Feeding Your Demons®
Feeding Your Demons®
Aubree is a certified Feeding Your Demons® Facilitator and utilizes this process as a profound tool to support folks in their journey of turning towards what’s most alive.
About Feeding Your Demons®
Lama Tsultrim Allione developed this practice, distilling it from the wisdom of 11th-century Tibetan yogini Machig Labdrön. It is a sacred and profoundly effective template for recognizing and transforming deep-seated patterns and triggers that undermine the quality and enjoyment of life. This process can be applied to various aspects of life, such as pain, disease, heartbreak, mental health support, emotions, life transitions, injuries, everyday issues, and more, all while placing fierce compassion at the forefront.
“Perhaps everything terrible in us is, in its deepest being, something helpless needing our help”
Photograph of Chögyal Namkhai Norbu. http://ligmincha.it. 2018
What Does it Mean to
‘Feed Your Demons’?
In this practice, a 'demon' refers to disconnected and potentially disruptive aspects of our own mind. Our friend Carl Jung termed this our shadow. These are the thoughts, beliefs, patterns, and stories that we tend to repress, ignore, push away, or cling to. Over time, they can bury themselves within us and drain our life force of energy. Machig Labdrön described demons as "anything that obstructs the achievement of freedom."
The Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) method employs principles of the Tibetan Buddhist practice Chöd. This approach entails a five-step meditative process that involves dropping into the body, connecting with your sensations, and creating space to nurture the parts of yourself that desperately want to be seen. It is about softening into your inner wisdom and cutting through disturbances.
Why choose Feeding Your Demons?
Observe and transform deep-seated patterns, triggers, and neuroses, and gain a deeper understanding of what drains your energy and occupies your mind space
Understand the interconnectedness of your emotional patterns, and how a single pattern can impact multiple areas of your life
Work with your demons in a way that aligns with your own process, meeting yourself where your at, on your own terms
Establish an understanding that can support integrating these learnings within daily life
Experience an ability to work with nuance, increasing your capacity to lead with compassion
A recent study of the effects of Feeding Your Demons® (FYD) was conducted on adults in recovery who had elevated symptoms of anxiety and depression. The study found that FYD was associated with significant decreases in stress, depression, and intolerance for uncertainty, combined with significant increases in self-compassion and satisfaction with life. Click here to see a full summary of the study.
No previous meditation experience is necessary. The work transcends spiritual constructs, serving as a meaningful tool for anybody, regardless of spiritual affiliation or personal philosophy.
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Lama Tsultrim Allione
FOUNDER
“With the wisdom of equanimity, there's also the sense of self-acceptance. You don't need anyone else to approve you because you're enough in yourself.”
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Magyu Dorje Lopön Charlotte Rotterdam
TEACHER
“When we look at a topic like the empowered feminine, I think where we begin is with that sense of connecting in, grounding in resting in that innate worthiness. Taking our seat.”
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Lopön Pieter Oosthuizen
TEACHER
“Like the passing of a bird in the sky. All composite phenomena in the world are just like that.”
-Machig Labdrön, from Machig’s Last Instructions
