Living Awareness

Awareness is

• the source and ground of all our experience.
• the basis of our learning and knowing,
• the key to accomplishment in action,
• our true nature, the Self itself, reflector of all that is.

At Nirarta, we treat Self-knowledge, not as some distant and ever receding goal, but our immediate birthright, here and now.

Together, we explore ways of coming home directly to this creative source, so that we can enjoy peace and freedom within, while acting with clarity, delight, and dynamism. This is Living Awareness – Awareness that is both alive and lived, here and now.

Way of Unfolding

Things become what they are through the natural evolutionary process we term 'Unfolding'

Sensitivity to pattern and growing alignment with the deeper pattern of our lives help our personal unfolding to resonate with the process or 'Way of Unfolding' in life as a whole.

When this happens, we enjoy and support fullness in life, both in ourselves and in others. We flow with the stream of life, and are able to accomplish much with minimum striving. Life supports us as we support life.

Transformational Coaching

Transformational Coaching helps strengthen the key relationship between:

• Performance – what we are accomplishing, and
• Alignment – how we are approaching our performance.

The Transformational Coach proceeds with a lot of sensitivity to the unfolding pattern of the client's life, helping him or her

• identify and make simple internal changes,
• deepen learning and understanding,
• grow and develop as a whole person.

Awareness Meditation

Awareness is the source and ground of all our thinking, feeling, and perceiving. It is the basis of our learning and knowing, and hence the key to effectiveness in action.

The purpose of meditation is to allow mental activity to settle into that simple and subtle Awareness which reflects all our experience. At first this Awareness is glimpsed fleetingly, revealing itself eventually as our true nature and Source of all that is.

Awareness Meditation involves gentle, innocent settling into our own being, without effort or attempts to stop thinking and ‘concentrate’.

Peter is a meditation guide with close to 40 years of experience practising and teaching meditation.

Re•Patterning

In Re•Patterning we explore the patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour recurring in our lives, until core patterns and assumptions about ourselves or our world emerge.

This process helps identify where our deep beliefs about self and world are interfering with our general well-being and ability to function harmoniously and successfully in daily life.

Through Re•Patterning, we can revise these unhelpful patterns and assumptions, so as to bring them into harmony with our inner being. This supports the natural process of unfolding in our lives.

For more on this topic, see the page Re•Patterning.

Seminars

In Seminars at Nirarta, small groups come together to support change, learning, and growth, in themselves and each other.

Generally, a short presentation by the facilitator is followed by an activity for pairs, trios, or the individual to seed experience.

Shared reflection in pairs, trios, and in the group as a whole helps deepen and integrate the change, learning, and growth that emerges.

While there is a conceptual component to our seminars, the emphasis is primarily on lived and shared experience, so that learning is embodied in the person as a whole.

Retreats

Since earliest times, people have taken time alone in silent vigils and retreats to places of power, beauty, and silence, often in remote caves, shrines, and hermitages in mountain, forest, and desert.

Retreats have helped them – and can help you, too – to:

• Resolve dilemmas
• Clarify purpose
• Attain a new vision
• Gain fresh energy, courage, and strength
• Align heart, mind, spirit, and passion
• Connect with the Divine Other
• Listen to your small, still voice
• Know the true Self

Retreats, in short, are an ideal way to unleash the power of deep transformation, accelerate inner awakening, and ease our path of unfolding.

Nirarta

Nirarta is named after Danghyang Nirarta, a great 16th century sage, who did much to shape Balinese Hinduism. Teaching and founding temples on his many wanderings, he blended Shaivist tradition with the Buddhist heritage received from his father, earning the title of ‘Dwijendra’ or ‘Two Paths’.

His name ‘Nirarta’ means literally ‘Wealth in that which is not’. His name points to the knowledge that springs from the simplicity of Unknowing, the abundance abiding in the silent source life itself.

The Nirarta Centre, too, brings two paths together. It aims to provide a bridge between the knowledge and insights of the West and the deep wisdom woven into the colourful fabric of Bali.