TESTIMONIALS

Richard is a facilitator and stimulator of deepening awareness in people. He is a guidepost offering indications of various paths that he has personally tested and found to be effective for change and transformation. He creates the atmosphere allowing individuals to fall into a space of their centeredness, oneness, inner peace, connection with all life utilizing his own connection to unity along with techniques such as resonance, meditation, dance, silence, and many other exercises and modalities. He might be thought of as a magician, using various slights of hands to move individuals towards wholeness and experiencing their true nature…

Steve LaRue
MBA/Transformational Real Estate

While attending the annual Institute of Noetic Sciences conference, the session that held the greatest impact for me was conducted by Dr. Richard Moss. What impressed me so much about Richard was his surrender to what wanted to happen in the moment rather than orchestrating a presentation in advance and then using it to entertain or to position himself as the wise teacher. His talk was punctuated by moments of silence as he waited for what wanted to develop to show itself. He did not need to speak in a linear fashion. He was willing to come to the moment with a 'naked heart' to see what relationship might unfold. And he acknowledged that each person there brought a wealth of experience and wisdom that, when mingled with each other's and his own, could generate a dynamic much more powerful than any preplanned agenda. It takes great courage to be this vulnerable and speak what is really true at that moment. When I experienced the power created by Richard's willingness to surrender to this, I knew that I could, and that I must do the same.

E. Ganzon
Author

I can now dance with my faith
and yet not lose my vigilance;
I can now whirl with trust
and yet not deny doubt.

I am called here to go beyond
and if by chance I come to the beyond,
I will be well rooted here.

Francois Lorin, Yoga Teacher
From his poem "Groundings"
written at a Seminar

The Teaching is the fulfillment of what I have been seeking for all my life. The teaching of Fundamental Relationship, which reveals the unity of the relationship oneself, to the other and to Infinity (Mystery or God), seems to be for me the basis for life and living on this Earth.

I have the feeling of having come home and yet still coming home again and again, being challenged by the questions: "What is essential?", "What is a life well lived?", "What does it mean to be a good mother?" and being challenged by words like love, integrity, authority, wholeness and many more, the meaning of which I have to find again and again in my daily life.

Ulrike Rottenberger

The 10-Day Retreat was an intense experience energetically, emotionally, bodily, spiritually, relationally out of which I have experienced more aliveness and consciousness/awareness of self and Self than I could even begin to imagine.

Ralph Pamperin
Aerospace Engineering Executive

I come to your teachings as a student. I also come as a teacher, through my own work in service to the transformative impulse. The value of your work to me, as both student and teacher, is incredible and far-reaching. I can ‘turn the reins over’ and be shown to where I have yet to go. It is a blessed adventure. Here are some thoughts that come to mind.

For the last six years, your teachings have inspired my life tremendously. So coming back was coming back to a well that I knew would be even deeper than before. I need what your depth and understanding brings forth in me. You have traveled farther than I and I have traveled some distance. Our road is the same. I ‘get what you say’! When you stop in mid-thought and ask if you’re making any sense, I can feel the resonation of like-mind meeting like-mind; as in the breath, ocean meeting ocean, spirit meeting spirit. There is much love, Richard, much love in what I write to you this evening.

Dr. Susan Rangitsch PhD.
Counseling Psychologist

I have enjoyed Richard’s work because he has not catered to the needs of some to have easy answers. We are complex creatures. Richard celebrates this and doesn’t water it down to please people who don’t care for paradox or mystery.

John Davis
Recreational Therapist

Something in me was so alive it shocked me, and I didn’t know it was there.

Maddie Robertson
Airline Mechanic

I resonate with this teaching in a way I have never felt before. Since my experience in the Foundational conference I am aware of approaching everything I do and everything that happens to me from a much bigger, more open space. In the conference I was often in strange and uncomfortable territory. I was led, again and again, to what felt like the limits of my endurance. Yet somehow I pushed through it all to arrive wholly in a feeling state I had before only briefly intuited. I discovered a deep connectedness to life previously unfelt. Now there is ‘YES’ - Yes to the darkness as well as to the light. My life has become an ever-unfolding psycho-spiritual adventure…To be totally immersed, both within and without, in this kind of energy was incredible. I felt like a dry sponge when I arrived. I left alive, open and amazingly connected. I readily recognized the Divine in myself - it was like coming home.

Rev Beverly Hundley-Spears
Minister/City Government Executive

This work is the best way I have found to get in touch with who we really are and how to get there.

Wayne Tate
Business Owner/Entrepreneur

There is an expanded aliveness that is quivering inside and I don’t have the words to describe it. The teaching continues to teach me. Being deeply present, minute by minute. Bringing forth greater honesty. Looking for the Divine in my fellow humans. Respecting more deeply the process and how it moves through me emotionally…physically.

Patricia Kay
MA, HMC; Homeopath

The Foundational retreat gave me a feeling for the work, a sort of ‘lay of the land’, a boundless land, and a deep feeling for the energetic which lies at the core. I also gained a sense of this work not as a personal quest, but as a means of balancing forces in the world at large. I gained much love and caring from everyone at the conference.

Michael Wilson
Software Engineer

Addy Cannon

Attending one of Dr. Richard Moss’s seminars is like spending time by the side of a well being offered a life-refreshing drink. The water is pure, cool and abundant, my thirst is quenched, and if I spent the rest of my days by this well there is more water than I could ever drink…Heart-centered, energetic awareness, coming into a greater understanding of ‘unobstructed relationship’, and being invited to explore my potential through new or different aspects of consciousness both excites and scares me. Richard’s openness to his own expanded states and to the sacredness of all life encourages participants to see their souls. He is present and contactful and teaches with both words and practical exercises, offering unconditional love to a group of strangers which creates a trusted, safe place to work…Words are inadequate to describe what happens. Come drink from the well and find out for yourself.”

Anne Maclean
Psychotherapist

“This conference was an art form of great beauty. It is a journey home to the Self, from one who has made it and now helps the rest of us who are pulled to the same place.”

Jim Werner
LICSW Therapist

What I have learned from you changed my life. Some of the teaching continues to be real for me - the power of daily consecration and the connection with deep feeling in the heart chakra which always brings a sense of peace. We don’t acknowledge the role of feeling in the teaching of drawing, but it is a similar feeling that guides my hand with paint, pen or clay. That sense of aliveness - ‘radical aliveness’, you called it. You also gave me a ‘whirling gift’; I have nothing to give or receive, but Love - words which kept me balanced and spinning…an emptying out and offering up to Love…Physical, concrete. And now my life is spinning more than ever! Time to empty out - the Universe is telling me in not too subtle ways!…The following is my spontaneous response to the question, ‘How has working with Dr. Richard Moss impacted your life?’: The ‘work’ has borne and continues to bear fruit long after my last contact with Dr. Richard Moss. He brought the spiritual NOW into my consciousness - in communion with Myself, my God, and my Community. I see myself as an actor in life and I would like my prayers to be my life in action.

Patricia Brennan
Artist/VP Sculptor’s Society of Canada

The Body Consciousness seminar provided me with the skillful guidance I needed to reconnect with my own body. Through the exercises and coaching, I sensed the diverse and disparate parts of my body connecting into a whole…into a wholesomeness that was new for me. In that very experience, I found a level within me where spirit and flesh dwell together as one. So often in my life I am running ahead of my body, trying to pull it along. At other times I lag behind, resisting the forward thrust of my body. At least for a brief moment, I began to see what is possible in the journey toward body consciousness.

Fr Wayne Hellman
Priest

Richard’s work is deep soul work, experiential in nature and provides tools for continuation on your own. It must be experienced to understand.

Phyllis Kappeler
Retired Entrepreneur

This was my second 10-day retreat with Richard. I am amazed and continue to be at the meanings of the dreams that come forth and also how Richard helps us to see things about ourselves…sometimes very direct and sharp and other times very gentle and soft. Each of the exercises stretches us in a different level, bringing us to the edge of ourselves. I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Richard. It has definitely changed and continues to change my life.”

Darlene Martin
Child-Educator

This work will resonate in the souls of those who are ready. The desire to embrace the work must manifest from within. As Richard, the mentors and the students live the work, it will awaken the desire in the heart & souls of others.”

Amy Pollard
Marketing Dir.

It is work, powerful work. Don’t come unless you’re interested in expanding previously held limits and open to previously excluded aspects of yourself. If you give your self to the process, it is incredibly rewarding.

James Bryer
Psychologist

This is the real life work - getting in touch with God within oneself and in all humanity. I believe this is why we’re here; to grow, to teach, to love.

Iris Copley
AIDS Education & Services

It is a work of going deep within. You are climbing an inner mountain, sometimes hanging on with one finger, but always faith will carry you if you allow it. How deep and how far I go depends on me and my sincerity. Richard invites your soul to speak.

Carolyn Daniele
Art Teacher

The practice of these teachings is a lot like learning to be a skilled horseback rider. The rider has to be one with the horse, literally, by virtue of being on its body. One has to maintain exquisite awareness of the animal’s body position and feelings. One also must have a higher awareness and intention than the horse regarding the direction and purpose of the encounter. The horse and rider, together, take each other in a physical and energetic dance to a new place and a new experience. The two become one. The rider cannot sleep. The rider maintains a simultaneous awareness of the horse and of the surroundings. The softer and more open the rider, the better the meld. The rider cannot fool the horse - the horse reacts to what is real…Since returning from the workshop, I have been calmer, more open-hearted, made more eye contact with people, felt more hopeful about my life and about life in general. People comment in various ways, so the changes are noticeable. My prayers are more energetically alive…I think my body is more open.

Mariana Sintay
Psychotherapist

I am thankful that Richard, after having a dramatic transformative experience akin to being hit by a tornado, has devoted himself to helping slow learners like me to move beyond my ego into the world of SELF. I am grateful to my fellow mentors for trusting to become more fully whole before me - and allowing me to do the same before them. As the level of trust has continued to grow, a sense of bliss and grace has emerged. I am now able to live occasionally in the peace that passeth understanding - and is understanding! I am blessed.

Dick Bailey

Through his presence and example, Richard has invited me to know myself, to walk through the fear of truly seeing who I am, to honor and delight in the uniqueness of my being and to open and prepare my heart through true relationship with self, to be prepared to sit at the table of unobstructed relationship with spirit, and unobstructed relationship with others.

Jane Senn

The Mentor Program has called each of us out of the small familiar structures we inhabit and brought us to a larger space. The experience has been incredibly powerful and extremely rich. Out of this wealth of experience, the experience of the undefended heart stands out…the undefended heart, where all defenses fall away. Where there are no agendas, not strategies, no expectations. The simple experience of relationship as communion. Of knowing self and other as the beloved. Of simply being , fully present, in the moment, without boundaries or conditions.

David Spears

What I valued at the retreat was a deepening capacity for delight in the company of others, a capacity that is often shut down in the harshness and busyness of daily life. It was living a quality - refreshing, vital, imbued with richness and depth of feeling - that grew increasingly effortless as the conference days numbered.

Lois Egleston

In the retreat I heard an invitation to reject security and the expectation of finding any ultimate truth. In abandoning these constraints, freedom appeared and all was a drama, exciting and alive. I played and loved it.

Sarah Barton
Management Consultant

Nearly every aspect of the retreat helped me experience falling in the Unknown…I feel able to rest now, letting go of the anxiety about what I am supposed to do with my life. This is a tremendous gift.

Pauline Rippel

Of most value has been Richard’s availability as a projector screen and as a living, loving conduit. I experience him as opening me deeper & deeper through the embrace of his unconditional presence.

Sharon Weizenbaum
Acupuncturist/Chinese Medicine Practitioner

Being in this Seminar was receiving myself in many ways for the first time. Being here was to be in the Presence of the first 48 years of my Life and being utterly received in depth, heighth, richness, complexity, simplicity, emptiness and fullness. It was a deep and powerful and compassionate recalling to the deep abiding resonance of Life itself…There are simply not words to express the depth of gratitude. Only my life can be the growing thank you.

Ann Leight

Each moment offered the opportunity to open up to life and to continue to learn, no to remember, to breathe and to observe myself. I find the balance between individual process and group interaction wonderous and find constant amazement in hearing my life’s story…my core issues spoken as other’s pain and puzzle.

Susan Pinco

The example of a very human teacher who, with evident mastery and no visible arrogance, could hold the space within which each of us could unfold a deeper potential and the experience of touching my own center through whirling, singing, meditations, and group work were wonderful.

Doug Silsbee
Business Owner

I came through the experience, through the ‘pilgrimage’ with a larger faith in myself. So I came closer to the power and the potential within me. As a result I am no longer so addicted to outward safety. I don’t feel tethered to these things. I can let go more and more. At the same time I feel more and more conscious, stable with two feet on the ground, ready to live my potential.

Rosemarie Dumbsky

Being exposed as a mentor two or three times a year to the group dynamics Richard creates further kindled my internal growth and gave me some of the skills required to help others on their path. These were wonderful opportunities to witness Richard midwife spiritual births, and meet wonderful fellow travelers. I feel better prepared and equipped to assimilate, radiate, and express some of the light my being is capable of receiving.

Noel Bastiaens

I have been empowered to let my awakening run free to whatever place it will lead me.

Roberto Solari
Business Entrepreneur

"The moment the mind relaxes its strategy, the heart welcomes us.”, Richard said once. The Teaching is so vast I feel like I’ve never done anything else but to pursue it. But don’t we all recognize that in each other, disciples of the Teaching?

Mire-o B. Tremblay

I find I am alive in a different way. I experience myself in a different way. I am able to speak to myself and to life in a different way. I experience the comfort and joy – and the agony and despair – of a life in which my sense of self depends as much on how I can react to each new moment as on any past or projected accomplishment. To the part of me that asks, “Is this all there is?” I answer, “And how much more could there be?” I am right here, now, doing and responding to what there is to be done as fully as possible.

Michael Vesselago

I have learned a deep realization that we are so much more than we are living. This gives me the courage to seek for more. Through grace I have been blessed to enter states that are truly alive.

Pat Caywood

Dr. Richard Moss teaches moving beyond our ordinary everyday perceptions into a deeper, more conscious, fully present relationship with our body, ourselves, with the Presence of God, with others, with our world. “It’s all relationship”, he says. This is not “intellectual” work but heart-mind work, building a foundation within the body consciousness for grounding spirituality in our everyday lives. The teachings are profound, combined with carefully sequenced exercises devised to experience what he is talking about. He gently challenges and leads each of us to new perspectives, to a sense of how to fully live in heart-felt relationship within God’s abiding presence, allowing ourselves to also sense the trustworthiness of our body’s intelligence.

Paula Hunt

I want to thank you for your work - you have made a profound impact on my life. Many times I have sat with your words. I thought I was open but I had a resistance so deep I didn’t see it-not only to your words but to life. I have noticed since participating in your work that I have relaxed and softened. No longer do I get lost in the invalidation that was predominate in my intellect.
I have started to feel and sense a deeper joy and happiness in my life, it’s something I experience as a fine-ness and clarity of being and energy. Along with that fine-ness is a growing connectedness with others. Many thanks.

Dr. Richard Moss Event Attendee

This is richly layered and profound work that takes us into the depths of our Being, revealing equally shadow and light, that which limits us and that which empowers us. In many ways it turns our worlds upside down, so that we may find and live more deeply our true selves in our soul’s true wholeness.

Susan Slotter
Photographer

This work teaches us that all of life is relationship. It allows one the opportunity to come to know and experience first hand the Ground of Being and to recognize it is that which animates all beings. As we begin to sense what animates us, we have access to a deeper, more intimate relationship with ourselves and with all conscious beings because we can see that what I am, you are also.

Pamela Pride

I find in this moment it is also quite achingly poignant to my currently very open and soft heart to directly touch and stir my deep love and respect for you. I am so very acutely aware of how every single day of my life and almost every word that comes out of my mouth, along with my ever-deepening capacity for understanding and love and nurturing, are all directly, immediately, informed by my relationship over time with you, Richard.

Because of your gifts to me, I am finding my voice as a mentor and teacher. You said to me once, long ago, "You're a teacher, Susan; and nobody can take that away from you unless you decide that having a degree is important." And then last year you told me to "just keep listening," when I had left Canada and everything else behind, and didn't know what my next path would be, only that I wanted to sit with people be of some kind of direct service. I took your words to heart, and eventually I knew what I was to do.

There are so many more pivotal comments you have made, many quite simple, and most of which probably neither of us would remember verbatim. But you have most certainly, and far, far more than any other influence in my life, steered my passage. Though I started from a place of tremendous immaturity and pervasive unconsciousness, you have adeptly, patiently, lovingly and so very, very generously, guided me toward an ever-increasing number of conscious, compassionate and clear moments.

Words feel woefully inadequate; but I know you can hear my heart, and I want you to know that with every beat, in every sentence I will inevitably write, and through every person with whom I will ever have the privilege of sitting, it is saying so deeply, "Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Susan Griffin-Towbin
Writer

Priceless. An experience that brought me back to my real self.

Shelly Acker
RRT , Respiratory Therapist

I feel like I took an energetic bath. All my rain gutters were cleared of the year’s accummulation of ‘debris’. I feel refreshed and renewed and ready to go back into my life more present.

Sara Nelson
Rehab Clinic Physical Therapist

This is a process of returning to our wholeness guided by an expert teacher who has taken this journy and can offer support and knowledge from his own experience with deep integrity.

Angela Harding, RN

When Richard speaks there is a deep recognition in my spirit – like a thirst given water.

Rachel Tobin, Physical Trainer & Consultant

This teaching is not about intellectual understanding (although that too is offered), but about bringing the sacred into our lives in the simplest, day-to-day aspects of our lives. In this, its relevance is absolute.

Karen Van Eden
Management Consultant

The Mentor Program has been a deep experience of humanness and this is what Richard taught me the most and what I have appreciated the most. The simple sharing of being honest, real human beings-teacher to student, student to teacher, students to one another. Present for each other.

Mark Schufman

Dr. Richard Moss is one of the wisest deepest men I know. When a profound awakening comes integrated with a ruthless honesty and willingness to face our humanity, the result is a truly trustworthy man.

Arjuna Ardagh
Author and Founder of Living Essence Foundation