To be Aware

To interface with “life situations” as they arise with clarity, is to be aware that each of us is responsible for opening our hearts to experience pure emotions without falling into old and stale reactive patterns.  By ceasing to follow our mind’s tendency to want something “more”, “different”, or “’better”, one encounters the opportunity to be free.  We realize that this alive, vibrant and ever–present place of stillness is one’s true nature.  It is there, that there is nowhere to go, no one to be and nothing to do.  The biggest challenge for us all is to surrender our self–importance, and see the emptiness of our personal story.  Fundamentally, our attachment to the “story of me” needs to awaken in order for us to be free.  I ask each apprentice to experience whatever life–situation is arising without avoiding or overindulging in it – to meet it head–on, without any hope of knowing what will happen.

I use an assortment of exercises based on my own personal awakening to the essence of what I really am.  After gauging where each apprentice is in his or her “process”, I design a focused set of exercises so that each will experience a profound transformation in their state of awareness and presence.  I make every effort to make each apprentice’s awakening experience intense, challenging, and distinctive.  As is the case with my counseling practice, the apprenticeship program is facilitated in person for those in the Connecticut area or via telephone when distance is an issue.

Regardless of the circumstances that brought you to choose to wake up to what you really are, apprenticeship work is profoundly fulfilling, focused and very intimate.  Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing.  Ironically, it is in the very search for security and safety where we actually distance ourselves from the Freedom and Love that we desire.

At a minimum, I ask that all apprentices schedule at least one one–on–one session with me every month.  I also ask that all apprentices write me a weekly email outlining the challenges & joys that they encounter as they open their hearts to freedom.  All apprentices receive an over–the–month homework assignment via the Community Share blog section of this website.  My wish is that all apprentices share their experiences online with each other regarding that assignment.  Apprentices can also participate in a monthly non–mandatory two–hour apprentice meeting conducted via the internet.

Apprentices can intensify the process by attending my workshops, intensives and by accompanying me on power journeys to sacred sites.  Because what I share is alive and ever evolving, I ask that apprentices attend at least one of those power journeys every eighteen months.  I have set up a scholarship program that may assist apprentices that might find this requirement financially challenging.

Payments

My hourly fee for in office or telephone apprentice sessions is $70.  When three sessions are paid for at once, the total payment is $200. Paypal or cash payments are accepted, and are due in advance of telephone sessions or at the time of the in office visit.   Please click here to make a paypal payment

If you need additional information about my apprentice program, please don’t hesitate to email me by clicking here  or call me at 860-633-3487

Apprentice Program Testimonials

Keshav is connected to the nerve web of the universe where perception alters irrevocably.

Keshav knows and feels the deepest of dark and light places that we wallow in and aspire to.

Keshav is a relentless ruthless stalker in my awakening, and a gentle landing for my soul.

Keshav is a sacred gift in my awareness and love of life, a savior–friend who really just helped me find the savior in me.

Keshav is a rare being who lives in a waking dream of total freedom and comfort with uncertainty.

Keshav is perfect unconditional love without expectations, combining the brutal honesty of a life–long buddy, and the angel in your corner who believes in you just as you are.

Imagine someone who weeps with joy in the ecstatic embrace of a plant’s love, who rips into his own or others’ dishonesty unswervingly without rancor, who swoons at the simplest pleasures of eating or eliminating with total abandon, who glows with the musical undomesticated laughter of a child living freely in a heaven on earth, who can feel another’s pain like an electric shock without story by reliving his own descent into the same kind of pain, who can go into silence and stay and stay and stay, who can be the perfect sounding board when we’re lost in our self–crucifixion, who can be long out of sight and mind with a client yet reappear with the familiarity of a lover, who exhibits the hyper–awareness of inflicted cruelty and supreme pleasure sometimes attributed to the “mentally ill” yet loves with equal fervor the so–called best and worst that life offers, who’d grant the same standing to a rock as a beautiful woman and make love with it with the same passion, who knows a conscious universe – this is Keshav to me.

Keshav is avatar and mirror for us all in living with and beyond fear where love and fear are one.

Keshav redefines masculinity as a perfect union of total vulnerability and taking stands.

Keshav loves being as water, flowing effortlessly through life along the path of least energy relative to one’s strengths, weaknesses and needs.  A biologist friend commented that wild animals think about energy in their every move and about energy conservation the same way humans think about money.  What if we allowed our psychic lives and choices to be ruled as water by the gentle irresistible gravity of our love and gratitude?  No one is likely lost to life’s callings who listens and falls into such futures.

Keshav is a doorway for humanity to a personal reality and awakening uncolored by ego.

Keshav is a wonderful living example of a theme from an old Beatles tune – let it be.

Keshav is what we never lost – home.

Peter Doenges

Working with Keshav clearly and consistently facilitates my evolution.

Jeff Finesilver

Keshav carries a presence of inner stillness.  The manner in which he teaches is purely open and filled with heart...allowing one to stop and step into a their own peaceful place and experience the pure energy of awareness.

Cherise Spellman

I am so glad I found Keshav.

I first came to see this Shaman in hope that his Penobscot heritage could inform me in my work with a patient of Penobscot ancestry.  So, I sought out supervision.  But, I also had a personal motive, as I have been unable to form a relationship since my divorce in 1985.  I have been in 11 years of therapy, including a 7–year analysis, and I have certainly learned a lot about myself, but still there was deep within me this achingly dark sadness and plenty of anger.

In 26 months of Apprenticeship with Keshav, including counseling, supervision, shamanic work, and Power Journeys to Peru, Thailand and Hawaii, I have accomplished more than in all my ‘therapies’ combined.  Keshav has relentlessly and impeccably shown me the way to healing myself.  As a result of his unwavering love, compassion and clarity, I have found within myself a joy I believed I had lost forever.  I am healing and opening my heart to those around me.  My patients comment on my peaceful presence, my ability to listen and meet them where they are, the hope and optimism that I model for them.  My friends have noticed the calm way I respond to misfortune, and my willingness to continue when the outcome is anything but certain.  I have more energy, more compassion, more creativity and a more centered place of stillness from which to work, love and play.  I am alive again and steadily becoming aware.

The most reassuring thing my Shaman has ever said to me is “Girl, you don’t know anything for certain anymore”.  I laughed and sighed with relief.  I am patiently walking the path towards Freedom.

And then there are the hawks, which never cease to make my day.

I am so grateful to have found Keshav.

CJP

I am very grateful for the opportunity to apprentice with Keshav; he has been a wonderful guide in facilitating my inner exploration and helping me to achieve greater spiritual consciousness.  The wealth of experience that Keshav teaches from has been a beautiful mirror for my personal transformation.  Working with Keshav has been an amazing spiritual journey!

Dave Wiley