Where We Belong

Lived Experiences

There is a point where understanding is no longer enough. There’s a place where ideas begin to ask to be lived. This is where experience becomes essential—not as escape, but as integration.

In shared spaces, something shifts.

The pace changes. Attention deepens.

The ordinary becomes visible again.

Food tastes different when it is prepared together.

Silence feels different when it is held collectively.

Learning feels different when it is not separated from life itself.

After years of producing spiritual retreats in Northern California and Mexico, I understood something simple but profound: waiting for these experiences once a year was not enough. I wanted to bring that sense of presence, nature, and ancestral memory into daily life.

That is how my books began to take shape.

That is how my classes and creative experiences became a natural next step—a way of passing this feeling forward, especially to younger generations.

Tiny Chefs, Cosmic Art, and I AM LOVE are not about instruction. They are about immersion.

About remembering—through experience—what cannot always be held through thought alone.

And in that remembering, something opens.

A recognition that knowledge is not only something we carry, but something we inhabit.

I remember a kindergarten student saying to her mother one day: “I am going to need Ms. Gaby’s afterschool yoga class to calm myself down, and to get rid of all the jibber jabber in my head. You need it too mommy”

There was something so honest in that moment—

a child naming the need for stillness in a world that rarely pauses.

This is the geography of belonging.

Not fixed, not abstract—but lived.

A place we recognize through safety, presence, and shared experience.

A space we choose, again and again, to return to.

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Where We Belong is part of Suddha Prem Magazine — Issue #7

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