Touching Wholeness
Reflections on embodied coherence by Darananda
Relationship Beyond Reassurance
This reflection is written largely for those who have already begun to step out of codependency and into sovereignty, and who sense that something else is becoming possible.
Many people today are engaged in a necessary and important movement toward self-authorship a...
I'm writing today to officially announce Self-Clearing and to provide some context on this new audio program.
This work has emerged over many years of contemplative practice, subtle-body inquiry, and relational work. In creating this audio course, I was influenced and inspired by deity-based (yidam...
While the story begins at least a decade earlier—across multiple lifetimes, really—for the sake of focus and brevity, I’m narrowing the scope here to 2017. That year marked a profound opening and reorientation.
I had begun studying with brilliant and masterful spiritual teachers, and Kundalini was un...
A direct introduction to how awakening moves through form.
This piece offers the foundation for what I call The Cosmology of the Awakened Body -- a living framework of awakening through form. It articulates the orientation that underlies all my work: that awakening is not an attainment, but a natur...
Stephanie Ann recorded a podcast episode about her experience visiting and spending time with me (and others) in person. I'm happy to share it here for those who are interested in listening.
Podcast Episode
#6 – Grief: What Happens when the Ego Meets a Clear Mirror
Stephanie Ann Again
Nov 5, 2025 ...
Innocence, Evil, and the Return to Wholeness
Evil seldom looks extraordinary. It moves through the mundane: the half-truth, the withheld word, the quiet retreat from what is real. What we call evil begins not in hatred or monstrosity, but in a lapse of intimacy with reality. This darkness grows thr...
Completing the trilogy on power, responsibility, and the restoration of relationship
The Mechanism of Division
One of the oldest currencies of separation is blame. Through it, we buy a sense of safety at the cost of wholeness. When something in life presses against the identity we’ve built to feel...
Freeing the heart from the subtle, relational form of “emotional labor”—distinct from workplace or identity-politics debates
We live in a culture that rewards codependent habits, much of it operating beneath awareness. We inherit these patterns from what was modeled and praised in childhood, inclu...