“What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn’t make it worse. Not being open about it doesn’t make it go away. And because it’s true, it is what is there to be interacted with.”
risingfalling is the psychospiritual teaching team of Chris McKenna & Megan Cowan.
Their style emphasizes the absolute uniqueness of each individual on the path of de-conditioning - of seeing through and transmuting the patterns, fixations and wounds that obscure the full expression of true nature. Their interest is in supporting folks as they navigate the many inquiries that arise over the (lifelong) course of the awakening & embodiment process.
Megan & Chris both got obsessed with meditation & the dharma as young people. They would go on to spend many years practicing in retreat, on park benches and pretty much anywhere else they found themselves. They would spend many more years integrating & sensing how the experience of true nature becomes thorough throughout all the subtle corners of our humanity.
Their teaching focuses on the repeated recognition and embodiment of presence-awareness in all states and situations, the necessary interplay of psychological and spiritual development, a strong focus on inquiry & the development of the intuitive capacity via training in both guide-work & parts-work, a somatic/biophysical approach to meditation, and a balance between the importance of transcendent awakening and the reality that our actions and relationships are the ultimate testing ground for the development of wisdom.
They also both share a deep interest in how the embodiment of presence-awareness impacts how we are with children. Both contributed significantly to the movement to integrate mindful awareness practices into education and youth mental health settings, and they continue to have an interest in working with people who share this passion.
They currently live in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia where they host folks for small/intimate group retreats.
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Selected Teaching Session | Judgment Is Distorted Discernment
Meditation (0-30 minutes) | Talk (30-70 minutes)
Selected Teaching Session | I Am In The Ocean
Meditation (0-30 minutes) | Talk (30-80 minutes)
“Meditation is never the control of the body. There is no actual division between the organism and the mind. The brain, the nervous system, and the thing we call the mind are all one, indivisible. It is the natural act of meditation that brings about the harmonious movement of the whole.
To divide the body from the mind and to control the body with intellectual decisions is to bring about contradiction, from which arise various forms of struggle, conflict, and resistance.
Every decision to control only breeds resistance, even the determination to be aware.”
