When I first launched the Village in 2020, I had a face to face with myself about my life and purpose. I noticed that for years I had lectured to others, as a DEI facilitator, about the healing adults serving youth need to engage in to be better guides in the lives of young people. But what healing was I doing? THAT was the question I asked myself one day and I knew I needed to do my own work. After this internal conversation and commitment to my own healing, Dhyana Kluth joined the Village almost immediately after it was first launched. I had met Dhyana at an unschooling event in NYC a couple of years prior to her entering the Village so I was happy to see her again. After reconnecting here in the Village, I visited her website and was blown away. Dhyana is a shamanic psycho-spiritual healer and the very person I was calling into my life at that moment. I knew this was a divine reconnection and I immediately acted without allowing myself to find excuses to not more forward (like do i really have the money and time to do this, blah-blah-blah).
Fast forward to today. Dhyana has been a major influential guide in my life. The evolution of the Village is a direct reflection of the internal work I continue to do with Dhyana. I have learned so much about my deeper shadows and the parts of me that struggle to let go. I have cried, forgiven, felt physical rejection of the healing path, and opened my heart to receiving unconditional love. This has not been an easy journey. There were times I questioned all of this especially since I had rejected religion and anything that resembled spirituality for almost all of my life.
But just like I knew in my heart unschooling was for me and my family…I experienced the same feeling in my heart when I knew it was time for me to get serious about my own healing. I pushed my growing edge by allowing myself to face the uncomfortable edges I had avoided or rejected. I knew there was a deeper calling and I knew I needed to be open to going to deeper places within.
And so I did.
We did.
And I/we continue to do.
This journey of unschooling may have started as an act to protect and nurture the liberation of my children but the truth is, this journey broke me open in ways that freed myself…that reconnected me to my higher self and her magic. Unschooling was just as much for me as it has been for my children. My work with Dhyana has helped me to see more clearly the many divine energies that walk alongside each of us helping to guide the “self”. The relationship I have with myself is no longer a singular I but a we. And this knowing is why I center healing in the Village. Not healing in the colonial way but healing in the Indigenous, spiritual way all of our ancestors once knew and practiced (and continue to practice with us when we let them in). Self-directed education isn’t just some thing you do, it is an experience of fully being in the world and a journey of returning to your inner knowing.
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