Kriya Yoga 2025
Kriya Yoga - 2025. An introduction to the 2025 Kriya Yoga initiation, bringing together Kabbalah, Tantra, Buddhist meditation and Kriya Yoga in an experiential and integral approach.
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The following is recommended reading and resources to continue your systemic constellations learning: Books Additionally, here are some free and paid for resources .
ReadOrganic Constellations Contra-indications for clients and facilitators
One of the fundamental requirements for yourself as a facilitator and your client to benefit from a constellation, is a strong observing self. Because it is such an experiential technique, a strong sense of self is important. Inner parts work can be a very effective intervention for developing…
ReadLoyalties and entanglements in the personal and group consciences
The group consciences According to Hellinger et al. (1998), “conscience bonds us to the persons and groups necessary for our survival regardless of the conditions they set for our belonging. … In the service of belonging, conscience reacts to everything that enhances or endangers our bonding” (p. 7-8). These orders are the hidden natural laws […]
ReadPracticing Presence
Usually in a constellation, when we are representing for somebody else's constellation, we represent for a single role. The facilitator may take us out of that role, put a marker in our place and move us on to another role. In which case, we will need to come back to ourselves, walk around…
ReadUnderstanding and working with Trauma
Polyvagal Theory Polyvagal theory is a useful model that helps us understand how we are wired to protect AND connect, and to get to know our nervous systems. The theory was developed by Stephen Porgess. It hypothesizes that the autonomic nervous system (ANS) is organised hierarchically into…
ReadAncestral Fields
In preparation for today's class, Cathy and I did a mini constellation where Cathy represented and facilitated my constellation. We wanted to explain and explore what my family is carrying and trace it back to ancestral fields and into the ancestral realm. Because I'm born into my family, it's a…
ReadWhere are you in the Knowing Field
What is the knowing field? The term knowing field is used to refer to a field of information experienced phenomenologically, whereby through participation in a constellation, participants and facilitator alike become conduits for information they would not normally have or know (Hellinger,…
ReadHealing Sentences
Healing Sentences Credit: an anonymous user on the internet. Healing Sentences are the language of the Soul. They are simple, expressed truth, and acknowledge what is. The power of the healing sentences lies in their simplicity as they move us from the story and opinion to simply stating what is…
ReadPeer group
Starting a peer group for family constellations can be a powerful way to build a community of learning, support, and healing. Here are some guidelines to get started: 1. Define the Purpose Clarity : Be clear about the group's purpose. Will it be for practicing family constellations, discussing…
ReadRevealing and Healing Sentences
Let us look at healing sentences from the point of view of systems and examine some of the core sentences with a systemic lens. Covered in a previous lesson, the ancestors, our parents, are bigger than us. A healing sentence, in all its variety and multitude, is constructed to establish this…
ReadSystems Theory within the Context of Family Constellations
An understanding of systems is important to successfully work a client’s Family System and to draw a distinction between family, organisational and other systems. A system operates differently to what the modern mind is used to, it does not operate on cause and affect. Note the controls on the…
ReadQuestions and Answers
Questions and Answers Dear Constellator, welcome to the question and answers page! My hope is for all Q&A to be in one spot for us to easily find. Hopefully it will be easy enough for us to flow with and you enjoy posting here. Please feel free to ask any question - Erik and Cathy will get back…
ReadThe Orders of Love as Emergent Structures
It was Bert Hellinger that developed Family Constellations. He drew from many sources like Gestalt and family theory and Zulu family dynamics when he was living here in South Africa in KwaZulu-Natal. Through observation, he developed the idea that there are certain structures that enable love to…
ReadClass Info
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ReadCreating a Safe Container
To create safety for the constellation’s client or within a constellations group or workshop, there should be certain agreements and boundaries. These include: Confidentiality After a constellation, no more representative information is given. This requires containing the impulse to share…
ReadPractising Non-Judgement starts with you
Navigating Family Systems is an art that takes practice. In my view, it requires the attitude of a meditator. In meditation, we allow whatever arises in the body to be there. We do not hold on to pleasant sensations nor do we push away unpleasant sensations. Likewise with emotions, we find in…
ReadBody Awareness Meditation, Presence and Systems Constellations
“Isn’t anyone else blown away by this? How is it that we can experience being someone else in a Constellation? How is it possible?” This was a comment made by a psychology student when I participated in my first constellation. Those who are new to Constellations are often anxious they will not be able to […]
ReadIvan Kaplan - my spiritual teacher
In the late 1990s I met Ivan Kaplan, he opened the fire-doors for me on the way to his flat on the 3rd floor of a block of flats in Johannesburg, South Africa. Fire-doors are there to prevent fire from spreading through a building. Well, they did not prevent the holy-fire from spreading and fanning […]
ReadMagic-ification
It is part of being human to describe, model and map Reality. From physics and mathematics to philosophy, religion and spirituality. The more accurate our models the better we are able to affect Reality. Scientists have used the scientific method to prove the truth of their models and this has resulted in computers and rockets. […]
ReadEveryday mind
We are so used to experiencing a world of space, time and distance that this is the way we may think about meditation and working with energetics, like with the Kabbalah. We think of drawing the Light down from above us or energies from the earth steaming into our body from below. We may think […]
ReadKabbalah: Q & A
What is the Kabbalah all about? For me, the essence of Kabbalah is creating a posture or attitude within oneself of receptivity to Divinity. Kabbalah means “to receive” in the context of an oral tradition. I believe the deeper meaning of the word is this openness to receive the Ain Soph Or, Limitless Light. There […]
ReadMiddle Pillar exercise for children
Introduction This is a simplified version of the Middle Pillar exercise adapted for children. The Middle Pillar is the vertical alignment of spheres in the Aitz ha’Chaim, The Tree of Life. The bottom sphere of the Middle Pillar represent the body, the second the Personality, the third the Higher Self/Transpersonal Love and the topmost our […]
ReadCycles of life
This is an ambitious article, it is broad and sweeping and some may say generalising. Yet, it is my hope that, since it starts with us, consciousness and our very cells, it will find an intuitive response inside of you. The idea started with observing myself. With meditation and experimentation in consciousness. With the big […]
ReadAddiction
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What is the dynamics you have seen in working with addicts? When there is addiction, for example alcoholism, we have very strange family constellations. In such a family the wife […]
ReadAdvantage and gain
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Can you give us examples regarding those whose misfortune or death brought the family an advantage or gain? In constellations with the descendants of those who had acquired great wealth, […]
ReadHIV/AIDS
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. [These are the views of BH in 1999 and not necessarily those of Erik Andersen] What about Aids? To be infected with the virus or contract AIDS is not a […]
ReadHomosexuality
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. [These are the views of BH in 1999 and not necessarily those of Erik Andersen] What are the patterns you have observed in relationship to homosexuality? I’ve observed three patterns […]
ReadMurder
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What if someone is murdered in a family? I will give you an example. It was in a supervision group. A therapist set up a client. The father had killed […]
ReadOrders of love
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What laws govern the behavior of those who belong to the family soul? As I said before, the family members behave as if they all share a common soul, or […]
ReadPhenomenology
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. What kind of solutions can be found for a client? What constitutes the phenomenological approach here? The phenomenological field of vision ranges from a narrow point of view to a […]
ReadRepeating a constellation
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. How many times do you have to repeat a Constellation? No repetitions. It is done once. The Constellation shows it and then a healing movement can start operating. But it […]
ReadThe Deceased
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. I’m not clear what you mean when you say, “recognize his love and honor his fate.” When a child dies, the other members of the family tend to become afraid […]
ReadAccidents or misfortune
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. You have said there are dynamics conducive to recurrent patterns of accidents or misfortune. Will you please tell us about the dynamics in such cases? Serious illnesses, suicides or suicide […]
ReadFamily Conscience
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. How is it that somebody is selected to represent an excluded person? The force that operates to select somebody to represent the person excluded, that is the family conscience and […]
ReadFormer Partners
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Can you share with us some of your experiences with former partners? Yes, from experiences I had recently with persons who have suffered a loss in favor of somebody within […]
ReadIllness
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Are your therapeutic methods also applicable with people who are severely ill? Yes, specially in cases where the problem or illness is caused by systemic implications, or when it is […]
ReadInclusion
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. Who are those included in the family consciousness? A circumscribed number of persons belong to the family consciousness: 1. the children, including stillborn children and those who have died early, […]
ReadThe Interview
The below is an extract from: Unraveling Family Secrets. Bert Hellinger interviewed on Family Constellations, By Humberto del Pozo in Santiago de Chile, September 1999. I have seen you require very little information from the client before asking him to set up his Family Constellation. Is that enough? How come? Yes, for the perception is […]
ReadWhat is real? A short metaphor
If no one in your community believed such a land as Japan existed, what if a traveller arrived to tell you she had been there? Its people, its culture, the geography of the land. Especially if such experiences of other lands were a rarity, would the community believe our traveller? If travel was something discouraged, […]
ReadKabbalah, the down side
This article is really more than about Kabbalah, it is about any system the describes a reality beyond the physical senses and that has a method to achieve altered states of consciousness and personal growth. Many of them are rooted in a spiritual tradition that goes back many hundreds of years. These systems make me […]
ReadKabbalah, family constellations and inclusion
Some kabbalah enthusiasts and I get together once a week to meditate on the spheres and tone the holy names on the Tree of Life. This sort of meditation is part of the meditative kabbalah and is know to be healing. Archangel Raphael is placed at the middle of the Tree, Tipheret. His name comes […]
ReadAncestors
This is a beautifully written article by Tanja Meyburgh of African Constellations. Tanja is a very experienced constellations facilitator and psychologist. There are some powerful healing sentences at the end of the article that I encourage you to use. One possible method is to visualise each ancestor starting with your mother, then father, then grandmother […]
ReadIntroduction to the Kabbalah
Introduction – the Tree of Life (Etz Chaim) When a child is shown the inside of a nuclear reactor he will use his imagination to make sense of what he sees. The nuclear reactor is very different to what he is used to, so he will describe it in the terminology and imagery of what […]
ReadThe aim of spiritual work
An important question I ask myself regularly is why do this spiritual work? Why meditate, learn the Kabbalah and use holy names? What is the aim? It’s as if the question is forced on me from within. Surely it would be easier to live my life without practising mind bending techniques. I mean deliberately drawing […]
ReadDesire
Today I have the audacity to comment on thousands of years of doctrine and tradition. This commentary has been building up within me for many years and reached exasperation point halfway through watching a documentary on yoga. The part that tipped me was a group of yogis that spend their days swing rocks from or […]
ReadMeditation and Family Constellations
Family Constellations called me to it. My exposure to the method began many years ago in South Africa, in part due to my quest for physical healing and in part due to my need know in a way deeper than doctrine and ideology, information and books. I learned meditation, yoga and Kabbalah in my own […]
ReadAfter a constellation
In all constellation work, the onus is on the Facilitator to make sure that a client is well resourced after the workshop. The impact a constellation has can be quite profound on an individual and they may need to discuss the process with the facilitator afterwards or with a therapist if they go into overwhelm. […]
ReadConstellations guidelines
As of April 2018, the way I like to work is to be sensitive to the Knowing Field first and to allow healing sentences to intuitively form within me, then to use known interventions second. That said, there are certain patterns, dynamics and natural laws I have noticed in constellations work. I use a combination […]
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