Individuals

Inquiry is a transformative approach to working with the difficulties, problems and obstacles that arise in our lives and especially in our relationships.  Through inquiry, these painful experiences become portals to a larger understanding and experience of ourselves, our partners and our world.

A simple way of saying it is, What is in the way, is the way.

Most of us have fairly rigid beliefs about ourselves and who we are, and those beliefs constrain what we can do and how we relate in the world.  We see ourselves and the world around us through these unconscious and conscious beliefs.  These belief structures were created when we were children and go largely unchallenged through life.

Inquiry highlights for people these constraints, boundaries and beliefs.  

Our work assists people to inquire into these structures.  Through inquiry and understanding, these structures begin to dissolve.  The result is openings, or portals, to a richer, deeper life.

Inquiry allows people to evolve beyond the structures and constraints.  Real freedom results.

When people see the structures and constraints for what they are, these impressions that are formed at a very young age, the grip they have on our consciousness is relaxed.  No one knows what will emerge for each person, but we do know each person will experience more space, more freedom, more richness and depth, more possibility, more curiosity, and a greater capacity to be with the difficult, painful feelings that arise to obstruct us from exploring the structures in the first place.

The structures and constraints are not something that can be thought through.  They must be worked through.  They must be recognized, allowed into experience and understood as no more than mental impressions and formations.

Our work recognizes that each person develops, evolves and opens in his or her own unique way.  Though each person’s process is unique, each person uses the same tools: exploration, inquiry, allowing and understanding.  It is a never-ending, ever-deepening process.  What results is an ever increasing understanding of one’s true self.

This work is not therapy, though it can be therapeutic.  The work is primarily spiritual, in that a new ground of being slowly emerges, and with it comes a new way of seeing and knowing oneself beyond the conditioned structures of childhood.