The 23rd edition of Sumedha
Sadhana concluded today. This 6-week-long programme commenced on May 25th.
Sumedha Sadhana is an intensive inner
journey in quest of greater healing and wholeness.
Using insights and practices from spiritual
traditions and psychology participants were helped to gain a deeper insight
into the psychological dynamics operating on their spiritual journey and
integrate these in healthy and meaningful ways to live more satisfying and
fruitful lives.
The major module of the programme was “Psychological Dynamics on the
Spiritual Journey” which focused especially on healthy spirituality, early
life experiences and midlife dynamics.” This module also explored human sexuality and affectivity and their healthy
integration in the context of the participants’ celibate lifestyle. It was
facilitated by Jose Parappully, the Director of the Centre.
In the module “Befriending Our Emotions,” M. Goretti Kankarathinam presented
the meaning of emotions and emotional maturity and helped participants to
explore and understand some of their major positive, negative, hidden and
dominant emotions and to process them through art, music, imagery, role
play and experiential group exercises.
In the related module “Core Transformation” Jose Kuttianimattathil helped participants
experience healing of painful experiences and emotions and learn to live from
the core state within them which radiates peace, love and harmony.
The Sumedha
Sadhana experience concluded with Group Therapy facilitated by Jose
Parappully and Peter Lourdes. Group therapy provided participants
opportunity to face their brokenness and woundedness, their defences and unhelpful
patterns of living and relating, and to move toward greater healing and
wholeness.
The programme received excellent ratings from the
participants. Some representative comments from the participants will be posted
in our next blog.
A longer (9 weeks) Sumedha Sadhana begins on September 25. Facilitators:
Ajoy Fernandes, Alba rodrigues, Gerard Alvarez, Joe Mannath, Jose Parappully and MC Abraham, Registrations for the same are on. Those interested can contact
the Centre at sumedhacentre@gmail.com
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