Personal and Spiritual growth requires total transparency and integrity. Growth can be obstructed by trapped life energy called shadow which we all create unknowingly and which causes emotional imbalance. Shadow (Avguna) is the opposite of conscious belief, desire, or intent (Sadguna) and it can manifest as resistance to transformation and an allergy to greatness. It inhibits our development by causing us to avoid aspects of our experience (allergy) or by encouraging damaging addictions. Shadow energy is at work when we keep secrets from ourself and others, harbor guilt and shame, make ourself and others wrong, look out for others to blame, ignore our weakness and criticize others, separate ourself from others (us vs them thinking), and so on. Thus, shadow is in fact a disintegrating aspect of ourselves which must be re-integrated first by recognizing it’s presence in both individual and collective forms. We will learn important Cleaning (Lightening up) practices to identify and counterbalance any unconscious shadow elements and transcend it and open up space for a higher, wider, and deeper view or reality.