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The body is sacred not because it is perfect, but because it is faithful. It carries what we cannot carry. It speaks what we cannot speak. It remembers what we have forgotten.


Konrad van Staden

welome to your portal to presence

Begin Where You Are

Practice Makes Human

Practice Makes Human

Magnifying glass highlighting a brain inside a head outline.

"You can't begin from the highest, from some abstraction. Get up to where we are from the beginning every time." -John Pentland


PRACTICE

  • Finding Safety in the Body (18 min)

Practice Makes Human

Practice Makes Human

Practice Makes Human

Woman doing yoga using a block for support.

"We may have all the insights, but if we do not incarnate them, they are in vain." - Marion Woodman


PRACTICE

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga (41 min)

Meditations

Practice Makes Human

Meditations

 "The origin of every tradition does not reside in thought but in silence. Spiritual instruction is received straight from the emptiness. It's not knowledge that's transmitted but listening." -Eric Baret


PRACTICE

  • Meditation for Being Human (19 min)

Spirit

Science & Soma

Meditations

Hands forming a heart shape around the sun.

"Then there is the discovery of the essential or true self." -A.H. Almaas


EXPLORE

  • The Source of the Spiritual Dilemma 

Science & Soma

Science & Soma

Science & Soma

"If we are able to create safe environments, we have access to neural circuits that enable us to be social, to learn, and to feel good." - Stephen Porges, PhD


EXPLORE

  • Restoring the Body as Home
  • The Difference Between Self-Care and Self-Love
  • Read This if You're Falling Apart
  • When the Body Is the Bridge Used to Bypass the Body

Soma & Soul

Science & Soma

Science & Soma

"I awake, not in order to change but to know the true, the real." -Jeanne De Salzmann


EXPLORE

  • Embodying Nonduality
  • An Emergence-See Map for Falling Awake

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