MYSTERIES OF THE FEELING REALM
Welcome to the Mysteries of the Feeling Realm. A podcast where we explore our relationship to the feeling body. To these ancient vibrations and sensations that have been so rejected and hidden and profoundly misperceived.
Join us, Cole Knazovicky and Lorella Ricci, as we explore what it actually means to befriend and welcome every single drop of your experience, in a relaxed, kind and deeply receptive body.
LORELLA RICCI
Having spent her entire adult life immersed in the practice and study of Buddhist Meditation and Somatic Psychotherapy, as a way of trying to understand and tame the intensity of her feeling body, it was only when she was trained in the Tibetan Tantric traditions of somatic meditation that she gained the subtlety that she needed to meet these experiences in a paradoxically different way.
Letting go of the model of pathology and trauma, and her private practice as a Somatic Psychotherapist, she now runs 8 month immersions to teach Highly Sensitive People (with overwhelming feeling bodies) how to meet their experiences with the level of refinement, kindness, compassion and calmness that it is yearning to receive.
COLE KNAZOVICKY
Cole (66) has been a life-long student of the feeling realm with the help of Right Use of Will books series and many other modalities exploring the more subtle realms of spirituality. Besides his inner passions Cole is a classical guitar teacher and performer, runs feeling-focussed men’s groups and is also a counselor, mentor to many and a life coach.
Originally from Slovakia, he lives in Byron Shire Australia devoted to being a good father to his 14 years old son and also being a community elder.
PODCAST 1: WHAT ARE FEELINGS?
As we soften the boundaries of our identities and what we think is happening, we have more of a chance of meeting these ancient energies that are the very fabric of our existence. The radiance of our being that we are contracting against in misperception. We experience our feelings as problematic, our trauma, the injuries from our childhood, hindrances to our awakening, our boundaries, the need to protect ourselves, our shadow, the darkness and fundamentally indicating something is wrong. This misperception is reflected in nearly all aspects of our world.
PODCAST 2: WELCOMING FEELINGS
Meeting feelings is a wildly paradoxical journey! When we treat feelings as if they’re problems, they behave in a way that appears to confirm our hypothesis! It doesn’t occur to us that the way we MEET feelings might actually be creating the intensity, the pain and the solidity of what we think is happening. Just by softening our gaze and our attitude, we can begin to touch what happens when we make space for these energies, that are also distressed by our rejected of them. Befriending our experience with kindness and spaciousness is a pathway we begin to trust.
PODCAST 3: RELEASING JUDGEMENTS
We abide predominantly in the masculine aspect of our consciousness: valuing only the mind, abstract thinking, clarity, complexity, uprightness and doing. We have lost connection to our Being, to the darkness, the warmth, the felt sense of our feeling bodies, our primordial nature that animates us and nourishes us. We are so intoxicated and embedded in this disembodied way of being, that the intense judgements of the feeling realm is hidden in this encoding. In this episode Cole introduces us to Judgement Release, a mind training where you bring into your awareness the relentless judgments that the mind is constantly bombarding on our systems.
PODCAST 4: OMG … THE SACRED MASCULINE & FEMININE
What happens when you read “Sacred Masculine” and “Sacred Feminine”? Does it turn your stomach, pique your interest, or leave you feeling somewhat disinterested? Cole and I set off on this journey without much of a clue where the other would go (or where we ourselves would go, for that matter) … but where we ended up was profoundly delightful. Maybe it’s best to not say too much and let you come for the ride. Our perspectives and expressions are so different … and yet they land in very similar places. What a joy to travel here.
PODCAST 5: FALSE IMAGES OF GOD
Delving into the enigmatic concept of God stirs profound responses within us, not just in our minds, but deeply within our very core. Does it usher in a profound sense of inner peace, or does it instead tighten your belly, prompt eye-rolls, and a begging for the topic to be avoided? Instead of adhering to the conventional, man-made depictions of God ingrained in us since childhood, what happens when we transpose the narrative of God, Jesus, and Mary into the multidimensional landscapes of our own bodies? What if they are direct facets of our own being?