 Christoffer:
“Every time I open the Fire of Love book and
read some paragraphs or do one of the practices I think “Wow!
This is good! How did we create this teaching?” The
truth is we didn’t. The teaching came to us when
we asked a higher power how to live in love and freedom
as a couple. It was a gift of love that we couldn’t
hold onto.”
Helena:
“I feel I have gone full circle, in my life and
in my spiritual seeking, from not feeling very good about
myself to developing
a beautiful spiritual ego as a successful seminar leader.
A lot of personal will and spiritual ambition were present.
Then I lost it all, including my will to live, when my beloved
son died. I truly did not know if I ever would be able to
work, create or share anything
again. I didn’t know anything. That loss became my life’s greatest
blessing.
Now, the circle is complete, I have returned to where I started as a teenager;
innocently exploring my inner space and nature. I am left with that which lives
and breathes through me. There is not much choice anymore. I am being lived
and service and sharing arises effortlessly from within. Deep gratitude and
joy is present.”
Christoffer
Montelius, 35, joined in his youth, after a
troubled childhood, a violent, criminal biker gang. He
later had a spiritual awakening in prison, turned his
life around, and began studying Eastern philosophy, healing,
and meditation. While running his own construction business,
he gave healing sessions and became initiated into the
New Warriors Network, where he has trained and staffed
extensively since 2000.
He
created a healing program for criminal young men together
with the Stockholm Fire Department and he is currently
deepening his training with the New Warriors
Network and the Man Alive Program. He also recently
started a green roofing company that creates solar reflective,
waterproof roofs using organic materials.
Helena
Montelius,
46, a spiritual intuitive since childhood, has been a meditation
teacher, seminar
leader,
and spiritual
guide for people for more than twenty years. She is a
certified breath therapist, has studied with the Indian
spiritual
master Osho Rajneesh for five years, and enjoyed university
studies
in leadership and transpersonal psychology. She has taught
thousands of people all over Scandinavia to channel their
higher wisdom, and create their life’s work. Her
books Higher Inspiration (1993) and Share Your Gift with
the World
(1995), along with a series of meditation tapes, were
best sellers in Sweden.
After
her son’s death in
2001, most of her work has focused on spiritual grief
counseling, workshops exploring the edge of life and
death and the awakening
to our true nature. She passionately loves her one-year program “One
Year Left to Live.” She graduated in 2002 from “The School
for The Work” with Byron Katie and uses “The Work” in
her teaching. Together with Chameli Gad Ardagh, she founded and leads a
women’s
circle in Nevada City dedicated to exploring the divine feminine flow.
Together they
have spent many months in the ocean of Hawaii, swimming
and studying with the whales and the dolphins. They left
their native country, Sweden, in 2004 and returned to their
beloved community in Nevada City, California, with their
daughter and their dog. They have lived together for eight
years, been married for five, and have expanded and grown
through becoming parents, the SLAA Twelve Steps program,
the death of Helena’s son, and building their own
green home on their 17 acres.
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