About
The Cosmology
Unfolding awakening through form
Unfolding Through Form
Awakening beyond the small — fearful, defended, disconnected — self-structure is not only possible; in this age, the path to our true nature is becoming ever more accessible. Yet it is not mind-oriented, effort-based, nor can it bypass the body. It is a lived emergence, expressed through an integrated and clarified bodymind, through relationship, and through responsible conduct in the world.
Over the past two decades, my path has unfolded through refined perception, subtle-body revelation, spontaneous encounters with the numinous, and relational thresholds that revealed something essential: realization must enter the tissues, shape behavior, and express through relationship for liberation to unfold.
When one aligns deeply with truth, life becomes a precise mirror — accelerating integration, dissolving bypass, and revealing what remains hidden in isolation. When we practice as a collective, even more becomes possible. Awakening happens of its own accord, but what we can do — before, during, and after — is continually unburden the bodymind of density and contraction, revealing its boundless, timeless nature in each moment.
My role is to articulate and transmit the structural reality of this nature.
The Cosmology of the Awakened Body is the name of the living field of pure awareness through which this work arises. It offers a pathway into the subtle architecture that reveals divinity within everyday life, through direct experience — a reality always already present. My task is to articulate this cosmology, hold its coherence, and support those called to uncover it within themselves. It is not a belief system but a field of non-dual presence, open to all regardless of faith or background. What matters most is one’s capacity to trust direct experience.
I transmit through presence, language, somatic coherence, and the shared interiority of the awakened field. Together we learn to perceive subtle reality through the body, to purify what obscures clarity, and to allow the deeper intelligence of the heart-mind to move without distortion. As this occurs, what once felt fragmented reweaves into luminous coherence.
This work meets people at a particular threshold — beyond conceptual seeking and the early arc of trauma healing, into the territory where subtle perception, relational integrity, and embodied clarity become primary. Here, awakening shifts from insight to living alignment: a felt knowing of truth, a structural reality of integrity.
Within this field, we refine perception, meet shadow without exile, and inhabit relationship without collapse or fusion. We discover sovereignty within connection, transparency without shame, and depth without overwhelm. Purification continues as a gentle unbinding of what no longer serves, revealing the ease, joy, and uniqueness inherent in our nature.
My responsibility is to hold the axis of the field and support the conditions in which clarity stabilizes and enlivens. In this way, the field itself becomes the teacher, revealing each person’s next step through their own direct knowing. I offer direct introduction — to reality, to true nature — and serve as a relational expression of the field itself. Rather than idealizing a figure or outsourcing authority, we cultivate subtle maturity and shared responsibility. Each person’s process is their own sacred unfolding.
If resonance arises for you here, it is not toward me personally but toward the architecture of your own awakening coming online. This work offers the field in which that knowing can become recognized, embodied, and lived — where realization expresses through relationship, clarifies conduct, and weaves itself into the fabric of everyday life.
Welcome to the field.
“Do not mistake understanding for realization, and do not mistake realization for liberation.” — Tibetan teaching
Lineage & Background
My path opened through mind–body awareness and deepened through direct realization within the Tibetan Buddhist current — particularly the Dzogchen view and the blessing stream of Guru Padmasambhava. The movement began at age twenty and has unfolded through subtle-body openings and the full ascent of Kundalinī, ultimately resolving in the heart center (with Shakti and Shiva united) and stabilizing as embodied peace and clarity.
Along the way, I’ve worked closely with several teachers whose mastery helped refine perception, anchor realization in the body, and deepen the relational dimensions of awakening. Academically, I hold a PhD in Sociology, an MA in Critical Theory, and a BA focused on Sound, Self, and Embodiment — studies that attuned me to the structures of culture, identity, power, and the lived body. These two streams — mystical and scholarly — inform the depth, precision, and coherence of the work shared here.
“The next Buddha will be a sangha.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
Why This Matters Now
Human consciousness stands at a developmental threshold. We are no longer called to awaken away from one another but through one another. Subtle perception, embodied coherence, and relational integrity are becoming essential capacities. They allow us to meet life without collapse or defensiveness, dissolve scapegoating and codependency, and embody the dignity required for true adulthood.
When many embody coherence together, the field itself becomes intelligent and responsive. It learns, adapts, and reveals. This shift — from individual realization to collective coherence — is the next movement of our evolution.
On the Name Darananda
In 2021 I received the spiritual name Ananda. In transmission settings, I use the name Darananda (Dara + Ananda) to mark a subtle shift in function. It signals that what is speaking is not the personality but the field itself — the architecture of clarity expressing as this bodymind. You will hear this name used in most recordings.
In ordinary life and relationship, I go by Dara, You’re welcome to call me by either name.
If you have any questions about my path, teachers, or this work, you’re welcome to get in touch.
May clarity awaken through every heart that reads these words.
