Dakshina Article

Says Dakshina, the person responsible for the Program:
 
Leading the TP is one of the most creative and gratifying experiences of my professional life.
 
It is creative because both the team and I are committed to growing together with the participants day after day. This means that we are not following a pre-packaged model but that we keep developing a special attention and " clinical eye " in order to catch even the nuances and what is not being said in so many words, so that we may turn them into sessions, tasks, small and big challenges to go through.
 
The TP is creative also because it requires learning to dare, to leave the comfort zones, to risk again with the awe and joy, with the undaunted spirit of a child.
 
And it is gratifying because it allows me to watch and participate in real transformations. We should really take a photo " before and after " the process... you know, as they do in the ads for a slimming program!... because the deep changes can be read, even by an inexperienced eye, in the luminosity of the eyes, the colour of the skin, the flexibility of the body, the openness of a smile, the spontaneity of a posture.
 
In leading the TP our commitment is to take the participant towards his/her goals (and possibly to have them reach them!). This means on the whole to create self-acceptance, and care and love for oneself.
 
The intimacy arising between the TP team and the " Tourists " opens my heart and nurtures my spirit. I like watching their trust grow, and I like even their points of resistance, which always forego a significant change, a jump in quality very deep inside themselves.
 
The TP has become a very pliable tool in my hands, and during all these years of experience I have met the most various types of people, who have come to us with the most various types of motivations.
 
Many were on a personal search, eager to know more about themselves and to go beyond the limitations of their character' s make-up.
 
Many were in need of an emotional education without which they had fallen into depression or become anxious or unmotivated.
 
Other were frozen within addiction problems (drugs but also food, gambling, their job).
 
Some were simply beginners who had never had an experience with meditation, while others had been long-time explorers
 
For all of them, the TP was the concrete experience of a " New Beginning " (a name, by the way, which we often use for a start), a modern " rite of passage ", a unique, overwhelming, ecstatic opportunity to experience themselves as never before.