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Transform your greatest stumbling blocks into resource! Any experience you welcome with curiosity and compassion will reveal its inherent beauty because you have welcomed it, even if you don’t like it. Meeting what’s so will transform your demons into allies. Doing this with me will make it possible. You will benefit form my 40 years of practice.
$150 for 60 to 90 minutes
Limited in person sessions in Boulder CO
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How to use awareness to heal
I cannot express the joy and gratitude that I feel sharing this information with you. This is the realization of my life and my life’s work. Like all of us I have paid a lot of dues to be here, to be able to impart this wisdom. I stand on the shoulders of giants to tell you these things. I feel that my personal perspective will prove helpful to some of you because it is stupid simple. That said it’s also very subtle. I want to acknowledge Hameed Ali and the Ridhwan school, Poonja Gi and Ganga Gi of the Adviatic Vedanta tradition and many others who have come before me and guided me here.
Your simple awareness is a super power that can heal your self and the world. The way to access this power is simply to let yourself feel what is available to you to feel right here and right now. Set aside all of your ideas about what you should be experiencing and let yourself have the experience you are having. Even if it’s completely ordinary or completely painful. The content of your experience is not as important as the quality of attention you are able to bring to it. The best quality of attention is curiosity with a touch of compassion. It is important to defend against self judgment and self attack no matter how odious or inappropriate your current experience seems to be. If you don’t like what you are experiencing let yourself feel it and it will transform into beauty. Nothing more or less is needed.
This practice requires basic trust. Basic trust can be accumulated by simply letting yourself have the experience you are currently having. We all have wounds from when we were little, from when we were overwhelmed by the intensity of our experience. We all walk around defensively dissociated from our direct experience to one degree or another. We all have an edge beyond which there be dragons. The good news is those dragons are your allies. They are your mighty companions. Even the cold hard void turns out to be home once you let yourself feel whatever concerns arise as you approach it.
This practice of leaning into your current experience is best done in connection with others who have been on this path. Humans work better in connection with each other. That said it can be extremely fruitful to simply set a timer for 10 minutes and let yourself feel whatever you’re feeling with a little curiosity and a little compassion. It can also be very fruitful to set a timer and write about your experience for 10 or 12 minutes at a time. Take your time and notice the impact of each assertion that you write. Write, breathe, feel, repeat.
The present moment is the eternal now. Here is where God resides. Here is where your salvation resides. Here is where Magic and mythos reside. We walk around in a state of dissociation from this miraculous portal into heaven on earth. We were forced to abandon our direct experience of now when we were small. Then we constructed our personality and ego to replace our unique true nature. This personality and ego is born of loss and pain.
The good news is all of these structures can be food for the soul. They need not be rejected or reshaped in the image of this or that grand Pooh Bah. They simply need to be met and felt as they arise. All of these seeming roadblocks and Demons become the way in to your realization. Realization is not an end state. It is a continually unfolding, deepening path to beauty. Each step prepares the way for the next step. The first step begins right where you happen to be right now.
This whole practice is not just for you. It serves the planet and the collective. When you feel and heal your stuff you are helping others whom you’ve never met heal their stuff. When you are tracking your direct experience of the present moment you are building a bridge between spirit and matter that nourishes all of us.
About Scott MacInnis
My Bio
Since the age of 8, Scott has been consumed with a desire to locate the source of life itself inside himself and help other people find this sacred ground within. For 35 years, he has practiced, apprenticed, immersed, trained and dedicated himself to fulltime massage and somatic energy work. He’s spent considerable time in the worlds of indigenous spirituality and the intersection of psychology and authentic spiritual experience.
When Scott was a kid growing up in Bethlehem, PA, he had a number of powerful but confusing mystical experiences. A spiritual seeker from a young age, he remembers hanging out with Jesus, who was invariably encouraging, nonjudgmental and kind. Scott and Jesus would hang around enjoying the perfume of each other’s company—it was always a love fest with Jesus. After the age of 10, qualms crept in and he was not sure of how to make sense of these encounters. He decided he was making it up—and put childish pleasures aside for a more “adult” pursuits.
At 13 he took his first acupressure class, (un)officially launching his journey to somatic healing. He was the kid going around cracking people’s necks and finding the sore spots. After dropping out of the 8th grade and going on a road trip through the South East for a month while reading Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, which culminated in a week long silent retreat at the Trappist monastery in Trappist KY. where Thomas Merton had lived and died, Scott’s next move was to attend four years of group therapy in a Synanon style drug rehab program. He was there not because of drugs but because he heard they told the truth. Scott and his fellow group members would sit in a tiny smoke-filled room with cinder block walls taking turns emoting while smoking Marlboro Reds. This group provided Scott with some needed structure, guidance and fellowship while his own biological family continued to delaminate. In 1976, Scott joined the Re-evaluation Co-Counseling community, where he learned to take turns listening to people while encouraging each other to discharge old distress patterns.
At this point in Scott’s trajectory, he was on fire with a passion to live in alignment with his values. In his senior year, he dropped out of high school to protest the military industrial complex. Ties to the establishment cut, Scott set out at the age of 19 on a mission to save the world. First stage of that modest project: Scott worked for Green Peace San Francisco and moved aboard the tops’l schooner Stone Witch. While in San Francisco Scott organized a Greenpeace fact finding mission to the Black Hills of South Dakota which had just been designated a national sacrifice area by Jimmy Carter. While camping in SD, Scott met Lame Deer, a famous Lakota medicine man. Lame Deer asked Scott “What do you want to do with your life?”
“Save the world.”
“You will have to work on yourself if you want to save the world.”
It wasn’t until some 40 years later that Scott realized that working on yourself is saving the world.
The there was the a year of doing various political actions in the Bay Area involving sea-sick nuns, the IRA, the Coast Guard and the British Fleet. After Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone were shot in City Hall in cold blood and their killer got 7 years because of the Twinky Defense (Dan White, the killer said he was all jacked up on sugar),the ship sailed to Hawaii. On the way, Scott imagined that he’d help the Hawaiians get their land back from the illegally occupying USA. Instead, Scott got a Hawaiian Realestate license! Fortunately, interest rates were at 21% and no one was buying. In Hawaii Scott and crew did inter-island charters and shore-side building projects.
During his stint in Hawaii, Scott went to Chaminade University for a year studying English lit, anthropology, history, theatre, then followed up by attending the University of Vermont for a couple of semesters. His appetite for formal education sated, Scott turned his sites to massage, studying rebirthing at the World Healing Center for a year. He also worked with Marshall Thurber, educator, businessman and visionary who changed Scotts beliefs around abundance and scarcity.
The bodywork kept pulling Scott deeper and deeper, into its mysterious integration of the kinesthetic and energetic. In 1992 Scott travelled to India to meet with advaita (non-dualism) teacher Poonjaji. Papaji, as he was affectionately called by his students, was an Indian radical mystic whose central teaching could be summed up as “Be still and know that you are god. Papaji’s teacher was Ramana Maharshi, who advised seekers to take up the direct path of self-inquiry—who am I?—to discover their true nature.
With a full heart and empty mind, Scott returned to the US, settling in Colorado where he graduated from the Massage Therapy Institute of Colorado. He worked closely with Boulder’s Norman Allard for five years, a chiropractor, yoga teacher and movement pioneer who developed several of his own bodywork systems. A swirl of other teachers influenced the next decade of Scott’s growth as a healer: He spent 13 years tending fire for a Lakota Bundle carrier’s sweat lodges, sat in roughly 90 Native American Church peyote meetings and attended the Ridhwan school for 20+years, a contemporary spiritual path and a community of individuals engaged in inner development.
Scott’s hunger for satsang—the company of the truth—was pantheistic and voracious. He was drawn to Reb Zalman Schacter Shalome, the founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, and sat with him once a week for 12 years. He also attended ongoing Matrix Leadership Institute meetings for 15 years, where his biggest takeaway was the synergy made possible by human connection.
His new edge is a sacred unraveling of everything he thinks he knows into the silence of God, the benevolent doer of all things. His passion is to live dedicated to the radical inner luminosity that lights our way when unobstructed by ideas, concepts, or beliefs. And to help others do the same.
Who I am
A warrior, a guide and student of presence, the felt awareness of the intelligence that holds us all.
WHAT I DO:
having developed an intimate relationship with presence, I lend you mine so you can feel your presence ore deeply.
What we will be doing:
Using the language of your kinesthetic experience, we share presence to explore the most important issues in your life, be they physical, emotional, spiritual or the common combination of these. this leads to their resolution.
THIS IS WHY ITS GOOD:
When the power of your immortal being gets involved in a direct way, daemons become allies, weaknesses become strengths. Pain becomes pleasure. The very thing you have been avoiding becomes precious. Your deficiencies become resources.
Katrina discribes this work
1. Scott MacInnis is a healer and somatic coach. He has been exploring alternative healing arts for decades and is generous with his discoveries. He believes that information about how to connect with ourselves and one another through a curious inquisition about the body's condition builds a foundation for self healing and activates our ability to heal somatically, psychologically and spiritually. In doing so, we brighten one another and close the perceived gap among these aspects.
2. A session with Scott begins with creating a safe place for an opening into the self. His grounding presence stimulates the courage and curiosity to go deep into our physiology and release or assimilate past trauma. It provides the missing piece to psychotherapy, inspiring the exploration of physical sensation alongside the stories and identities that arise within the intimate space of a therapeutic conversation. This requires a dialectic exchange, wherein he encourages (rather than analyses) a person to savor (rather than attempt to change) the depths of his or her experience without judgement. Mutual feedback, that is, the description of one's present experience can be challenging, especially in articulating sensations we have so long tried to escape, but it is through the tracking and verbal "checking in" of these perceptions that we discover profound levels of embodiment. The joy and enthusiasm he brings to each session gives people the opportunity to be grateful for their experience, regardless of its associated pain and challenge.
3. The physical experience of energetic nuances and their constant mutations within the body becomes a journey of deepening self awareness. We become our own doctors. This level of empowerment makes it so that we are able to better manage stress and trust in genius of our bodies to heal. One can expect breakthroughs in mental blocks, the amelioration of pain, a reordering of the parts of ourselves stuck in addiction and habit, a decrease in anxiety, and a sense of gratitude for life and a deeper connection with the world.