Libby Hoffman
At the heart of my work as a healer, creative, coach, guide, and spiritual innovator is devotion. Devotion to mystery, magnetism and magnitude. Devotion to gratitude, grounding and grace. What I once saw as "religious" and "spiritual" study has become a journey of recognizing and embodying truth everywhere and in all things. I believe we are in a larger story of remembrance, rekindling and embracing the multidimensionality of who we are. You can read more of my daily reflections on these subjects on my substack "Sunrise Sadhana," and explore how my journey impacts the work I do below.
How do my religious and spiritual beliefs impact my work as a healer, coach, guide and leader? My own journey in 'merging worlds,' came from my searches for greater health, wealth and well-being through global travel, and the sudden loss of my younger brother Dan to suicide.
I believe our understanding of body, brain and mind are evolving alongside our understanding of self, nature and divinity. In my spaces, I welcome discourse and contemplation on these intersections, and openness toward the individuality of each of our journeys in this complexity, while invoking personal inquiry into and play with the nature of yourself and reality.
My evolution is inseparable from my relationship to science, religion, politics, nature and spiritual practice. I believe all are all interconnected and in evolution.
While I don't identify with any singular political party or religious doctrine today, my spirituality is inspired by a devotion to ancient, modern and evolving practices in service of environmental preservation, conscious evolution, universal human rights, the oneness of humanity, the oneness of divinity, and the revival of the feminine principle of life.
I have been influenced by my own body, life experiences and spiritual practice - and believe all are interconnected and in transformation alongside our awareness of them. The essence of my beliefs is situated in the power of interconnection - within and without - to produce greater truth.
I am learning how to walk my own path with integrity in this time of polycrisis, Great Turning, Great Change, Precipice, and the Dawn of a New Day.
Resources/Perspectives:
Baha'u'llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith
I was raised in a devout evangelical American Christian household. At the age of 17, I left the US and began teaching english at a school of social work in Haiti with my older sister. Exposure to extreme poverty, beauty and the connectedness of us as humans opened up questions about religion, spirituality, truth and connection for me. Whi
I was raised in a devout evangelical American Christian household. At the age of 17, I left the US and began teaching english at a school of social work in Haiti with my older sister. Exposure to extreme poverty, beauty and the connectedness of us as humans opened up questions about religion, spirituality, truth and connection for me. While I have come to study many spiritual and religious traditions since that time, the Baha'i Revelation for me offers a vision for humanity's progress and evolution, and a renewal on the meaning of religion itself. While I consider myself 'a friend of the Faith,' I draw much inspiration from the Baha'i principles, including but not limited to:
I welcome refection on these subjects and hold a certification on Religious Trauma from the Global Center of Religious Research, knowing deconstruction of our current relationship to "God" and "religion" is foundational to renewed relationship to what we mean by these things.
From childhood, I began having dreams about World War. I didn't think much of it until my brother died at the age of 23 - something I had dreamt about at the age of 13. The death of my brother opened up several things: contemplation around the relationship of the 'spiritual' and 'embodied,' what dreams were, how connected we are as people
From childhood, I began having dreams about World War. I didn't think much of it until my brother died at the age of 23 - something I had dreamt about at the age of 13. The death of my brother opened up several things: contemplation around the relationship of the 'spiritual' and 'embodied,' what dreams were, how connected we are as people, how men and women on the earth today experience the emotional and the mystical based on socialization and expectation, how we heal from grief and trauma. I first leaned into the study of yoga and the practice of meditation and was soon guided to a vision of the divine feminine. The Gene Keys are a 'synthesis' or 'transmission' based on the Chinese I Ching, supporting humans in personal and collective evolution at a cellular level. My own life's work and evolution of Gene Key 4/49 (forgiveness and rebirth) supported me to heal from my own fear of myself, my dreams, and the transitionary moment we find ourselves in as a human species. As a student of the Gene Keys I center:
I first had a vision of serving people in the space of sexuality at a 10 day silent Vipasanna Retreat in 2018. I first had a vision of guiding women in the winter of 2019. And I first had a vision of the divine feminine rising in the autumn of 2019, in the months following my brothers passing. These visions paired with my own trauma heali
I first had a vision of serving people in the space of sexuality at a 10 day silent Vipasanna Retreat in 2018. I first had a vision of guiding women in the winter of 2019. And I first had a vision of the divine feminine rising in the autumn of 2019, in the months following my brothers passing. These visions paired with my own trauma healing work shut me down. I first pursued peace through mental health, a psychological healing practice called 'the unity of the good,' and yoga and religious study. After 3 years, I felt ready to pursue my pursuit of divine feminine and sexual healing from a more grounded state. At this time I found the work of contemporary tantra teach Layla Martin. Feminine and sexual healing work reawakened my creativity after almost 3 years of struggling to make art following the death of my brother. It also broke open to new sources of pain and anger in my life and began me on a 3+ year journey I am still in of listening to the calls of my own being. The path of the feminine is not one thing. From my vantage point, it invokes: the embracing of shadow and light, our reconnection to 'Pachamama' and mother earth, the reclamation of lost feminine archetypes, the healing of our collective sexuality wounds, the restoration of indigenous traditions, the honoring earth, and the rising of the priestesshood here to guide humanity's transition. I invite people to come into their unique call of the path of the feminine and discover what it speaks to them.
Richard Rudd, Founder of the Gene Keys Synthesis
Does religion, spirituality, alternative science or the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and spirituality trigger you? I believe our conversations at the intersection of these triggers matter and my work involves the construction of group environments cultivating reflection and truth-seeking at these intersections.
At the same time, in my 1-1 and small group work, I embrace that we are at different points of comfortability within these subjects. I am working to build out safer environments for growth, transformation and multiplicity.
You can learn more about Religious Trauma from the Global Center for Religious Research. Continue exploring my work within Elegance Lab and Liberatory Love, and email me directly. I believe we don't have to find agreement, to find harmonious ways of learning and working together. And it is the willingness to work together in our difference, that allows a new, deeper truth to be born.
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