Want to know me better?  Scroll further down to read about my journey, my experiences and thoughts on IoPT

Education :

Childerens wellfare pedagogue, OsloMet
Gestalttherapi (3. year eksam), Norsk Gestaltinstitutt Høyskole, Oslo

Traumatherapeut IoPT, Institutt for traumearbeid, Oslo

Working experience :

Trosterud Treningssenter (institutution for rehabilitation), Gaustad Sykehus (psychiatric hospital for adults), Veksthuset Phoenix House (therapeutic society for drugabusers), Bjerketun Ungdomspsykiatriske behandlingshjem (psychiatric treatmenthome for children) og Norsk Folkehjelp (prosjectleader Norwegian people Aid).

Other education :

• Osho Risk International Therapist training, led by therapists end teachers from Europe og US
• Councelling training, with Dr. med. Fritjof Kraft
• Star Sapphire training, with Roberta De Long
• Essence- og Advanced Essence training, based on Faisal Muqaddam’s Diamond Logos Teachings, med Rafia Morgan, Turiya Hanover og Avikal E. Constantino
• Level 1 og 2, Deepening, og Advanced Trainer at Oneness University, India
• Inner Yoga training, Sri Vast Ashram, India

About me and my realationship with IoPT:

My interest for inner work started when I was quite young. I perceived life as a little dull and meaningless. I loved my work with horses, but apart from that i always felt something missisng. I had friends, but never a feeling of belonging. I travelled quite a bit, but without much enthusiasm. After a minor life crises  when I was 19 years old, I started to understood that what I was looking for was only to be found inside; what I was lacking was contact with myself. Over time I have been deeply fascinated by how we can effect our life by becoming increasingly present with our soul.

Grounding has always been important to me - so important and so difficult that I somehow perceive it as a life lifebuoy. Without grounding life feels very shaky. I followed different teachers (Hanne Bertelsen og Neel Fasting from Vækstcenteret in Denmark among others) - untill I found Osho in my thirties, and for me meeting with Oshos world felt like coming home.

Oshos many physical meditations appealed to me and several years of daily Dynamisk meditation changed my life. For a few years I felt very alive while simultainiously my inside became increasingly silent. Later I have been forced to look in other directions, but Osho is like ground beneath my feet, and will probably always remain my greatest love.

I then expereinced six years of illness and sickbed. After a quite sudden recovery something happened that I subjectivly perceived as a huge and realtively long opening in the heart. For eleven months I lived in a state of intens presence - until the experience crashed in two re-traumatizations episodes, and my intire system closed down again.

At the time I interpret the re-tramatization episodes as something almost random, but illuminated by Franz Rupperts work it has become very clear that it was unprocessed traumas in my nervesystem that led me there. It was an expencive, but necessary learning which i hardly are alone in; only when we combine our spiritual practice with persistent therapeutic work, may we real and lasting transformation happen.

But therein lies a challenge; the deeper we reach inside - the greater demands on therapist and method.

As we keep doing our soulwork the nervesystem will eventually and to a certain extent calm down. Our personality gradually becomes less reactive and thus a bit more constructive. But even after many years of therapy or meditation aur deepest psychological wounds usually stay unreachable in our unconcious and keep buckle legs on us. Our deepest wounds are the early ones and they remain as undercurrents in our lives. They influences most every choice we make and thus how life unfolds.

This is exactly where IoPT in my experience show an extraordinary capasity. The method is designed to produce information and contact with emotions related to early lifeexperiences that are burried so deep that they usually are not available to the conscious mind. Not rarely the method comes up with information that can be traced all the way back to where life started - in the womb.  During a session we are thereby working with the root cause of our problems in a very deep sense.

The method works well both for people that are quite new to inner work and for those who has spent many hours on a meditationpillow.  Every process begins with the client - the "intentiongiver"  -  chooses an issue or a theme by formulating a sentence of intention. The intention will provide the process with a direction, but also a frame to secure that the process is taking on more than the client can handle. Within the frame of the intention the method are able to bring the intentiongiver exactly as deep as he or she is ready ro go.

This is possible only because the method takes advantage of the collective "intelligence" in the room. One of the qualities of this "collective intelligence" I find especially significant is that the workingfield is almost impossible to manipulate. Nor the theraphist, the assitants or by the client him or herself. The more experienced we become, the more refined (cunning) the ego becomes. We will always receive new insights and recognitions, but eventually most every insight will harden and turn into new concepts in the mind. Concepts that can be helpful and supportive, but also limiting when we hold them too tight. Again and again we keep forgetting that nothing is compleatly healthy or true unless it is still alive and open to change. The fact that our workingfield is so unavailable for manipulation is an amazing support to stay open and authentic:

- Again and again I experience that the process is wizer than me. Again and again i am supprized by the angle, a sentence from one of the assistants or a suble precise detale occurring. It challenges, humbles and supports me in remaining open and receptive - both as a client, a therapist, and a human being. 
 
A Selfencounter process is not just an amazing tool for opening up our limitations, but so fascinating and engaging that it excites.  But do not believe me - it can not be described - you will have to try it out to understand.

Welcome to an exciting journey - home to yourself.

Warm regards,

Mariken Nilaya