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                              GAILON

Gailon is the spiritual guide of The White Cloud Sanctuary.  Born and raised in America, Gailon's quest for understanding started over 35 years ago, when he and a group of 6 others moved to a remote environment in Costa Rica with the intention of achieving consciousness together, seeking the truth to man's existence on Earth, and exploring the outer reaches of human potential.

For those first ten years, Gailon's life became an intense immersion in an energetic restructuring process that cut through the many levels of his ego personality to his center - the Witnessing Self.  As a result of his inner work, Gailon is now able to facilitate this spiritual transformation for others who desire to awaken to the Essential Self. 

After the initial ten years, Gailon moved to San Francisco, and it was there that he began to encounter information of a psychological, biological and metaphysical nature that verified much of the information that had been accessed within the group.  Gailon started to work with small groups of people and began the study of Tai Chi, Yoga and modern dance.  As Gailon said, he was able to enter into consciousness but he was unable to move in that space.  Tai Chi and Qigong facilitated Gailon's ablility to operate and function from within the state of pure consciousness. 

Three and a half years later, Gailon came back to Costa Rica, but the original group had dissolved.  He spent the following two years on his own in a remote place after which a new group formed around him  which still exists today. 

 

                          YOLANDA

A Costa Rica native, Yolanda has asked herself for many years the question: What is the meaning of life?  Feeling a sense of emptyness in her relationships with family and friends, she continued playing out her role with little enthusiasm, feeling disassociated to a great extent from all that was going on in her daily life.  The thought that there must be something more profound to existence kindled within her being.

14 years ago, Yolanda's questioning mind led her to the information and work of Gailon.  This encounter engaged in her an active pursuit for a deeper understanding of life.  She began by attending Gailon's meditation sessions which strenghtened her connection to her Witnessing Self.  By reading the teachings of G.I Gurdjieff and Krishnamurti, her objective mind grasped a deeper comprehension of what a self is.

After several years of working with meditation, practicing of self-observation and studying information concerning the human condition, she became part of the disciplinary life-style offered at White Cloud Sanctuary.  As a staff member she helps extensively with the managment of White Cloud, and also teaches Tai Chi , Yoga and massage.
 
 

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                                PAOLA

 

Born in Italy, Paola was involved in endurance riding and show jumping at the national level as well as in the world of theatre and the arts.   Feeling a lack of meaning and fulfillment in her life, she abandoned a promising career in Milan, with the hope to find a more authentic existence, even though at the time, she did not know what that actually was.  Her journey brought her to Costa Rica where she spent three years on a remote farm in the Caribbean  mountains.  The close contact with nature, the solitude, the extensive reading and her thirst for truth, eventually brought her to an encounter with Gailon. 

 

Gailon introduced her to information of a higher nature and opened her to experiencing the dimension of energy.  Immediately, Paola began a long, intensive training with Gailon, working on the physical, psychological and emotional level towards breaking her personality patterns and recognizing and developing her inner potential.

 

Paola became a White Cloud staff member more then three years ago.   In addition to maintaining a disciplined life-style of self observation, Paola is responsible for much of the maintenance and organization of The White Cloud Sanctuary.  She researches, organizes and shares information concerning the nature of personality and the mechanics of reality formation.  She is also educated in areas of nutrition and cooking.  Paola is our Bikram yoga teacher.  She also teaches Tai Chi and other internal martial arts systems.

 

 

 
Dear Gailon,
wanted to thank you for the time we spent last Friday.  Our encounter had a powerful effect on me.  Specifically, it brought me out of my head and into my immediate experience.  When you pointed out that something I was saying was something that someone else had said, I recognized the truth in that and I felt somewhat disarmed, somewhat naked, somewhat lost of my moorings.  I came to recognize the extent to which I rely upon conceptual frameworks for an understanding of reality.  While I have used these, I know, to help direct me to my own experience, I also rely on them as a crutch at times, keeping me over “there” rather than here.  I thank you for making this insight so vivid for me, and helping me to expand my consciousness at least for the time being.  

I have studied with Tibetan lamas since 1991.  Their style of teaching is quite different from yours.  They tend to meet me where I am and gently nudge me in a different direction.  Your style strikes me as one of speaking from a higher level of consciousness and challenging me to rise to it.  I offer this comparison for no reason other than its own sake, so you know.  I find them both effective..."                          

Alan, Transpersonal Psychology Professor,

 Dec 27, 2005

 
 
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