Feeding Your Demons®: Kapala Training Level II

This retreat consists of a deepening of the Prajña Paramita practice, an introduction to Jamgön Kongtrül’s text “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother,” and Machig Labdrön’s method for cutting through discursive thoughts with sound. FYD® work will expand through mapping of family lineage demons, physical body demons, and hydra demons.

For licensed therapists or counselors, completion of this Level II retreat and the required 108 FYD® Tracking Forms allows one to apply for certification to use the five steps of Feeding Your Demons® professionally.

This is a required retreat for the Magyu Mother Lineage Program.

Prerequisites:

• Completion of Kapala Training Level I
• 65 Feeding Your Demons® processes: 50 solo and 15 with a partner
  • For partner work, tracking forms from both partners equal one partner work process. This should not be done with clients. It is acceptable to work with gods instead of demons for some of these sessions.
• 20 Extended Ally Processes: 10 solo and 10 with a partner
• 108 hours of Prajna Paramita practice
  • A practice session is a minimum of 30 minutes. One hour is recommended. 30 minutes is just for those with very limited time. This 30 minutes includes the beginning and ending prayers.
• Plant a tree or sponsor a tree to be planted.
  • This requirement came to Lama Tsultrim in a dream in which she was flying over Europe and saw that it was dry, parched and very hot. She heard a voice that said: “For Climate Change everyone should plant a tree before Kapala Training Level 2.” Planting a tree connects your practice to healing the earth and to Machig’s tree experience during her initiation from Sonam Lama.

Kapala Training Level 2 includes:

• Making a full-sized body map
  • This entails tracking where the 65 demons/gods you did between Kapala Training Level 1 and 2 appeared in your body and reflecting on what you see in the body map.
• Male and female family lineage demon and ally maps
• A hydra map looking at a constellation of demons/gods
• “Transmitting the Meaning of the Mother,”* practice
• “Supplication to Machig Labdrön Nature of Mind,”* practice
• “Cutting the Four Demons Loose into Space”* practice
• Teachings on excerpts from the “Grand Poem of Aryadeva the Brahmin” and “Machig’s Last Instructions”
• Taking and Waking practice

If you intend to apply for Feeding Your Demons®  certification, you will need to do the following:

1. Complete Kapala Training Levels 1 and 2.
2. Provide documentation (Tracking Forms) showing that you have completed 54 solo and 54 partner sessions (both yours and partner’s Tracking form makes one partner session), totaling 108 sessions.
3. Pass a test with Lama Tsultrim or an Authorized Tara Mandala Teacher showing that you can guide someone through the process by memory, without using the text.

Suggested Dana: $180-$240