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THE PATH
Samāveśa
THE TANTRA YOGA OF RELATIONSHIP
The one who perceives, and that which is perceived.
Awareness meeting Experience.
THE DEFINITION
समावेश
Samāveśa noun — inclusion; incorporation; entering into or joining together; the act of drawing something in and holding it as no longer separate.
This is not two things merging into one. It is the recognition and remembering that nothing was separate to begin with. The person who irritates you in traffic, the trees, your own thoughts, your body, your shame, your grief, your bliss — none of it separate from awareness, and awareness is what you are.
THE AIM
Radical Intimacy
With All of Life
Most people spend their whole life negotiating with what's in front of them — resisting the parts that are hard, chasing the parts that feel good, waiting for the good parts to last and the hard parts to pass. This negotiation means we live our life at a slight remove.
To stop living a life that is dictated by the chase and resistance of particular experiences means showing up fully to every aspect of life — the mess, the joy, the pile of laundry on Tuesday — while knowing, at the same time, that you are more than this physical form. It means holding yourself accountable as a loving being, honouring your own needs as an individual, and resting, again and again, in the heart of your own being, rather than waiting and longing for a future moment where things will be perfect.
Perfection is an illusion. Nothing is being reached for that isn't already here. This is not a destination or a self-improvement project. It is a way of stopping the cycles of suffering and showing up fully in radical intimacy with all of life.
THE ORIENTATION
A Nondual Perspective
The perspective we hold at Samāveśa is deeply oriented towards a nondual tantric view, but it is also influenced by many other great wisdom traditions. Fundamentally, whatever we are exploring or learning, will always be done through a non dual lens.
THE TWO PILLARS
Awareness and Experience
Samāveśa rests on one fundamental relationship — the basis of all relationships in existence: the relationship between awareness and the experience of awareness.
That experience takes shape — as a body, a feeling, a memory, a world. Soma is the name we use for that shape.
THE LANDSCAPE
Soma: The Five Tantric Bodies
The five tantric bodies are one field, not five separate compartments. Everything that can be perceived — your grief, your ecstatic rapture, emptiness, the felt sense of your sweater pulling over your head, memory, your ancestors, your inherited radical beliefs, the eyes of your lover, the lungs of the world — these are all you. The only task is to return and remember, Soma is our gateway to remembrance.
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THE ETHOS
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t is possible that Samāveśa will perpetually be in a state of being born. As long as it is
held in fluidity, approached with curiosity, met in vulnerability, and adored in multilateral reverence — it will never be shackled into one restricted structure.
When we give birth, we cannot know how things will unfold. This not-knowing is the reality of everything in life. And yet, in whatever we are birthing — a project, a baby, a conversation — we often reach for our beliefs, we mimick how others have done it, we clasp at our plans, hold steady to control, we lean on anything that promises (but does not produce) certainty in place of the not-knowing.
My prayer is that this stays in its birthing process, because that means it stays held in not-knowing. The moment it shackles itself to form, structure, and fixed belief, it will be born — it will be done. That time may come, I do not know. What I recognize is the season it is in now: a birthing, and a birthing that needs its village. It is only through the curiosity, the vulnerability, the fluidity, and the reverence of those who show up that this will be drawn into being.
THE SHAPE & STRUCTURE
To Lead & Listen
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here is a dilemma I sit with in building this. An arrow moves fast. It goes somewhere, it
accomplishes something — energy gathered at a point, moving in one direction, few at the top carrying the shape for many below. A circle moves differently. Everyone is considered, everything is round and shared, and this is slower, sometimes much slower. I love this slowness. I think it is medicine for a culture that has forgotten how to move at any other pace. But a circle alone, in a world still shaped like a triangle, gets trampled.
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So Samāveśa asks for both. A willingness to take direction and lead when leadership is required, held alongside deep listening and shared consideration, so that this remains an active participant in the world rather than a shape too slow to survive in it.
KINDRED COMMUNITY
Who This Is For
None of this can be carried alone, which brings me to who this is actually for. It is for people who share something of this outlook on life — who are longing for kindred community, and who understand that showing up here means showing up fully. Passive participation is not an option.
There used to be a time when we knew how to build each other's homes and barns, share the bounty of our crops, sit together in shared grief, and celebrate each other's joys. Midwives knew the last five generations of a family, we knew the plant medicines in our backyards and felt the rain coming in our bones. There was a deep intimacy in how people connected to one another and to life itself.
Today, there is a real possibility — the chance to connect with beings around the world, united in a way that was never possible before. But the question is whether that can be done with the same intimacy. It would mean a complete abolition of passive participation, and a continuous, active choosing of the sacred, and of each other, again and again.
So this space is for those who are willing to show up, be curious, and continuously place the sacred at the centre.