Ten years ago I moved on from the home I/we raised my/our two children in. Just as the kids went to college, I set out on a journey to find myself and to reclaim my joy. I had my Ordination, with which I reclaimed my devotion to my faith, however wasn’t sure how the world would receive me with it. I had dealt with a great deal of my grief from divorce and had my book “Seven Steps To A Peaceful Heart After Divorce” to hold me to further action for those times that I would need. I had a deep desire to NEVER repeat the mistakes of my past. With that in the forefront of my heart, I honed in on two energetic and ethereal teachings to guide me. The first teaching was my kundalini yoga path, the second my kabbalah path. I knew of nobody at the time who was outwardly merging the two teachings together so this both intrigued and freaked me out. As I looked in the mirror, I knew I was curious but what I felt from the community at large was a “weird vibe”, so to speak. Testing out my public speaking skills, I set out to speak in Israel about love, religion and family. It was a daring move, however I knew it was something I needed to do. I got myself invited to present at The Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine in October 2010. My topic was: Healing Sexual Energy With Advanced Kundalini. I had no agenda to make money with my speech and I didn’t care. I did not choose to become a rabbi to make money and I knew if God wanted me to earn from this sacred work, it would happen in divine timing.
Anyways, what happened to me in the last ten years? To begin with, I did not seek counseling although I now offer counseling. I sought meaning through application of self study and what was revealed was my purpose. As challenging as it has been, it was worth every moment for I recreated a strong inner sanctum and my “why” in this lifetime. Many have asked me how I got here, so here’s a bit of the how via study and practice of the ten bodies, the ten sephirot and how it cycled me to be who I am today.
I learned about the ten bodies in 2005 when I was training to become a Kundalini Yoga teacher. After studying and practicing yoga for more than 20 years, in 2004 I discovered very quickly that Kundalini yoga took me deeper into myself. For that reason I took the nine month course while I was going through my divorce. I knew I needed this body of work for it led me into a mystical world where I was beginning to expand my inner sanctum. I was also coming to terms with a lot of physical issues resulting from buried emotions and the kundalini yoga brought it out in me. The power of a rebirth was happening however I still didn’t feel complete within. The ten sephirot would help me dig deeper into the void I was feeling with Kundalini yoga.
The ten sephirot come from the esoteric teachings of Kabbalah and feminine Judaism. After years of reform Judaism and ten years of orthodoxy in marriage and family, I was ripe and ready for Kabbalah and feminine Judaism. In fact, I knew in my soul that this was what I was the missing piece I was yearning for most of my life. Growing up reform, Judaism made me yawn. I had serious boredom issues and most of my childhood, retreated within while in the synagogue. Needless to say, in these past ten years, the ten sephirot came alive in my practice and I used it countless times with people seeking spiritual guidance and grief counseling.
From TheAquarian Teacher: KRI Teacher Training Level One Manual
The human body is made up of ten bodies: the physical body, three mental bodies, and six energy bodies. The eleventh embodiment – when all ten bodies are under your direction – produces a pure state of consciousness when you have the ability to see all events as God’s Play and recognize the God in all.
Harbhajan Singh Khalsa pioneered the teaching of Kundalini Yoga. Also known as Yogi Bhajan, to his followers, he was a Sikh spiritual leader, who In 1969 he established the3HO (Healthy, Happy, Holy Organization) and very much appealed to the hippe crowd. He said: “If you can’t see God in all, you can’t see God at all”.
From The Jewish Virtual Library
The Jewish mystical doctrine known as “Kabbalah” (=”Tradition”) is distinguished by its theory of ten creative forces that intervene between the infinite, unknowable God (“Ein Sof”) and our created world.
Through these powers God created and rules the universe, and it is by influencing them that humans cause God to send to Earth forces of compassion or severe judgment.
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria Ashkenazi was an influential leader of the 16thcentury. He delved into the mysteries of Kabbalah and even though there are very little writings from him, his impact of Kabbalah in the Jewish World, is unprecedented. Once a student asked him about the strangeness of Kabbalah and the ten sephirot that make up it’s teachings and he replied, “It is impossible, because all things are interrelated.
These two teachings are similar in their most basic message that energy is the key to the “inner sanctum” kingdom, so to speak. Most of my deepest study came from Kabbalah, however I needed to go into Kundalini to shed my former beliefs. Everyone has their path and I hope this helps you understand my path in the last 10 years and help you find what you seek from within the mystery of your spirit.
Here’s a L’Chaim (to life) to your devotional choices.
Love,
Melinda
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