01/06/2026
Over the last four days with our BIYOME practitioners, we explored the shared human heart; our pain, our stories, and our capacity to heal together:
Trauma Informed Meditation Teacher Training.
We immersed ourselves in somatic experiencing, somatosensory-informed approaches, and contemplative inquiry.
We even engaged in a spirited Tibetan-style debate: Is trauma stored in the body? Or are we ultimately beyond the body altogether?
We wandered through conversations about evidence-based versus evidence-informed trauma work, eventually arriving at a simple truth: some of the most important evidence is found within direct experience itself.
We practised many methods for helping people move toward greater regulation, presence, and wholeness. Yet again and again, we returned to the understanding that healing is not primarily about technique. It is about who we are, what we have healed within ourselves, and the quality of presence we bring to another human being.
At a certain point, the techniques can fall away.
What remains is presence.
Right hemisphere to right hemisphere meditative compassionate healing.
Human to human.
A meeting in stillness.
A meeting in yoga — total union, or samadhi.
We explored the possibility that the body itself may be rendered within consciousness, rather than consciousness being produced by the body.
And to close, I was reminded of a few teachings that have guided me:
“Consciousness is awareness with a choice.” — Tom Campbell
“We are in this together.” — my mother, whose simple wisdom helped carry her children through suffering.
And perhaps one of the most compassionate teachings of all, from Paul Gilbert:
“It’s not your fault.”
Even while discussing pain, trauma, and suffering, there was lightness, laughter, connection, and joy.
Because healing is rarely found in perfect answers.
More often, it is found in being fully present with one another (whatever that means and however that presents)
Yoga - a state free of concepts and words.
The state.