Feeding Your Demons ® with Lopön Chandra Easton

Lopön Chandra led the sangha in Lama Tsultrim’s "Feeding your Demons" practice. She offered a nicely articulated introduction to the practice and then guided the sangha through the experience.

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Inspired by the ancient practice of Chöd, Feeding Your Demons ® (FYD) is a five-step process created by Lama Tsultrim Allione that allows one to offer nurturing and understanding to one’s own inner demons, our disowned shadow parts, rather than engaging them in battle and struggle. We all have our demons. Paradoxically offering compassion to the parts of ourselves we wish would go away, develops the potential for transformation from demon to ally. This allows the psyche to move from polarization to integration, and the energy that has been trapped in the demon becomes accessible as the ally. FYD is of great benefit when working with a wide variety of both personal and collective issues, including depression, anxiety, addictions, physical issues, fear, anger, relationship challenges, and other dilemmas of modern life.

More about Feeding Your Demons and Extended Ally Practice from Tara Mandala: https://www.taramandala.org/programs/...

Note: Chandra and Eve will start a new book next week: Boundless Healing: Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body by Tulku Thondup

Lopön Chandra Easton is a teacher and translator of Tibetan Buddhism. She is the Assistant Spiritual Director and Lead Authorized Teacher for Tara Mandala Retreat Center, founded by Lama Tsultrim Allione. She has taught Buddhism and Yoga since 2001 and co-translated Sublime Dharma: A Compilation of Two Texts on the Great Perfection, published in 2012. She is currently writing a book on the 21 Taras in Buddhism. Visit www.shunyatayoga.com and www.taramandala.org.

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Note: The song Chandra mentioned is Cucurrucucú Paloma. Here are two versions of it - one on YouTube:    • Cucurrucucu Paloma (En Vivo)   and one on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/1Vuy4U...