real life practice
PRACTICAL perspective & SPIRITUAL practices for EVERYDAY life.
We support you in coming into deep contact with your truth, intuition, joy and capacity, to live your life, and support your communities, more fully.
come into our circles and workshops to learn practices and perspectives you can apply to your real life right now.
choose your point on the path
01. Beginner
New to Soyala, somatic meditation or contemplative practice?
Feeling curious about how your life might shift or change if you practice but not sure what exactly that means? We’ve got you. Explore our offerings for the curious but not certain.
02. mid-point
Have you had a taste of what meditative practices can offer you, but you’re not quite sure how to make it a part of your daily life?
Are you looking for space to share with other deeply curious people? Explore our offerings for those who have had a taste and wonder what more might mean.
03. advanced
Do you have an established meditation practice, and a sense of your life as a spiritual path, but are longing for an honest guide and community you can trust and align with?
Explore our circles for advanced practitioners on the bodhisattva jedi path.
At Soyala, the perspectives, tools and practices we work with in our workshops and circles will welcome you into the sweet spots of your own life with tiny shifts that create a deep experience of change.
✓ You have always felt like maybe you don’t quite fit in, or feel like the black sheep in your family.
✓ You have a sense there is “more” but you’re not sure where or how to find it.
✓ You can’t get rid of the black hole inside of you.
✓ You’ve had to get familiar with grief and/or loss and you’re looking for access to joy that doesn’t feel bypassing.
✓ You are exhausted by the daily grind but aren’t in a position to make a radical life change.
You will remember how to access your capacity, feel your inner stability, and re-discover a deeper connection to your embodiment, breath, and community.
soyala founder, robin
Most of my life I felt like I didn’t quite fit in.
My early teenage years mental illness diagnosis, and the fact that I centered my life around animals and loved poetry while still playing on the varsity athletic teams at my private school, matched my internal sense that I was an oddball.
With lots of help and a little luck, I steadied my life and then gained exposure to over twenty five years of tools, theories, teachers and practices that truly changed me from a teenager daydreaming about endings in my college dorm room, to a thriving, deeply living, embodied in joy and suffering, remarried with a blended family of 8, middle aged woman.
The soylaa path is created out of what has worked for myself, and hundreds of one and one group program clients for close to fifteen years. Soyala’s roots are in my training, study and practice of parts work, traditional shamanic practices, and tibetan buddhism (and countless other rocks I turned over).
This amalgamation has saved my life, supported me through divorce, the death of a best friend at thirty-seven, and recreating a new life with my second husband and our family in a new to me state. I cannot help but feel deeply motivated to share the roots of soyala with as maybe people as I possibly can in this lifetime.
loving-kindness
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compassion
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joy
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equanimity
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loving-kindness ◦ compassion ◦ joy ◦ equanimity ◦
Groups and Guidance for Embodying Compassion in Real Life
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for the CURIOUS
offerings designed to introduce you to our unique tools and easy practice style where we suggest micro-shifts that will immediately enliven your real day to day life. we welcome all levels from new to practice and spiritual perspective, to simply new to soyala. come as you are and discover practical pathways to deeper ease.
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looking for a COMMITMENT
for those who have dabbled in practice or self-help style perspective. offerings designed to support you in creating a consistent and nourishing practice and match you with tools and perspectives that awaken your true embodied compassion, all in the welcoming space of fellow seekers.
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DEEP SEA divers
our advanced practice containers designed for those with long-term established practice are held by robin. these circles offer aligned community and bold intuitive guidance as you explore the farthest edges and deepest centers of your awakened nature. we keep one foot in ultimate truth, and one in the relative at all times.
private session work with founder, robin
01.
for the CURIOUS
offerings designed to introduce you to our unique tools and easy practice style where we suggest micro-shifts that will immediately enliven your real day to day life. we welcome all levels from new to practice and spiritual perspective, to simply new to soyala. come as you are and discover practical pathways to deeper ease.
01.
for the CURIOUS
offerings designed to introduce you to our unique tools and easy practice style where we suggest micro-shifts that will immediately enliven your real day to day life. we welcome all levels from new to practice and spiritual perspective, to simply new to soyala. come as you are and discover practical pathways to deeper ease.
private session work with founder, robin
field notes on EMBODYING COMPASSION
our blog is a mix of easily applicable practice notes, poetry, and stories of embodied compassion in action during modern life.
