Date: May 10 -
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Tuition: $1080-$810
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Effortless Presence
The 90 day one-on-one coaching & mentoring relationship--

Life Coaching with presence or awareness at the centre.

How
Did the rose
Ever open its heart

And give to this world
All its
Beauty?

It felt the encouragement of light
Against its
Being

Otherwise,
We all remain

Too

Frightened

(Hafiz)

This is my job, as your coach, to help you relax into effortless presence and to awaken the flame of inquiry. The more you relax, the more power you will have to keep this flame of inquiry burning, brighter and brighter, illuminating all that has been confused, distorted, and hidden away.

What is Effortless Presence?

If you stop right now, and just open to the whole feeling of your existence, right in this moment, without grasping it, or defining it, or using language to describe it; this is presence or awareness.. It is the openness of being: the alive, awake spaciousness that is not separate from anything. It is your core, the essence of your being.

When you rest in awareness or presence, you cannot find a fixed and solid self. In the natural freedom of presence, you begin to express yourself in a way that is open, alive, and fully engaged with life. You discover a very different sense of your own being. Who you are is fluid, dynamic, no longer fixed or limited by what has happened or not happened in the past. All of this reveals itself, bit by bit, through resting as you are, and through the power of inquiry.

Presence/awareness transmits a well-being that is natural, intrinsic and obvious.  Sometimes it feels very ordinary. You realize that it is you who is radically responsible for your own
well being. You no longer need to look to others for happiness and fulfillment.

You can feel the dynamic aspect of awareness as a bold and creative spirit that is waiting to express itself in you, through you, in each moment. The good news is that presence is not something you have to create from scratch. It is already alive in you, as your most natural state. But it has not been recognized, called forth, and encouraged to reveal itself. That’s what we will do in our work together. It’s a bit like fanning a flame, a movement of consciousness, a flow that moves instinctively towards liberation, towards embracing reality as it is.

The more you rest in each moment, the more freely you engage in inquiry, the more you will come to rely on the ease and the clarity of awareness as an ongoing source of integrity, stability and courage.

A client expresses:
“ I feel very fortunate that Shayla agreed to become my coach during the Radiant Mind course. She came to me during a time that was very difficult, and was exactly the person I needed coaching me through that. I do believe that along the spiritual path, when I stop, am still, and listen, the right answer comes to me. Sometimes, that answer is in the form of another person. That form was Shayla and for that I am very grateful. She is very clear, direct, and listens with great compassion.” (L.B. Vancouver BC, March 2011)

What is this coaching & mentoring relationship?

The Evolutionary Conversation
Coaching is a container for a life-changing conversation, a conversation in which you discover renewal and resilience, in which you are deeply nourished and also challenged. Nourished by an unconditional acceptance, that respects you just as you are. Challenged to demonstrate that you can be truly responsible for your life, for what you care for, for being in good relation, and happy to hold yourself accountable for all of this.

This is a conversation is which we participate together. Here is an opportunity to exercise our love, clarity and courage, no matter how dormant, to water it with the light of our awareness, and watch it grow. Happiness lies in the recognition of this possibility, this way of being with ourselves, with each other, and with our planet. In this perilous time, we need to reach out, to offer whatever we have, to receive what is given.

Such conversations dissolve anxiety, doubt, rage, and grief. We do have the power to awaken each other, to call forth a loving, fearless presence, in the midst of all we struggle with daily.
Why hold back? Why sit alone in the night when our challenges are enormous, and the times are full of turbulence?

A client who is engaged in the 90 day program speaks about it:
“I am going to attempt to describe the indescribable.
When we chat, something in me is aware that what is being exchanged is beneath the words.
And in between sessions you are still there. You never go away.

What have been the effects on me and my life?
That’s difficult to isolate really, especially since I sense this is all working at a level which my mind can neither grasp nor describe.
I will say there has been a feeling of becoming “unstuck”; simply that, “unstuck”. And that started happening immediately after our very first conversation.
Unstuck? Hmmm. Able to keep growing, deepening, relaxing, opening, accepting… with a new CONFIDENCE” (Kathy B Vancouver, BC, June 2011).

What will I receive?
90 days of Engagement
Over this 3 month period, the two of us will join together to form an alliance that supports your awakening and evolution. You will discover how to recognize your essential being as indivisible presence, and how to begin living from this presence, as a fully functioning human being.

This is not about traditional or therapeutic ways of ‘working’ on yourself. This is about the power of awareness/presence, of acceptance, of meeting yourself and your own experience exactly as it is. In this embrace, this space of openness where struggles fall away, you discover another way of being, of perceiving, and of relating.

During our sessions we will engage in powerful inquiry into deep structures of belief about yourself, others and your whole relationship to life. Our ongoing dialogue will reveal many things to you about hidden attitudes, and the relationship between thoughts, feelings and actions. As a result, you will find yourself participating in a totally new kind of relationship with the people in your life, learning to say No when you mean No, to ask for what you want-- to communicate with clarity, kindness and deep respect. You will discover for yourself what love is, instead of relying on what society has told you about it. 

The truth is that the past does not really limit you, No matter what has happened to you, you are not a victim. You create your own suffering, moment to moment, and so does everyone else.  When you finally awaken to this, new possibilities emerge, far beyond the limited visions of your survival mind. You will gain great confidence in your power to deal with your afflictive emotions, because you can see the beliefs and perceptions that create and sustain them. Your need to judge, label and control them will gradually disappear, and you will be able to meet each wave of feeling as your own life energy, a source of power that you can now reclaim.

Transforming the Matrix
The power of inquiry increases exponentially, the more we use it. In the beginning we need help, support and specific structures to awaken inquiry from within us. Even if we know how to rest in the openness of presence, even if we can let go and release the need to know and understand, we still return, again and again, to the basic structure of our conditioned identity. Until we allow inquiry to penetrate our core beliefs about who we are, what life is, and what relationship is. When inquiry reaches this depth, it feels like the matrix of our identity is being transformed. All we need is the willingness to investigate, the humility to see what is going on in our life, and the persistence to keep going, not to give up.

Well I must admit that life with you as my coach is sort of like falling down a mountain. The farther you fall, the faster you roll. I must say I am moving along at lightning speed.”
(Marian Hughes,Toronto, June 2010)

What is the Format?
Full Spectrum Engagement
The nature of our coaching relationship will support you, as you are, in the unique nature of your challenges, gifts, capacities and longings.The work you do in this program emerges from our sessions and from your life. 

You will receive:

• Practices that support you in recognizing and abiding in the nature of naked awareness..
• You will discover your own way of engaging in inquiry, learning how to access the depths of your natural wisdom, insight and clarity.
• You’ll learn how to inhabit your body from the core, and listen to its intelligence.
• In our dialogues, you will encounter the healing and liberating power of free expression.
• We will work with simple templates that will help you integrate this process of awakening and transformation.
• You’ll receive information, inspiration and guidance about building a network of support for yourself, a community of friends and allies.  Your progress in this area will be mapped out, including whatever structures you need to put in place to nourish and encourage your growth and development.

I’ll also provide you with:
• Reading material designed to keep you connected to this work and your willingness to transform.
• Your own coaching document, where I keep a log of each session and of all of your inquiry, dialogue, and practices.

All sessions are completely confidential. You’ll receive a signed and dated confidentiality agreement from me, at the beginning of our engagement.

All of our coaching sessions can be recorded, if you want. To get a recording, we both use my Instant Teleseminar conference line. You can call in from your landline, or if you don’t want to pay long distance fees, you can call in with skype call phone. Then you’ll receive an MP3 recording after each of our sessions.

Endorsement
“Shayla is a master coach. The breadth of her coaching expertise is outstanding. Shayla guides people through the challenges of being human, creating a career, and living fulfilling relationships in an extremely sensitive, powerful and loving way. She works in many modalities and at every level, including bringing people the “ultimate medicine” of recognizing their true nature. Every meeting with Shayla is informed by her wealth of life experience and her own uncompromising commitment to personal and spiritual growth. Shayla is an inspired and inspiring coach. I recommend her without any reservation.” (Peter Fenner, Phd, teacher and founder of the Radiant Mind Course)

What are the fees?
The 90 day Coaching Plan
Level 1: Three one hour sessions per month, or a schedule of your design, 9 sessions in all, for $1080 CAD
(You save over $100 in this program, instead of doing the regular one on one sessions with me, which are $130/hour)

Level 2: Three 45 minute sessions per month, or a schedule of your design--9 sessions in all, for $810 CAD
(You save $72 in this program, instead of doing the regular one on one sessions with me, which are $98/45 minutes.)

These fees include all taxes and paypal fees. 

You can pay me in one payment, or in three smaller ones.
For Level 1: 3 payments of $375 CAD
For Level 2: 3 payments of $280 CAD

How do I schedule an Introductory Session?
You can call me or email me to schedule a free 30 minute. Introductory Session with no commitment.
To get my contact information, click here :Shayla’s phone and email http://www.barefootjourneys.net/index.php/profile

How do I pay?
Once you decide that you want to do the program, you just register on my website. I’ll send you an email invoice. You can send me a check for the sessions, or you can click directly on the invoice, which will take you to my paypal account. 

About Shayla
Shayla Wright is a lover of presence, inquiry, evolution, and nondual intimacy. She participates in life as a teacher, a master coach, a writer, and an evolving human being. She has spent a lifetime studying and teaching inquiry, creativity, expression & communication, and the transformation of consciousness. She worked with Mother Teresa in her children’s homes, and in her Home for the Dying in Calcutta. She has studied intensively with Joshu Sazaki Roshi, Osho, and Adya Shanti. She was a senior teacher and coach in her community in the Himalayas, the International Meditation Institute, where she lived for 23 years. She has a doctorate in non-dual philosophy, a teaching degree in Soma Yoga, and is a certified coach.

Her current focus is on supporting the full embodiment of unconditioned presence, in the midst of human life. She offers a radical approach to working with couples, and facilitates small groups who engage in ‘evolutionary conversations.’ She offers her own coaching, courses and workshops in Canada, and is now engaged as a nondual coach and facilitator with Peter Fenner and the Radiant Mind course, with people from all over North America and Europe.

For more information visit the coaching and nondual coaching sections at www.barefootjourneys.net

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