Deep change only happens when we practice something different.

Learning a different way of being in the world requires a change in the way we relate to the world.

You can’t learn to swim by reading about it. Experiential awareness is essential.

Elite swimmers don’t become world-class by mastering water, but by spending time in it. Through countless moments of attunement—refining technique, learning breath control, reducing friction and resistance—they learn how to move with water.

In time, becoming one with it.

In the same way, freedom emerges when we stop resisting the waters of life and meet our experience directly.

By relinquishing the stories and images we have created about ourselves and others—and by accepting life exactly as it is, rather than how we believe it should be—the truth of who we are, beyond who we think we are, can emerge and take centre stage.

Freedom lies not in discipline or control, but in how we relate. 

“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.”

Marion Woodman