Who is Ria?

'Balancing a life dedicated to training 1000 therapists, giving worldwide teachings and seminars and establishing a foundation after a heart wrenching trip to some of Africas poorest regions, Ria panen Godesberg's life is a full expression of the love that is at the very core of her being.
Being with Ria is experiencing this all encompassing love. The expression of this love has the potential to be the next great evolutionary shift for the human race, based on the individuality that as a race we have struggled so hard to achieve, and guide us through the vast challenges that we are already facing as human beings.
Ria wants to awaken this love in all human beings and it is through this love that a capacity is created for profound intimacy between the men and women, who are standing in their deepest selves. To experience this love is to be transformed, and for this transformation to be established we have to live it.
In order to change on a deep level we have to see where we are now and what we are expressing and doing. Ria's function as a teacher is to act as a mirror and to show us exactly where we are now, and the love that is possible in our lives.

To establish this love in our lives is a lifelong daily practice of presence.

Ria will show how to see and go beyond our conditioning, fixed ideas, concepts and opinions; and will show us how to physically and volitionally shift our consciousness from our minds to our hearts and open the door to true transformation and the compelling and vital meaning and purpose of our lives.'

Friday, June 19, 2009

It's hard

It is hard to notice that, when one tries to do everything right; to stay quiet; to embrace and investigate every detail of one's illness and then all of a sudden.... one slips and the 6th vertebra is broken again.
That is what happened to me the 4th day of being back home on Ibiza. And as if it were not enough: the next day, I was sitting on a wicker chair, my hair hanging over the back lean, a friend of mine wants to kiss me by way of greeting and leans with his hand on my hair (the back of the chair) with which he jerks my head backwards and breaks my first vertebra again.
That was hard.
Really hard.
And after that my traumatologist says that it will take at least 6 months before I will be able to let go of my neck-collar and sling; that this takes long to heal.
Here I had to swallow and the first few days I did a lot of crying. It was a struggle to not become depressed.
But I did not get depressed. I paint and paint and prepare myself inside for my new life, in which I will show the world all (I hope, is my intention) what I am and can do.
Soon you will find the interview that Cynthia and Pete Bampton did with me, on this blog, so that you can get to know me better. At least there will be parts of the interview.
The video has been taken shortly after the second time of braking both my vertebras and I hope that you will be able to see what all is possible if one really goes for "it" and that what really matters....
With all my Love, Ria