Leanora Rose founded Embody Truth in 2012 as a way to support an integral approach to awakening and embodiment.  The work is originally inspired through a personal awakening and culminates into a coherent and disposable map helping others navigate the terrain.  Using a direct felt sense experience a somatic meditation practice supports unification, integration, and embodiment of all phenomena (traumatic material, identity, essence, back to stillness).

Leanora Rose provides one-on-one sessions,  for those awakening as well as online group programs for ongoing practice, learning, and support.

Born in Africa she has lived in seven countries, including London, and California.  A life of contrasts, from farm girl to corporate America, a variety of careers, from IT to cottage industry within a land-based, permaculture project in New Zealand for 25 years.  She currently resides in Ubud, Bali.

• Website: embodytruth.com
• Facebook Page
• Youtube Channel

Interview recorded January 17, 2020

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction to Buddha at the Gas Pump
• 00:05:07 – A Prayer for a Simple Life Close to Nature
• 00:10:05 – The balancing act of ego and divinity
• 00:15:08 – Trapped in Obsession and Selfishness
• 00:19:54 – Balancing Two Nervous Systems and Breathing Techniques for Silence
• 00:24:32 – The Paradox of Being and Embodiment
• 00:29:32 – The Paradox of Infinite Discovery
• 00:34:28 – Healing Trauma and Mastering Vulnerability
• 00:39:06 – Riding the Edge of the Comfort Zone
• 00:43:38 – The Subjectivity of Psychedelic Experiences
• 00:48:18 – Exploring Trauma and Meditation
• 00:52:59 – Reaching Towards Resolution
• 00:58:14 – Traumatized People and Service Dogs
• 01:02:11 – Mastery over Empathy
• 01:06:44 – Expanding Perception and Resolving Problems
• 01:10:39 – Finding Balance between the Numinous and Emotions
• 01:15:11 – Challenging Situations and the Nervous System
• 01:18:30 – The Intelligence of the Gut
• 01:22:29 – Guided by the Soul
• 01:26:23 – Observations on Awakening and Polarization
• 01:29:51 – A Global Awakening and the Power of Love in Action
• 01:33:29 – The Power of Inner Silence and Weathering the Storm
• 01:36:14 – Meeting the Storyteller and Transforming the Experience
• 01:39:33 – The Power of Sincere Acknowledgement
• 01:42:58 – The Power of Light and Shadow
• 01:46:10 – Illuminating the Shadow
• 01:49:05 – The Difference Between Mind and Body
• 01:52:48 – The Power of Connection to True Self
• 01:56:49 – The Journey of Discovery and Self-Healing
• 02:00:36 – The Light Will Always Wait for You
• 02:03:24 – Conclusion and Next Steps

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Born in Sheffield, England, Georgi has led a life of charm, intoxication, collision and perpetual re-awakening.

Having experienced her parent’s divorce and later her father’s death to alcoholism, Georgi was a born seeker for a stable home that was somehow prior to the broken home that she knew.  As a teenager, she attended evening classes at the School of Philosophy in Belgium, that offered a ‘sanitized’ version of Vedanta. While it gave a lot, the experience became oppressive, and when she left to Oxford University, she instead delved into Jungian psychology and the application of psychoanalytic and feminist literary theory.

When she was 20, Georgi arrived in Jerusalem, in search of a midway point between the mysticism of the east and the decay of the west. She experienced a part of the earth that is charged with bliss. Yet it was also a country where it seemed that nobody belonged. In this, she found a sense of belonging (in the field of not belonging).
Georgi’s life in Israel would include a compulsion for conflict. She worked as an investigative journalist exposing lies told about terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. Later, she would undergo a high-conflict divorce in which she was condemned by rabbinical courts as a fake convert, a home-breaker and a naughty woman.

All this served to re-awaken her deeper purpose: the exploration of the mysteries of consciousness. After she met the love her life – spiritual teacher Bart ten Berge – this passion would express through escalating processes of liberation.Today, she is deeply fulfilled in sharing this journey with others through workshops, and one-on-one mentorship.

A free spirit, citizen of the world and a poet, Georgi is presently pioneering Nondual Therapy, which she sees as part of a paradigm shift in the evolution of psychology.

Books:

• Nondual Therapy: The Psychology of Awakening
• Stillness of the Wind: A Collection of Nondual Poetry
• I Am Here: Opening the Windows to Life and Beauty

Website: perception.inner-growth.org

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview.

Interview recorded July 6, 2019

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction and Importance of Donations in Supporting BATGAP
• 00:04:47 – The Value of Individual Responsibility and Volunteer Work
• 00:08:37 – A Jacob’s Ladder of Light
• 00:12:30 – The Connection Through Meditation and Mantras
• 00:17:09 – Forbidden Mantras and Spiritual Contemplation
• 00:21:19 – Surrendering to Genius
• 00:26:10 – Mystical experiences and the power of sound
• 00:30:11 – The Death of the Author and the Fluidity of Texts
• 00:34:28 – The Negative Effects of Trusting Outer Authority
• 00:38:58 – Cannabis and Coffee-induced Psychosis
• 00:42:16 – From Anxiety to Apocalyptic Depression
• 00:46:42 – Finding Healing and Service
• 00:50:53 – Overcoming Anxiety and Finding Joy
• 00:55:05 – Closing of the Heart
• 01:00:00 – Visitations from Enlightened Beings
• 01:03:01 – The Cone of Non-Duality
• 01:07:34 – The Paradox of Existence and Nonexistence
• 01:12:37 – Qualities of Awakening: Love, Peace, Joy
• 01:17:21 – The Peace Within Conflict
• 01:22:26 – The Spoiled Nature of Humanity
• 01:26:14 – The Impulse to Incarnate in a State of Nondual Quality
• 01:31:16 – The Innocence and Guilt of Humanity
• 01:35:35 – The Non-Dual Nature of Inheritance and Purpose
• 01:39:53 – Embracing Natural Empathy and Unity with Others
• 01:44:16 – Different Experiences of Enlightenment Based on Nervous System
• 01:49:14 – The Sensitivity of the Nervous System
• 01:53:17 – The Vision of Two Figures
• 01:58:06 – The Tragic Effects of Psychiatric Drugs
• 02:02:49 – The Mind as a Receiver
• 02:07:57 – Embracing Diversity and Non-Conformity
• 02:11:43 – Conclusion and Donation Reminder

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Judy Cohen is a former clinical psychologist, former serial entrepreneur, former depressed, anxious, anti-depressant-taking, suicidal despairer. She used to be a seeker of Self Improvement. She used to be a Certified Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, and later a Certified Senior Facilitator-Trainer of the Living Inquiries. (** She’s not certified in either method anymore.)

She was desperate to feel better.

Luckily, eventually, Judy came to see that the methods she was trained and certified in actually perpetuated, strengthened, the sense of self as damaged.

Several awakening experiences happened. Contrary to popular myth, they didn’t put an end to unpleasant feelings. So all that seeking, the inquiry, the desperation to shift, was for… what, then?

Judy finally realized she could give up seeking because… This. Is. It. As it is.

And what could any teacher or technique give her that wasn’t already here, that she didn’t already have?

She came to see that every experience- good, bad, happy, or sad- is an awakening.

She knew to give up seeking because there was nothing more to get. She’d had it all along.

Much more fun, this no-Judy-to-fix, nothing-to-seek existence.

Though of course, she’s also still here as Judy.

Because human continues.

And paradoxically…

That’s better.

Website: irreverentmind.com

Discussion of this interview in the BatGap Community Facebook Group.

Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded January 26, 2019.

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

• 00:00:00 – Introduction and Background
• 00:05:01 – The Work and its Effects
• 00:09:43 – Perception and language distortion
• 00:14:08 – Words and Communication
• 00:18:45 – The Perpetuation of Stories
• 00:23:11 – Appreciating the Present Moment
• 00:27:46 – The Miserable Dream World
• 00:32:40 – Understanding vs Realization in Spirituality
• 00:36:51 – Embracing Paradox and Ambiguity
• 00:41:26 – Triggers and the Unpredictability of Human Experience
• 00:45:51 – Accepting “this is it”
• 00:50:33 – The Importance of Attitude in Education
• 00:54:59 – Surrendering Control and Finding Motivation
• 00:59:41 – Accomplishment and Spiritual Development
• 01:04:11 – Keeping the Mind Busy
• 01:09:08 – Finding Inner Peace and Bliss
• 01:13:23 – The Limitations of Language
• 01:17:33 – Preferences and Consciousness
• 01:21:40 – The Nature of Consciousness
• 01:25:55 – The Frog Desires Water, The Physician Disease
• 01:29:38 – The Infinite Versions of Bliss
• 01:33:24 – The Limits of Language and Metaphor
• 01:37:24 – Finding Peace in Pain
• 01:40:44 – Dissolving the Mind’s Roadblocks
• 01:44:41 – The Trap of Reinforcing the Sense of Self
• 01:48:03 – Finding Intrinsic Happiness
• 01:51:14 – Emulating Teachers and Gurus
• 01:54:30 – The Contradiction of Perception and Guidance
• 01:58:22 – Relaxing into Oneness
• 02:02:13 – The Importance of Getting Out of the Dream
• 02:05:19 – Sparking New Ideas

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