Living From The Edge Of Awareness

A radically new way to live the “here and now” through the practice of Focusing

“We think more than we can say.

We feel more than we can think.

We live more than we can feel.

And there is so much more still.” Eugene Gendlin

• How can we generate freedom within and from our complex life contexts?
• How can we understand body and language not as an obstacle on the way to transformation but rather as the very path for transition into blessed interactions?

There are movements that only clear awareness can make, freeing us from conditioned/partial/limited perceptions. These movements enable a special process called a “process of steps,” through which “The infinite,” “The Real” is carried forward, and thereby, life is revealed and evolves into new layers.

This is a skill that can emerge only through clear and lucid awareness, which knows how to shift the way in which it is bound to perception.

Living this way is not mysticism in the sense of “mysterious,”… “there,” …” in other worlds”, but rather an action and skill that allows living the wondrous as a life movement. Thus, the here and now becomes a constant possibility of breathtaking revelation.

The phenomenologist and psychologist Professor Eugene Gendlin of the University of Chicago claimed that there are movements that only mystics and artists could do in the past, but today, every person needs them and can do them. He dedicated his life to this and developed two process practices, one is Focusing, and the other is TAE (Thinking At the Edge), which enable every person to carry forward new life processes. For many years, his practices were mainly implemented in the field of therapy or through a therapeutic perspective, but those who delve into his wisdom discover that he is actually proposing a subtle and radical possible evolution for humanity.

After many years of studying and teaching “Gendlin’s project,” we decided to teach his practices from a “broad view” through a crossing to the world of secret and Kabbalah and the world of art. For this purpose, we established the Shakio” institute.

Our aim at the Shakio Institute is to honor this vision by teaching Focusing from a broad perspective, integrating it with ancient wisdom, particularly kabbalistic understanding.