the art of integral being

A consciousness-centred education, practice and community hub that invites us to remember who we are and why we are here.

  • Open book resting on a wooden outdoor table with a blurred green leafy background.

    Education

  • A person practicing yoga outdoors on a rocky surface with a mountain range and blue sky with clouds in the background.

    Practice

  • Multiple human hands placed on a tree trunk in a line in a forest setting with green foliage in the background.

    Community

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

  • Education is consciousness-centred, placing subjective awareness at the heart of all learning and inquiry.

  • Education embraces embodied knowledge, honouring the body as the primary site of knowledge, wisdom, and ethics.

  • Education cultivates heart-mind integration and qualities that foreground relationships such as compassion, empathy, and loving-kindness.

  • Education is grounded in contemplative education, which centralises reflection, introspection, meditation and other contemplative practices in teaching and learning.

  • Education supports soulful living, encouraging meaning, awe, creativity, discernment and congruence in daily life.

  • Education draws on the inclusivity of integral spirituality, which recognises the truths of modernity and postmodernity, as well as those of ancient wisdom traditions.

  • Education adopts a practice-first approach, privileging experiential learning ahead of theoretical instruction.

  • Education is practice-led, where practice is not the application of theory but a primary way of knowing through doing, reflecting, and refining action in real-world contexts.  

  • Education facilitates the integral being of students, a felt sense of completeness and wholeness across all aspects of daily life.

Open book lying on wooden surface with pages fanned out, illuminated by sunlight with lens flare effects
A person practicing yoga in the tree pose on the beach during a sunset, with the ocean and sky in the background.
Open notebook with blank pages and a wooden pencil lying across the pages, on a wooden table.
A book with pages folded inwards to form a heart shape, set against a black background.
An open white door standing on the shoreline of a beach with waves, during a sunset or sunrise with a partly cloudy sky.
A white water lily flower blooming on a pond with lily pads, backlit by warm sunlight.
A pink water lily flower with yellow stamens floating on dark water.
An orange autumn leaf with visible veins resting on textured gray pavement with Sanskrit etchings.
The founder wearing gold earrings, a gold bindi, and a colourful wool shawl.
The image features a large stone sculpture of a human face and head, which is intertwined with the roots of a large tree, creating an appearance that the roots are part of the sculpture.
A person doing a handstand yoga pose on the beach during sunset with clouds and colorful sky reflected in the water.
Burning Palo Santo with smoke rising against a dark background, placed on a wooden surface.
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A FEW WORDS FROM THE FOUNDER

“My work has always resided between worlds: between philosophy and practice, education and community, intellectual inquiry and embodied experience. The Art of Integral Being® emerged from a desire not to separate these ways of knowing, but to bring them into conversation. I am interested in how we might create intentional spaces and places that help us understand ourselves, others, and the world/beyond more deeply, and ultimately, help us remember who we are and why we are here.”

Dr Gabriella F. Buttarazzi (Uma Shakti Devi)

Meet the Founder