About Us and Our ClientsFounder of Citi-Zen: Andy Sinnott

My
journey with meditation and inner work began consciously when I was 12
where I found myself deeply disturbed by people´s levels of stress,
dissatisfaction and suffering on an individual level and socially. I
experienced a natural heart awakening and non-dual awareness where I felt my self to be the same
self in every heart. Within the hearts of all people I became
aware of the suffering of unwisdom. I wanted to do something to help us
find a way to happiness and so one day after this I sat for the first
time to meditate. I observed my breathing for several minutes and then
experienced what was like a bubble of intense joy ascend my spine and
explode in my brain. As a result of this experience I began to meditate
and study Buddhism and Taoism, then Raja Yoga and Qi-Gong. When I was
14 people began to ask me for advice and help with problems they were
concerned about and so I began to teach meditation and provide
individual ways of solving problems.
I
then continued to studied Christianity, Vedanta, Tantra,
Transpersonal Psychology, Stress-management, Inner-child healing,
Re-birthing and Holotropic breath work, Qi-gong therapy, Usui and
Tibetan Reiki, Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Laya Yoga,
Theosophy, Mantra and Sanskrit and all mehtods relating to the
psychology of
unfolding love. I was primarily interested in learning the truths
in diverse spiritual systems and And as I
developed my practices I continued to teach others. I would recognise
the influence of Christ, Buddha, The Divine Mother and certain
Vedantists such as Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, Babaji and the
Siddha Nath lineage as my teachers.
Also
studying fine
art at bachelor and philosophy and education at masters. I worked for
around three years as a care assistant with braindamaged, severely
handicaped and elderly people, and for several years as an English
Language Teacher in German colleges, Kindergatens and Primary schools.
I have also worked as Art Director in Transpersonal Psychology and as a
Fine Artist in Painting and Sculpture.
As
a result of the desire to help others find true happiness, and the
spiritual practices I had undertaken since 12 years old, I experienced
an awakening of my Kundalini when I was 28. The awakening happened
through intense meditation on Jnana (wisdom) Yoga with the desire to
cognise the soul and its context in suffering in order to see the
solution. It was the former resolution now ripe with experience. This
awakening gave me direct perception of the non-dual nature of the Soul
and its threefold equpiment of willing, consciousness and intelligence
and how they opperate the cuasality of incarnation. The awakening
directly enhanced my ability to do energetic work and transpersonal
counselling. I also received authorisation from Ananda Ashram to teach
certain Kriya Yoga techniques, despite having already entered various
levels of samadhi previously.
The development of the Citi-Zen
Conflict Resolution technology emerged though many years practice,
realisation and of living in city spaces, working in diverse fields and
fusing methods similar to Buddhist Tong Len and Vedantic non-dual
Soul Meditation, etc, to create a unique discipline through which to
practice and expereince the resolution of conflict at a causal
level.
The Citi-Zen Stress-Management technology emerged
through similar contexts and was very much the combination of direct
spiritual perception of causal structures and living transpersonal
psychology held within the contexts of modern stress over a period of
years. Through this alignment a realisation and practice manifested
through the grace of the Divine Mother which I have called
¨Violet Diamond Practices¨.
The School of Love Awareness has
developed over the last 26 years, beginning with the experiences when I
was 12. Through all the other spiritual practices in combination with
studying an M.A. in Education and working as an English Language
Teacher in German Colleges, Kindergartens and Primary Schools I devoped
a system of Education for children and adults based on a real
epistemological consideration, an Ontology and cosmology of mankind as
Soul and Spirit, not just body and mind. Ultimately education in terms
of education, and not in terms of people as commercial values for a
commercial market place. The school of Love Awareness becomes more
possible as society becomes more co-oporative and less competitive. In
other words, real education and its joys, become possible as we learn
to put people before profit. At present the syllabus is available as an
on-line course for adults and The first book presentation is being
edited. Funders are welcomed in order to establish the school as a fact
in physical life.
For 23
years I have regularly worked with diverse people all from over the
world with various issues. During this time of extensive experience I
developed what is now the Citi-Zen system of causal stress-management
and conflict resolution. The central practices of this system are
specific causal techniques which transform stress and conflict at their
core. It is my joy to be able to offer this solution.