Watch this week’s teaching + practice video.

Your mantra practice holds within it the divine energy of your weekly inquiry. In the video, I share with you why and how. I also:

• teach you how to pose your inquiry and use it in your personal practice for the week;
• guide you in the practice;
• ask you a question about your inquiry to guide you to clarity;
• invite you to share your insights with me; and
• answer questions other practitioners have asked. 

*The videos is optional. You do not need to watch it in order to show up at your live practice + mentoring sessions—but it will enhance, enrich and clarify your experience. It will take you into deeper understanding of the process and the practice—and allow your mind to rest easier. It will also establish your inquiry for your personal daily practice during the week. It’s for you. Use it how you best work.

There is a short summary below of how your mantra holds the divine energy of your inquiry within it (it is it).

Craft your inquiry.

Your intention for your practice this week is to: Identify your Innate Brilliance.

You have an innate brilliance—and it runs like a shimmering thread through everything that you do.

It might be invisible to you. Or, it might be so much you—so easy and innate—that it never occurs to you that it has extraordinary value. 

Making it visible to yourself. Owning its value (and your mastery of it). And using it intentionally is the first key to bringing all of you to your work in the world. 

You begin to cultivate—or sharpen—that today.

Raṃ, in addition to being a seed sound, is also a root word—and it means brilliance. 

Because Sanskrit is a vibrational, energetic language, its sound is its meaning. Raṃ doesn’t describe brilliance. It is not the name of the thing we call brilliance. It is brilliance. The sound “raṃ” is the energy of brilliance.

Raṃ is the root word of Rāma, the mythic, spiritual archetype of personal dharma: walking the path of your soul in the world—and taking right action according to who you (really) are. The root of that is your brilliance.

(You see how layered—and beyond the mind—this practice is? Each week brings you further along the path of your own inquiry and deeper into the practice itself.) 

To identify your brilliance, it can be helpful to be aware of (1) what others have repeatedly reflected back to you in gratitude or amazement and (2) sensations during your practice. Gently, invite that into your practice. 

Place the intention to become aware of your brilliance into your solar plexus.