company, the profound pleasure of growth and laughter, and being challenged to the greatest depth of your gorgeous and evolving being, you will not want to miss this great adventure.


Sofia Diaz

is a gifted teacher of Hatha yoga, sacred movement, and feminine spiritual practice, deriving her form of teaching and body philosophy from the South Indian Temple Arts and their accompanying scriptures. She has apprenticed with dance and music masters of the Balasaraswati lineage of Devadasi Sadir. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

Dr. Marc Gafni is a rabbi and iconlastic teacher of Kabbalah and Evolutionary Spirituality. He is a core founder and faculty member of iEvolve: Global Practice Community as well as director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center of Integral Life. He has written seven books, including the national bestseller Soul Prints, and The Mystery of Love, a Kabbalistic exploration of the relationship between the sexual, the erotic, and the sacred. Gafni’s teaching is marked by a deep transmission of open heart, love and leading edge provocative wisdom. Gafni’s path of personal evolution, in both the agony and the ecstasy of what he calls “sacred autobiography,” woven together with profound reverence and reading of sacred texts have formed the context for his personal realization. It is from this place of broken-hearted humility, radical joy and and sacred audacity that he teaches.

Diane Musho Hamilton is a gifted mediator, facilitator and teacher of Zen and Integral Spirituality. She is a co-director of the Integral Life Spiritual Center and has worked with Ken Wilber and Integral Institute since 2004. Diane is the Senior Teacher for Integral Recovery. She is the lead trainer on Integral Life Practice. She is also a core founder and faculty of iEvolve: Global Practice Community.

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  • August 7th, 2009

Join Diane Musho Hamilton on the Great Integral Awakening

GIA-Banner-Facebook-200x267-2The Integral Map points us towards expanding spiritual realization, but cautions us to learn to work with Shadow elements of consciousness before they work with us. You may be able to access expanded states of awareness, but still get hung up when addressing personal or interpersonal matters. One of the goals of integral practice is to address this discrepancy between the personal and the transpersonal work, and to give people the tools they need to address the aspect of the self that needs to be worked with.

In this dialogue we will focus on the element of Shadow work in Integral practice, including the Integral tool of 3-2-1 Shadow work and integrating projections. We will also differentiate between shadow material, negative emotional patterns, and expression of trauma. We will further explore the challenge of navigating shadow in relationships and the collective realm, so that our spiritual awareness can be fully manifested in everyday life.

Join Diane Musho Hamilton, August 8th, on the Great Integral Awakening.

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Integral Journey of Love

Integral Journey of Love 3-Day Intensive, November 2008, Torrey, Utah


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