Himalayan Compassion Meditation / Visualization
Nurture greater compassion in your mind, life, and the world with this classic meditation, visualization, and mantra. This powerfully transformative Himalayan Buddhist practice is beloved as the central practice for millions of people in the Himalayan region. It is also safe, useful, and easy to do in any context. As part of growing compassion, this […]
Money and Spirituality: Integrating Wholeness
How can our relationship to money become a gateway to awakening—rather than a source of stress, shame, or silence? In this immersive, heart-centered workshop, we’ll explore how our relationship with money reflects—and shapes—every level of our lives: inner patterns, cultural conditioning, practical behaviors, and collective systems. Using the lens of Integral Theory’s four quadrants, and […]
Learn more about the Powerful Tool of Fasting
Connecting spiritually with your physical body is about honoring the sacred vessel that houses your spirit. Nourishing this “container” is essential for an integral human being. Fasting, though often overlooked, is a powerful practice that bridges the physical and spiritual realms. It offers numerous benefits: physically, it promotes detoxification, activates your stem cell production, resets […]
Coming Whole: An Integral Container for Growth
The spiritual life – and any profound change process – needs a strong container of supportive conditions. Even with a meditation practice, you may feel disconnected or that your efforts aren’t bridging the gap between your actions and vision. Especially in this time of meta-crisis, you may struggle to hold your center with the fracturing […]
Zen & STAGES: A Journey of Development & Awakening
This workshop unites Eastern wisdom (Zen) with Western insights (Development). Development shows that with each stage, we’re “reborn,” bringing forth new hopes, fears, and understandings. Spirituality, on the other hand, reminds us that our primordial nature is unborn, undying, beyond concepts, and always accessible here and now. All sentient beings have needs and wants that […]
Becoming the Ground (in a world of chaos)
We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate. Ilya Prigogine We live in times of increasing chaos – times that challenge our capacity to midwife the emergence of a new, convivial world. This active, engaging, & fun workshop will expand your embodied capacity to sustain and dissipate chaos. […]
Redefining Conscious Community with Integral
Discover how our Integral experiences in conscious community can empower your own Integral development, personally and in community. Two decades ago, I co-founded Clear Sky, a transformative meditation-based retreat center in British Columbia, Canada. Alongside our predominantly Buddhist spiritual practices, our dozen residents plus our larger visiting and virtual communities have embraced Integral Spirituality and […]
AQtivating Soul Power: Wholing City Metacrisis
In our action research design workshop we explore how Soul Power reframes wholeness for cities facing Metacrisis. We first question – “What?” is the challenge? We’ll consider why cities seem to be fragmented, climate threatened, at war, polluted, biodiversity deserts, chaotic, destructive and disrespectful. Then we’ll ask: “So What?” How do these conditions catalyse cultural […]
Growing wings of transformation
We are living in times of upheaval, conflict, and uncertainty. One thing is becoming clear: the traditional approaches to change no longer suffice. What if we take seriously the idea that the outer world reflects our inner world? What if the conflicts we see around us mirror our inner fragmentation? This calls for a paradigm […]
Finding Wholeness in Education: A Place for Us
This presentation shares our experience of educating from wholeness at our arts and nature-based integral education project for underprivileged children in rural India. A Place for Us integrates physical, emotional, cognitive, relational and spiritual dimensions of learning, addressing the whole child within socio-cultural realities. Our programme provides nourishing food, basic literacy and numeracy skills, incorporating […]
