Opening Space for Change

- allowing your question to become a clear, spacious container for the oracle's response.



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You can deepen and strengthen your divination practice, using ancient ways of healing with sound to quiet the inner chatter, attune to your true question, and open up a free, natural flow of listening and receiving.

Are distractions and anxieties starting to get in the way of your intuitive connection - just when you need it most?

You already know that divination can be an extraordinary means of profound change - a way to move smoothly with the dao. Yet - especially at times of radical, unsettling change (and there's plenty of that to go around at the moment) when you genuinely need a reading to speak to you clearly - the anxiety and stress can pile up and get in the way.

So then you can ask another question, or you can read another book (or two, or twelve...), but there comes a point when you realise you're just going in circles - it almost feels as though there's a block between you and your answer, and piling on more points of view isn't helping you to dissolve it.

You need to start at the beginning -

There's a simple reason why this obstruction isn't dissolved by adding in more interpretations:
it's not an interpretive block at all; instead, it comes from the very beginning of the reading process.

There are three basic parts to the reading process:

  1. Opening
  2. Connecting
  3. Integrating

Opening the space for the reading is the first step. You create this space in your attention, intention, and sheer capacity to listen as you mull over your question, and this is where the reading happens. It's easy to see this principle at work with the question you choose: what you ask naturally affects what you can hear in response. But this works on subtler, emotional levels as well -

A cluttered, anxious, obstructed space tends to mean confusing answers that get you nowhere. A free, open space allows the oracle to speak clearly, giving you an answer you can connect with and integrate into your life quite naturally. And that leads to more fluent living and deep and far-reaching change.

(Which, I expect you'll agree, is why we're talking with an oracle at all.)

Introducing Opening Space for Change with Eliana Gilad

This is a live event, using two group phone calls so you can both learn new tools to open the reading space and connect deeply with the response, and also immediately experience how they work on the calls.

We'll be guided by Eliana Gilad, a composer, singer and teacher of ancient healing and transformational music. As well as singing us into a receptive space at the beginning of each call (she describes this as letting the music be sung through her), she'll also share simple ways of using sound vibrations to dissolve blocks and open an inner space for the flow of the reading, attuning and deeply connecting to Source.

A message from Eliana:

Eliana's also offering a gift of music, composed uniquely for the participants in this event. This music is attuned to the intent of opening and holding this 'space for Change' and specifically designed for you to use as you're finding your question for the oracle. The music will be available in mp3 format, so you can download it and have it conveniently with you, whenever and wherever you're divining. (And it'll be recorded not in a studio full of gadgetry, but in an ancient water well system.)

I've found that there's a natural affinity between these ancient techniques for quieting and deepening awareness, and the ways I use and teach of connecting with an oracle. My approach is more verbal, using stories and questions to awaken the imagination and stretch beyond the reach of the intellect. Eliana uses direct, wordless sound to bypass the intellect altogether, and vibration to open up the inner space of your body as instrument - so you experience the question and response physically.

Each call will blend our two approaches together: questioning and imagination to enliven and liberate your dialogue with the oracle; sound and music for the experience of inner shifts.

The blend of our two approaches offers you...

Before I go into more detail, let me just clarify a couple of things that aren't involved:

You don't need to know the I Ching. You can use these techniques with any oracle or any way of receiving answers (and if you don't have a favourite method, we can suggest some easy ways to get started), and they're equally useful to experts and beginners.

You don't need to share your private, personal stuff on the call. The event is specifically designed so you can experience the full inner benefit without having to share a thing - though there will also be time to share reading experiences on the second call if you like.

Oh, and you don't need to be able to sing - actually, you don't have to make any sounds anyone else can hear at all, though we hope you'll say your name when you call in. ;)

What you'll learn and experience

Here are some things you'll learn and experience on the calls, so you can open your own 'space for change' when you need it:

'Opening Space for Change' includes:

Two live calls on Sundays 1st and 8th of February, at 6pm UK time (that's 10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 12 noon Central, 1pm Eastern - click here for other timezones). Each call lasts for about an hour.

You can call in by phone (ordinary long-distance US rates ), or to a special free-to-call Skype number. We recommend you use Skype: it's completely free, and you hear better-than-phone-quality sound.

Call 1: Opening the Space

The gateway into the reading: dispersing inner chatter and anxieties, opening a free flow of listening and receiving, entering quietly and completely into the moment of divination.

Call 2: Attuning and Connecting to the Response

Beyond technical or historical know-how, techniques you can use to wake up your own deeper understanding and experience the reading as an inner shift.

Bonus: high-quality mp3 recordings of both calls to download, keep and listen again. (Useful if something comes up and you have to miss one of the calls.)

Eliana's Opening Music

Specially recorded to support the process of finding the question and centring in it while you divine. In conveniently portable mp3 format.

New Bonus only for the first few to sign up: 'Gift Certificate' for personal support

Support certificate update:
sorry, all sold out.

After you've received a reading and begun to connect with it, the next step is to dive in and explore it to the full, so you can align with it and experience the change it embodies.

So if you're among the first few people to sign up, you'll receive a 'support certificate' that you can use to get further help from either Eliana or myself - whichever you choose - in moving forward with your reading.

Changing Your Thinking in Changing Times:
a follow-up ecourse from Lynne Tolk

Lynne Tolk, the relationship and life coach from LifeDirectionsCoach.com, is very generously offering this ecourse to help you carry forward the insights you gain during the event, and negotiate your changes mindfully.

She writes:

"We all know how difficult it can be to make lasting changes. While change is natural (and inevitable), the ego, seeing it as a threat, throws out no end of blocks. What we have to do, really, is get out of our own way! This e-course contains 4 lessons to help you do just that.
  1. Revealing the Hidden – exercises to uncover the unconscious beliefs that cannot be challenged until brought out into the open.
  2. Seeing From All Angles - exploring just how this prevents the well-being we seek.
  3. Finding the Best Alternative – looking for the variation on the belief that best suits who we really are.
  4. Taking it Out Into the World – consciously assuming the new belief in day to day living to see how it works and begin to establish a new habit.
Email support is included to help you through each lesson."

Lynne's creating this course especially for participants in this event: it's not currently available anywhere else. When it goes on sale after February 8th, it'll be priced at $119 - but it's included with Opening Space for Change at no extra charge.

Spacious Guarantee

You'll experience the deepening, strengthening effect of this event on your divination practice during the calls themselves, but you'll also find it continues to expand during the months that follow. So it makes sense to have an open, spacious guarantee. It's very simple: any time before the end of April, you can just get in touch and ask, and I'll send you your money back right away. There are no conditions, nor any hoops to jump through.

Reserve your place now

The price for the complete Opening the Reading Space event, including both calls and their recordings, the gift of music from Eliana, and the course from Lynne, is just £65 (about $95 or €74).




'And in that place
Where there was hardly a hut to receive this,
A hiding-place of darkest longing
With an entrance-way whose doorposts trembled,
You created for them a temple of hearing.'

Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus I,1