ABOUT ME
Sarah Owl
Mentor and muse
Who am I? What a question! What can I say here?
Well, I will try to give you a taste of who I am, in my personal life and also in my professional life, so that you can sense into my life´s experiences and see what kind of person I am for yourself!
I am a romantic, I believe that life, the world, the universe is sustained by an epic love story, that the essence of this love is infused into everything that exists. I am a pragmatist, I believe in integrating myself as much as possible into life, weaving into the fabric of my life my heart and soul . I love to spend my mornings reflecting about life, about existence, I love to court the magic and the enchantment. I love to listen to music, music is in itself poetry and finally I love time by myself in life, and then, I love and feel that with and through others life is entirely celebrated!
For me, I feel as if every day I begin again. I feel younger and more vital now than I have felt in my whole life. Every day, along with my contemplative practices, something that makes me feel alive is dancing and I go out into the world and move my body and there in that place, I sense that I am moving with the magic of existence. I become more aware of the gift that is my life.
One of my creative expressions is through prose and especially poetry which gifts me with so much meaning. Also, I like to be known as “the one who is in love with the primordial dream”.
My birth name is Sarah and although, I have been known as Lakshmi for over two decades, this is name that was given to me by my first mentor, with whom I studied with for fifteen years. He was from California and was the recipient of a lineage founded by a French mystic. I met him in the Himalayan mountains in 1994, and became his student. In this training, my main area of studies and work have been, with Meditation, yogic philosophies, (specifically the philosophies of Sri Aurobindo, who was a great influence), Advaita Vedantic philosophies, Esoteric Buddhism, Tantrism and Pranic healing.
I have worked in this field my whole adult life and have been affiliated and was the director of an organization called the New Future Society. Under the auspices of this organization, I co-created with many teams, beautiful projects.
I have lived, travelled and worked all over the world, published books, have created centers for wellbeing, and I have guided thousands of people in retreats and workshops in the United States of America, India and South America. Namely in Colombia, where I lived for ten years and here created a retreat center in the mountains close to the Caribbean coast. After this time, I felt called to live in Argentina, there, I co-created different projects, one of them involved meditative practices that were taught gratuitously in schools, universities, in penitentiaries, and in public places, opening the possibility for others to experience the benefit of the contemplative experiences, (always in a secular way). A great deal of this work in the last twenty years has been in the Spanish language. (Below you can see my Tedx talk and other interviews in Spanish).
However, a few years ago, I realized that I was feeling called to dissolve the organization to make way for a new creation. Here you are experiencing this new creation! Sarah Owl is this new vision and work.
The reasons for this, were personal and also professional. I primarily wanted to break away from the limited values and experiences of the organization. Secondly, I have felt called to create something uniquely mine and thirdly, I found that the oriental philosophical approach to understand and transform the psyche was not adequate enough. I knew that through these approaches, I was unable to reach parts of my unconscious and my shadow. There was, for me, a missing link.
So essentially this project incorporates an integration of the past teachings with new understandings about the human psyche that elucidate the necessity to become aware of our place in the greater ecosystems.
In this sense, this work is an expansion of the past, with a view to create something for the present times we are living in and also with a deep concern for the future of our planet and our societies.
I am indebted to the work of Animas Valley Institute, and the writings of Bill Plotkin, (founder). Their understanding of a Soulcentric cosmovision for life, based on a framework of an Eco Depth Psychology and in my opinion, a profoundly mystical understanding of the nature of reality. Now I know I have more tools that I need to be able to deepen my understanding of transformation processes and today, thanks to all of this extraordinary life experiences, I actually feel more embodied and integrated in my psyche than ever before. I am deeply grateful that I am able to incorporate these teachings now into my life and my work.
Finally, I feel called to say that I hold very carefully in my hands the paradox of knowing and not knowing.
My dreams and intentions with this work is to accompany others to flourish and become the creators that they long to be in the world.
Finally, I am here, passionately open to work with Others, in their individual journeys, holding space to listen and accompany healing and wholing processes. Creating together meditative spaces that are generative, where we can hold the burning questions, carefully, emerging together with our dreams and longings.
For, I truly believe are connected to the “Dream of the Earth” and the evolutionary movements of humanity at large.
And to conclude I ask you, “What do you think, sense or feel wants to be dreamed through you?”…
