February 11th marked the debut of the Awakening to True Love Workshop presented by authors Sherry Lynn Marie (Love Letters from the Lighthouse) and David M Masters (Live a Better Life, Your Best Life, and Make the World a Better Place).
The material presented featured content from don Miguel Ruiz’s work, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship: A Toltec Wisdom Book among other sources. If you’ve read Mastery (if you’re like me) you found it a difficult read. Marie and Masters break it down into bite-sized pieces that just makes sense.
The 1-day workshop event armed attendees with a workbook and featured a number of activities to simplify and drive home otherwise complicated ideas, including surgical treatment of everyone’s individual emotional wounds in a three-part process.
Long, blonde-haired-down-to-there Sherry Lynn Marie takes the entire group on meaningful, life-changing journeys via her “Heart Meds,” guided heart-felt love meditations designed to engage the audience in deeper levels of experience and understanding, while an enthusiastic burly and bearded David M Masters helped to demystify the otherwise heavy concepts that became the basis of the Awakening to True Love Workshop.
If you expected a romantic retelling of fairy tales of love, how to find your soul mate, how to manage or rekindle an otherwise loveless relationship, you were in for a rude, “awakening.” While romantic ideals of finding one’s true love is what one might expect, the shocker in this presentation is in the tearing down of those old ideals and realizing one’s own true love from within.
While having love for one’s self is not a new concept, this was an unexpected reframe causing a shift in love in those in attendance. Empowering the audience with a renewed sense of self, dismantling preconceived ideals and notions, destroying bad programming from the past, accepting their bodies and imbuing participants with the power to heal their emotional wounds.
The conclusion of the event included a ceremony whereby participants fire up giant heart-shaped floating Chinese lanterns, sending love to the world, a fitting climax for an extraordinary love event with a twist.
Marie and Masters started working on this material as they were starting a new romantic relationship with frank candor, joy and an edgy awkwardness, this burgeoning new couple shares their struggle with the concepts, as we all get to laugh at their true stories.
Whatever happens in the lives of the presenters, they should be relatively bulletproof as they explore and share their new radical ideas where love and romance are concerned.
If you’re thinking about attending one of their Awakening to True Love Workshops, be forewarned, this is not for the faint of heart, there will be some real inner work to do and you may be surprised to discover that, according to Masters, “everything you know about love is a lie.” And the idea of love, as you’ve come to know it, might be a conspiracy in itself. Definitely food for thought.
