What Students Are Saying
Ellen B.
"This wonderful instrument (the Diamond Body Practice) has enrichened my life and my practice in a way that I couldn`t ever imagine. It provides a way to explore and to do an inquiry by aligning in and with the body… to open up to feelings, sensations and patterns and to express itself, which can lead to deep understandings."
Anna Maria R.
"What feels clear to me is that each movement is like a container or vehicle that allows a manyfold of experiences that are related to different parts of the teaching. That feels like a lovely field of exploration…"
Eme C.
"I have practiced almost every day for the past two weeks and it has truly transformed the way I inhabit my body - I feel very grateful!"
Ilja T.
"I find this practice as valuable as sitting meditation. I find that awareness is sustained much more easy during daily life, where movement happens all the time. A great doorway to come back to myself.
Each movement is like a universe opening up, curiosity arises from within, and I feel lighter."
Janice M.
"What stands out for me these days is how much I feel the movements being informed by the logos of (the Diamond Approach) Path. I can’t tell you what I specifically know yet except that I can sense the teaching being in the movement and the movement being informed by the teaching. So I’ve been curious about this. I do other movement practices and I don’t feel our logos coming through."
Janice C.
"With inquiry, my attention has become more direct with attending to & incorporating my body as a major part of my inquiry. I have a trust & respect in its intelligence.
I now have an awareness of the Logos involved & a more direct relationship with the elements that are within & part of the Diamond Path.
This Practice has become one of the most important practices to & for me as a support in my life & as a support for & in the Diamond Path. For me its value has become priceless & immeasurable."
Christine F.
"The DBPractice has become very special to me. What I notice is a deeper sense of being in my body all the time. Having lived in this body for so many years as a highly trained dancer/yogi it is a relief and a blessing to have a practice that really asks nothing more than presence and landing in my felt sense in all its subtle dimensions. I experience myself as a fleshy, fluid, plumpness, moving and flowing and at home in this dear and miraculous vessel and the nuances of experience are more accessible because I am here."
Monique M.
"The Diamond Body practice has supported my experience of embodiment, of being an alive, vital organism that is love itself. Different parts of the practice help me in moments during the day when I remember – Sensing through the sun breath, or moving as a wholeness or feeling the alignment (or not!) of my centers. I highly recommend this practice as a way to bring your realization into your physicality and into the world"
Marleen M.
"It feels as if I am just starting to touch on the potential of DBP; what it means to live a completely embodied spiritual life, in regular daily life; where the DA Teaching is my basis and DBP is opening that form, more than any other practice I did: an unfolding in an unending inner movement, being a ‘new’ form of inquiry."
Julia D.
"It took me a while to warm up to the Diamond Body practice. Now I practice every morning before meditation and find it a real and profound support for contacting presence and remembering what I am inside and beyond the physical. Frequently, through the first two movements, I find myself quite palpably a body of light. No longer an object, my body becomes a location of luminous, liquid presence. This transformation is profound given how pervasive and “normal” it is to relate to our bodies as things….. I now find the Diamond Body practice an amazing tool to shift from “thing” conditioned and burdened by society’s images to living luminous consciousness. This shift did not happen right away when I was learning the practice, but is now a regular occurrence as my practice has developed."
Barb S.
"The more I do the DBP, I experience the alignment of our path more embodied and integrated in myself. I feel the integration with the horizontal direction of my everyday life
with the vertical, spiritual guidance, as the practice feels like a dialectic between the two. And I love and appreciate my body more, helping to shift my superego away from
seeing it as deficient or 'in my way' to an appreciation of just being alive in my body!"
Hyun N.
"It’s so embodied that the spiritual experiences really land and integrate. As someone with a long history of disassociation I would go numb for a couple of days after experiencing presence in meditation or with transmissions or after a teaching weekend or a private session with my teacher. But experiencing presence and soul in movement and bodily mudras doesn’t make me shut down afterward. I feel closer to my essence. The separation between my awake self and essence is diminishing.
I’ve been in awe of the DB practice and frankly, it’s my ultimate favorite spiritual practice within DA and among other wisdom traditions as well."
Chae M.
"Terrific! Words escape me but the Diamond Body Practice has widened the portal into a neighborhood of the soul not known to me."
Meirav S.
"I have been deepening my felt-sense of understanding of DBP in the past two years. Each time I practice there is something else to be revealed. Having our own body practice as a Spiritual School feels so complete to me in a meaningful deep way. As if my Soul knows the truth of it. Learning (the DBP) activated new pathways of sensing and listening to body parts in subtle ways. Ongoing inquiry with and in body movements of DBP feels like discovering a new map of wisdom to me."
Tuyet C
"The practice has landed me more in the immediacy and intimacy of my experience, noticing how Presence can be felt in every cell of my body. (It) has contributed to the deepening of my meditation practice bringing more connection to the Kath, to the ground. The DBP offers the opportunity to discover the potentials and possibilities of living life through an awakened body. Very precious, magical, and fun!"
