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GAILON
Gailon is the director and main
teacher of White Cloud Sanctuary. His background includes University degree in psychology and social sciences with emphasis
in media and film. His quest for understanding started almost 40 years ago, when he and a group of 6
others moved to a remote jungle beach in the south pacific coast of 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 tat verified much of the information that had been access within the group. He started to work with
small groups of people and began the study of Tai Chi and other internal martial arts, yoga and modern dance. As Gailon said
himself he was able to enter into consciousness but was unable to move in that space. Those arts facilitated his ability to
operate and function from a state of pure consciousness. Back to Costa rica after 3 and 1/2 years a new group was formed around him that still exist
today.
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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.
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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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eMail us for more information or to book your retreat:
White Cloud Sanctuary * Private
organization for the study and development of Consciousness * Costa
Rica www.TheWhiteCloudSanctuary.com
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