While living your beautifully ordinary life, do you feel a longing for more?
A yearning for a deeper connection to life, a desire for wholeness?
If you are interested in exploring this calling, we invite you to a deeply transformative study of
Nondual Kabbalistic Healing.
What is Nondual Kabbalistic Healing?
Nondual Kabbalistic Healing (NKH) is a deeply nourishing and transformative healing modality that integrates many paths: 13th century Kabbalistic wisdom, Buddhist thought, current theories of quantum physics, modern psychological insight, and teachings of nonduality. It was developed by Jinen Jason Shulman, a modern healing master, contemporary Kabbalist, and recognized Buddhist teacher who has seamlessly integrated theistic and non-theistic spiritual thought and practice, uniting work on the personal self- with all its suffering and beauty- with the spaciousness and emptiness of the impersonal.
Nondual Kabbalistic Healing (NKH) training is a revolutionary new healing paradigm based on the direct transmission of Jason Shulman’s profound realization of the nondual nature of reality.
NKH is the most in-depth training offered by A Society of Souls, encompassing four years of classes and a palette of 16 healings. The curriculum weaves the ancient wisdom of the Kabbalah, including the Tree of Life and the Four Universes, with Buddhist thought, the insights of quantum physics, a Western psychological understanding of the human condition, and the teachings of nonduality, into a deeply transformative healing modality. The work of NKH descends to the essential levels of creation.
At these levels of creativity, both the healer and the one being healed unite in a profound relationship in which the natural state of healing returns. True relationship is the fundamental condition of our work. Instead of purifying ourselves of all our difficult parts, we seek healing by learning how to be in profound and kind relationship with all that is, including our imperfections. In this way dynamic change is given an abiding home in the totality of our being.
This transformation is at the heart of NKH training. Our goal is ultimately to become more human and to learn to share our humanity with others. While we will learn many techniques, our journey together will not be technique driven. Rather, our aim is to deepen our understanding of our true selves and enhance our ability to hold new states of consciousness that will allow us to help heal others and be compassion-in-action.
Year One
In Year One, we are invited into the larger community of A Society of Souls, a community devoted to the work of healing ourselves, others and the world. From the first day of class, we begin to form an intimate community that will support us throughout the training.
In Year One, we immerse ourselves in the understanding that relationship is the fundamental condition of this universe. Everything exists in relationship, and it is only in learning how to be in relationship with who we are, as we are right now, with our imperfections and suffering, that we can truly heal.
We begin the work of healing the personal self, which includes learning to engage with questions around the nature of life and death, reclaiming our kinesthetic sense, our natural ability to be awake in our bodies and the deconstructing of the historical wounding of our childhood and cultural beliefs and patterns that keep us locked in separation, including our relationship to time and space and the unknown.
All of the meditations, exercises and practices of Year One are designed to awaken and heal the personality and the unhealed ego, the one who sees himself/herself and the world through the eyes of a separate-only being.
During this year, we become more embodied, more present and more whole as we reclaim our original and authentic ways of knowing and living.
The work of Year One sets the stage for our introduction to the language of Nondual Kabbalistic Healing as we create the inner conditions necessary to be able to hold the states of consciousness that will be taught in years two through four.
Year Two
Year Two of training is one of depth, insight and revelation as we begin to delve into the Kabbalah, the mystical vision of the creation of the universe, the process of manifestation and its depiction of the Etz Chayyim or Tree of Life and its relevance to our life here and now.
The Tree of Life is a living, dynamic description of the relational matrix of opposites in the ongoing, ever-present unfolding of creation. The Four Universes and the Tree of Life—explored in the second year—reveal to us the nature of reality as finite and infinite, holographic and linear, and by so doing, reveal our human destiny. We also now begin to go deeply into the Nondual Kabbalistic Healings themselves.
On a personal level, in Year Two we continue to discover what it means to be in a healing relationship with ourselves, including the aspects of ourselves that we abandoned in order to survive our childhood wounds. We look deeply at healing the personal self from the vantage point of the new material we are learning together, including the relationship of opposites and the nondual nature of reality.
We learn to stop trying to rid ourselves of the imperfections and struggles of being an ego personality and discover the importance of healing the ego instead. We learn to heal with compassion and kindness through inviting in aspects of ourselves, rather than attempting to cut them out. We discover the importance of healing the ego and holding ourselves with tenderness and respect.
We learn, perhaps for the first time, that the ego, when healed or returned to its proper form and place, becomes a place of great holiness and wholeness in relationship to all that is. We receive a glimpse of what it means to be made in the image of God and live as an awakening being.
Year Three
Year Three of the training is profoundly exciting and healing, as students begin to integrate various aspects of the first two years’ teachings into a new dynamic whole and are guided into using this foundational understanding to the explore the world of healing and awakening in deeper and more fundamental ways.
In this year, we drop further into the understandings of NKH, exploring the theory, principles and truth of the Kabbalah, as well as other diverse paradigms, ranging from ancient Egyptian thought to recent advances in quantum physics and modern psychological insight, all held within the understandings of the nondual nature of reality. We begin to awaken in a real way, in our day to day lives, to the relationship of the relative world of the personal and the world of the absolute or emptiness.
A main focus of Year Three is learning the Diagnostic Process of NKH and eight healings, which go directly to the heart of what it means to be a human being. The Diagnostic Process is an exquisite healing process in and of itself, bringing the healer and the client into ever deepening levels of relationship and intimacy. The Diagnostic Process is compassionate action. In the Diagnostic Process, both the healer and client awaken in relationship and, in so doing, invite in new and profound levels of possibility and healing.
Unlike most diagnostic schemas, the NKH diagnostic process is based on our ability to perceive our clients in all of their complexity, rather than reducing them to their symptoms in order to characterize them. Through practice in dyads and small groups, we learn that when we are receptive to all forms of information and to what is now occurring in relationship, then the holographic nature of the universe is revealed, so that both client and healer are healed. At this level of training, we are now practicing NKH healings in the world and receiving supervision with an NKH supervisor.
As we come to practice, understand and eventually master each of these healings—and as we experience the roles of both healer and client—the NKH healings usher in profound shifts and changes in our personal lives and consciousness—changes we could not have imagined or perhaps even understood before. As we deepen into these healings, we gain confidence that we will be able to assist others in making similar shifts in their lives.
Year Three fulfills the promise of deep personal transformation. Palpable, visible and sometimes dramatic, this transformation occurs on all levels of our being. We have a much more accurate understanding and relationship to who we are and where we are, and we can see more clearly where our work lies ahead of us on the path of healing.
By the end of Year Three, we are very different people than we were when we arrived on the first day of training. Moreover, our understanding of the nature of reality has undergone a similarly alchemical shift. There is a new sense of freedom to be who we are and to engage with life as a whole.
Year Four
The work of Year Four begins the work of uniting our personal self with the transcendent or impersonal aspect of reality.
In this year, we learn an original moving meditative practice called Impersonal Movement or IM and the advanced healings of NKH. This year focuses on setting up the conditions for us to be able to live and work from the unitive or nondual state of consciousness and brings us a direct experience of our fundamental nature, which is the union of the personal and the impersonal.
Years One through Three are designed to bring us deeply in touch with the personal and with the territory of the unhealed ego. The unhealed ego has its ground in our individual stories and, most particularly, in that which still lies unresolved within us: the places where we do not feel at peace, where we are still in conflict around the pain of our personal lives, the unfolding of our own journey and our relationships with ourselves, others and the world.
In Year Four, we make a shift into direct experience of the impersonal and then into three healings which are seated at the interface between the personal and the transcendent. The practice of IM increases our understanding of the unitive state and sets up the relationship for us to be able to engage in the advanced healings.
Now the personal ego self finds it is no longer the center of the world. We learn to engage with and accept that we will always be a work in progress. Our personal work never ends. It is an ongoing part of being human.
We come into the understanding that our life is a process, an ongoing journey of revelation, healing and awakening. The work that we have been doing throughout the four years now reveals itself as the healing path it has always been. Now, we can take up full self-responsibility for the process of our unfolding, in relationship to all of life, including our happiness and an ongoing relationship to God, wholeness, reality. Now we can live into what we’ve always been, a human being whose true nature is compassionate action.