Shamanic Tuition Testimonials
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Learning Dragon’s Tears is a very direct way to develop an active relationship with chi, or the energetic currents that flow within our body and in the world at large. For me, these sessions of Dragon’s Tears have been the most unmistakable experiences of chi that I’ve ever had. I have practiced many forms of movement including Swimming Dragon, Capoeira, Yoga and various forms of dance, all of which were highly enriching and challenging in different ways, but none of which had the immediacy of the energetic effects of Dragon’s Tears, especially when combined with Tapping.
Dragon’s Tears surpasses ordinary physical practices. This series has magical qualities that become apparent when practiced and powerful upon refinement. What is transmitted within the movements is layered and subtle, extending beyond what meets the eye and drawing one into alignment with a mesmeric flow of shamanic purpose.
Informed by an in depth knowledge of the functional (muscular, nerve and energetic/meridian) systems within the body as well as the adept application of age-old martial techniques, Dragon’s Tears’ origins are clearly ancient and more than a little mystical. Practicing brings into play our intimate connection with a vast and unfathomable universal network, sensed through the energetic link that arrives into our hands and surrounds in ribbons and forcefields, becoming startlingly obvious at times.
I have been learning Dragon’s Tears for the last three weeks and I can feel that I am becoming more contained and potent. I’ve tasted new levels of intuition and dreaming that I am certain are linked to this practice and which for me are very encouraging signs that I am on the right path. I am grateful to have the opportunity to dive right in to such interesting aspects of experience through the discovery of these movements.
The form itself is fairly detailed to learn but such is it’s essential nature that the body is compelled to remember and perform the sequences with uncanny magnetism. I have been surprised by how quickly myself and others were able to absorb so much bodily and energetic information.
Electromagnetism plays a big part in the practice as all movements address different levels of the whole organism, including chakra centers, internal organs, articulations and bone marrow. Gestures glide along currents and channels that draw the hands into the right place and define points of arrival, felt as pressures, edges and even walls of energy that guide the precision of ones movements.
The relationship with chi becomes absorbing and enjoyable as it tingles and dances in the hands, strong and present yet delicate and elusive. There is a fine line to be found - clearly indicated when practicing by the sensations that appear - between activation and allowing. If the hands are too relaxed, no energy comes. The gestures and mudras must be ‘activated’ at all times and the form practiced with full engagement. At the same time if the movements are overstated this disallows the reception of that which arrives. Attempting to forcefully elicit the process yields no result other than a blunt experience of that exertion.
These are powerful living metaphors which, when experienced as a bodily truth, are deeply absorbed as life lessons: known without needing to be explained and more fully understood than through the medium of the mind.
The sensations of drawing, absorbing and cooperating with chi are very agreeable and make you want to dive deeper into this subtle yet powerful exchange. The motivation to continue is invited and rewarded as the intricacies that facilitate the true magic within the movements are fascinating to discover, unlocking wellsprings of energy and sensitivity. As the practice deepens you begin to forget yourself in the sorceric flow that is the true hallmark of Dragon’s Tears and each session yields new thresholds of experience.
Naomi Jean
France
naomi.jean@gmail.com
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My one week visit to Lujan Matus –to learn Dragon’s Tears and Energy Tapping was the most worthwhile and amazing experience. Here are some notable aspects of my experience. Good descriptions of Dragon’s Tears and Tapping can be found elsewhere.
CONFRONTATIONS
During the week, Lujan used opportunities to ‘confront’ my destructive or negative behaviours. This means when he hears me speak an un-truth he immediately confronts me about it. He calls a spade ‘a spade’. Because we both know it’s the truth and because he does not back-off, there is no rationalising it away or putting it off. You have to face it right there.
Confrontations were instructional, scary, intense, eye-opening, unwanted, sudden, emotional, harrowing and uncompromising. And, I doubt any of the confrontations took more than 3 minutes. Lujan made sure I had put myself back together again sufficiently before the next confrontation –because, confrontations, most literally, shook me to pieces. The point however is growth in truth, not Castigation.
Confrontations had me realise the lengths I had gone to, and was willing to go to, to lie, to myself and others.
Incredibly, the power that drives these transformative encounters appears to be nothing other than ‘the truth’ –that’s all that ‘confronts’ one. After my experience I’ll tell you this: Nothing stands against the truth.
Throughout the week Lujan discussed several things that pertain to me personally. This was very insightful and valuable in its direct applicability.
ENERGY TAPPING
Lujan did not just teach Energy Tapping to me, he did it with me. Tapping opens channels in the body to assist in discovery and confrontation of hidden stuff that robs one of energy. It is demanding and designed to remain demanding as one progresses. Three mornings that week my shorts and T-shirt were fully drenched with sweat by the end of the 2 hour session.
DRAGON’S TEARS
Despite experience in learning movement forms, I struggled initially with learning the Dragon’s Tears, and the cause of that was the topic of another confrontation. This was another lesson in how self-deception leads to self-sabotage. After that I got it together. After some practice, some of these movements have begun to click somehow with what seems to be my body. I cannot say my mind comprehends it. It is unlike anything 7 years of dedicated Taijiquan practice has yielded. Of note is a sense of flowing.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Since I had martial art experience, Lujan incorporated this base of existing strengths and shared additional aspects with me both in Energy Tapping and Dragon’s Tears. In Tapping this included additional exercises for chi/qi development and training ‘iron shirt’ skill. In Dragon’s Tears more advanced approaches and movements were shared.
It would be an error to see either of these regimens as merely energy, physical, or martial arts training.
GAZING
At night Lujan taught gazing. Already on the first evening my ‘vision’ started to open. Gazing is a down-to-earth practice that is easy to do.
On the fourth night I got to experience formlessness consciously through gazing. Lujan was showing me how to make a star disappear as routine part of the practice, and it just wouldn’t work. Having read about it in testimonials I obviously wanted to see it. Lujan mentioned that he wonders what about my belief system is blocking this.
(However, there was something else: I really wanted to find out about Recapitulation while in Bali. But I forgot about it completely, and at that point it was the farthest thing from my mind.)
After voicing this, Lujan promptly moved on with the gazing session and guided me into a state of formlessness (yes- it is real!). At some point the use of gazing for recapitulation just ‘dawned’. Lujan explained it as if it had been there forever. Incredible! Somehow the need gets met –even though I forgot about it. Also, Lujan’s display of fluidity was an education in itself, since it was the direct enabler for this method to materialise.
LUJAN MATUS
I bear witness: Lujan proves that being fully in your truth, being impeccable, being who you are is not only possible, but the only worthwhile way to be. He proved that by being that.
I agree with all the wonderful traits, characteristics, etc. others attribute to him in their testimonials. How does someone you’ve just met feel like a best friend?
I believe spending time with Lujan on any endeavour would be valuable because he is impeccably formless.
While Lujan delivers, I am responsible to put the learning into practice.
I’ve booked to visit Lujan again and something in me, is already scared. I say this not as a warning, but as a knowing that Lujan will meet his mandate no matter the obstacles or my attempts to duck-and-dive the truth.
I thank you Nagual Lujan Matus. I wish words could convey the depth.
Henk Boshoff
South Africa
henkboshoff@gmail.com
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Never in my life did I imagine I would cross the World to participate in a healing workshop…so I believe that indeed, the Universe has unusual ways to provide us with answers…
I don’t have enough words to describe my experience with the Shamanic Healing of Nagual Lujan in Bali, since each day was different and rich with new experiences. The first time I met Lujan I saw a charismatic and welcoming guy. Then, as we talked I noticed he was kind, understanding, tolerant and amusing…but most of all, sensitive.
After my first impression, I had the opportunity to confront an old issue buried in my memory, that I kept to myself because I thought was to raise my personal consciousness. A healing journey has unpredictable results. Mostly, your own knowledge, detonating a guideline that allows you to reorganize you evolution, understand you path, and finally to become whole as a new being. I want to mention here that since the Nagual Lujan cleared my journey “seeing”, my understanding began….
As my week unfolded, my mind began releasing hidden emotions (with a special program he uses), my body relaxed with Lujan’s massages and at the end I reached a balance….
As we had been working, Lujan noticed an unbalance in my third eye…so he told me that the energy in my eyes was too strong, pointing out that my gaze could hurts certain people, so he calmed it down. As soon as he mentioned this, I remembered that in the past some people had gotten scared by my gaze. Even some of them saw my eyes changed to silvery color, and I always believe it was an exaggeration!
My experience in the gazing technique was an invaluable learning experience. For example, gazing at flowers’ energy was a fluid experience, finding it easy to locate the blue glow. Gazing at stars, let me just give you a hint, you cannot avoid feeling connected with the universe’s creation….and of course you will witness something spectacular!
But, gazing at stones was a different story. I felt the energy of the stones stronger, the light and darkness demanding, grasping my attention in unison…and Lujan’s voice in the background guiding me, and then it happened!
I saw how the stones became bigger and smaller as my eyes moved…I felt energy oppressing my forehead and the top of my head…then, suddenly Lujan stopped the exercise and said to me, you just had a glance into eternity…..
After my gazing exercise I had the privilege to observe dragon tears from Lujan…and I saw and felt something that is hard to explain with words because it was unreal, well….I guess that most people who practice with Dragon tears know and have felt this before, but to me, it was knew and I want to share it because I find it powerful.
So, for those who have seen the obvious, I apologize for my silliness and astonishment.
When Lujan was doing dragon tears I remember he was making a specific movement when simultaneously he shift into a shadow!…. after that as he changed posture his appearance changed into different animal shadows, or I believed so…..then I “saw” them.
I “saw and felt” power, strength, alertness, awareness, bravery, and so on…. when he was done, I couldn’t put together those unclear images and strong perceptions.
But after a recapitulation, I understood what each position is about…. it isn’t just to absorb energy from earth or life force, or whatever you’d like to call it, but it is also about acquiring animal traits! …………I know, I know, maybe for the Nagual Lujan’s followers all this is obvious….but not for me, and it was awesome to “see” it and “feel” it!!
The following night we gaze at plant’s energy and my experience was at first, just seeing, feeling, and smelling beauty, until the plants changed textures, light and shades…amazing.
Finally, I want to share with you an extraordinary peculiarity that I believe the Nagual Lujan possess. When I was with him I felt released and comfortable. I opened myself and I was able to trust him because his energy was strong, but kind of neutral.
This “neutrality” was kind of mysterious to me because I never felt somebody “neutral”. Until I realize that he has the perfect, and the strongest energy fusion, the androgynous, you know male female, light darkness…..maybe, it is his perpetual energy to coexist with people, I don’t know, I am only speculating….I think that a Nagual like Lujan is beyond energy gender or even an energy species.
I really recommend Lujan’s workshops, I assure you that you will meet a precious soul and an amazing healer!
Blanca
USA
BlancaGonzalez@aol.com
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I went to meet Lujan after having communicated with him online for a couple of years. I felt it would be beneficial to learn dragon’s tears and tapping and my wife wanted to do shamanic healing. Lujan called us a day later to stop by and visit, he was much different in person than I expected him to be. I knew he was powerful but I didn’t envision him being so light and humorous.
Everything was enjoyable with him because of his approach. I was able to see my path much clearer talking with and just being around him. I felt completely silent and empty for nearly the entire two weeks there.
The tears was immediately altering, I saw Lujan’s head as a ball of white light just from executing the first movements with him. My hands felt and then looked like thick watery gloves were over them with a numbing sensation in my fingers. I feel as if I have been in a deep meditation after each session. I have been doing both practices for a month now and feel the effects keeping me feeling centered and feeling very resilient physically.
The tapping was very challenging, I wasn’t aware that I could work out so intensely on a daily basis. Although it is very challenging it is very rewarding and enjoyable as well. I notice I prefer doing both practices in very dim lighting as my eyes become very sensitive.
At one point after doing tapping with Lujan, I experienced a formless state of becoming everything around me and losing my body, my surroundings appeared like shiny black liquid and I felt limitless. Afterwards I felt like something energetic had been cleared and was allowed to flow freely mostly in my chest.
Since this everything not only feels but looks different, especially light, it looks thicker now and more brilliant, like there is more substance to it. When I first finished and went outside everything looked like a glowing painting and still does after each execution. Lujan pointed out to me exactly what is delivered from the practice that day outside his house, every day I look and see the same depth and mystery now.
Forms appear to be very fluid visually, especially living beings I often see fluctuating light within now. I also feel everything with greater intensity, yet with more detachment.
Lujan saw me differently than anyone else and to a greater depth. His responses shattered everything I had doubted and avoided about myself. I was most altered by his encouragement, that I could extend myself and assist in positive change. I find myself unconcerned with things which used to bother me now in my daily life. Primarily pressures and influences from my environment, I feel very shielded and unavailable now, despite the fact that they are even more obvious.
What I received from Lujan was a great service and gift of his knowledge and friendship. Both practices are useful with consistently powerful and immediate results. States and insights which can take lifetimes to reach suddenly become available.
The fact that they further increase awareness and energy through daily execution illustrated to me the investment they are as opposed to simply being a cost. I have no doubts I have a made a wise investment in this endeavor. I recommend anyone who seeks to empower themselves to visit him.
All of our accommodations were very affordable and tasteful and the island was very lovely. The only thing I will try and do differently next time is to stay longer and learn more.
With love.
Two lizards
United States
twolizards@ymail.com
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I went to see Lujan after reading about his shamanic healing program. I really did not know what to expect as I had only read some of his writing and the testimonials. My husband and I went to Bali together to learn and heal.
After my first session, I had a profound sense of well being and could feel my energy moving inside me differently. Lujan could sense which organs in my body were weakened, and by the end of the shamanic healing, my body and heartbeat were becoming stronger, I could actually feel these physical changes. I have been able to breathe deeper and easier than ever before.
Lujan also showed me some simple stretches to alleviate pain in my abdominal area, and to also help strengthen the spleen. The body work and Lujan’s counsel has definitely helped me feel more balanced and calmed my mind.
The first week I also did gazing, this was an amazing experience. I had no idea what gazing was, so I was very open to what was about to happen. Learning about the quadrants of the eyes was very interesting. I saw the blue glow from the yellow flowers and vase almost immediately. Then, one of the plants Lujan had in the room behind the table, glowed a brilliant blue, on just the frond that I could see peeking out from behind. I wasn’t even sure if that was supposed to be happening. Wow!
By the second evening I had an altered feeling following the gazing. I also saw a blue vortex spinning towards me. My body felt weightless for this very short time before I had to stop looking into it and tell Lujan what I was seeing. He said it was a message. I was very excited to have experienced this, and Lujan’s enthusiastic support confirmed my feelings and thoughts of there being more to the universe than what is seen.
Outside he asked me to pick an object that stood out to me, I chose wind chimes and watched as he moved them from across the yard, without touching them. They bent upwards, not as if wind was blowing them, but as if an invisible string was pulling them. However, one of the most thrilling experiences was when Lujan and I sat on the porch, he asked me to look into his eyes. (This was a little hard to do, because I could feel his power, and it made me a little nervous just staring into his eyes)
I did this for about a minute, he said, “very interesting.” It was then he told me, he could see my lizard Toshio’s eyes, coming thru mine. I found this so cool, as I spend many hours, looking at and talking softly to him, almost as if he was there with me or protecting me. Lujan asked me to repeat this again, looking into his eyes.
Again I felt nervous for the short minute that I did this, however this time I saw Lujan totally different. I saw the Jaguar. Clearly. Like a transparency of this animal was placed over Lujan’s face. ( It’s giving me chills even now writing about it.) For some reason, I was embarrassed to come out and say what I saw. I told him I saw a large forest predator, like something I’ve seen in books. But really I knew what I had seen right away. I don’t know why I felt embarrassed to come straight out and tell him?
I can say honestly, that after spending 2 weeks meeting with Lujan, in a variety of situations, he is a true friend. I am hoping next time we meet, I won’t feel afraid or embarrassed to say or ask him anything that is on my mind. He is not here to judge, but to listen. I have a very, very hard time putting my thoughts, and emotions into words, and it was nice that Lujan could understand what I was trying to say. If only I could have remembered the many questions I had, that I seemed to forget when I saw him.( Good advice, write them down.)
Maerin
Colorado
USA
etmandi@aol.com
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I recently visited Lujan in Bali to learn Dragon’s Tears. I had never learnt any kind of martial arts, bar one lesson in Tai Chi many years ago and some Judo lessons for a while as a young child, nor had I undertaken dance lessons since being a very small child, but after deciding to learn Dragon’s Tears I found that my body really was looking forward to it and I felt quite excited about learning these movements.
I was not sure how I would go though and I had some doubts or fears that I would be able to learn. As I met with Lujan, prior to commencing, he sensed my wavering, and my self doubt revealed itself in ways that have shown me how this ongoing detrimental focus toward myself has tended to permeate areas of my life and affect myself and others in a negative way by unconsciously drawing them into uncertainty as well.
Before I had even begun tuition layers of my behaviour were being revealed and I was having to face myself! After this meeting I felt very dislodged and petulant behaviours that I rarely see in myself came to the surface and I had a very physical sensation of these ‘behaviours’ moving over the surface of my body. It was very strange.
The first day of tuition arrived and I went to Lujan’s house. When I arrived we sat down and talked for a little while. Underneath my social mask (which Lujan is very good at seeing and dislodging) I can be a nervous person, but being with him I began quickly to sink into a state of deep happiness, and move beyond my superficial nervous behaviour.
I said that I was often better undertaking practical tasks and so we began ‘Dragon’s Tears’. From that moment on my body began to embrace these movements like I had done them somewhere before, they were new and at the same time familiar to me. They are beautiful and powerful and peaceful all at once.
The first night I went to Lujan’s again to learn gazing techniques and again in his presence I felt deeply at peace. As we gazed I sunk into a state of heightened awareness quickly and easily. My hands began to feel ‘charged’ with energy. The room vibrated with palpable energy and I felt still and quiet in a way that I had only felt when taking psychotropic substances.
That night I woke up in the early hours with the thought that my hands were keeping me awake, so filled with energy they were. It was the same sensation as I had had when waking up from a dream I had dreamt a little while before I went to Bali, where Lujan and I had been playing a strange game and I had felt that my heart was so filled with joy it would burst.
Sometimes while practicing ‘tears’ with Lujan I would see soft light radiating or flowing from his hands as he moved. It seemed perfectly normal at the time. I witnessed Lujan’s room and Lujan’s garden dance with colour and shadows and blue balls of light.
I watched him pull the chimes to and fro with just his energy. I felt something akin to coming home after a long wearying journey. I wanted to ask Lujan many things, but while in his presence I forgot to; I was so happy just to be. I felt I had returned to something I had been long before.
It felt like it had taken a lifetime, but I know I remember this place within myself and every day I look forward to darkness so I can see within it the hues of eternity.
To say these things somehow seems ‘trite’ but this experience was one of deep joy. I feel like I have just scratched the surface of a wondrous journey into life itself, stripped of the social construct that robs us of our energy and consumes the precious moments of our brief journey here.
Lujan said ‘ we are meant to be like this, beings filled with mystery and magic’. Being in his garden and practicing ‘Dragons Tears’ was exquisite. I felt overwhelmed at one point because I knew I would have to return to my ‘real’ life. But, I have brought something of this with me, and I will ever be thankful for this.
With love and gratitude
Gabrielle
Brisbane, Australia
coolandblue@gmail.com
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It was to be a powerful journey. I was a student of Lujan’s when i was a nineteen year old and he had a great impact on me then; a special person teaching more than meets the eye. Fifteen years later we would meet again in Bali where I underwent private tuition in The Dragon’s Tears.
The Tears are such a gracious, powerful form that are so invigorating. From the moment you begin the movements you instantly feel the flow. It is like your hands shouldn’t be anywhere else.
On the third day of training came the turning point of my journey. As I was to show Lujan what I had learnt in the previous two days of training I began the Tears and suddenly went blank, yet I knew the first sequences. Then some anger within me surfaced and my gestures became defensive. Something wanted to come out.
After being made aware of these gestures we sat down facing one another as we would do between sets but this time would be different. Looking into each others eyes I saw something quite amazing, within Lujan’s face I saw an octopus like effect whereby shades of luminosity seemed to pulsate around his face. This sight continued as I explained to Lujan what I was seeing.
By this time my gestures had ceased and I was filled with an overwhelming sense of calm and stillness. It also felt like a part of Lujan had gone inside me. This was a truly magical experience.
While practicing the Tears poolside at the hotel before our last session a butterfly started to fly around me.Beckoning it with my open palm it landed on it. I turned my hand upside down then back again and it stayed clinging on as it waited for a moment then flew off, so delicate. It was such a fitting moment.
Take a journey, step out of your comfort zone and not only will you leave with a beautifully powerful form in the Dragon´s Tears you will experience the profound energy and warmth of the Nagual Lujan. I look forward to the next phase when I see him again. Many thanks Lujan!.
Mat
Sweden
