Spiritual Journey

I have been a meditator since childhood. Spiritual enquiry is not an addition to my artistic or professional life: it is one of the roots from which my life-practice has grown. Through meditation, yoga, prayer, fasting, silence and time in nature, I have learned to listen beyond the noise of everyday life, to meet suffering with greater compassion, and to return again and again to the connections between self, oneness and earth.

My journey has included long retreats, months of fasting retreats and a five-month period of silent practice. I have lived as a spiritual renunciant, letting go of possessions, certainty and conventional ideas of success. It was out of this surrender that eduSOIL began. For its first four years, the work was offered entirely through donations. That spirit of service continues to shape how I understand creativity, education, leadership and community change.

I continue to give my time and energy to eduSOIL and to my independent creative practice without the security of a steady income. This is not a story of effortless certainty. It is a lived practice of faith, resourcefulness, gratitude and trust, held alongside the real challenges of sustaining the work.

I feel blessed by the presence and teachings of Swami Sivananda, Guru Vajradhara Tai Situ Rinpoche, Swami Shivabalayogi, and by Lord Shiva. I feel blessed by the trees, children, clouds, sky and moon. These are not separate from my spiritual life; they are among the ways I experience belonging within a living world.

The movement from trauma and self-loathing towards creative expression, shared love and changemaking has unfolded through this same journey. Art, contemplation and service have helped me reclaim my voice and deepen my relationship with myself, other beings and the earth. I do not present healing as something finished. I live it as an ongoing practice of remembrance.

Self, Oneness and Earth are interwoven throughout my work, with Oneness at the heart. I invite others not to follow a prescribed belief, but to discover their own capacity for presence, connection and compassionate action.