Integrative mentoring works across all of these simultaneously — because you are not one thing. You are embodied: you live in a body that holds memory, wisdom, and unprocessed experience. You are archetypal: you are shaped by patterns, stories, and cycles that extend beyond your personal history. You are energetic: you operate within a biofield that responds to and influences everything around you.

A session with Safiatou might move between all three in a single hour — or rest deeply in one. What guides it is not a fixed protocol but genuine attunement to where you are and what the moment is asking for.

When I launched Soul Sarana, I called myself a humanness navigator.

It was playful. A little bit made up. An attempt to capture something I’d been living and working with for years but hadn’t quite found the words for — the full, complicated, magnificent territory of being human. The parts we celebrate and the parts we hide. The messy and the miraculous. All of it.

That phrase became the seed of everything that followed. And these are the principles that grew from it.

This year has been fiery. Here in Australia, literally, to begin with, and, to my mind, that's not really abated much over the last 11 months.

We're in a huge cycle of shift, change, and transformation. I don't think there's a single person who hasn't had something fundamental shaken up quite dramatically this year. And that, in itself, is pretty harrowing or humbling at the best of times.

'Sadhana' is a 'means of accomplishing something', a dedicated practice or learning that someone undertakes’. Iyengar (1993: p. 22) in his translation and commentary of the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali defines sādhana as: "Sādhana is a discipline undertaken in the pursuit of a goal.

You could be anywhere in the world and, right now, you'll be hearing calls for accountability. We want politicians to be accountable for their decisions (supposedly in our name) and their behaviour in the positions of power which we allow them. We want men to be accountable for the way they show up, individually and in crowds, in relation to anyone else. We want those who are the majority in a white-washed world to start being allies to those who aren't... The list is endless.

During 'these times’ that 2020 has brought to us all, I’ve not felt the lull, the pause, the deep breath that some have. On the contrary, I’ve experienced one of the busiest periods of my life professionally and personally. And, as I’m sure it has been for wherever your experience has landed on the spectrum of ‘busy-ness’, it’s been deeply uncomfortable, instructive, challenging and (when I could breathe) inspiring. So just when I was asking my practice to hold me in brand new ways, and so that I could hold class for you all, the news broke. Whispers became formalised allegations and a posthumous investigation into Yogi Bhajan’s conduct as a teacher, guide and guru was opened.