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Reconnecting with Life by Svarup In 1984 psychologist John Welwood explained that he used the term “spiritual bypassing” “to describe a process I saw happening in the Buddhist community […], a widespread tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks.” In other words: denial. Denial (“It didn’t happen, it’s not happening […]

  What is gratefulness for you? Svarup: I experience gratefulness as a light state of being, relaxed and expanded. It comes with a deep appreciation of life and a feeling that all is well, that I am receiving exactly what I need. It definitely comes from deep inside my heart, and makes me trusting and receptive towards existence.   Of course, existence is not […]

One woman asked: Last year I did Conscious Relating with Talib and Schubhaa at Dharma and I wanted to do the Divine Lovers with Svarup & Premartha, but when I read the text it seems to be a very similar group. Do you know if it is?   We actually do not know Talib and Shubha’s work. We guess though that it branches […]

I: WHY actually to want to be born for a second time? PS: It’s true. Who wants to go through the pain and hardship that we often experienced at birth? Our first physical birth was an often traumatic event that hardly anyone of us can recall consciously without therapy work. We were too small, and had no sense of ourselves as separate from mother. […]

Premartha and Svarup have been working in the field of Holistic Therapy for many years. They are wonderful creators, excellent teachers, and compassionate fellow travellers. Together, they conduct the process Twice Born, divided into two segments: the first part is called Primal-Childhood Deconditioning, and the second part Tantra-Sexual Deconditioning. As they complement each other, these two parts can be attended together in a sequence. […]

SVARUP Learning to care and hold the space When I arrived to Osho, in the early eighties, I was carrying with me a colourful backpack of seventies culture, culminating into five years of work and training in London with R.D.Laing, and also a battered suitcase of philosophical studies and political ideology from the sixties in Rome… Nothing had prepared me for the complete revolution […]

What about if your peak experience of falling in love, is one, that can only be described as a valley experience…? Then the term falling in love, which is so inappropriate in the context of peaks, might suddenly make sense. Yes, rising in love is a great vision, and yet, falling in love, is how people have called the experience of loving down the […]

Premartha: The uniqueness, I guess, is that the relationship was born in the commune, so, we don’t know each other any other way than sannyasin, we don’t know each other as non-sannyasin. If I tell the story of how it started, is that we had met in Amsterdam already but really re-met in Berlin on the time the ****** was still there, the big […]