I am you. You are me.

This is so for us and for everything else in existence.
I am everything and you are everything.
And this everything is yearning and working to create a way to express itself uniquely through the unique form it created in each of us.

We have observed that there are 3 primary doorways inviting people to the teachings and community offerings at Inspiration:

• Physical, Emotional, and Cognitive Wellness

• Mystical Awareness

• Eco-social Consciousness

Each creation has a unique and organic connection with the source of life.
Whether we call that source Biochemistry, Life Force, Evolution, God, Goddess, Truth, Essence, or the Universe, the exploration of it is sacred and necessary to the experience of being fully alive.

We begin life with a breath and we end life with a breath. Breath is our most important connection to life energy because it is the first and last action of our life. As we expand the quality and quantity of breath in our body, healing energy is intensified.

Everything in existence is arising from the same substance, energy—The One. It is clear to see that this One manifests in an infinite variety of ways. Moreover, human beings have noticed themes of these various manifestations. For instance, many lineages recognize the dualistic manifestation of The One: form and formlessness, stillness and dynamism, light and dark, masculine and feminine.

Whether called chakras (Hinduism), the Sephirot of Jewish Kabbalah, the seven mansions of the interior castle of St. Teresa, or other names, the concept of seven energy centers seem to be a universal experience of human awakening.

At Inspiration, we encourage students to understand their uniqueness and their relationship with everything. To this end, students are supported in undertaking processes of seeing and developing their inherent gifts and essential nature. This is the path of celebrating and actualizing our deepest potential. We call this movement ascension or construction.

Both masculine and feminine energies must be cultivated within each of us, regardless of one’s gender, to enable us to respond to life with attunement and intelligence, and embody our complete potential.

We are indebted to the knowledge of The Enneagram. It is a profound and insightful map for the journey from fragmented, fixated personality to psychological wholeness and liberation. The Enneagram describes nine specific distortions that prevent us from embodying Essence more fully and permanently as human beings.

At Inspiration, one of the main cornerstones of our studies is the development of the internal will and muscles to maintain a formal daily practice—sometimes called spiritual practice or Sadhana. Whatever one’s inherent talents or aptitudes, focus and discipline are required to release distractions and hone the mastery of these gifts.

Vibrant physical health can support our spiritual path, just as a spiritual path can support greater physical health. Many in the human potential movement or spiritual paths have become passionate advocates for the notion that all illness is created in the mind.