Notes From The Mindful Inner Journey

This is a space for the exploration of awakening, integration and embodiment, it’s a space that supports a deepening of Self. I don’t separate between spiritual or non-spiritual, all is included. It’s just LIFE and exploring what it means to be human, what it means to be alive, what it means to suffer, and what it is to accept all into the embrace of our experience. Understanding what awakening is...

Liz Dueck is a Nature Artist, Art Educator, Trail Guide, and the co-curator of “Along the Cimarron”. She primarily works in oil painting, charcoal and natural materials. Her creative practices are all based on exploration and connection. Along with displaying her work in galleries and curating exhibitions, she regularly leads Art Hikes in the Tulsa and Sand Springs area. Dueck’s passion lies in in...

Kai has a unique gift that allows her to transmit the energy of awakening to open and willing spiritual seekers.  She was introduced to the kundalini shaktipat tradition in 1994 when she was 27 years old. Her kundalini was awakened by a shaktipat master and within a few months she was in full manifestation of the Divine Mother.  She has since undergone a series of dramatic awakenings that have pre...

Branjae is the personification of Black American Music. She is an artist, activist, dancer, singer, and actress. She asks “why not” through her music, challenging listeners to embrace their authentic selves.  Her lyrical depth, energetic theatrical performances, and out of the box genre fluidity are as unique as the personas she embodies. Having previously performed at the legendary Apollo Theater...

There is a strange, mysterious beauty to how things don’t work out as planned. Things don’t get done. things sometimes stay on our to do list forever. intentions or goals sometimes are never fulfilled. things get forgotten about plans fall through. People disappoint us. we disappoint ourselves. our expectations dont get met. projects sometimes are left unstarted or abandoned half-finished People a...

Grace Bubeck is a psychologist (MSc), philosopher (PhD), and certified massage therapist by work history and professional training. In 1999, she left a first career in academia at the London School of Economics to become a body-mind therapist in private practice and a personal development and meditation teacher. She offers in person therapy, counseling, and workshops, as well as online non-dual sp...

When I am finally able to “see” that there is so much more to it All than the things that I feel like I have to get done, when I no longer have an agenda to push out into the world, when I no longer need to make anything happen, when there is no longer really anything to do other than what comes naturally in each moment, when I no longer need to worry about where I am going in life, when it all be...

Spiritual guide and author, Shakti is known internationally as one of the most authentic and profound voices in contemporary spirituality. Presenting the message of Advaita and non-dual Tantra within a contemporary framework, Shakti offers, with compassion and great clarity, an inner technology for dissolving the contraction of suffering that traditionally accompanies each of our lives. Her invita...

Things get really interesting when I get to a point where there is nothing that can be extracted or collected from any particular experience.  Somewhere along the journey I learned that when I want or need something, it’s like a “bottomless pit” and it’s never, ever enough because that’s the way the game works.  My predicament is that sooner or later, I am always going to “hit the wall” and there...

Melissa Moore Ph. D. is the steward of North American Karuna training since 2014, and co-founded Karuna Europe in 1996. Melissa has her MA in Contemplative Psychotherapy from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, and her Ph. D. in Psychological Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies. Melissa has been a student of Vajrayana Buddhism and Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1979....