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Katie Darling iWave Institute. Katie was born in England in the 1950s to two British atheist physicists. Her parents had been drafted during World War 2, to work on developing the bomb, to stop Hitler. Horrified by the Hiroshima apocalypse, they pioneered the campaign against nuclear weapons, and later, the English anti-nuclear movement, the "CND," met in Katie's living room as she was growing up. The walls were decorated with posters showing mushroom clouds, creating a potent atmosphere for nuclear meltdown of all kinds.
After her nuclear family melted down in her teens, she found herself in an unexpected spiritual awakening while studying psychology at Sussex University. Surprised to meet God within, despite her atheist conditioning, she dedicated her life to spiritual awakening throughout her 20s, as a full-vow monk serving an Eastern spiritual teacher, who sent her around the world spreading his message of meditation. She spent years in Spain and South America, ending up in the States where, to her surprise, she married a fellow-monk and became an American!
As she emerged from an increasingly dysfunctional involvement with her teacher, she found that she was not in the great inner shape that one might expect after 12 years of meditation, service and spiritual discipline. In fact, she was a mess, emotionally and physically. Realizing the imbalance of going "up, up, infinitely up," (as her teacher once put it), she began a process of coming down into her body and emotions and including them in her spiritual path. Her teaching of "descension rather than ascension" was considered very radical back then (1984).
In her 30s, after a very short time exploring this more integrated spiritual approach, (and before even thinking of putting out a shingle), Katie found herself with a waiting list of people wanting her help in recovering their lost parts. Her early clients were often followers of her teacher and of many other teachers and spiritual groups, who wanted help in deepening their spiritual journey while reclaiming their lives, bodies and emotional selves. And later people (and couples) with every other imaginable issue showed up, and have shown up consistently ever since.
As well as working intuitively, Katie became certified in multiple spiritual, psychological, body-centered, mental and emotional practices, like: rebirthing, hypnotherapy, various systems of core belief change, Reichian work, NLP, Avatar (which she taught for years), yoga (40 years), channeling of spirit guides, various systems of Qi Gong, Alexander Technique, Continuum, Reiki (to name a few). She is an avid reader (often a book a day), especially in the fields of psychology, spirituality and New Science. As she worked with more and more people for the next 15 years, she synthesized her own methods based on her experience of the small number of approaches that really worked (beyond the "placebo effect" which is proven to make ANY practice done with transformational intent 40% effective----temporarily----even snorting cockroach dust!).
Then, in her 40s, in 1994, she hid a hard, opaque-seeming wall. Sick and broke for about nine months, too tired to practice all her practices, she found herself dissolving----dying and birthing----into an ocean of waves spanning all dimensions----from her body, through spirit realms, into the Oneness realm----and back. The experience lasted for 3 days. This wavy field told her it was called "the Motherwave," and that the process she was experiencing was "the Meltdown." Shortly after this she jumped out of bed and started teaching the Motherwave trainings, a mystery school with 7 levels (each about 60 hours) of which the central technique was The Meltdown™ (a term which she copyrighted in 1995), and which she still teaches, in a more evolved form. Hundreds of students went through all the trainings.
A couple of interesting sidebars about The Meltdown: 1) It was several years before she saw the connection between this positive meltdown experience and the negative nuclear meltdown she had feared throughout her childhood. 2) The word meltdown has recently become popular lingo for a negative breakdown! Yet, of course, the Meltdown technique™ confers a helpful, healing power to integrate ourselves by dissolving unwanted thoughtforms and other "psychic tumors" in what Eckhart Tolle calls our "painbodies."
Katie Darling iWave Institute. Katie was born in England in the 1950s to two British atheist physicists. Her parents had been drafted during World War 2, to work on developing the bomb, to stop Hitler. Horrified by the Hiroshima apocalypse, they pioneered the campaign against nuclear weapons, and later, the English anti-nuclear movement, the "CND," met in Katie's living room as she was growing up. The walls were decorated with posters showing mushroom clouds, creating a potent atmosphere for nuclear meltdown of all kinds.
After her nuclear family melted down in her teens, she found herself in an unexpected spiritual awakening while studying psychology at Sussex University. Surprised to meet God within, despite her atheist conditioning, she dedicated her life to spiritual awakening throughout her 20s, as a full-vow monk serving an Eastern spiritual teacher, who sent her around the world spreading his message of meditation. She spent years in Spain and South America, ending up in the States where, to her surprise, she married a fellow-monk and became an American!
As she emerged from an increasingly dysfunctional involvement with her teacher, she found that she was not in the great inner shape that one might expect after 12 years of meditation, service and spiritual discipline. In fact, she was a mess, emotionally and physically. Realizing the imbalance of going "up, up, infinitely up," (as her teacher once put it), she began a process of coming down into her body and emotions and including them in her spiritual path. Her teaching of "descension rather than ascension" was considered very radical back then (1984).
In her 30s, after a very short time exploring this more integrated spiritual approach, (and before even thinking of putting out a shingle), Katie found herself with a waiting list of people wanting her help in recovering their lost parts. Her early clients were often followers of her teacher and of many other teachers and spiritual groups, who wanted help in deepening their spiritual journey while reclaiming their lives, bodies and emotional selves. And later people (and couples) with every other imaginable issue showed up, and have shown up consistently ever since.
As well as working intuitively, Katie became certified in multiple spiritual, psychological, body-centered, mental and emotional practices, like: rebirthing, hypnotherapy, various systems of core belief change, Reichian work, NLP, Avatar (which she taught for years), yoga (40 years), channeling of spirit guides, various systems of Qi Gong, Alexander Technique, Continuum, Reiki (to name a few). She is an avid reader (often a book a day), especially in the fields of psychology, spirituality and New Science. As she worked with more and more people for the next 15 years, she synthesized her own methods based on her experience of the small number of approaches that really worked (beyond the "placebo effect" which is proven to make ANY practice done with transformational intent 40% effective----temporarily----even snorting cockroach dust!).
Then, in her 40s, in 1994, she hid a hard, opaque-seeming wall. Sick and broke for about nine months, too tired to practice all her practices, she found herself dissolving----dying and birthing----into an ocean of waves spanning all dimensions----from her body, through spirit realms, into the Oneness realm----and back. The experience lasted for 3 days. This wavy field told her it was called "the Motherwave," and that the process she was experiencing was "the Meltdown." Shortly after this she jumped out of bed and started teaching the Motherwave trainings, a mystery school with 7 levels (each about 60 hours) of which the central technique was The Meltdown™ (a term which she copyrighted in 1995), and which she still teaches, in a more evolved form. Hundreds of students went through all the trainings.
A couple of interesting sidebars about The Meltdown: 1) It was several years before she saw the connection between this positive meltdown experience and the negative nuclear meltdown she had feared throughout her childhood. 2) The word meltdown has recently become popular lingo for a negative breakdown! Yet, of course, the Meltdown technique™ confers a helpful, healing power to integrate ourselves by dissolving unwanted thoughtforms and other "psychic tumors" in what Eckhart Tolle calls our "painbodies."
