A New CD by Mariabruna Sirabella, LMFT

Embracing Change, Transforming Conflict using SoulCollage®
The Art of Making Mándorle

This unique CD offers three guided journeys, based on my long study of yoga and shamanic practice, to help transform conflict into positive change. In the first journey, I guide the listener through a process called "Weaving" in which we can find ways for two conflicting SoulCollage® cards to produce a new image, a new resolution. The second journey is an experience of shamanic drumming at the particular rate that induces a deep and creative state of consciousness. Listeners are guided through the process of yoga nidra (yogic sleep), which is designed to develop the part of the brain that works with images in the third journey.

What is Mándorle?

In art the “Mandorla” (The Almond) is the name given to the segment that appears when two circles partly overlap. The Mandorla is widely found in medieval iconography symbolizing the desire of the human Spirit to heal the fragmentation inherent in duality. We experience this fragmentation more intensely when we are caught between inner opposites, when we feel pulled in two different directions and when conflict interferes with our inner balance. Fear, confusion, angst dominate over balance, clarity and contentment. We so deeply long in those moments for the reconciliation of heaven and earth! Yet, often reconciliation doesn’t occur through choosing, but rather by stepping into the middle ground of the Mandorla. This idea profoundly resonate with SoulCollage’s fundamental concept of the “One and the Many” which invites us not to be polarized by definitions of good and evil, light and darkness, acceptable and unacceptable, and elect instead the exploration of both. Whenever we step into the Mandorla we experience in the least a glimpse of wholeness, receive the gift of synthesis, and sense more intensely our connection to all living things. We may struggle in the beginning, especially if we are facing a long standing dichotomy, but in time the overlap grows larger and what is becoming more whole also becomes holy. We have opportunities to make Mandorle every day and regale ourselves and those around us not only a restorative psychological experience, but also a taste of sacredness. Whenever we make Mandorle in our lives we make peace.

The three ‘exercises’ in this CD are an invitation to make Mandorle, to befriend change and transform conflict into an opportunity for expansion.

Do not listen to this CD while driving or operating machinery as the exercises are designed to induce deep states of consciousness. It is recommended that the exercises not be done one after the other, or even in the same day, in order to allow time and space for integration. These exercises may be a useful adjunct to your morning practice or whenever you set time aside to create or read your SoulCollage® cards.

To Seena Frost for being a source of inspiration, support and playfulness and for being an unrelenting seeker.
To my graduate school teacher at CSUS who taught me the alchemical NLP exercise.
To Jeff Chambers for constructing my drum and tuning in so intuitively into my personal energy.
To the Spirit of the Horse who donated the skin for my drum: you are Here and There.
To the Tuvan Shaman Ai-Chu-Rek for her teachings and encouragement.
To all the Yoga Teachers that have enriched my path, specifically to Gilda Tissino and to Swami Satyananda Saraswati for the trainings in Yoga Nidra.
To Robert A. Johnson for introducing the concept of Mandorla to a wide audience.

HOW TO ORDER

This CD ($14.95) was published  by Hanford Mead Publishers. Any order of five items entitles you to a 20% discount.
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