“If everything arounds you SEEMS dark, look again, you may be the light.“ - Rumi
Sheilagh Durkin, M.S.O.M, L.Ac.
The drive to understand the root cause of health challenges-essentially suffering-led me on a long and fascinating journey out West, back East and deep into the inside reality many call the unconscious. For many years, I pursued the approaches that flagged my intuition and might offer some insight into what I was seeing in myself and others. Whether I realized it or not at the time, I was looking for teachings that would hold relevance during the times we have entered; transition times with new energy, a new organizing principal, and new challenges.
Just before the turn of the millenia, I started having regular experiences with this new energy and the packages of Light in which it travels. These early experiences were disruptive and often uncomfortable. Despite knowing that transformational times were coming, it felt strange to be having so many intense experiences, especially physical ones. So, like many people having challenges that cannot be solved with known methods, I began the work of understanding what the Light was seeking to accomplish and figuring out how to work with it. What I know now is that 2000 was the beginning of the new bio-energetic system and the process of building and implementing it around and within the older bio-energetic system. This new matrix took 20 years to build, each year revealing something about our situation and the patterns, entanglements, and programming that keep us held in the old way. What emerged from those years is the Evolutionary Light Method™ and a collection of approaches and practices that empower and resource the healing capacity within us.
ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS
Along the way I was fortunate to find teachers who generously shared with me guidance and their hard earned wisdom. I often feel grateful for the path that unfolded and the healers I met each step of the way. This path has included both formal and less structured trainings in the healing arts. On the formal side I hold a Master of Science in Oriental Medicine and have completed post graduate studies in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine. I am a Reiki Master. On the less formal side I have a collection of treasured experiences and teachings with people and approaches from many traditions. I spent several years immersed in Mesoamerican spirituality and the Toltec tradition. I learned how to make flower essences and connect with plant intelligence with David Dalton and Kate Gilday. I studied post-traumatic stress phenomena with some of the pioneers in the field of trauma healing. Ethel Green’s School for Multi-Dimensional Energy Work taught me to trust my intuition and transcend the illusion of limitation. I learned about the power of the ancestors and the orders of love from the early constellation facilitators of Bert Hellinger’s extraordinary work. Machaelle Small Wright’s story, presentation of co-creative science and her body of work with nature intelligence blew my mind open and continues to have a profound impact on me. Carol Lubier was an unrecognized master. My time with her and those 20 years of grounding the new matrix that will take us through these profound changes was a wild time and quite a story to tell. My most impactful teacher was and has been my body. I literally got a crash course in the brain, nervous system and post traumatic stress phenomena from a serious car accident while in acupuncture school. Learning to listen to and follow the body has been critical to healing myself and tracking this transformative process in myself and others. All of this and more informs and influences how I think, what I do, and how I approach healing and life itself.
THE LIGHT IS DRIVING BIG CHANGE
There have been many prophecies about these times. All of them point to massive change but none of them provided information about how we will move through this on a day to day level. We were given an overview but the questions of how we will support out bodies, our minds, relationships and communities have been left for us to figure out. While I do not have all the answers, I know that the entire purpose of the Evolutionary Light Institute™ is to provide the information, structures, and energy to live though these times successfully-healing and resolving the past while standing with purpose in the present with the power to co-create an amazing future.
TRUST & HOPE
I have had more than enough experience with this Light to trust the process and feel significant hope for the planet and her creatures. Despite how ugly it can look out there, the Light continues to intensify and give us what we require to mature into the next version of ourselves- the version that can solve the problems we created and take us into an entirely new relationship with nature intelligence and the many other intelligences within the cosmos. This is an exciting time, ripe with so much potential but it does requires us to engage. Our ancestors got us this far - it is up to us now.
This is the mission of the Evolutionary Light Institute™ and the work I do with individuals, groups and Nature. For those who are ready to create an empowered relationship to these changes I have a lot to share with you. You do not need to be in the healing arts to take classes or learn the Evolutionary Light Method™. You only require a sincere desire to grow and and the courage to work with true power.