Mama Papa – Primal Workshop

med Chandrika från Humanviersity

We were once small children, fully alive, and freely able to express ourselves in a very natural way. Along the way parental and society conditioning caused us to suppress ourselves and deny our feelings. However the emotional child is still alive within and we continue time and again to react from the child position. In this workshop, through working with parental issues, Chandrika will help you to set your inner child free and to forgive your parents so that you can again live your life with freedom and passion. "Primal pain is the way, primal joy is the goal" Chandrika.

 Interview on the group Mama-Papa

 with Chandrika for Anisha for Sweden

1.      What techniques will you be using in this workshop?

I am giving workshops about Early Life issues since 20 years. Over the years I refined this process into a three day structure of first day we work on mother issues, the second day on father/authority issues, and on the third day on let go, forgiveness and healing.

I will be using techniques of Emotional Expression and Awareness, Psychodrama structures, Humaniversity AUM meditation, Body work, Encounter structures to bring in awareness about relating patterns, Reframing through stories, Relaxation techniques, Flushing, Rebirthing and sharing.

2.  What can a participant expect from the group Mama-Papa?

We will be looking at your relationship with your Mother and your Father, which are the main figures in your life to shape your conditioning. And if you grew up without your original parents or only one of them, we will work on the absence of them during your childhood and the consequences it had for you.

The focus of my work is not so much on your actual parents, but more on the internal parental figures that you carry with you and who are influencing your life today.  You will explore to express various feelings towards them in a safe setting and learn to re-establish your connection with them.

The goal is that you can see not only their behavior and faults towards you, but that you come to an understanding about their position and your position and that you can change by feeling sorry for the pain created, learning to forgive, opening up to appreciate and love, and finally by saying thank you for all you got, including your life so far. This will connect you with the innocent child within again.  

3.    In this workshop, is there any particular age you are working with and why?

These issues of parental conditioning are important to see, understand, express the feelings involved with it and let go for any age group, from the teenagers to the mature adult.

Sometimes during teenage time, parental issues are very dominant, as the young adult tries to find his/her own decisions and breaking free from conditioning is very important to find your own life.

As a mature adult, when you face a crisis such as in a job or in a relationship, often you encounter again situations where you ask yourself, what you want in your life, where to go and what to achieve. That leads again towards a reflection from where certain patterns originate, is it really what you want, and how to change them.

If you grow older, the question more turns towards looking back at many different situations, and how you can forgive and let go, and be fulfilled.

So any age group, can profit from doing this group. Each person can pursue their specific questions.

If your question is more about why we are working with your stories of your early life, it means that some wounds go back all the way to early childhood. To understand the roots of problems, can help to heal and let go. Psychology says that the personality gets formed in the first four years; this means that traumatic situations will leave its mark on the quality you live your life with.

4. How does our childhood affect patterns we have as adults?

Emotional awareness has its foundation in how you learned to feel okay with your feelings and what conditioning you received in childhood. Fear, anger, pain and love are natural emotional states of responding to situations. If you learned that when you reach out for love, you receive rejection you will feel pain and humiliation. After a while you will expect that reaching out for love equals receiving pain. As a consequence you may say later when you are an adult, ‘I better don’t open my heart anymore, because I will just get hurt’, and you are lonely and isolated, unable to have fulfilling relationships.

Often we don’t have all the four basic emotions developed. Some people have difficulties to feel anger; they need to smile, even though it is not what they feel and hold the anger inside. Eventually all this repressed anger, makes them depressed and they have difficulties to relax and sleep well. Others can’t cry; their tears are frozen. It is important to allow yourself to feel again. Then you can regain your personal power when you allow yourself to feel your anger and you soften your heart when you let the tears flow and soothe your pain.  If you feel intensely all your feelings, you will also come back to feeling your love and happiness again.

Awareness will be our guide. In this group you will learn to access these emotions, learn to express and explore them in a safe setting, without harming yourself or others. You will access the aliveness that you have when expressing them. This will free up blocked tension and stress, and will give you later in daily life the choice on how to respond emotionally in any given situation.

5. What is your passion to work with people on childhood issues?

When I see how beautiful people transform once they allow themselves again to feel their emotions, cry and shout, weep and laugh, it opens my heart. I love to encourage people and to give them a guiding hand to dive into these emotions and to support them to express, so that they can become unburdened and live their life with a lighter attitude.

During my groups, I am always impressed by the sincerity of people and I can only respect them and support them to undo the pain and sorrow they had to suffer in their life and to help them to let it go.  Once we can forgive and let the past be gone, we can look into the present and eventually say thank you for what life has given us, even though sometimes we have to learn the hard way.

6. You also work with teenagers and the Tan-Ju program at Humaniversity, can you say something about that?

20 years ago, Veeresh asked me to work with teenagers and to teach them meditation and express their emotions.  When I see to the news on TV and I hear all these horrible stories that teenagers are threatening and killing people at school, because they are frustrated, I want to do something about it.

I think I can teach the teenagers, who are courageous enough to want to find new ways of dealing with all these emotions, how to express their repressed anger in a safe and healthy way, so that they can become powerful and strong, being able to make themselves happy. If we learn early in life how to express and release the emotions, we have a good chance to create an emotional healthy life in the future.  I like being helpful to give tools to become aware and to be able to change in a way that benefits you for your daily life.

7. Anything you would like to add?

Even though I recommended to work on yourself early in life, it is never too late. Any age group has advantages to work on yourself and to make yourself a happier and more fulfilled human being.

Here in the Humaniversity we developed many innovative techniques that help you to become more clear emotionally and teach you have to improve your social relating. I like especially that all the structures we teach are intense, deep, powerful, insightful, humorous, juicy, warm and gentle. We often work with all the polarities of life, ying and yang.

I am looking forward to do this group in Sweden and bring you the light and lightness of awareness by working on the emotions. I hope you come and join.
 

 
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