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Texts, ethics and testimonials
What supports the practice: a clearly set framework, texts from the tradition, and a few lines along the way.
Ethics
The ethics I subscribe to
A text Caroline publishes herself, which commits the way she teaches and supports people.
When we hold a role that gives us power, whether as carers, teachers, or because we “have” employees, we have a responsibility to make sure our behaviour is as healthy as possible. In other words, we have a responsibility to take care not to abuse the power entrusted to us.
When we hold a position of power, our actions, our words and our gestures have a strong impact on others, who are in a vulnerable position, a hierarchically “lower” one, or that of a learner.
Are we aware of what drives us when we act in this or that way, when we say this or that word? What a luminous ecology it would be if each of us questioned, as honestly as possible, the mechanisms at work within us, through serious and renewed introspection, and with the help of outside eyes: peers, friends, therapists.
Abuse that would consist, among other things, of seeking to satisfy our own pleasure, through touch or through sexual practices; of feeding unconscious, unresolved parts of ourselves through humiliating behaviour, hurtful words, energetic vampirism, or flattery for the purpose of manipulation.
Extracts from traditional texts
What the tradition says
“From the standpoint of absolute Reality, there is no transmigration. How then can there be any question of bondage for living beings? Since the free being has never been bound, setting out to free it is vain. Leave nothing, take nothing; firmly established in yourself, just as you are, pass the time pleasantly.”
“Whatever is revealed when the flood of impressions pours out with vehemence, that very thing is what you must observe with intensity: if you appear in it, and appear again and again, at the beginning, in the middle and at the end, Oh! the differentiated universe will dissolve.”
“O gazelle-eyed Beauty! Let one intensely evoke the whole substance that forms the body as pervaded by ether. And this evocation will then become permanent.”
Work in progress
A few sentences from the book
“There is a true intensity to living, and it is first of all intimacy with ourselves, real, sensory contact with what lives in us, that will make this return possible.”
“What is Presence, if not this feeling of fullness at being in the right place at the right time, since that is where we are.”
“Sensory reality is a continuum of energy, a dance in which subject and object intertwine until they are indivisible, until they commune.”
Testimonials
Words received
“Discovering Caroline's work was a true revelation. I was looking for a practice that brings together the body, simplicity, nature and the breath. Through several workshops, I have felt and experienced more finely Presence to oneself and within oneself. With few words but deep attention to every dimension of being, Caroline accompanies the movement of body and soul. Parts of oneself come to light. The dance of life grows wider, the senses grow finer.”
“What makes Caroline unique is her remarkable ability to combine intuition and genuine presence. She has the rare gift of sensing what we need in the present moment and of acting with surprising accuracy. Her approach develops a deep sensitivity and listening, towards oneself as much as towards others.”