Owning The Disowned Parts Of Ourselves - by Seda Ünlüçay

COURSE

Owning The Disowned Parts Of Ourselves

With Seda Ünlüçay

While waking up out of our limiting egos is a liberating first step on the awakening journey, it is in honouring all the parts of ourselves that we fully embody our innate wholeness. Over the course of ten days, we will cultivate the skills necessary to welcome all the disowned parts of ourselves. We will begin by resourcing ourselves for the waking down journey: connecting with our True Self, cultivating presence, discovering our innate peace, grounding in the body and opening to the infinite capacity of the heart. Next, we will meet and transform our neglected selves. We will end by exploring tools for bridging the gap between our practice and everyday life.

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Meet your Teacher

Seda Ünlüçay
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Seda Ünlüçay is a writer, educator and meditation guide, bridging the gap between heart-based wisdom and accessible storytelling. She partners with major wellness platforms to write articles, record guided meditation and produce courses to support souls on their spiritual awakening, emotional healing and intuitive development journeys. She is also a public school educator and author of a memoir, Awake, about her own awakening and embodiment journeys as well as Upside Down World, a children’s book exploring the paradoxes of life.

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10 Days

5.0k students

4.9 stars

14 min / day

Happiness

English

Lesson 1

Connecting With Our True Self

The first essential tool on the waking down journey is discovering who we really are. By getting acquainted with our true selves, we will create the space necessary to meet all of our disowned voices. While moving from identification with ego to consciousness is a gift of grace, we can make ourselves grace prone by practicing the ancient art of self-inquiry. Who are we when we are not thinking ourselves into existence? By systematically releasing false identities, we will connect with our eternal true nature. We will abide as primordial awareness itself and grow intimate with the silent mystery which pervades all being.

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Lesson 2

Cultivating Presence

It is difficult to meet our shadow selves if we are not first in touch with our innate wholeness. In this lesson, we will connect with the physical embodiment of our essential nature: the alive field of presence in our body. How does the body experience the mystery that we are? Through guided meditation, we will awaken our inner presence field and connect with the three presence signatures of the body: the clear, awake space in our head, the overflowing warmth in our heart and the radiant darkness of our belly.

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Lesson 3

Embracing Effortless Effort

Meditation is where we establish the skills necessary to meet our disowned selves. Yet our practice can easily devolve into another act of doing, driving us further from our natural state. Where is the peace we seek before we go looking for it? Do we really need rigid meditative techniques to rest as our true selves? By allowing the meditator to fully relax, we will unravel the revelatory implications of these questions. As we let go of effort and control, we invite spaciousness to open up and allow presence to emerge as our natural, uncontrived state.

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Lesson 4

Grounding In The Earth

By letting consciousness dissolve into the body, we receive the fullness of its nourishing support. We will learn to anchor presence in the body to counteract our default tendency to be swept up in limiting mental beliefs. By cultivating a somatic receptivity and grounded readiness, we will prepare to meet any neglected selves that arise.

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Lesson 5

Opening To The Infinite Nature Of The Heart

After grounding awareness in our body, we may become more sensitised to the shadow parts of ourselves. Where can we find the capacity to be with these hurt inner voices? By dropping the numbness, armouring, tension and pain over our heart, we discover an infinitely spacious openness at its centre, capable of holding all of experience. We get out of the way and allow the love that we are to embrace all the parts of ourselves.

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Lesson 6

Making Our Descent

Having resourced ourselves with the necessary tools for our journey, it is time to make our descent. We will incorporate a distillation of key somatic therapy principles into five simple steps we can take anytime we are in emotional distress. In this lesson, we will welcome our disowned parts by shifting our perspective from being the one who is caught in distress, to being the conscious awareness which can hold it.

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Lesson 7

The Flame Of Transmutation

In this lesson, we will introduce our third powerful practice for meeting our disowned selves: placing a gentle hand on where it hurts. When we do this, we bring an available quality of “having dinner” with our shadow selves. We will then use the tools of presence and grounding to sense our pain and describe its felt experience in the body.

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Lesson 8

Clearing Away The Ashes

We are ready now to introduce our fifth and final step for emotional healing: allowing our infinite heart to touch our pain. When our disowned parts receive this flow of compassion and understanding, their thirst is finally quenched. We can feel them opening up and receiving what they have been longing for.

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Lesson 9

Honouring Our Inner Child

When our shadow selves are not met, they can go underground and become saboteurs. One of our most neglected selves is our inner child. The child we once were lives in the subconscious as images and can be healed through visualisation. In this lesson, we will unearth and reprogram the innocent and mistaken conclusions we came to as children and practice showing up for our younger selves as the wise, loving adults we needed.

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Lesson 10

Reflecting Back On Our Journey

In our final session, we will reflect back on our journey and synthesise our practice into a toolkit to use whenever we are in distress. We will explore practical tips such as breathwork, belief inquiry and affirmations to bridge the gap between our waking down journey and daily life. We will also explore the balance between resting in our true nature and doing our emotional processing work. Having reconnected with our previously disowned selves, we will celebrate and radiate the fullness of our true being.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 119 community questions and 114 audio replies from Seda Ünlüçay. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Paula

Paula

September 23, 2025

Thank you for this beautiful and informative course, Seda. The final day recap alone is worth the price of admission. I may listen to that one again. Lots of love to you, my friend.

Stuart

Stuart

October 25, 2024

A wonderful course. Straightforward, caring, wise and loving it has helped me tremendously. Thank you.

Lucy

April 20, 2024

This was quite deep for me. I hope I will keep on doing the practices, some of them really resonated with me. Thank you!

Lydia

Lydia

April 10, 2024

Excellent.

Marco

Marco

July 27, 2023

Thank you for tools and practices that make living so much easier by changing our reactions and programming 🙏❤️‍🩹🌈 It’s an awesome, beautifully crafted and enjoyable course that opens the door to new ways of being. Thank you so much Seda 🙏🦋❤️‍🩹🌈❤️🙏

Alex

July 23, 2023

Phenomenal. I learned so many practices that I can use daily. This was both fascinating and immensely useful for my journey of learning to listen the the wisdom of my body. Every session was amazing.

Catriona

Catriona

March 5, 2023

Beautiful

Stefanie

Stefanie

February 18, 2023

Deep gratitude for this fantastic journey, Seda 🙏♥️ it's been so gentle, yet powerful, healing and transmuting!

Sue

Sue

February 12, 2023

Excellent skills for connecting with our parts.

Anne

Anne

January 8, 2023

I found this very helpful. The tools given I have implemented and I have found peace in doing so. Especially to acknowledge where I am feeling emotion in my body and to say hello to it. Shortly after I placed my hands on my belly where I was feeling much anxiety, it disappapated just from my acknowledgment of it and compassion for it, just as a crying baby or child would be soothed when seen, acknowledged and held. The 4-7-8 breathing was very helpful as well. Thank you Seda for your clear and healing presentation. Blessings to you 🙏

Darcy

November 21, 2022

Lovely, just what I needed right now.

Hadrian

Hadrian

September 24, 2022

Thank you for bringing my inner eye to the child work, while acceptance, non-identification and compassion are things I worked with extensively, this was new and deeply dawnbreaking to me 💜 May you always walk on warm sands! 🙏

Minerva

August 29, 2022

Lots of awesome wisdom and valuable tools shared here in Seda’s classroom. Thank you Seda. Much love and respect.

Monika

Monika

April 28, 2022

Thank you so much for this insightful course. I will come back to it and listen again, since I feel there is more to explore 🌸

Jen

March 3, 2022

I love this course. It is very inspiring. Thank you!!🙏✨

Bede

Bede

January 31, 2022

Fantastic course!

Sue

Sue

November 7, 2021

Absolutely life saving!

Raven

Raven

September 11, 2021

Will take corse again

Glenn

Glenn

August 14, 2021

Exceptional

Jane

Jane

June 13, 2021

I love the richness of your courses and the magical effects they have on the human spirit. Your knowledge, insight, wisdom is phenomenal and it feels like you are a wise old soul and guide. Thank you for all the techniques and particularly the invaluable wisdom which entwines the whole journey. Gratitude dear Seda.

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