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by Irish author
Mick Quinn




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 Dialogue Yoga is
self-development and healing through guided
conversation.
This
process is
a simple but powerful and fast way, of helping people to change
their perspective, and of finding the wisdom that a meditator can
spend many years in achieving.
Dialogue
Yoga Ireland, Ireland - Dialogue Yoga classes... Ireland Dialogue
Yoga
This process is the confluence of certain aspects of
Hal and Sidra Stone’s Voice Dialogue and the Psychology
of Selves with Big Mind energy from Zen teachings
as
developed by
by Western Zen Master
Genpo Roshi over the past two decades.
With Dialogue Yoga, you get to know yourself and
your Self quickly, in a fun
and easeful conversation with the facilitator.
The
true beauty of this process is
that no prior experience in meditation or other
practices of self-development is required to glimpse a taste of your True Self in
a matter of a few hours.
Debora
Prieto is the founding facilitator of Dialogue
Yoga
Debora
Prieto is the founder of the Dialogue
Yoga Institute in Europe. Debora discovered the Big Mind Process,
which was developed Genpo
Roshi in 1999 to integrate Eastern and Western wisdom in an astonishingly
original and effective manner. Debora has trained intensively in Salt Lake City, Utah with
Roshi, his staff, and Diane Hamilton, his
successor in the lineage in this process.
Debora
Prieto is the founding facilitator of Dialogue
Yoga

*Dialogue Yoga currently has 4 levels. Advancing
from Level I - Opening, to Level IV - Awakening naturally occurs as
you master each of voices in each level.
The
power of Dialogue Yoga is that empowers the participants to make a
fast shift, and without feeling threatened, from a narrow and
egocentric view to an open, clear and free perspective, that allows
them to identify themselves with all the people and all the things.
In short, Dialogue Yoga helps people to become fully functioning
human beings.
Dialogue Yoga can be implemented in
individuals, groups, families, seniors, corporations, and communities. A
typical facilitation can occur in 3-6 hours. Debora and
her husband, Irish author Mick Quinn,
were the first to name this
work as Dialogue
Yoga simply because the core of this class is a simply a
conversation between the facilitator and the members of the audience.
Debora
Prieto is the founding facilitator of Dialogue
Yoga
With Dialogue yoga you will:
  Taste your true nature in a period of just a few hours.
  Find out who you really are by observing the voices that
make
up the sense of “I”.
  Find out where your potential for happiness is being
limited and
then release those blockages, and all by simple
conversation.
  Learn to observe the world with new eyes, from a
perspective
of compassion that you may have never imagined before.
  Discover that there is no separation between you and the
other,
because you are one and the same.
  Reduce stress, increase mental flexibility and learn new
ways to
resolve conflict.
Debora
Prieto is the founding facilitator of Dialogue
Yoga
Dialogue Yoga takes place through guided or facilitated conversation
in half-day
or full-day classes in group or individual settings. This process
reveals the wisdom of our inner voices so we can learn from them.
With Dialogue Yoga, we get to know ourselves quickly, in a
fun and easy conversation between us and
the facilitator.
We
all know that there are many ‘voices’ competing for our
attention. Because many of these voices are “stuck”, repressed
or denied, they often manifest in unhealthy ways (i.e.
impatience, frustration, depression, anger or even losing one's
temper) at inappropriate times. One goal of Dialogue Yoga is to
bring each one of these voices into full consciousness. Through
conversation the voice loses its influence of our actions and
instead can be expressed in a healthy manner.
The
component parts of this process are tried and tested. It was first
developed as Big Mind by a western Zen Master Dennis Genpo
Merzel Roshi of the Kanzeon Zen Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, in
1999, who after thirty years of teachings wanted to give people an
experience of their True Nature, without the need for them to have
five, ten, or even twenty years of meditation practice.
This
process combines the insights of western psychology with the essence
of
Zen teachings, specifically the insights of Carl Jung’s Shadow,
Hal Stone’s Voice Dialogue and certain aspects of Gestalt with
traditional Zen wisdom (both Rinzai and Soto schools). It dissects
the self by allowing the 10,000 voices, both dual
and non-dual, we have in our head to be heard.
The
facilitator of this process does not teach anything; he or she
creates a safe
and pleasant environment in which the participants become their own
teachers
and at the end of the day their own Masters.
But,
is Dialogue Yoga really yoga. Is sitting around and chatting your
way to a kensho,
yogic? To answer this we just need to look at the root of yoga.
Yoga is the spiritual practice of self-realization. Yoga in the West
is most closely associated with movement or postures, whereas in the
East, it is a comprehensive practice of spiritual development, only
one part of which has to do with physical movement.
Yoga
originated in India over five thousand years ago. In the Yoga
Sutras, the respected sage Patanjali, defines yoga as the
control of the behavior of the mind. Patanjali went on to
define classical yoga as an eight-stage process. These are known as
the eight limbs of yoga. The first two stages are ethical
disciplines, followed by the postures (with which most Westerns
associate yoga) and the breathing exercises. The last four limbs are
the meditative stages: control of the senses, concentration,
meditation, and enlightenment.
One
goal of Dialogue Yoga is the attainment of self-realization. As such
this process is closely aligned with the Barnhart Concise
Dictionary of Etymology,
which defines yoga as “a system of Hindu philosophy that seeks
union with
the Supreme Spirit”.
Because
Dialogue Yoga dissects the self and the 10,000 ‘voices’ that
comprise it (including the voice of Morality, Responsibility,
Accountability, and Ethics), in this way it includes Patanjali's
first two stages of ethical disciplines. Dialogue Yoga also includes
the last four stages of meditative practices (with the inclusion in
the process of such non-dual voices as Big Mind, Big Heart,
Compassion, Stillness, Potential, the Way) in total, six of eight of
the limbs that Patanjali defined as classical yoga.
Dialogue Yoga, however, requires no prior experience with meditation
or postures. The heart-felt joy of one's True Self is just as easily
experienced with this process by the religious, non-religious, those
with little or no spiritual practice, and by those who through years
of conditioning may have replaced the possibility of spiritual
development with busy lives of scientific materialism. In
this way, Dialogue Yoga is truly an evolution of consciousness, as
most likely was the
case with the emergence of the yogas in the day of Patanjali.
Our
children can also avail
of Dialogue Yoga to learn, grow, heal and become scholars of
themselves. The importance of this is dramatic because they are now
entering a time in which the choices they are about to make are
going to be essential for our collective tomorrow; they are our
future. Is it not our responsibility to give our offspring all the
means available to us in order to
provide them the best chance of success in life?
Getting
to know the self is the same for a seasoned seeker as it is for a
fourteen year-old who may be aware that she is losing the voice the innocent
child. What
if we can give our future this clarity from this point in time,
before they, too, get stuck on this wheel? What if we can give our
children the freedom, clarity, under
-standing and vision of who they are and the power to direct their
intentions to manifestation? We
may just save them years of unneeded confusion, anxiety, doubt, and
suffering.
The
beauty of this process is that there is nothing to teach; the
facilitator only needs to create the appropriate conditions that
will allow our natural, inner
wisdom to talk and be heard. That is the work of the facilitator; to
open that
space in which this pre-existing knowledge and awareness
emerges.
Why
are you looking everywhere, when God is the looker?
Why were you constantly seeking something, when God is the
seeker? When exactly were you planning on finding Spirit, when
Spirit is always the finder? How exactly were you going to force God
to show his or her face, when God’s face is your original face?
– The witness of this very moment – already and right now. How
hard is to notice that you are already effortlessly aware of this
moment?
Feel the listener of this sentence, feel the simple feeling of
being, feel the feeler in you right now, and you are feeling the
fully revealed God in his and her radiant glory, a One Taste of the
Divine Suchness of the entire Kosmos, a not-two-ness of self and
Self that leaves you breathlessly enlightened and fully realized in
this and every moment. Hear the sounds around you? Who is not
enlightened? [1]

The founders of the Big Mind Process are doing research
on this at University
of Utah. They are finding that a 1-day Big Mind workshop with people
off the street—in other words, no Zen or meditation or spiritual
training—show the same brain changes as a monk with 20 or 30 years
of practice (similar results to the study the Dalai Lama did with
meditating monks). And a month later, they still have the same brain
changes.
For the full story see The National Public Radio link here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5008565
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