Today, Sep 28th, we honor the Jewish day of Atonement, a Jewish holiday which comes to remind us to ask for forgiveness. According to tradition, it is a day of fasting and an invitation to meditate and observe what essentially is our karmic debts. To whom we owe forgiveness, and in what ways we have acted out of integrity. Often on this day, we feel the urge to reach out to friends and family and ask for their forgiveness. In the Jewish faith, it is said that God, on this day, decides the fate of our soul, and thus it...

Sadly, it is a common misconception that spiritual studies are offered as a channeled or divinated process. In other words, taught without proper study and a serious, and even rigorous frame of schooling. In recent years, many so-called teachers have been offering training in healing modalities and many forms of energy work such as “transmission”, “clearing”, “alignment”, “activation”, “shamanic” and other buzz words to imply spiritual teachings.However, the study of the spiritual arts is a profound science and requires years of training and discipline. You wouldn’t open your mouth for someone who had a dream of becoming a dentist. You’d...

Dear God, I find myself at this moment, in isolation. My freedom to follow my desires is limited by an external situation. I am confined to my surroundings and have to remain centered within my own sense of self. I ask that you guide me on how to approach this experience with openness and curiosity. Show me how to utilize my time in a way that will benefit my spiritual growth and evolution. I wish to stand tall in facing my own experience of aloneness and not focus on what I can’t do or don’t have. It is easy for...

For the present to take place, our past has to come to completion. Evolution is a journey onwards. New life is a response to the completion process of death. As we hold on to who we used to be, we limit our creative flow and thus prevent from our future potential to manifest. We intend and ask for a fresh start while we hold on to our past and our previous limiting beliefs. To truly be here and now, we have to let go of our there and then. We make resolutions, form new decisions and make new choices but...

Dedicated to my dearest friend and teacher, Ninawa Pai da MataRapé or Hapé is a powerful Amazonian based snuff medicine that has been served and utilized for thousands of years. It represents the force of the forest and acts as an ally spirit to and for our spiritual growth. At first, Hapé acts as a medicine of sickness, bringing out of us all that is hidden, dark and ignored. We are confronted with immense pain and un-comfortability. We set our intention and allow this power to shake us and push us to our utmost limit.The first leg of the journey...