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The Clean Roots Program
From Suffering to Love Awakening Coaching with Aleksandra
Dharma Mandala ~ Awakening from Suffering to Love
The Clean Roots Program
My welcome letter to you
Dear One,
You know that your childhood was far from perfect, verbal abuse, perhaps
physical violence or sexual abuse, may be even as a child you went through
a big health scare, whatever it was it had an impact on the way you are now
relating to the world, the way you crete your relationships and life. You tried
to work through it on your own, to fit in socially, to hide your wounds, to
work resolve it somehow, to mend the past. You even may have an okay life
now, yet there are these parts of you where you freeze, where the flow of
your life is not so fluent, where you long for a change and do not quite know
how to make it. There are ways in which you wish you could relate better
with your family and have a deeper trust for life.
Let me show you how you can do it.
I have gone though childhood trauma, physical violence, verbal abuse and
later on a very upsetting sexual incident. I was burnt and hospitalized as a
child and later on presented with a chronic illness. I have tried to medicate
myself with various things, to 'move over' the traumatic incidents that have
happened. I have tried to forget it and I have tried to let go of it, I've gone
through therapy and rearranged some of the missing pieces. Yet until I was
able to create a safe space for myself to unravel my psyche and gently look at
it I wasn't getting anywhere.
As a result of my personal journey with trauma I studied and worked as a
nurse for over 10 years, I also spent a decade in Peru working with different
natives from Andes to Amazon in search of healing, I studied yoga, Ayurveda
and coaching, I converted from Catholicism to Buddhism. I integrated my
body mind and soul.
All this brought me to a place of fullness where I was able to really move
beyond the story of suffering and crete a life of joy and pace for myself, as
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well as bring healing to my relationships and commit to a life of embodying
awakening.
Let me show you how easy it can be.
During the nine months of 'Clean Roots' program we will explore the
mandala of your life. Each month we will focus on a particular topic, do
exercise, practices and explore the ways in which you can bring awakening
and your intrinsic peace and true nature to your life. We will look at the ways
we can forgive, release the past and recreate a life. With gentle practices, one
on one support and a community you will also be able to create a thriving
life for yourself.
Your soul has chosen this path of life to bring you closer to aspects of yourself
that otherwise you would have not been able to experience. You came here
as a messenger of Peace to move out of these dark places of suffering and
rediscover love and joy.
"True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of
our wounds: our grief from the past, unfulfilled longing, the sorrow that we
have stored up during the course of our lives... Unhealed pain and rage,
unhealed traumas from childhood abuse or abandonment, become powerful
unconscious forces in our lives. Until we are able to bring awareness and
understanding to our old wounds, we will find ourselves repeating their
patterns of unfulfilled desire, anger, and confusion over and over again."
~ Jack Kornfield
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Are you ready to move beyond your childhood wounding/abuse/trauma - to step
into awakening - to liberate encumbered emotions - to create healthy
relationships - to give voice to your longings - to forgive and connect with
compassion in your life to forge a lasting connection with Spirit/The Great
Mystery - to create a life of beauty and peace?
If so, this is the right place for you.
In this special nine (9) month program you will have an opportunity to be in a
sacred circle with like-minded men and women who had also lived through
childhood trauma/abuse.
Together we will not only create a global community of support, we will also
move into a space of empowerment, forgiveness, love and understanding while we
dive into gentle practices that will open our hearts and make space for encumbered
patterns to be released.
Nine months is the human gestation period, to bring a new life forward and
together we will embark on a journey to 'ReWrite' our individual and collective
stories of abuse and trauma and open the doors for a global dialogue on ending
domestic violence.
You have already tried many things to cope with your feelings, with your
relationships, and with yourself. Some may have been successful, others not so
much. May be you have gone down the path of addictions to numb your feelings
and disconnect from the reality of your experience.
Let me show you and help you to move beyond these paradigms.
It takes a trusted allay to open up to and to explore these realms of the abused
psyche. To understand them and to move beyond them into healthy functioning.
Aleksandra is a professional coach, a retired nurse and a shaman, yogini and a
practicing buddhist.
Through her own determination and commitment to practice and authenticity she
has overcome countless challenges that physical and mental abuse have on a
psyche. The scars of childhood violence are not always visible on the body, they are
very visible in the mind and how we relate with the world.
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Aleksandra knows well the darkest of the darkest depressions, she struggled with
suicidal depression for many years, food addictions and stress, until encountering
powerful medicinal and shamanic plants of the Amazon.
She has been able to not only heal her own mind, but to bring order to her life and
relationships in a playful, compassionate and humorous way.
Through her work with Tibetan Buddhism as well as shamanic practices and
teachings of the Earth she has been able to bring grounding, compassion and
forgiveness to her life.
She is dedicated to supporting people who had gone through childhood trauma
both in her shamanic journeys and her private coaching practice.
The Clean Roots Program is not therapy, there is no pathology or fixing, and
this program is designed to awaken, heal and connect with a much larger context
of our life.
Wherever you find yourself now, as a survivor of childhood abuse is exactly
perfect, we begin right where you are.
You are perfect and you are whole. Right here in this sacred circle you are
supported and held.
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If you say YES to the Clean Roots program you will:
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Be a part of a community of like-minded hearts around the world who
just like you are all looking to step into embodied awakening
Unravel many tightly wound up emotional parts of yourself into clarity,
love and gentleness
Liberate blockages in your self-expression, confidence
Bring a greater understanding of how your particular trauma impacted
your life as an adult
Astonish yourself at the hidden great gifts of abuse
Deepen and discover new practices to manage stresses in healthy ways
Learn how to take care of your mind in a loving, nurturing way
Improve your boundaries, and create as a result lasting and healthy
relationships
Increase your sense of safety and trust in life and create a healthy
support network
Cultivate an embodied sense of your presence, be in touch with your
feelings
Learn how to heed the messages your feelings communicate to you
Discard your relationship to suffering,
Learn and explore how to cultivate more healthy joy and pleasure in
your life, bring a deeper sense of love for your body
Hold a new vision about your life and all that took place in it.
Discern many shadows of abuse and learn how to transform them
Feel more compassion and grace in your life
Learn how to cultivate a life of nourishing conscious practice
Recognize how to re-parent yourself in healthy ways
Discover the hidden messages your inner child has for you
Find the best alternative healing methods for yourself and where you
are at
Deepen and/or start a new dialog with existence (Spirit/The Great
Mystery)
Connect with Love and Peace that already lives inside of you
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It is every humans birth right to have a life of beauty, peace, love
and joy ~ Aleksandra
What You Will Receive
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18 live group coaching calls - 90 min each (2 per month)
18 audio recordings of each class session
9 private (Skype) 60 min coaching sessions with Aleksandra
Weekly email followups
Deepening practices between calls
Peer Mentoring & Buddy Support
Additional resource materials
Practice pdfs
Private FB group/community
Practices and crafts/art
Additional calls with guest speakers (TBA) maximum 3 during the
program
Audio recordings of the bonus calls
- a list of preparation materials will be send out upon registration.
Private Coaching Sessions
During the nine months of group coaching you will also have an opportunity
to drop in deeper with Aleksandra in your private and intimate 1:1 sessions.
These sessions are a necessary anchor for everyone to make sure adequate
support is offered. As we will be exploring very personal aspects of our lives
and issues that are tender and challenging, these coaching sessions are
designed to help facilitate the best possible experience for you with the
program, to bring you closer to your longings and to offer additional support
while the space of safety is held for you to share anything that might be alive
in each of the modules that we will cover.
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PROGRAM OUTLINE
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Mandala 1 - What remains?
We begin our nine month journey right where you are.
In this moment in your life. Sure you are a survivor of
childhood trauma and abuse and you are also a perfect
infinite being. We will examine ways that childhood
trauma has impacted you.
How you see the world, love, relationships, how you see
family. Wherever you find yourself right now is perfect and we will pick up
from this place and take this journey together to see what else remains for
you to look at and address. What keeps coming up and what are the parts of
you that are dormant and untouched as a result of the abuse.
As a group we will create an intention for our journey as well as your
individual intention for the unfoldment of the next nine months. We will
bring in practices and prayers and lots of needed loving grounding to our
time together.
Things we will cover this month are:
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We will look at the gifts of trauma.What
has it brought into your life that you are
aware of that is or could be seen as a
gift?
What wants to express itself?
Where is there stuck-ness?
How do you relate with the world?
What are the visible and invisible scars
of your abuse?
How has the trauma impacted your relationships with others?
Where you don't want to go, what you don't want to look at?
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Mandala 2 - Emotional Body
We will dive in and explore our emotional body. Our
theme will be our language of feelings and we will
investigate and look at the hidden meanings and
messages that our emotions relay to us. We will
consider the possibility to be friends with all our
emotions.
Things we will cover this month are:
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Feelings: The ones you don't want to feel, and
the ones you like to feel.
We will explore the topic of 'emotional'
addiction.
We will look at the yogic principles of Kosha
layers and how we can bring that into our
daily experience of feelings.
Look at practices we can bring into life that
will help to foster a compassionate connection
with our emotional system
We will discuss and explore the topics of
shame, anger, guilt, revenge, humiliation,
victim, doubt, sadness
We will also look into our bodies for clues and cues as to how our
emotions show up.
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Mandala 3 - Buddhist Perspective
In this module we will focus on the principles of
Buddhism. We will explore a radically different view to
the picture of trauma and abuse. We will do practices
to zoom-out of the personal-story and into a much
larger picture of what is, was and could be.
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Things we will cover this month are:
We will explore and see the Soul commitment we took before coming
into this body.
Explore the topic of co-dependant arising and boddhi~chitta
Discuss and do practices around karma and karmic clearing
Explore the mandala of our life as it is now, and what we want to invite
into this mandala
Examine and discard our personal and intimate relationship with
suffering.
Look at ways in which the experience of trauma has conditioned us to
re-create or invite suffering into our lives, we will look and see how we
can learn to be comfortable with healthy love and what does that mean
for you.
We will look at the path of grief and be open to include grief as part of
our life.
As a bonus in this module you will discover your Buddhist birthday and
its significance and how to work with it and use it as a guiding tool in
your life.
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Mandala 4 - Compassion &
Forgiveness
“Every spiritual journey to the heart begins with
forgiveness” - Aleksandra
In this module we will look at compassion and how we
can look deeper within at forgiveness. As a group and
individually we will explore what forgiveness actually is,
how can we make it a consistent part o our life. We will
explore and discuss the topic of healthy boundaries in
the context of forgiveness. Also we will do practices to around re-parenting
ourselves, inviting compassion and love towards our inner child.
Things we will cover this month are:
▪ The Dharma of forgiveness story from my medicine teacher Teresa.
▪ Creating healthy boundaries for yourself.
▪ We will start to create more room for joyful play and grace
▪ How do we nurture ourselves and honour ourselves?
▪ Re-parenting your inner child - practices around this.
▪ Creating a safe place on earth for yourself.
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Mandala 5 - Relationships
This month we will look at all of our relationships. We
will explore the things that work for us in relating with
others and things that do not work for us. We will
explore that and look at it from our inner-chiles
perspective (what worked for us as children, and what
didn't). We will reflect and open the dialog for healing
sexuality and developing a new relationship with touch
and the language of love. We will be discussing as a
group and individually ways in which we can create healthy relationships
that are based on mutual values, love, respect and safety.
We will do a practice on 'Relationship Agreement' where you will have an
opportunity to deepen existing healthy relations and create new ones.
Things we will cover this month are:
▪ How do we create intimacy
with others?
▪ What is our relationships with
our body and how do we relate
to it after the trauma?
▪ What is our relationship with
sexuality?
▪ How to create a life of conscious
practice?
▪ What is your relationship to
safety?
▪ What is your relationships to pleasure and joy in life?
▪ How to deeply honour yourself in all of this.
▪ We will also explore the relationship we have to our story of abuse
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Mandala 6 - Other Wellness Tools
Is domestic violence a disfunction of modern culture? In
this module we will discuss alternative healing
modalities of our ancestors. What was a view point few
thousand years ago on healing. We will look at the way
some native cultures and tribes around the world view
trauma. We will explore our personal relationship with
Spirit and see a variety of options that are available to
bring balance to the psyche after abuse.
We will discuss Yogic science, Ayurveda, Shamanism
and modern therapeutic modalities. We will do
practices and talk about ways to call on Spirit
(God/Goddess) into our lives,
Things we will cover this month are:
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Ayurveda teaches that
we live most optimally
by observing
the cycles of nature,
and utilizing practices
Are these really 'alternative' methods, or is it
that align ourselves
time to embrace our connection with the
with them.
Earth in a different way?
You will have a sense and an understanding as
to whether or not you need other healing modalities,
whom to reach out to (a list of references I trust )
We will explore how our minds and thinking has been impacted as a
result of trauma
How to bring stability to the mind via Ayurvedic practices and tools
and how to remain in touch with reality and out of the story.
How to deepen our trust for the Divine after trauma.
We will explore the outdated models of linear spirituality and look at
ways in which we can connect with the essence of the Spirit itself
Creating relationships with animals and the healing they bring us
How to call in your protectors and ancestors.
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Mandala 7 - Shadow of Abuse
We will dive into the topic of shadow and ways in
which we can transform it, embrace it and make it into
playful art so it is not running our lives. Trauma often
brings a shadow with it and we will look at it and
ways in which we create unhealthy patterns. We will
address the ways in which we numb ourselves from
feeling and additions that we may go into to avoid
facing pain and discomfort. We will bring awakening
and humour to these parts of our psyche and create a freedom and flow.
Things we will cover this month are:
▪ We will learn to hold space for our selves in presence when shadows
come up
▪ We will explore ways in which we disconnect from the trauma and
ways in which we unhealthily crave love
▪ We will put light and humour into this and create a saner place within
our life for the shadow.
▪ We will look at unconscious ways we judge ourselves and our
environment
▪ we will look at practices and tools to alchemize these shadows
into awakening.
▪ We will patch our 'psychic-holes' and look at the face of depression
and its many forms.
▪ How not to be a victim of trauma.
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Mandala 8 - Dialog of Peace
Wherever you may find yourself, it is important that we
learn to discuss what has happened in a context of
creating peace and educating people around domestic
violence. We will explore the relationships we have
with the abusers (primary caregiver & other family
members) Within our safe group, individually and in
private session we will do practices to give voice and
release difficult feelings. Remember we are going for
awakening, for freedom and realization. You will have an opportunity to
create for yourself a reference point about your abuse and the abuser where
forgiveness and peace can happen.
Things we will cover this month are:
▪ Ways to open a dialog about childhood/domestic violence
▪ We will look at the ways we want to talk about it.
▪ We will explore how to bring voice of peace to the surface
▪ Wow do we create peace within ourselves, and our communities
▪ What is your personal truth about what happened? How has your view
and energy around the subject shifted and changed over the last
eight months?
▪ Bringing healing to the family of origin (if it is possible)
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Mandala 9 - ReWriting your story
In this last module we will begin to re-write our
personal story of childhood. We will make a conscious
choice to step out of the paradigm of abuse,
victimhood and create a new life. We will look at
community building, lasting bonds and maintaining
awareness around 'walking-side-by-side' with our
brothers and sisters. We will do closing circle
ceremony as a group and bring integration of all we
have explored and discovered over the last nine months. We will celebrate
our success and our ReBirth into embodied & empowered awakening.
Things we will cover this month are:
▪ Now it is time to rewrite your story, with the channels unblocked and
freedom and compassion flowing through, how do you want your life
to unfold?
▪ How to become the artist of your life?
▪ What message you want to live?
▪ If you were a prayer what would it say?
▪ What is next for you?
Everything you can imagine, is Real ~ Pablo Picasso
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What Aleksandra's clients are saying:
Thank you for yesterday, and for this past year. Your guidance has been
astounding. I see patterns in how I feel afterwards – one day might be rough,
but that is followed by several that are greater. When I look back upon when I
met you a year ago, it amazes me how much I have changed. I am so
thankful I was led to you. Not only have you reached into my physical
ailments, but most importantly, you awakened me from within so I could heal
my spiritual ones. Thank you for listening to my heart and teaching me to
hear its voice. I am putting your tools into practice and am enjoying the
rewards. Giving thanks for your healing gifts. Namaste. ~ Sheree O.
Government Official
Thank you so much. I have such gratitude for the insights and learnings. Many
blessings to you. Thank you for holding such great light, such profound love
and such coeur-age (from the heart en francais) to expand and share this with
the world. Blessings of Bliss ~ Alexina M. Naturopathic Doctor
Working with Maria Aleksandra has had an incredibly positive effect on my
life. Her remarkable intuition and her ability to get to the core of the issues
made me aware of things I didn’t even realize were there. She asked the right
questions and had the right insights at just he right time. Because of my time
spent with her, I am now more present in my life and have the courage to be
more me then I’ve ever been before. I am enjoying working with my
employees more and feel more open with my family. Her understanding, her
compassion and her caring makes her an exceptional coach. I’m very grateful
for my time spent with her. ~ Chantal M. Store manager ...Ále is a person of integrity so it was easy for me to open my mind to the
concept of Awakening Coaching -- when I hit a rough patch during one of our
sessions, I was ultimately confident in her and the process, even if not
confident in myself at the time. Ále brought clarity to words and phrases that
were once foreign to me...The individualized set of practices that Ále chose
for me, brought an awareness within myself that I have never experienced.
The practices broke down communication barriers with my family and
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business partnerships, and helped provide a perspective on how I view things
about myself. The practices are seemingly simple and only take minutes each
day, and essentially helped remove the barriers I unconsciously put on myself.
It is ingenious really how it works! There is nothing I’ve watched, read or
taken part in that has had a bigger impact on my life in such a short period of
time, than the Awakening Coaching sessions with Ále - and the best part of
this is that I realize I have the ability within to do much of this myself!
~ Mark N. COO marketing media
...The tools that I have learned from her have helped me tremendously in
every aspect of my life. Her capacity to see through drama and to work with
the core is amazing. She is like a chef with a sharp knife, cutting everything
down to the truth. Aleksandra's heart is one of devotion. The care and love
that goes into her work is palpable. Her charisma and energy are to be
experienced. ~ Louise F. Café owner
When does it start?
The 'Clean Roots' Program will begin on September 15, 2015
The program lasts over 9 months
It will run every second & last Tuesday of the month at 12:00
PM Lima, Perú time (GMT-5)
the calls are live and last 90 minutes.
Find out what time that is in your location
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Register
Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed!
Your satisfaction is important to me. If you attend all of
the live sessions, participate and do all the homework
assignments (with proof of the work) and do NOT feel
like you have received your money's worth, I will give
you a refund. Please Note: By registering in the program you have filed out &
submitted the waiver form and understand that you are registering in a nine month coaching
program that meats twice a month via live teleclass. All the live group calls (18) are recorded, if
you choose to miss a call. You agree and understand that there are no refunds if you choose not to
participate.
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