A Beginner's Guide to Rebirth

So many of us long for spiritual transformation or are experiencing a time of transition in our lives, which involves a kind of death and rebirth. This process of deep letting go can be daunting, but it’s also a period of huge spiritual opportunity because we’re letting go of an old sense of self. In this course, we’ll walk through the stages of transformation together, using meditations and other exercises to reflect on our journey. We’ll draw on the wisdom of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, along with Joseph Campbell and other contemporary authors.

This course is based on a four-week series that's expanded here to a four-section series designed to last about eight weeks.  The lectures describe four stages in the process of “rebirth” we may go through when we experience life transitions: the way things were, the dissolution of that, an in-between space in which our identity is temporarily more open, and the gradual formation of a new identity.  By the time you finish the course, you'll have the tools you need to understand and reframe previous transitions in your life and to bring greater awareness and intention into your current growth situations.

Feedback from students: "Like many people in my generation, I had recently – at the start of the course – reached the point of needing and wanting to make several major transitions – all at once! – in my life. ... Claire’s course really gave me a new metaphor through which to view the point at which I had found myself: not as the end, but as an important transition time between the old and new stages of my life, during which one of the most important tasks I had was to listen to the subtle new voices/music calling me forward. And one of the great gifts of this course was that it gave me the exciting sense that there was something real, outside myself, in my future, calling to me: I loved that sense of hope and expectancy."  And "Thank you for your guidance, awesome insight, and for the opportunity to be part of it.  It was a great experience, and I can't wait to do it again.  I really want to learn more about rebirth."