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For several years he lived and worked at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vajraloka.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vajraloka Retreat Centre<\/a>\u00a0in North Wales.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0 is currently based in Birmingham, where he mixes Buddhist teaching responsibilities with work as a trauma therapist. He has studied the newly emerging psycho-biological approaches to trauma work- and is qualified in Somatic Experiencing, NARM therapy and SHEN Therapy.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, Balajit has been exploring correspondences between these emerging approaches and\u00a0 the canonical Dharma, as aids to becoming more embodied and the arising of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freebuddhistaudio.com\/collection\/bodhichitta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>bodhicitta<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Singhashri<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/her or they\/them)\u00a0is a queer, Latinx-American dharma teacher and writer. They teach mindfulness and compassion as means to awakening to love, beauty and truth and have committed their life to supporting collective liberation for all and the joy and freedom found there. They teach at various retreat and urban centres across the UK, Europe and the USA, and support a number of projects aimed at creating greater diversity and inclusion within Buddhist sanghas and the secular mindfulness field. They currently live in London with their partner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viveka<\/strong>\u00a0(she\/they) has worked for social, racial, economic, environmental and gender justice and civil rights for 30 years as a consultant, facilitator, trainer, coach and somatic coach. She specializes in guiding leaders and organizations through transformational processes: race equity and liberation culture change and strategy, team building and coaching, vision and strategy, leading innovation and change and working with conflict, leadership transition, and alliance building.<\/p>\n<p>Viveka was chair of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfbuddhistcenter.org\/\">San Francisco Buddhist Center<\/a>\u00a0for 16 years. They are a senior meditation and Dharma teacher in Triratna, who leads retreats internationally. 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And we finish by listening in the space to Viveka singing a hymn to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Machig_Labdr\u00f6n#:~:text=Machig%20Labdr\u00f6n%20(Tibetan:%20\u0f58\u0f0b,Tsogyal%2C%20and%20the%20renowned%2011th%2D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Machig Labdr\u00f6n<\/a>, and playing <a href=\"https:\/\/suno.com\/song\/ed99c505-fbad-4963-8d1f-a42eaec3e6ba?sh=4bxf85ReCQESGMqa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a personal recording of the Vajrayogini mantra<\/a>, with an invitation to inhabit our freedom and connect with beauty:<\/p>\n<p>OM Machig Ma La Solwa Deb<br \/>AH Machig Ma La Solwa Deb<br \/>HUNG Machig Ma La Solwa Deb<br \/>Karpo OM Gyi Jingyi Lob<br \/>Marpo AH Gyi Jingyi Lob<br \/>Ngong Po HUNG Gyi Jingyi Lob<br \/>Ku Sung Thug Gyi Jing Chen Phob<br \/>Ma Yum Chen Go Phang Tob Par Shog<br \/>PHAT!<\/p>\n<p>Mother Machig, please hear my request!<br \/>The white OM empowers me with your blessing<br \/>The red AH empowers me with your blessing<br \/>The blue HUNG empowers with your blessing<br \/>Your body, speech and mind greatly empower me<br \/>O Great Mother, may I gain your realisation!<br \/>PHAT!<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row disabled_on=&#8221;on|on|on&#8221; 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Singhashri follows with a longer meditation that \u201cpulls together\u201d the retreat\u2019s themes in lived practice: establishing enough steadiness to feel into the body, noticing the dynamic of opening and contracting, and using a few slightly deeper breaths (and sound on the out-breath) to drop into contact, stillness, and a whole-body sensitivity. Awareness then broadens to include breath, sensations, sounds, and the ground, with repeated permission to begin again whenever the mind wanders.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Singhashri introduces the theme of unique social conditioning\u2014how it shapes what feels safe or unsafe, and how it shows up in meditation and relationship\u2014framing the inquiry with the question \u201cwhat shaped you?\u201d She offers a worksheet from her book to support reflection, then closes with a short \u201cblessings\u201d practice, explicitly titrating back toward resource and steadiness. 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Singhashri frames the inquiry \u201cwhat shaped you?\u201d through Sangharakshita\u2019s emphasis that the Dharma is a path each person has to walk in their own way, referencing <em>What is the Dharma?<\/em> and <em>The Path as Symbol<\/em> (also collected in <em>The Essential Sangharakshita<\/em>). The reflection widens to include ancestral, cultural, historical, and economic conditioning, inviting a stance that neither idealises nor condemns what has shaped us, and remains open to being \u201cblessed\u201d by what has supported us.<\/p>\n<p>Balajit and Viveka then model the inquiry through personal storytelling. Balajit traces his shaping through family history and the long after-effects of the Second World War\u2014evacuation, London wartime stories, and the \u201coverspill\u201d estates that formed his childhood\u2014showing how collective trauma leaves bodily and cultural traces. 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