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What is firewalking?
Firewalking is the act of walking barefoot across a bed of glowing embers or hot rocks. It has been practised in many cultures and in a wide variety of belief structures and religions mainly with the purpose of empowerment and healing.
Why firewalk?
Because it works! Not just because walking unharmed over a carpet of red hot coals is possible. Of course it is. People have been doing it for millennia. I mean it works because it does something profound to the human psyche. It changes things. You are capable of greatness, where ever you would like to apply that in life. You have an incredible potential and the firewalk is one of the most effective and powerful methods known today to learn how to make all of you available to you at every single moment of your life!
What happens during a firewalking workshop?
In an entertaining, interactive and informative couple of hours you will be carefully prepared to walk safely across a bed of red hot coals. A lot of time is spent exploring our human potential; from a scientific, psychological and transpersonal perspective. Different exercises and instructions will allow you to come face to face with your fears and to learn how to break through them in order to fullfil your goals and desires in life. Then, the most amazing experience is there for you: the possibility to walk on fire!
Who can walk on fire?
Everyone who can walk and is capable of understanding an informative lecture can walk on fire. I allow children from 12 years and older to participate (parental guidance required!) in my workshops and sometimes make exeptions for those a little bit younger.
Who would want to firewalk?
There are as many reasons to walk on fire as there are people doing it. Basically, if you are ready to explore your own potential and are open to a new way of relating to life, and if you're willing to face your own fears and limiting beliefs and learn how to use them to propel yourself forward in one of the most powerful experiences available today, then firewalking is for you!
Who is facilitating the workshop?
Maarten Elout is a SUNDOOR Master (2000) who has been walking on fire since 1993 and facilitating firewalks and guiding others onto the coals as since 1999. A bio of Maarten can be found here.
Imagine...
Just imagine what you would make of your life if there were no limits to what you are capable of. Just imagine the intense fulfillment that is within your reach. Every moment a moment of joy, a true moment of happiness!
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Yes, you can! - Firewalking Theories |
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There are a great many theories about firewalking and apparently a great need amongst primarily its sceptics to try to explain this ancient phenomenon in the language of science. In general I have two responses to this; one of compassion and healthy dissociation, and quite frankly one of mild frustration. The Leidenfrost effect, the laws of thermal conductivity, heat capacity theories, all rely on the old set of physics laws. Unfortunately there's not been any research yet from a quantum physics angle. That I would find interesting. However, everybody needs to make up their own mind but in my experience life is just far too interesting and magical to spend much time trying to fit all its phenomenon into the one accepted box. Generally it doesn't fit.
One of the oldest tribes on this planet, the K'ung from the Kalahari desert, have been firewalking since the dawn of time and view it this way:
'If our n/um [energy] is higher or equal to the n/um [energy] of the fire, we can walk on the fire unharmed.'
That is such a true statement about life: if our energy, enthousiasm and passion for a certain desirable goal is higher or equal to the barriers that life puts up, we will reach that goal! It doesn't even matter if you get your feet on those glowing embers. What matters is whether you are willing and capable to give full expression to your heart's desire. No matter the fears, the self-imposed limitations, the opposing cultural belief systems, or the possible rejection of your loved ones, to name but a few 'dream-stoppers'. The firewalk is one of the most powerful methods to learn how to generate enough energy to break through those limitations and transform paralyzing fears into effective, focussed action that will propel you forward towards reaching your goals.
So is firewalking hard and dangerous? No, it's not hard to learn how to do this, and yes, the possible consequences of walking on fire are obvious. Yet, when we allow our belief system to change and encompass a greater reality than the one we're stuck in, we are capable of so much more! I see it at every firewalk in the faces of those that come off the fire for the very first time: I didn't believe it was possible - I can do anything! Yes, you can! |
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