By: Anna Bek
“Our minds, bodies and souls can start to feel scattered, numb and disharmonious when we don’t take the time to recharge and refill our wells of love, service and action. I mean...I know I am not alone in trying to do it all?”
By: Kali Basman
“ In understanding how to move through trauma we must understand the different layers of the brain and how traumatic experience influences each layer.”
By: Anna Bek
“The Svadisthana Chakra holds the key to unlocking and harnessing the energy you need to be innovative and to make change.”
By: Kali Basman
“ Each time we return to a heightened awareness of the Self, we become more willing to face the unknown.”
By: Anna Bek
“The heart is the gateway to the soul, to the subtle body, and to the spiritual body from the lower three chakras that pertain more to survival, belonging, and ego. It is the center of the thing that no matter what, ties us all together: love.”
By: Anna Bek
“There is no greater time than right now to put those systems into place, those wheels into motion, and give yourself the time to expand yourself both personally and professionally by stepping out into the world.”
By: Kali Basman
“Each person weaves his own web of fate. We are the architects of our own future.”
By: Kali Basman
“In the midst of craving or aversion, ask yourself this: does getting your way really matter?”
By: Kali Basman
"Inside yourself is a wellspring of truth and beauty. Your inheritance is inner radiance. The buddha is within us, your awake nature is already alive and thriving.”
“My whole being is at a much higher vibratory level, and I feel like I’m flying most days. Abundance is overflowing in all aspects of my life and beautiful relationships are unfolding to help me grow, expand and awaken to all that I am – all that we are – Spirit.”
By: Kali Basman
"Our suffering is holy if we embrace it and look deeply into it. If we can practice investigating our suffering rather than feeling overwhelmed by it, we can use it as fodder for wider understanding.”
By: Kali Basman
"A pose in itself isn’t yin or yang but how you practice it becomes the intentionality and texture of the shape- thereby targeting the yin or yang tissues.”
By: Vera Kamalatmika
“Through this project I have come to feel those colors of courage and empowerment within me and in the circles I shared. We are opening up – together! Jay!”
By: Vera Kamalatmika
“Sometimes I have been asking myself … what do I do wrong? From a higher perspective, everything is perfect just exactly the way it is. My very first intention for the project was actually to gather in intimate groups with women. This work with myself that I have witnessed, has been a very important part of my life path.”
“We are all storytellers.
Some of us live in a fantasy,
Experiencing life through rose-colored glasses.
Longing for our princess or prince charming
To sweep us off our feet
Whisking us away from
the mundane monotony of everyday routine.”
“An intimate and supportive relationship is one that breaks down ambiguous and closed off emotional walls to create healthy, opened and honest communication that meets and exceeds each others’ needs and is in alignment with our purpose and spiritual growth in this life.”
“We could wonder the origin or we could
make tea and drink its remedy—
for this forgetfulness.”
“We can re-program our thoughts, our words, and our actions by becoming an observer to this experience called life. When we come from a place of non-judgment, and see people as vessels of pure love and light instead of how their past actions made us feel like, we can start to see progress and see change in our relationship with them.”
“To see a man standing in his power, controlling and using his energy wisely, supporting and respecting each other and those around him brings a deep and ancient feeling of rest to my inner being.”
By: Tahlia Rubin
“Yoga teaching has illuminated this dynamic and my perfectionist tendencies rooted in fears of being judged for not knowing everything, for not being liked or for being perceived as “weird”. Ultimately, these fears sketch a pattern of struggling with self-acceptance and fighting my true nature in an attempt to be someone other than myself. ”
“When I am here, I feel alive. My skin soaks up the dew, my spine speaks to the trees, my feet become barefoot roots on the paths and my heart opens in divine creativity. I believe I could just perch here and watch, and be content. I believe that if I stay here, the right people will come to me. I believe that if I listen to this deep call, the vision for this space will emerge.”
By: Tahlia Rubin
“My current motto: “anitya ”, impermanence and reminding me that “this too shall change.”
“Drop all of this non-sense
and take full advantage of your
God-given birthright to sing as loud
as the birds do.
What kind of plant
or tree questions or calculates
its growth and future?”
By: Halo Stronko
“The Mystics would open doors into the divine, lay maps to the mystery, and translate the unknowable into the known. They were keepers of the keys of beauty, truth, unconditional love and pure presence.”
“Stuck in muds of misery
Vines entangled my heart
Suffocating expression of self
Burying pain deep inside bones
Waiting to escape the weight of
Earth.“
By: Eleanor Hadley
“I’ve been doing this work, this internal work, for years now. A friend asked me recently when the work stops. The answer is, it doesn’t. There is always more to learn, more room for you to grow and evolve.”
By: Kali Basman
“Interoception is the sense of the internal state of the system, allowing us to interpret sensation and how to navigate the emergence and occurrence of circumstances both internally and externally.”