Hi everyone,
Happy Tuesday. I’ve felt disappointed to miss our promised Friday release, by a day a few times, and now by four days. Light & Shadows and I are nothing but works in progress, riddled with much real-time change and a few unfulfilled words.
In the interest of getting back on track, but considering that our team includes a new father and an overworked lady whom I asked to write more for us below, our next release after HCT today will be on Friday, 14 March.
Alaya Chikly showed amazing kindness in giving this Heart-Centered Therapy workshop not just to the eight of us who participated live, but now to you. We thank: Alaya and Bruno for holding such a healing space in their home; the beautiful people who participated; all of you who are called to watch, optionally participate and listen!
— Reiman
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Hi y'all,
Tamar here :)
We have a special video journey for you today. Are you ready to travel into your cells??
This video documents a therapeutic-visualization experience in which Reiman and seven other people participated, back in May 2024. It's a workshop called Heart-Centered Therapy, and it was one of our first shoots together as a friends-turned-creative-production crew, AKA Light & Shadows. It was an ambitious shoot (we shoot) and it mostly went really well (we score)! except for some audio & occasional video issues (we miss, we learn). Nonetheless, this video is a powerful portal, and you are invited to enter~
Led by Alaya Chikly, there are 3 guided meditations that serve to connect us to our inner male and female, dissolve potential trauma held in our cells, and diffuse the ill effects caused by what Alaya calls “thought forms.” The approach is heart-led, refraining from self-judgement and criticism.
We want to thank Alaya for gifting us this beautiful workshop. We also thank the participants who came to the workshop and gave us permission to document their vulnerable shares. May their words remind you that you are not alone in this moderately post-apocalyptic — sometimes breathtakingly beautiful — plane of existence.
I like to think our bodies are instruments and each has its unique tuning. Perhaps this modality strikes a chord and resonates with you. Perhaps not. You only know if you try. As you may remember, our goal is to plant seeds of curiosity and possibility.
A few words about our fantastical facilitator & friend Alaya:
Alaya Chikly is a world-renowned creator and facilitator of the emotional healing modality, Heart-Centered Therapy. Alaya has shared her work in twelve countries for nearly three decades. Alaya and her husband Dr. Bruno Chikly, an Osteopath, started a school in the U.S. called The Chikly Institute where they teach their healing modalities online to students from all over the world. A few years ago they decided to call Vilcabamba home, and both Reiman and I got to know them more deeply. They are both brilliant therapists who love harissa chili paste and hummus, respectively.
You can learn more about Alaya and see what she has to offer here: https://chiklyinstitute.com/home
With infinity approaching relentless silly yet grounded love,
T
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