The Method
Five phases
The Methodology
The
Uncaging.
The methodology built across twenty years of teaching and coaching. Five archetypes, five phases, and specific practices designed for you that do the unmasking for you.
The Uncaging is the beautiful synthesis of ancient wisdom teachings and contemporary thought that work together to bring healing and clarity. Yoga teaches daily discipline and the importance of self-reflection. Buddhism brings an awareness of everything that is in front of you, in the past, and in the future. Hawaiian wisdom acknowledges our connection to nature and all beings.
We integrate ancestral patterns, inner child work, IFS parts, relationship and communication techniques, and finance tools to support the modern American urban mystic.
None of these is the method. The method is what happens when you start listening to yourself, again and again, throughout the changes of life.
The Mirror.
Diagnosis.
We look at what has been eating at you: relationship, career, spiritual path, death or loss. You come in with something you think is the problem, and soon we may realize it is actually one symptom of the root issue.
The Threshold.
Dissolution.
We start to dismantle the habits and thought patterns that are not actually true. We practice new routines and techniques to cultivate the truth within ourselves, the person we actually are on the inside. This is the operative work, the practice that changes the wearer.
The Claiming.
Integration of the new self.
We begin to have the hard conversations with the people we need to get clear with. We start new habits: eating differently, meditating, building an altar, journaling, going out in nature, joining a yoga studio, or attending church. We constantly remember who we are, and we practice habits and rituals to help us not forget.
The Uncaging.
Immersion.
We go on retreat to execute and implement daily practice with accountability. We connect, hour by hour, with ourselves, away from family, friends, work, TV, phone, and home. We start to see what is possible when we try on new habits, circumstances, and conditions.
Integration.
What sticks.
We see which of the new knowledge, habits, and tools actually stick, which ones resonate and work for you. From here you can choose to join the Circle to stay in community, or continue the work.
Gloria Baraquio's practice crosses indigenous Hawaiian traditions, Catholic upbringing, Bahá'í, Vaishnava and Hindu devotion, Agape, Zen, and, for twenty years now, Tibetan Buddhism.
Trained in India under Raghunath Cappo and Radhanath Swami. 200-hour at Yoga Hawaii, 300-hour continuing education, devotional singer since childhood. Currently: Director of Programs at Ratna Ling Retreat Center, Co-Director of Shivakali Yoga School.
What is taught here is not one tradition. It is what, after twenty years of every tradition, she still believes to be true.
Begin the work
“The only way through is the way through.”