Matthew Farren


About the Teacher

Why study with them?

Matthew Farren started a daily practice in 1992 as part of 12 step recovery programme, first taking the Buddhist precepts with a Soto Zen lineage in 1995.
Somehow steered to an Enlightenment Intensive without any knowledge of the format within two days had a direct experience of being, something indescribably fulfilling.
Since 2014 he has devoted his energy to learning this method in order to pass on this rare and efficient method of Awakening to our True Nature.
Matthew trained as an Enlightenment Master with Lawrence Noyes in the US (the torch bearer of the originator of this method, Charles Berner’s work), 4 years facilitating Intensives with Zen master Daizan Skinner and further training with Jake and Eva Chapman in the UK, now holding Hero’s Journey Somatic Self Inquiry Immersions worldwide.

Matthew teaches and offers -
Somatic Dialogue an embodied healing method working with Somaful practices, cutting through the fudge of the rational mind, a unique method to help integration of awakenings, making the unconscious, conscious, trauma release and creativity unblocking.
Focusing 121 and teaching to groups or individuals
Mentoring in meditation and individuation
Men specific workshops and retreats
Vibroacoustic sound healing with Ombed
technology
Somatic Shadow Integration
Somatic Self Inquiry

He also qualified to teach Zen insight development,
Bompu Zen for Health & Wellness, Mindfulness, Zen 5 Season Yoga, and was for a while Sensei (teacher) in a Rinzai Zen tradition and has training in Jungian depth psychology.
He stands in no lineage or tradition, teaching practices which lead towards Individuation and Sovereignty of being

His ongoing Self Inquiry practices include forest fasting and isolation, Dark retreats in Guatemala and 6 months of learning plant dietas including Ayahuasca and San Pedro in the Peruvian jungle.

He lives between Uk and Quebec, Canada holding Hero’s Journey Retreats worldwide.

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