Teaching & Groups
I have been on my spiritual path for decades with a daily meditation practice. I recently found myself hitting a hard wall, but who would be able to understand the complexities and challenges associated with the deconstruction process required for self-realization? I view my chance meeting of Loren Uecker as a divine intervention. Loren has an extraordinary set of tools to offer her clients. I am finding her application of IFS to be extraordinarily helpful. I have also benefited from Loren's meditation group providing a series of practices that have dramatically opened my approach to meditation and point to a much more direct path to experiencing the source energy that supports the healing and awareness that we so need individually and collectively. Loren’s loving presence, careful guidance, and impressive wisdom are unparalleled. ~SS.
Meditation Groups
**Please note: Currently meditation groups are offered only to Loren's ongoing IFS clients
It is a common road block, even for experienced meditators, that when we sit down to practice, we find ourselves running into internal "parts" and their associated discursive thoughts, feelings & sensations. Oftentimes, these parts are so in need of our attention that our meditation space becomes clouded by them, and it can take hours to drop in and access the states of expansion, relaxation and ease that we yearn for. Perhaps, after extended practice, we break through into more expanded states of awareness only to find, after we return to our daily life, that we are again flooded by familiar anxieties, stressors and habitual patterns. Why?
Because...the most wounded parts of us feel separated from the expansion we seek, and do not recognize it. And, generally, when we open, we are so relieved to finally get a break from our constant stream of thoughts, etc., that we don't choose to include our most contracted parts in our meditative refuge. Thus, we unconsciously create a split within us, and wonder why we can't bring our meditation experiences more fully into our lives.
How can we work with our parts throughout our meditation, such that we can negotiate space from them early in our practice, and connect with greater immediacy to the Awake Awareness that is ever-present all around them?
Once we connect...
How can we bridge this expanded Awareness back to our parts such that their pain can be included from the non-dual space that can 'welcome and hold it all'?
This is the work of expanding and including that allows not only greater possibilities within our practice, but profound integration of practice into daily life.
Ongoing & Past Trainings
"This retreat gave me more to guide my path through the dying process than I could ever describe in writing. Within two days, Loren gently guided me to reach deep into my own soul and begin to curiously grasp the process of my own death, as well as my sister’s. Loren’s amazing ability to bring truth and beauty to end-of-life realities carried me to a sacred acceptance of death and all its mysteries..."-Jamie S.
Standing At The Threshold: Journeys Toward the Mystery of Death & Dying
Retreat offered Jan. 17-19, 2020
Most of us have never been invited to approach the mystery of our own dying. In a largely death-phobic culture, we are not often encouraged to invite relationship to this inevitable and profound transition until it is upon us.
Our Death lives within our Life, and like anything, we can choose to turn toward or away from it. If...we open a relationship to our dying, how might death begin to make it’s gifts known to us? How does drawing near to the mystery of dying, as we are living, help develop the presence required to meet our death and the deaths of those we love? In this two day retreat, we will explore what life tells us about what unfolds at this exquisite psycho-spiritual threshold. Through guided journeying and personal inquiry we will begin to touch and invite relationship to what "lies beyond what we know", at the juncture of matter & spirit, life & death
Psycho-Spiritual Dimensions of End-of-Life
(Taught as core curriculum for the Willow Farm Contemplative End-of-Life training pragram, 2015-2023)
Cultural contexts of end-of-life:
- The dissolution of ego during death/dying and the transformative opportunities this process presents
- Meaning-making at end-of-life
- How to work with what arises for us as caregivers when we are in the presence of suffering (not fixing, judging or turning away)
- Gateways for developing presence and self-compassion that arise on the caregiving journey
