Patrick Collard
What I know of Patrick's history comes from his own stories that he would tell in class and some that he shared with me directly. I also heard first hand stories from other students of his, and second hand stories as well, but I do not repeat those here.
His command of body language (reading) was so detailed and practical that he needed to share stories to explain where his skills came from, which is how I heard them. Patrick could look at anyone, and instantaneously know details about their childhood (how many siblings, their age difference, family issues, and more). He could see the locations of past operations and physical traumas, as well as education and career choices. His "in the moment" information was mind boggling, and sometimes surreal.
While he claimed a poor intellect, he could nevertheless explain his skillset through stories of his childhood. While he still did not speak by age five, he was visited in his dreams by a young Navajo boy who taught him to read body language and make adjustments in others for healing. About age six Patrick reset his brother's fractured arm by giving his wrist a twist. Pat said that he could see how to make the bones align again, so he just did it. "It totally our spooked our mother so she drove us to the doctor in a panic. But the doctor took x-rays and declared there was nothing he could do. The set was perfect. Mom then started driving me around the rez on the weekends to do adjustments on people," Pat explained.
"During the week, a Navajo boy would come to me in my dreams and show me the technique I was going to use the next day. Then my mother would drive me to go see someone with an ailment and I would do the technique.
"When I was eight he started showing me how to heal my brain and then I started talking when I was nine."
When Patrick got a littel older he was a test subject for Jose Silva Mind Control, before that book was written. Because Patrick was born left-brain dead and couldn't speak for the first nine years of his life, he often claimed to be developmentally disabled but the sensory information that he could pick up on, process and use, was extraordinary.
Patrick told me that when his mother finally got him to Haidakhan, he saw the Navajo boy bounding down the steps of the ashram. When Pat got to the top of the steps, he asked Shastriji who the boy was and was told (I'm paraphrasing), "That's one of Babaji's bodies."
Babaji gave Patrick two jobs at the ashram: cleaning toilets and doing healings. Pat was given a hut and a makeshift massage table, and folks lined up outside to be blissed out through body language adjustments. It was during his days in the hut that Sondra Ray noticed him, and soon Patrick became a part of Loving Relationships Training, for some time.
When I met him, he had already moved on from the LRT and was teaching his own classes.
The Collard Method - Training with Patrick -
I trained with Patrick over several years (1995-99), taking various classes and the ten-day apprenticeship (for body language adjustments). Some of the classes I took include Nite Skool, Positions of Power, and Present Time Lover. I also did a one-on-one intuiton and manifestation training with him at his home (and casinos) in Las Vegas. For reference, his picture was up at The Flamingo for years for the most consecutive jackpot wins on a single machine.
Patrick took me aside one day to tell me that I am a better teacher than he ever could be, and that I should figure out how to teach the material in my own way. That's The YBNL College.
Picture: Patrick demonstrating on me, ~1998. More details and videos below.
Videos about Patrick (YouTube links)
Below are stories about Patrick, available via YouTube. The first two are my own, and the third is a discussion about Patrick with myself and another of his student-assistants.
- Peripheral Teaching — How Patrick taught
- Casino Class — One-on-one with Patrick
- Birth and Healing — Patrick's birth and self-healing stories
- Training with Patrick — Stories from class
YBNL versions of Patrick's Classes
The following YBNL classes are derived from Patrick's group classes and private teachings.
- The YBNL Playshop — derived from Patrick's private teachings and commentary on Rebirthing Breathwork.
- Effective Affirmations — utilizes Patrick's subtle manifestation training.
- Present Time Lover — based on Patrick's class by the same name (not yet available).
- EnergyWorks — based on the Casino Class and Positions of Power.
- Nite Skool — Patrick's original Nite Skool.
- Wing Release Training — based on Collard Method techniques.
While Patrick's work and his Collard Method guide the entire campus, these classes in particular will be recognized by those who studied with him.