…Physical beauty is a very pale reflection of the beauty of Being, which is the nature of your soul. If you really recognize that the truth of who you are is so beautiful, so precious, so full of value, and so magnificent, you would devote the totality of your life to it. Everything in the universe, from beginning to end, is like dust compared to this magnificence, and every action and situation is expendable for this preciousness.
Diamond Approach Ottawa Montreal
An ongoing, newly forming group that meets as an online community four times per year with monthly interim meetings. In person retreats will resume once everyone can safely meet in person and will be in the fall. While the teachings are presented in English, students are both Francophones and Anglophones.
The retreats include evocative teachings, Diamond Inquiry©, meditation, experiential exercises, and body-based practices.
The Method
The Diamond Approach® is a teaching dedicated to the discovery, development & preservation of the Human Essence founded by A.H. Almaas and Karen Johnson. It is a complete spiritual path that considers the totality of the human being. It differs from most other paths in that it recognizes the uniqueness of each individual soul and adapts itself to each person’s needs at the time. The Diamond Approach® does not require that people adapt to some ideal but welcomes people as they are and helps them to take the natural next step for their unique development.
Exploring our personal lives, we work with our conditioning to unveil various spiritual qualities of presence like love, clarity, peace, strength, will, truth and so on. These aspects of our essence are readily revealed through the heart felt understanding of our normal everyday experience. In this way we can attain spiritual realization and at the same time become liberated from our psychological patterns and limitations. Such an approach makes it possible to be a full human being in the world, involved in regular everyday activities, while grounded in the eternal spirit. The Diamond Path is not therapy, it is a spiritual teaching.
The Diamond Approach® uses methods such as meditation, self-remembering and inquiry to support this process of realizing the depth, beauty and richness of our true nature.
For a more in-depth description of the Diamond Approach® please visit www.ridhwan.org
Ways to engage
Upcoming Group Retreats
Diamond Approach Ottawa Montreal is an online community of individuals committed to personal spiritual development and exploration.
Individual Work
Private sessions are available with a Diamond Approach teacher. Private session work is where the student explores their direct experience in an embodied way. The teacher guides and facilitates the inquiry process which may include breath work and body-based practices.
Teachers
Diamond Approach teachers are highly-trained practitioners with extensive seminary training, supervision and continuing education. Their unique understanding of the development of the personal in a realized life is honed over years. There are currently 212 teacher-ministers, working with students in a number of countries around the world.
