Remembering Education as Integration

What is happening in the world, you ask?

So many of you know I have long held a vision for starting a school -- I see it in the hills, a living space where children integrate and play, pulling in the fullness and totality of who they already are, every single day.

Right now, much of the world does this integration work between roughly ages 25 to 45 - sometimes earlier, sometimes later - often through great effort, unraveling, healing, and re-learning. I’ve always felt we can make this human transition far smoother. I believe this work can be a natural developmental process, one that children are supported to move through organically, rather than something we recover later.

“Do what?” you ask.

“What do you mean by this work?”

I mean all of it.

The self-love.

The healing.

The integration.

The loving of all parts of our being ... never banishing anything.

The knowing that all moments in time are divine and exactly as they are.

Playing with shadow.

Learning how to become the observer.

Breathing with and through all chakras.

Allowing emotions, thoughts, and identities to move through without attaching to every wave ... noticing when we do, and finding it interesting rather than wrong.

Releasing projections of past and future and returning, again and again, to presence.

This is the work many of us now do as adults: often in yoga studios, healing spaces, or therapeutic containers.

What would the world feel like if we were doing this as children?

Ages three to five have always been my favorite. Life is still infused with magic and awe. Everything is a game. “Good” and “bad” become living inquiries rather than rigid moral boxes. Duality is explored playfully. Friends forgive easily. Five minutes later the past is gone, replaced by something brighter, bigger, more alive.

This is where I often see the deepest roots of integration taking hold, though I feel it continues and refines itself all the way through about age ten. I say ten because I once had a dream where I was shown that humanity could choose to be largely integrated and self-actualized by that age. Of course, as soon as we move toward manifesting a vision, it evolves. Greater visions appear ... ones we cannot yet imagine.

I feel children can learn Reiki between ages three and five. I feel all healing modalities will continue to expand as we step into using more of our innate capacities as creators beyond measure. As this happens - if we collectively choose it - more chakras, more subtle bodies, and more dimensions of perception naturally open. Not as something forced, but as something remembered.

I already experience children as our greatest teachers in this. I’ve watched them teach me about energy, love, and coherence in ways no book ever could. I once had a four-year-old student who would hug my dad’s dog for long stretches of time, calmly explaining that he was asking her to fill him up with love.

We were never meant to be programmed out of who we are in order to make systems feel safe. Children are among the most creative beings on Earth, and their light is so bright that it can feel threatening to adults; especially when we haven’t yet been taught how to steward creativity without suppressing it.

No shame is needed here.

Much of this within us is unconscious.

It’s part of our collective learning curve.

And none of this is black and white.

Change, emergence, and innovation are among my soul’s favorite movements.

Creativity doesn’t need to be destructive to be free. Innovation doesn’t need to threaten stability. Every being can be their own brushstroke within the greater painting. We don’t need to dim individual light to preserve the whole; the whole is made of these lights.

Right now, many people “discover” yoga or consciousness later in life, often as a break from machine-oriented living. But what if it was always there? What if it never needed to be found ... only protected?

I believe children can explore shadow and multiple layers of consciousness, when guided by adults who have walked before them. Forgiveness comes easily when life still feels like play. When the brain is still largely operating in delta and theta, life remains dreamlike, fluid, present. I believe children can integrate many lifetimes, feel their pure soul frequency, and let it pour through their hearts into the planet ... returning to neutrality, coherence, and fifth-dimensional knowing (and beyond) by around age ten.

What better time to receive this remembering?

I visualize this often. Not as fantasy, but as a lived field, this school.

A Playground in the Sky -- a place where children pull all parts of themselves into the present moment, integrating and self-actualizing under the guidance of adults who have come before them.

In my vision, it’s a house in the foothills. When you open the door, there’s one giant open room. To the left, a large, beautiful kitchen. Walls removed. Space breathing. A marley floor beneath bare feet. Soft furniture tucked into corners.

Learning happens everywhere ... inside and out.

Perhaps a children’s yoga class begins inside while another teacher facilitates experiential math outdoors. We shift into student-directed exploration, then gather again for shared play or creation. We dance. We move. We lie on the floor and watercolor. We go outside for language arts stations. Into the yurt to play with plants and nature.

The subjects themselves are not the point.

They are tools: ways to dance the macro and micro, the inside and outside, the small self and the Big Self, day after day. We learn together. We help one another. Teacher and student dissolve into shared presence. I, the teacher, become the student of these divine beings who arrive not to be molded, but to remind us.

I love us all.

I am hopeful for the future, and that future begins now.

Today, I taught a spirit science/yoga class I once only wrote about.

Today, I teach Kindergarten at a school that already exists: doing our best, together, right now.

Nothing is wrong with today.

And tomorrow ... we will play in a Playground in the Sky.

Thank you for listening.

Thank you for holding this vision of growth, expansion, and love with me.