12 Petalled Lotus
The Pathways
The 12 Petalled Lotus began as a living map of the human heart. Each petal represents a foundational human capacity of the heart — innate qualities such as Bliss, Peace, Harmony, Love, Understanding, Empathy, Clarity, Purity, Unity, Compassion, Kindness, and Forgiveness — that develop and deepen across a lifetime through relationship and lived experience.
Over decades of practice in somatic work, attachment repair, birth and end-of-life companionship, and emotional literacy education, patterns began to emerge. The same core capacities were needed again and again — in parenting, in partnership, in grief, in leadership, in healing, percolating before birth and spilling beyond death.
The Pathways grew from this recognition. Each one focuses on a particular developmental lens while strengthening the same heart capacities from a different angle. Together, they form an integrated journey: not a series of separate courses, but a cohesive framework for becoming more fully human, in relationship with yourself and others.
All courses are live online, 90-minute weekly sessions with reflection and self-study between meetings (6 weeks core followed by 6 weeks signature) and replays for the duration of each program + 2 weeks).
Pathway 1 | Rewiring Safety & Trust
(Petal Qualities: Purity · Love)
Starts April 7, 2026 | 1 - 2:30 PM MST
You are wired for connection. Your body learned early what closeness meant, long before language formed memory. Some of those early imprints created steadiness. Others created vigilance.
This Pathway gently traces safety back to its origins. We explore how attachment begins before conscious memory — in the first breaths, first touches, and rhythms that teach the body what love feels like. Participants learn how those early patterns shape confidence, parenting, and emotional regulation across a lifetime.
What You’ll Explore
Early attachment, nervous-system regulation, and felt safety
The body’s language of contact, rhythm, and trust
How early experiences shape adult connection and caregiving
Practices for rebuilding internal security and emotional stability
Who It Naturally Supports
Adults healing early attachment wounds, expectant or new parents, and caregivers or educators seeking to model secure bonding from the inside out.
Pathway 2 | Reclaiming Curiosity & Play
(Petal Qualities: Clarity · Bliss)
Starts April 8, 2026 | 10 - 11:30 AM MST
Curiosity is native to you. Play is a developmental intelligence, not a luxury. Somewhere along the way, responsibility, fear, or inhibition may have narrowed that field.
This Pathway reawakens the part of you built to explore. We look at how the body learns to hold back and how it relearns expansion. Through awareness, movement, and creative practice, participants rediscover freedom to wonder, create, and move through life with vitality.
What You’ll Explore
Autonomy and connection: finding self without losing relationship
The developmental roots of self-expression and inhibition
Integrity, responsibility, and self-respect as embodied capacities
Reprogramming old narratives that limit creativity and belonging
Who It Naturally Supports
People navigating life transitions, educators, artists, parents, and helpers rekindling curiosity and vitality in themselves and others.
Pathway 3 | Speaking from the Heart
(Petal Qualities: Kindness · Peace)
Starts April 9, 2026 | 7 - 8:30 PM MST
Your voice carries more than words. It carries perception, truth, and relational impact. Early experiences taught your body how safe it is to express that truth.
This Pathway strengthens the courage and capacity to speak from grounded presence. We study how early power dynamics and subtle distortions shape communication patterns. Through relational and somatic practice, participants rebuild trust in their perception and learn to communicate with steadiness and compassion.
What You’ll Explore
Boundaries, voice, and self-expression rooted in body awareness
Communication patterns shaped by fear, defense, or control
Repairing trust in your own perception and truth-telling
The bridge between honesty, compassion, and relational safety
Who It Naturally Supports
Partners, parents, leaders, and professionals seeking healthier dialogue, confidence in truth-telling, and deeper relational integrity.
Pathway 4 | Restoring Balance & Harmony
(Petal Qualities: Clarity · Harmony)
Starts September 8 , 2026 | Time TBA
Your body is designed for rhythm. Activation and rest, effort and ease, focus and release — all move in natural cycles.
This Pathway restores internal harmony by exploring how chronic stress and emotional intensity disrupt that rhythm. Through grounding, breath, and gentle fascia-based movement, participants rebuild coherence and rediscover steadiness as a living experience.
What You’ll Explore
Regulation and coherence as daily practices
The impact of stress, trauma, and sensory overload on the body
Fascia, breath, and nervous-system integration
Rest as rhythm: restoring steadiness without collapse
Who It Naturally Supports
Helpers, caregivers, trauma survivors, and anyone ready to restore sustainable energy and calm in their personal or professional life.
Pathway 5 | Nurturing Empathy & Compassion
(Petal Qualities: Empathy · Compassion)
Starts September 9, 2026 | Time TBA
Empathy is a gift of perception. Compassion is the strength to remain present with what you feel.
This Pathway teaches how to care with clarity and steadiness. We explore empathy as physiology and learn how the body registers another person’s experience. Participants strengthen boundaries that protect both giver and receiver, anchoring compassion as sustainable and life-giving.
What You’ll Explore
The biology and energy of empathy and emotional resonance
Boundaries, projection, and healthy attunement
Compassion fatigue and sustainable care
Embodied kindness as a daily discipline
Who It Naturally Supports
Therapists, health professionals, parents, teachers, and anyone learning to care without depletion.
Pathway 6 | Releasing Control & Resistance
(Petal Qualities: Release · Surrender)
Starts September 10 , 2026 | Time TBAÂ
The body knows how to soften. Openness and surrender are natural states when safety is present.
This Pathway explores control as a learned strategy for navigating uncertainty. Through guided reflection, breathwork, and gentle movement, participants practice easing tension and cultivating trust in life’s unfolding while maintaining grounded stability.
What You’ll Explore
Control as a survival strategy and its release through awareness
The physiology of tension, surrender, and flow
Trust, patience, and the rhythm of change
Releasing resistance as a form of nervous-system repair
Who It Naturally Supports
Perfectionists, achievers, and anyone learning to move from rigidity toward flow in both life and leadership.
Pathway 7 | Understanding Boundaries & Belonging
(Petal Qualities: Understanding · Unity)
Starts January 5, 2027 | Time TBA
Belonging flourishes when individuality remains intact.
This Pathway explores the dynamic dance between autonomy and connection. Participants map emotional and energetic boundaries, practice clean “yes” and “no,” and cultivate belonging that honors both togetherness and selfhood.
What You’ll Explore
The interplay of autonomy, attachment, and community
Energetic and emotional boundaries in practice
Saying yes and no without guilt or withdrawal
Belonging that doesn’t require self-erasure
Who It Naturally Supports
Parents, partners, community leaders, and individuals seeking to build connection without losing authenticity.
Pathway 8 | Serving from Wholeness
(Petal Qualities: Service · Wholeness)
Starts January 6, 2027 | Time TBA
Service flows most powerfully from coherence.
This Pathway reframes helping as expression rather than obligation. Participants explore vocation, alignment, and purpose through psychological and embodied lenses, strengthening the capacity to offer care from fullness and integrity.
What You’ll Explore
The difference between purpose, rescue, and obligation
Vocation as expression of wholeness
Burnout, boundaries, and sustainable service
Reframing giving as participation, not self-erasure
Who It Naturally Supports
Healers, educators, coaches, social workers, and all service-driven professionals seeking renewed integrity and sustainability as well as those experiencing blurred boundaries within families and relationships.
Pathway 9 | Integrating Light & Shadow
(Petal Qualities: Purity · Clarity)
Starts January 7, 2027 | Time TBAÂ
Wholeness includes every part of you.
This Pathway explores how growth deepens through integration. Participants examine projection, shame, and self-judgment with honesty and compassion, cultivating maturity through embodied awareness and relational insight.
What You’ll Explore
Shadow work as emotional and somatic practice
Projection and self-perception in relationships
Meeting shame with compassion and awareness
Integration as the foundation for authentic strength
Who It Naturally Supports
Therapists, seekers, and anyone wanting to engage in deep personal growth or transformation work.
Pathway 10 | Cultivating Strength & Resilience
(Petal Qualities: Strength · Stability)
Starts April 6, 2027 | Time TBAÂ
Resilience grows from grounded presence.
This Pathway explores how the body metabolizes stress and transforms survival patterns into adaptable strength. Participants develop steady focus, recovery capacity, and embodied confidence through structured, compassionate training.
What You’ll Explore
The biology of resilience and recovery
Transforming defense into adaptable strength
Building grounded focus through body-based training
Emotional steadiness as a practice of presence
Who It Naturally Supports
Caregivers, survivors, and professionals rebuilding confidence and endurance after prolonged stress or challenge.
Pathway 11 | Opening to Connection & Intimacy
(Petal Qualities: Openness · Connection)
Starts April 7, 2027 } Time TBAÂ
Intimacy expands when safety and self-trust meet.
This Pathway guides participants into deeper vulnerability and attunement. Through nervous-system awareness and relational practice, participants strengthen their capacity to receive affection, navigate repair, and remain open with steadiness.
What You’ll Explore
Attachment and desire through nervous-system awareness
Vulnerability and trust as embodied experiences
Repairing ruptures and rebuilding relational safety
Intimacy as a spiritual and developmental practice
Who It Naturally Supports
Individuals or couples rebuilding trust and connection, and practitioners supporting others in relational growth.
Pathway 12 | Living in Lightness & Joy
(Petal Qualities: Light · Bliss)
Starts April 8, 2027 | Time TBAÂ
You’ve done the work, but joy still feels like something you have to earn.
This Pathway returns you to the heart’s natural rhythm: simple joy. Through gratitude, field practice, and collective reflection, participants explore joy as coherence and embodiment, and learn to sustain lightness as an integrated state of being.
What You’ll Explore
 Joy is a natural rhythm of the heart.
This Pathway invites integration through gratitude, embodied coherence, and collective reflection. Participants cultivate lightness as an integrated state of being and strengthen the capacity to move through daily life with steadiness, wonder, and ease.
Who It Naturally Supports
Graduates of previous Pathways, lifelong learners, leaders, and anyone integrating continuous growth into daily life with ease and grace.
Note: All courses require the Pathway Orientation Guide which is automatically added to your cart.
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