Women and Consciousness Series 
hosted by Renate McNay

On April 23rd, Renate McNay hosted Conscious TV's first Women and Consciousness Series with guests Ellen Emmet 

To read about Ellen Emmet and her background:
http://conscioustv.blogspot.ca/2013/04/an-interview-with-ellen-emmet-women-and.html

and Marlies Cocheret

To read about Marlies Cocheret and her background:
http://conscioustv.blogspot.ca/2013/04/conscious-tvs-women-and-consciousness.html

Here is Renate's full interview with Marlies and Ellen on 'The Feminine Face of God'

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An Interview with Ellen Emmet 

Women and Consciousness Series hosted by Renate McNay
April 23, 2013

Extracted from Ellen Emmet's website: http://www.ellenemmet.com/about/

Ellen was born in NYC and raised in Paris, growing up in an American household while attending a French school. 

As a child,  she was always moving and dancing, abandoning her body to music, running with the wind, rolling on the earth. She was in love with the joy that the body dissolved into when moving and dancing.

During that time, Ellen often felt a sense of disconnection between her real experience and the way life was reflected back and explained to her by parents and teachers. She read fairy tales and wrapped herself in the mystical aura surrounding certain aspects of her catholic school upbringing.

In adolescence and into her twenties, Emmet acutely felt and enacted suffering through her body, struggling with an eating disorder and depression. She embarked on a desperate search for healing through various modalities of therapy and also in the spiritual world.

Dance Movement Therapy attracted her in its acknowledgement of the numinous and unitive wisdom inherent to direct experience through the body and pointed her towards a more natural understanding of healing.

In her early 30’s Ellen traveled to India. There, in the Ashram of Chandra Swami, sitting in Anandamayee Ma’s Samadhi, or walking up to the source of the Ganges, she was deeply touched by a quality that resonated with the longing in her heart. The ultimate answer was still out of reach but she knew that there was something, a truth, a home towards which she had been un-knowingly directing all her energy.

The answer came a few years later when she met Francis Lucille. The first words she heard him speak were: “Consciousness knowing Itself”. These words ignited a direct recognition in Ellen's heart, a resounding silent “Yes!” and ushered in the next chapter of her life.

During the years that followed, she spent as much time as she could with Francis, attending retreats, sharing conversations, experiencing body awareness sessions, and spending lovely ordinary moments with him and many others friends. This was a period of active exploration of the understanding that her true nature is pure, open, unlimited, un-located awareness, while deeply investigating layer upon layer of beliefs in the mind and feelings in the body that seemed to oppose this understanding.

Today, Ellen lives in Oxford alongside her husband Rupert Spira, whose pure and luminous teaching never ceases to deepen her understanding. She continues her practice as a Psychotherapist and Authentic Movement facilitator allowing her background of Dance-Movement Therapy and Transpersonal Psychology to be permeated by and to express the non-dual understanding. She also offer Non-dual Yoga sessions in the tradition of Kashmir Shivaism, exploring our true nature at the level of the body. 

Extracted from Ellen Emmet's website: http://www.ellenemmet.com/about/

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Ellen will be one of the guests on the panel Renate McNay will be hosting as part of Women and Consciousness Series on Conscious TV on April 23rd.

If you have any questions you'd like us to ask Ellen on your behalf, please do let us know by leaving a comment here on our blog or contacting us through our e-mail conscioustvblog@gmail.com or our Facebook page under Conscious TV.

Until then, you are more than welcome to  listen to an interview Renate conducted with Ellen in 2011. 

An Interview with Marlies Cocheret

Women and Consciousness Series hosted by Renate McNay 
April 23, 2013

Extracted from http://www.marliescocheret.com/about.html

Marlies was born and raised in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She was driven by wanting to know "what is this life about" and in her twenties, she spent a year in India and studied with Osho who taught her about meditation and the Beingness that we all are. That experience changed her life completely. She knew what she was searching for was found. She had arrived home. 

When she returned to the Netherlands, she completed her Master's Degree in Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She trained for a year in a therapeutic community and then went to France to work with troubled teens and adults who had experienced family abuse. During this period, she studied and worked extensively with Barry Long, an Australian western tantra teacher.

When she was back in the Netherlands, she continued her western tantra training with Carla and Viram Verberk, continuing in the US with Charles and Carolyn Muir to become a certified tantric educator, CTE. A lot of her sacred sexuality work is rooted in their teachings. 

In 1994, she moved to Santa Cruz, California, where she met her root teacher, Adyashanti, a teacher from the Zen Buddhist tradition. In 2000 Adyashanti asked her to teach the dharma.

"I have no words for the deep love and support for the spiritual unfolding Adya has given me. He is an example of living an ordinary life as an awakened householder." MC

In 1999, Marlies started her two-year Hakomi training, then she assisted in the Hakomi training in San Francisco for three years, two years of which she was lead assistant. In 2003, she became certified in Hakomi. 

In these past few years, she has studied with Daniel Odier, a Chan master and Kashmirian tantric master; two traditions that have touched her deeply. Lama Tsultrim Allione, who is deeply rooted in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, has also deeply touched Marlies.

Marlies is dedicated to the service of others. She loves to be with people in the deep process of Truth. What permeates all her work is her love for dance; West-African and traditional dance from Congo Brazzaville, NIA and authentic movement. In dance her purpose is to bring Stillness to life. She's gives thanks to her dance teachers, Debbie Nargi-Brown, Alasane Kane, and Vivien Bassouamina.

"There is immense gratitude for all my teachers, who they are and what they teach. I bow in deep gratitude for all that is given and taken away." MC

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Marlies will be one of the guests on the panel Renate McNay will be hosting as part of Conscious TV's Women and Consciousness Series on April 23rd.

If you have any questions you'd like us to ask Marlies on your behalf, please do let us know by leaving a comment here on our blog or contacting us through our e-mail conscioustvblog@gmail.com or our Facebook page. 

Until then, you are more than welcome to  listen to an interview Renate conducted with Marlies in May of 2012. 

An interview with John Rowan 

John Rowan started to work in the Transpersonal field in 1982 and he wrote the book, 'The Transpersonal: Spirituality in Psychotherapy and Counselling'. He also co-wrote, 'The Therapist's Use of Self' arguing  that the transpersonal has a unique contribution to make in the therapy field. 

He has been exploring the higher levels of mysticism since 2003 and has written several papers with detailed arguments which have been published. He has mounted transpersonal workshops in 25 countries and is a regular contributor to EUROTAS conferences. 

In this interview, we will explore the Centaur, Subtle, Causal and Nondual states and demonstrate the differences between these stages. 

"In my daily work as a psychotherapist, I attune myself to the client’s way of being in order to get on to the same wavelength, so to speak. I am what has been called ‘an authentic trickster’ in the sense that I can genuinely match the client’s level of consciousness at all times. In other words, I do not claim to be a dedicated mystic who is always at, say, the nondual level of consciousness.  I would rather claim to be able to enter that state at will or as appropriate.’ John Rowan

You can listen to Iain McNay's latest interview with John Rowan 

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