Clean Up the Gulf in You -- Ho'oponopono and the Joie de Vivre

Consistently applying my own twist on a healing technique known as Ho'oponopono since 2002, I'd like to share these publicly for the first time. Essentially we will deeply delve into the hypothesis that everything "out there" is our own reflection "in here." In so doing, we will tap into inner and outer resources for joy and self-acceptance that will simultaneously heal the oil spill in the ocean.

I'm offering an interactive four-week workshop (keep reading) AND I'll post public snippets of this workshop here on the Evolver blog starting August 29, 2010.

We will work with symbols, archetypes and our individual current day-to-day situations as the prima materia in the alchemical transmutation of disease and decay into coherence and communion. For instance, oil represents the blood of the Earth, and the ocean waters the emotional body of the Earth. According to Lise Bourbeau and others, blood disorders contain the symbolic message: "It may be that you have lost your joie de vivre because of a profound sense of something lacking." A seeping oil leak represents loss of vitality, joy, and life essence as it's seeping out rather than robustly circulating life nourishment. Thus, we are being handed a solemn, collective yet intrinsically individualized message to live vitally.

In addition to personal reflection that the Gulf oil spill offers us as a profound opportunity to clear the past and embrace the present, each week we'll tailor the class to the specific ailments, illnesses, and stresses that are reflected symbolically in your very own life, and that of your inner circle of family and friends to pinpoint what and where we clean and clear now.

WORKSHOP DETAILS: "Clean Up the Gulf in You" is a four-week online workshop on h'oponopono and kindling our joie de vivre accompanied by peer group email and private, plus one-on-one email consultations.

Join us August 29, 2010 (five-year anniversary of Katrina). (New classes starting every Sunday thereafter through October 17th, 2010.) Register below. Fees are sliding scale from $79-$199, and you can sponsor a Gulf Coast resident to attend for free for $20.

REGISTRATION (all Evolver members, please chose the lowest sliding scale fee): http://bit.ly/circulate-joy

ABOUT EVELYN RODRIGUEZ: After a harrowing "vacation" in which she survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed 300,000 people, she threw herself wholeheartedly into an experiment with post-traumatic growth as an alternative to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). One year later, she returned to the tsunami-ravaged coasts of Thailand and Sri Lanka for nine weeks to listen, share and navigate with fellow survivors how the event had changed them. In 2005, she co-founded a weekly "Daring to Live an Authentic Life" spiritual peer-group that met for over two years. She discovered (re-covered) an "ordinary rapture" that is eternally available in 2006, where even a pauper's diet of tea and toast can became the quintessential feast when seen through fresh eyes. (She kept a 40-day tea and toast part-Thoreau, part-Rumi-esque journal).

In 2008, Evelyn relocated to post-Katrina New Orleans. She was in New Orleans on April 20, 2010 when the British Petroleum oil well exploded. She meditated at the Mississippi River, typically by the steps of the Moon Walk, every two to three days for the next month. Yet it wasn't until later this summer that she was hit with the epiphany of the blood of the earth symbolism and her own responsibility for cleaning up the gulf. She accepted that much conditioning and resistance had surfaced in the ensuing years since the "ordinary rapture." The innate joie de vivre spark was but a flicker. This summer she continues to privately bless bodies of water and even tap water, do Ho'oponopono, and facilitated a Gulf water blessing for the New York City chapter of Evolver.net on July 21, 2010.

As a "responsible" (a tenet of ho'oponopono) member of the universe, she is called to offer this course to those that are equally called to commit to clearing all barriers to living joyfully moment-to-moment.

BONUS: The workshop may also incorporate and derive from direct application of the following work and teachings: Carl Jung's shadow work and projection theories, The Work by Bryon Katie, Messages From Water by Dr. Masuro Emoto, The Energy of Prayer by Thich Nhat Hanh, Eckhart Tolle's pain body techniques, "Harmonization" as outlined in Emptiness Dancing chapter by Adyashanti, Lise Bourbeau, Louise Hay, A Course in Miracles, and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. (No additional books or reference materials will need to be purchased. Everything needed for the workshop is provided in the online materials.)