Dearest Krish and Amana ...

I can't express how incredible those few days were for me...I feel so different.  

My continual critical voice is gone...i don 't bea t myself unmercifully for every error, every unkind word, and all those millions of things i bea t myself for before.

I can hardly believe it because it seemed as though nothing really new or really dramatic h app ened for me, but something inside was so incredibly nourished and I am so grateful. Out of this space I have had deeper connections with people.

And i see how much people thirst for something deeper..for more understanding, for healing. 

I feel quite different with men..not so hungry, not so desperate..i can have friendly relations because i don 't feel this urgent need so much, and i'm not so afraid to meet with the heart because there isn't this huge longing welling up uncontrollably inside. 

I also find I feel less self-conscious in general.

(Participant from the US)

Dear Amana and Krishnananda,

I did not get the chance to say "thank you" for the wonderful group.

But perhaps expressing this now is even better because I did not realize how much it touched me deep inside until I left and faced the world outside.

Lying in my bed this morning, feeling like a baby it became very clear to me that this softness combined with respectfulness is what I want to create in my life.

And never before I was so at peace with my life, with what is. Thank you!

(A Participant from Germany)

Hello both of you!

I want to start with thanking you guys for being my teachers and inspiration in becoming a h app ier and more alive person. THANK YOU!!!

I'm learning to enjoy life for what it is, not for what it should be and that feels great!

Thank you for being such an important part of my recovery in life, the joy that I can feel now and the moti vation to continue my life in love.

(A Participant from Sweden)

Hi,

All my love and gratitude to the both of you for putting your life energy, wisdom and love into the work that we did last week.

Thank you for awakening me with regards to my father.

I have started to stand up to him and take the consequences.

I have also started to understand the damage I have don e to my kids, I have talked to them about specific incidents that I remember, hopefully, we can partly heal those wounds.

In my relationship with my fiancée, I have started to come clean and for the first time since we met (15 years ago) we have talked openly to each other about our feelings and our history and future.

But there is a feeling in me (and her) that we might be able to move into a more honest and

loving relationship.

(A Participant from the US)

Hi there travelers,

Sharing my story of shame in the group has had a large impact on me.

There was so much shame around this story, so much Christian conditioning.

It has opened up a large area inside me.

I feel more space, I feel more alive.

I am grateful to you and the team for the love and trust that I feel is in group.

I would have never been able to come out with this story.

The feedback that I got has been a real eye-opener.

Just to experience that people don 't cut me off, when I show myself, has triggered a lot of things in me. So to each and everyone of you I send my gratitude for this.

In the co-dependency my self-image was completely shattered.

I understand how much I have lived in this self-image.

How it has protected me from pain and helped me to survive.

But this image I had of myself is not the real me.

With a deeper awareness and understanding I am carefully placing my feet along a new road that feels very vulnerable but also exciting 

By dealing with this shame story, I have opened up new areas inside me to explore. I feel a new aliveness, I realize how much the shame, guilt and fear made me feel so dead inside. And stopped me from loving myself.

By sharing this in the group, it feels I have brought my shame and guilt outside into the light. Since then when things come up in the area around shame,  every time I have the choice to bring it into the light, or push it and keep it in darkness.

I am now accepting that there are parts in me that I don 't like about myself.

So now I just accept that these are parts of me that belong to me.

It is helping me extremely to ""find myself"" and love myself more.

It feels like bringing this into the light.

I feel more true. More alive.

(A Participant from Holland)

Hi Krishnananda & Amana,

I think I have just now found the words to write what I wanted to share with you.

The group has touched me deeply several ways.

I was touched by who you both are and how much you both open towards each other and other people.

I was touched how you both show your vulnerability; it helped me so much to get into the process!!! 

I felt so much support from you.

I love you both.

Thanks for the support I felt, for the excellent way you both lead the group (we are an intense bunch) in such a loving and caring way.

(A Participant from Holland) 

Dear Krish & Amana

Thank you so much for beautiful days with you.

It was a great experience for me.

Again, thank you very much for giving me great chance to join your work.

I'm looking forward to see you next year.

Have a safe journey.

(A Participant from Japan)

The CD is lovely!

Thanks to you, Krish e Amana for this subtle work.

I am going toward my inner core with the cd journey.

(A Participant from the US)

To Krish and Amana

Hello, and thanks again for that fantastic week.

Those days were the best experience of my life - so far.

I have never felt so free, so full of energy, so at home in my self - and so high and loving everything - and on the edge of falling back into some bubble.

And - of course these are feelings you cannot keep for always in your everyday life, and I have sort of let everyday come into my soul very slow.

That, I know is the right way of working, meditations and getting into the feelings to be able to act instead of reacting.

So once again many, many thanks for your guidance and presence at the co-dep. 1!!

 (A Participant from Sweden)

Dear Krish and Amana

I hope you both are well!

I participated in your course a few weeks ago and it turned out to be very important experience for me.

Yes, to participate was actually one of the best decisions I have made, so far! (I was the one who described myself as "an ice-box with a brain".)

Since then I have meditated many times to your CD.

See you at the next course,

Take care! A big hug from

(A Participant from Sweden)

Dear Amana and Krish

I want to thank you both for your wonderful work.

I feel like I've woken up from a long sleep after the workshop and it feels great.

Staying awake is the project in hand but I feel I have some good tools in hand to enable this.

I valued your experience immensely, Krish your keen sightedness, it felt like you could sense, feel your way to the problem with the precision of an Eagle and Amana, for me, you brought it all into the present, into the everyday reality of a relationship with so much compassion and humor.

The balance of these two energies, the opportunity to experience it has been invaluable. I feel cleaner, clearer and more whole.

Hope to see you in May.

(A Participant from Sweden)