Diamond Approach® UK

Self is everywhere, shining forth from all beings,
vaster than the vast, subtler than the most subtle

As soon as you find it, you are free; you have found yourself;
you have solved the great riddle; your heart forever is at peace.
Whole, you enter the Whole. Your personal self
returns to its radiant, intimate, deathless source.

Mundaka Upanishad

Teaching

This return to our fundamental nature, to the essence of who we are, is what the Diamond Approach® addresses. It is a spiritual path that grew out of and in response to the needs of those leading ordinary lives in our current Western culture. It bridges the traditional dichotomies of the psychological and the spiritual, the body and the soul, and the sublime and the mundane. Rather than viewing the ego or personality as an enemy to be overcome or transcended, the Diamond Approach® works with our psychological structure in such a way that it becomes increasingly more transparent and less real experientially. Its methodology includes the practice of presence and open-ended inquiry into our moment-to-moment experience oriented by a love for the truth. This openness to our experience creates a field of awareness necessary for the expansion and revelation of ever more subtle layers of consciousness, giving us access to dimensions of reality that have traditionally been available only to the few.

The Diamond Approach® is taught through a combination of lectures, experiential exercises designed to enable group members to contact the material within themselves, process work in smaller groups, private sessions, and meditation periods.

The group is led by Sandra Maitri, with the assistance of other teachers of the Ridhwan School, home of the Diamond Approach®. This on-going Diamond Approach® group will meet at a retreat site in the Brecon Beacons in Wales.

Dates and Fees

There are two Diamond Approach® Retreat Groups in the UK. One has been ongoing for several years, and the second began in September of 2005 and is still open to new students. Below is the schedule for that group through the year 2010. The group meets for two, seven day retreats in the Spring and Autumn of each year.

Fees for the group, excluding room and board, are £425 which includes one private session and three small group sessions at the retreat and four in-between retreat meetings (on tape/CD/or MP3 format).

For further information or to receive an application form, please contact:

Robert Downes
rjdownes@mac.com
+ 44 (0)20 8249 3420

The following are password protected pages for students currently in these groups:

UK Group 1 webpage

UK 1 Big Euro Group webpage

UK Group 2 webpage