Into the Mystic
Going Beyond Your Personal Psychology
It is quite common to go through cycles where we experience stagnation, or blockage in our practice and path. This stagnation is often due to a loss of the “magic spark” of inspiration, which occurs when we allow our analytical and rational minds to take over what is essentially a mystical process - wherein we learn to go beyond limited faculties of mind to soar into the “Spacious Sky of Our Essence”.
That being said, we must acknowledge our psychology throughout the spiritualizing process so as not to bypass the crucial steps in the developmental stages of the process. If we ignore our psychology, we tend to experience incomplete and unstable results of our path and practice.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This course will examine the transition from our initial psycho-mental engagement with the path into a more “mystico-centric” or “mystic-erotic” sentiment and way of practice that takes us the rest of the way to our Essence. We’ll discuss common signs and obstacles, and suggest ways to deal with them. This is a good opportunity to listen to others and also share your experience. There will be ample time to ask questions!
DETAILS
Dates:
May 26 & June 2 (2026)
Time:
Tuesdays, 9am-11am (Maine, USA Time)
* Recordings will be available in our community platform if you are unable to attend live.
COURSE FEE
$105 / 2 classes (4 hours total)
About the Teacher
Dharma Bodhi (Kol Martens)
Dharma Bodhi began practicing yoga at seven years of age. In his teens he moved into practices of Chan Buddhism and Daoism received through his Chinese martial arts teachers in New York. After completing his chiropractic degree he studied in an Oral-Practice Tradition of Non-Dual Śaiva Tantra, taking initiation into one of the Daśnami Orders of practice from India. In 1996 he complete ācārya training under his Śaiva gurus. This training emphasized traditional Kundalinī Hatha Yoga and a progressive system of Meditation, along supportive studies in ritual/pūjā and yoga texts. Since graduating as a Śaiva ācārya, he took refuge with a great master of Bönpo Dzogchen meditation, and studied with him by taking multiple trips per year to his monastery in India for a period of 8 years. He studies both Dzogchen meditation & yoga (trul khor), and Dzogchen preliminary and advanced texts. Both his Śaiva and Dzogchen masters gave him the task of teaching these systems stripped of the unnecessary aspects of the cultures and languages they are found in. His Dzogchen master also gave him the task of translating two Tibetan texts. One of which is finished and the other is in process. He now lives with his wife, Sahaja Dakinī, and their two children in rural Maine, USA. He is developing a practice hermitage in the wilderness of Maine and a European teaching center on the border of Italy and Switzerland.
