Kailash Collective in Wartook, Victoria, Australia | Yoga studio

Kailash Collective

Locality: Wartook, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 415 703 324

Address: 31 Wartook Rise 3401 Wartook, VIC, Australia

Website: https://www.kailash.co

Likes: 867

Add/Update information

Reviews

Tags

• Hotel
• Yoga studio
• Lodge

25.01.2022 18.09.2020 I ride I ride I ride, The rocket ship of life ... A tale a turn a twist, The love of a wild wife We play the tune, And dance the loon An encounter with the night I fly I fly Ifly Towards a brighter light Triumphant is the beggar When God reveals his might He came as poor, So you would ignore Him knocking at your door You threw him out Without a shout And forgot to ask for more For in the raising Of your mind A question of the right He would have made You rich as He And saved you from the fright Of looking in Your Soul alone The new moon ain't so bright But in the empty Void of His, Her fullness will delight You'll be delivered A peaceful end A start, the engine wears A journey yonder Neither here nor their Salvation beyond despair Your only hope has been consumed, By your sordid love affair But if it He, beyond the death, To whom you bow in fear You life will live Deeper still Like a letter from your dear I cry I cry I cry Sweet tears from my breast The sacred heart Has been revealed As the treasure of your chest #kailashcollective Still rooms up for grabs, check out kailash.co/residency if you are looking for a new adventure!

24.01.2022 9.07.2020 Love is the flow between receiving blessings and offering gratitude Vid: welcome to the family and our hearts dear Kali! Odin has already stepped up into the role of her big brother, showing her how to play, explore and also push the boundaries.... Today he teaches us that the joy of play and growth comes from both offering and receiving / dominating and submitting. This flow, at the core of our being a play between awareness and life, mind and matter or form and formless, is what I feel love to be. He who abides in this simple truth has become one with the dance. Jai Kali Ma !

24.01.2022 Please join Thomas Lorenzo Fernandez and I as we livestream an improvised concert this WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER 6:30am to 8:15am AEDT right from the heart of Kailash Collective. The sharing will be an improvised meditative session bringing you the magic of Thomas on guitar and yours truly doing a cameo with one of my Nepalese bowls. Find a connection to the place of one, the home of unity within as the sounds of nature blend with the pained yet loving vibrations of Thomas's cla...ssical guitar. This year has pushed us all and though the tests have come, here we still are, united in our humanity, able to share what we love, albeit a little differently. Tickets are available with flexible pricing from $2 via the link Please let us know if you are excited by COMMENTING and TAGING any muso's or meditators who need good vibes in the morning. Let's share this far and wide to help support Thomas as the music industry has been one of the most hard hit and more than the tickets, musicians thrive on having an audience to play to. https://events.humanitix.com/one-within-nature-from-the... Oh and check out the vibes and video of the rehearsal!

23.01.2022 14.12.2020 To Him, even the wise owl listens Pic: an enlightening detour via the @greatstupabendigo And to the wise Owl, He watches, closely.... For the Owl advances under the wind of the invisible spirit. And the invisible spirit is made manifest in form so that it may speak a bold truth to those who watch and dare to live. And for those courageous souls who's eyes have been opened, nothing will be known and again He will arrive at His abode in peace.

23.01.2022 31.12.2020 Being Him is always more pain 1.1.2021 The guru shows you where your resistance is 2.1.2021 And behind the pain, surrender to His bliss

22.01.2022 14.12.2020 Freedom lies in the bondage of Service Only the ego can perpetuate the myth that freedom entails getting what we want. True service involves giving oneself to Ideal, Other and God.... In this service, the being is free from its limited self and the Soul illuminates the world around it.

22.01.2022 6.09.2020 The Soul knows the truth Pic: As Ram Dass often said, we are all just walking each other home. Only your mind can tell you what you have experienced is a mental construct.... We experience high, low, the in-between and then some, yet when in a rut, the high seems unknown and when we are high the low unimaginable. Deeper still, beyond change, is the truth of the soul, laid bare in formless, wordless, expressionless experience. Devoid of thought, devoid of imagination, stands this truth, a story so wild one could live the rest of their days trying to capture it to no avail. This is the divine of the here and now, embodied spirit in you, and us, on Earth. An experiment. Next time you close your eyes, imagine it is for the last time. What comes up? Fear? Worry? Perhaps even Love? Practice this meditation on death. Synchronise the breath. What comes up for us is a highlighting of the areas we are clinging too, the things not yet surrendered, and then God, the Source and the End. Our inevitable rendezvous with the Boss. No matter the time, no matter the circumstance, no matter the impingement on your liberties by a fearful few, no matter how righteous you are, how many answers to unanswerables you've worked out, no matter how wise, how ignorant, no matter how conscious or unconscious, no matter loving or not, we pray that you die into yourself as inseperable from God, a union of heart, mind and spirit. This is a death worth dying. mtyormukya m-amtt "May I be released from death, not from immortality" #kailashcollective

22.01.2022 10.06.2020 He can't take what you won't watch Pic: A message from the Grandfather tree, up close and personal. Is the same thing seen from another angle actually the same? Or has the old become something new? ... When revisiting the wounds of trauma, a new self embued with experience the old self didn't have, bares witness. In still awareness the witness becomes one with the light of consciousness itself. There is a complex interaction between the frequency of the light and the reflective/refractive properties of an object. Our awareness can reveal multiple readings, such as in a prism, where the full visible spectrum (rainbow) can be seen as originating from a pure white light. What colour you see is determined by where you stand in relation to the structure breaking apart the light. Stand far enough back and you see a larger process at play. A dance inside of the game of colours can leave one blind to the truth of the unbroken unity, and also the object of division (the prism.) From root to leave a tree is connected, from pure light through form and colour, us too. For those finding themselves being polarised or pushed into taking sides in the culture wars by, we encourage you to join us in finding solace in your soul, that place of love for self, other, and all. Our practice works with the crown, bringing the awareness here and surrendering. Let go. Release. Repeat. Try it for 10 minutes and see how you feel? More or less polarised? With loving eyes, the witness can begin to heal not only ours, but collective trauma too.

20.01.2022 4.09.2020 Don't fight the outward enemy when the devil has a hold inside Pic: Team mulch hard at work showing us that fire risk reduction is also good for the veggies. When you cease to identify with the thinking mind and its negative criticism of the world around you, you will perhaps come to realise that the greatest, most positive part of you is indeed the sense of knowing, that you are you!... For us, this simple truth is a gateway into relation with more than we can see or know through the mind, aka God. We see that the universe is composed in love, built upon meaning and is here to celebrate itself, including you, as its creator. This is the gift of our Humanity. But with this gift, comes responsibility. It is the Soul's job to captain the voyage beyond the patterns and programming of the mind. To reside in this thought with a calm awareness brings us no answers or understanding in a scientific sense, but fills a being with a radiance that is hard to miss. The embodiment of the spirit leads to genuine love, tolerance and patience. All virtues that are needed for collective flourishing. Beware those who try to persuade you otherwise, for the hooks of mind, of right and wrong, of us and them can only find their way into you through your own volition. For a being resting in the Soul, anchored with the power of God inside, is armoured such that no hate can tarnish, no attack can defeat. Learn to watch, to experiment. Next time someone with an agenda wants you to feel fear, guilt, shame or worry, bring your awareness to the fact you 'are,' rest the mind into the softness of the Soul for a moment and see what happens. Are you more grounded? More centred? Less worried? Less afraid? It will take practice, much like doing repetitions at the gym. Our experience has been that this practice of surrender, of letting go for even a small moment to sit with your inner truth, has the power to shift not just your mind, but even the minds of those who would wish you harm. We pray that your Soul speak loudly in the gentle voice of your heart, that you are guided into peace in the face of worry and that together we overcome fear.

19.01.2022 10.12.2020 Devotion is the beginning of belonging Pic: a flowering artichoke in the garden, a veggie as beautiful as it is delicious, pic from @wildiswonderfull When I embarked upon the path, I eventually realised that I was not the chooser of way, but a horse being led.... As I surrender to the master, a rider of skill and accomplishment, a trustworthy warrior I call Her, I am led from ignorance to wisdom and from darkness to light. In Her glory, I let go of the map, the memory and the mind and take each yellow brick to the destiny of Oz. Where this path goes is answered by knowing for whom it was made. In knowing this, that the path was made for you, belonging arises without effort and the knowledge of being owned is realised. For the path is the home where only the Soul may rest. A bed where being led is being found and being ridden is being free. In Her glory, for Her, eternally, I march. #kailashcollective

19.01.2022 08.12.2020 I'll take myself as Him Pic: a young stud posing, one day he might be the alpha. At some stage, and perhaps only for an instant, devotional practice switches over to self-worship.... Made in the image of God, by Him, from Him, when were we ever not worthy of this exaltation? Invariably, holding oneself as the object of devotion can dangerously lead to ego inflation and resultant messiah complexes, but also can pay the dividend of rightfully acknowledging just how divine a creature we all are. Who would want to short change God on his creation? In honouring our ordinariness as special, sacred even, we build a bridge to the heart of our creator. For what God wouldn't want his creation to be admired, respected and loved, not for His sake, however, but for ours. The biggest hurdle, though, is that the process of self worship highlights all aspects of oneself where one is falling short. For the diligent souls, this means work. For the lazy, it can be too hard to look in the mirror. A true Guru works in this way, but rather than hate on the mirror, maturity is to work on the flaws of the being that are reflected. By continuing to bow down, externally, and internally. Until there is nothing separating in from out. #gurutattva

19.01.2022 29.12.2020 I forgive everyone for everything Pic: A livestream to remember; the yurt has become our gateway to the profound and enlightening energy flowing through Swami Shivkrupanand during an 8 day meditation workshop and discourse. Last day tomorrow, 1130am - 2pm AEDT, for more information please check out @gurutattvameditation @samarpanaus where you can also find recordings of the previous days and more.... For those that know Rajni and I and our humble creation, Kailash, Swamiji has been a lighthouse in our lives and we wouldn't be here without His grace, teaching, wisdom, humour, compassion, understanding, patience and forgiveness. It's an honour to serve the divine energies flowing through not just Him, but all Souls. For in truth, and with complete resonance to Swamiji's teachings, the Soul is your Guru and to that place in you, we bow. Much love.

19.01.2022 4.12.2020 Help comes when you ask for it Pic: a ray of light Tonight I am reminded that help truly is a magical 4 letter word and that an inner asking leads to an outer fulfilment of a pure wish.... Most of my life I denied a need for help from God, now, after much humbling, I see that asking for help is never wasted, for when the grace comes it will be met with genuine gratitude and a lessening of the ego (rather than the "I did it" that keeps us stuck from seeing our true, dependant nature.) Kailash can always use help, you, as you are, are welcome here, in service and in thanks, to serve and be served. If you ever feel like you need help or want to offer it, please reach out!

19.01.2022 21.09.2020 Depersonalise evil God's eye perspective, I dare not Cry, All happening is my doing, all pain is my try I depersonalise Evil, for I know its root cause, tis the price to be paid for knowing, His governing Laws... Policing the heart is not a job for man, God alone presides, He builds up the dam And stores a supply of infinite love, a reservoir of bliss, His rain falls from above And washes away, the longing for more, I stand content, not counting the score Living in knowing, that a true seeker finds, The tools for enlightenment, for lifting what blinds And revealing the truth, through a lineage most large, a collective endeavour, Earth ship, the barge One vessel is ours, this planet, our home, Together we journey, no soul is alone Hurtling through space, though we feel the centre, He is a black hole, that only light may enter Yet light is dark, for those that see Absence is presence, now its time to bee Bound in love, freed in restriction Surrender it all, and find the position That holds you high, when you bow below, On your weeping knees, is the place to grow But no outwood gesture, need to be shown, Devotion lives inside, His truth will be known To those who seek, eyes genuine All will be revealed, in the bread and the wine

17.01.2022 Ditch Fear. Embrace Nature. Live at Kailash!!! ---------... Friends & Family, We are excited to announce that we will be taking Kailash into a new phase of it's evolution, one where we are looking for beautiful Souls to join us to live in community. We have options for people to join us as full time volunteers, long term residents, (also short term stays once the lockdowns end), we are even looking for a cook to join us! More info can be found Here ------> https://www.kailash.co/residency/ This is the chance you have been waiting for to legally depart from the fear and insanity gripping the city, please get in quick as we are anticipating high demand. --------- NOW WE NEED YOUR HELP!!! If you can tag friends, and share in groups where people may be looking for options to find centre, to seek refuge and reconnect to nature that would help us immensely. Lots of Love, David and Rajni

17.01.2022 20.10.2020 In the eternal, death flowers as life Tired to the core, the grind rages on Angry at being played, the wife takes upon... Herself to torture, a silently crawling spider Entrapped in Shakti's web, a bike with no rider For Her game is one, He can't help but be playing Each step He takes, the sacred Goose is laying An Egg of now, born into Self again He is the seed, ovum, verse and refrain But She is other, truly as can be Despicable and wicked, yet loving of Me A Goddess I'm proud, to call my Master My Saviour, the Heroine, without whom I'm a disaster

17.01.2022 16.07.2020 To know Him for a moment makes an entire life worth living. To know Him for a lifetime makes an entire universe worth existing. To Know Him as the entire universe makes the Soul's journey divine.... Know Him as your Soul. Know Him as the entire universe. Know Him as your Life. Hear Him in the drumbeat and you will hear Him in your Heart. Blessings to the deer spirit and may She carry His vibration to your Soul. Om Namah Shivaya Pic: progress shot of the birth of a deer hide medicine drum

16.01.2022 The butterfly effect continues at Kailash Feat. butterflies that don’t just flutter bye

16.01.2022 25.11.2020 Take yourself as Him, but take Him as the undivided Self Pic: A tawny frog mouth that landed on the family tree reminding us that in nature, He who sees in the dark is king. My darkness has me often caught and torn inside of how best to conceive of me and my place inside of this cosmos.... Is it the ego inflating or the soul being heard? The mind conjuring stories or awareness tuning in to the Divinity of life? To see the truth the eyes need to be open. And in opening the eyes, nothing can be ignored, least of all one's own shit. Though how much vision to we really want? How clearly do we really want to see the malevolence lurking in the corners of our own being? Are we lying to ourselves when we cling to the rainbows and unicorns? If we want to be free, I say crystal clear sight is essential. Like the tawny frog mouth. Able to fly in the dead of night, navigating and hunting with ease where others are content to hide. So we go forth into this night, bolstered by the reminder that where we are going, deeper and deeper into Him, that the eye must be eternally open. Lest our own darkness blind us from the truth.

16.01.2022 12.12.2020 Love is... Pic: The biggest explosion in the universe The coming together of two beings in sacred union is the pinnacle and quintessence of Love.... It was an honour to bear witness to and to celebrate the love and commitment between my brother and his beloved as they got married in a moving and soulful ceremony surrounded by loved ones. We wish that they open to receive all the grace that this universe can provide and that through their family that they continue to offer the radiant light of their beings in service and love (as they have already done so) for many years to come. We love you!

16.01.2022 A high def recording is now available for our wonderful morning of making music and sharing divine vibrations with Thomas Lorenzo! Thomas received a creative victoria grant to livestream his music from regional locations in Victoria. For more concerts, music, production and guitar lessons please check him out ... https://vimeo.com/476752214/9d184d35e5

15.01.2022 5.12.2020 My life is an expression of His Pic: new residents at Kailash! Two baby cockatoos calling the family tree home, reminding us of the cycle of coming and going. Shakti or bust, her love is a must... Shiva is here, his grace I lust Only the boss, will give me my due And save me from the pretenders, Who don't have a clue They slam the door, on a vibrant crowd, fearing that their love, will ring out too loud Better they embrace, the chaos of soul, the dirty divine drama, an ending without goal, A solo affair, of being taken to meet, the master puppeteer, who'll sweep you off your feet, And show you the truth, that all he was asking, was your devotion and love, and you'll thereafter be basking In the Sun of God, rather than mind, freedom is surrender, it'll help you unwind The coils of thought, you stole from others, ditch the babble, and fight with your brothers The battle of hearts, of men becoming more, within His hair I sit, and wait for the door To be opened for me, as it is not my right, but it is his grace only, that can illuminate the night

14.01.2022 15.12.2020 The Shell is woven in threads of devotion Pic: a beetle buddy in the barrow mirroring another friend of nature. Guilded threads of pure intent come together to form a protective encasement around one's being.... To some, on the outer, it is encountered as an abrupt change in density. A barrier. To others, on the interior, it feels like a safe, protected enclosure into which the softness of the being can expand. Like a turtle in His shell, I am at once both hard and soft. If you meet my hard edge, remember my vulnerable heart. If you meet my tender extremity, never forget my strong shell. Forget either, and you will be bitten. Embrace both, and you will be loved.

14.01.2022 11.12.2020 If you let Her exalt you, She will Pic: a brown snake visiting the lodge (the second most deadly snake at Kailash) The easy part of letting Her love take you, is that it requires nothing of your doing. It is pure, unadulterated, divine and free.... The hard part is letting go of all the lead I unconsciously hold onto. This detritus and energy of smallness, insecurity and unworthiness only serves to weigh me down. All that is asked of me is to Surrender. She will take care of the rest for She is the deadliest snake to whom I bow.

14.01.2022 Our resident OG; Ode the tomato watcher

13.01.2022 26.11.2020 In the sea of infinite division, I sit in unity Vid: some guests who visited the yurt during yesterdays evening meditation to have a drink and say hi. Tonight I am reminded that no matter how wild it gets, no outside crutch can offer support in the depths of the journey.... True stability is found in the genuineness of feeling of the inner prayer. In the formation and then surrendering of an authentic plea for help, the answer is made manifest and embodied. For the question IS the answer, and the answer IS the question. Both go without utterance. Both dissolve into Him. A-ho

13.01.2022 30.12.2020 I sit in the splendour of what is Pic: Happy full moon Much of the minds cravings and expectations for extreme meditational experience of visions, sounds and insight, clouds us from the majesty of what is here and now.... If you want vision, open your eyes. If you want sounds, hear. If you want insight, allow your mind to be empty. For in this, and every moment thereafter, the entire universe exists and you have alone the eyes that can see and the ears that can hear. Without why. Without how. It is. It has been. And it always will be. Surrended to Him, Held by Her, I die. Again and again and again. A death that smells of the sweet fragrance of rose, where the unborn is manifest in the formless spirit of love. And where the eternal goes to die, is none other than the light of the indwelling spirit, the Soul of God that resides nowhere at all. For it was not comprehensible, never understandable, nor able to be grasped, held, constrained or limited. From Him, to Him, and Her to Her, She rises. In the womb of the mother, He Sees, and in the lap of the Goddess, you are born. This sacred life is all there is, and all there ever will be. An infinite moment, neither expanding or contracting but steady in its chaos, eternally spiralling, controlled only by the inner choice between love and fear. And in the choice of love, life congeals to a point. The concrescence of meaning in an otherwise vast and hostile cosmos. From our Soul alone we choose, and the the choice is to Serve Him, or Serve Him. Lower your head in submission beforw the axeman's blow strikes. And then you will know what it is to be both born and unborn, infinite and infinitesimal, a simultaneous all. The entire field and all it contains, the ground and the sky, heaven and hell, one and the many, together at last. United. Delighted. Benighted. From the mountain tops of Kailash, we scream in silence, Om Shree Shivkrupanand Swami Namo Namah We bow to the blissful grace of Shiva that flows through the light of the Guru, Soul and God. In Him, the door to salvation on Earth is manifest, open, and accessible. Knock, and you will be permitted to enter.

13.01.2022 11.09.2020 When resting in the Soul your actions will be born in Love Pic: A beautiful butterfly who put up some resistance to me taking the pic. After a chase for a few minutes, I realised it had a message for me.... It then moved from the grassy paddock and landed on a 400 million year old pink granite boulder and was at rest. The poetic juxtaposition of the transient (butterfly) and stone (kinda permanent) was instantly obvious. What does it mean though? Perhaps a statement on the polarity of life, that both are needed to be in balance and that they also occupy different niche The butterfly is the extravagant end to the caterpillars inner journey, yet the fate of the stone was born in a violent volcanic start to life. The long, slow path of erosion vs the sudden change. Life, our human life, is as natural as these teachers. For we undergo moments of volcanic eruption and also the erosion of once strongly held beliefs. We are also capable of the metamorphosis of the butterfly, but rather than standing in the face of the weather like stone, this journey is an inner process. We pray that lockdown gives you the rest and space to spin your own crysalis that when it lifts you spread the wings of your truest self. We have been blessed to have time to revisit the way we will be running our space and will have exciting news and opportunities coming soon. #kailashcollective

12.01.2022 Our garden is becoming more and more bountiful over the past few weeks

11.01.2022 9.09.2020 Only the I can suffer Pic: excited to be making progress at our composting toilet, a long hard slog with a few setbacks but we will be all set for our campers and glampers soon! The mind can carve one out as separate from the life that sustains in. ... But are we separate from the air we breathe? The water we drink? The food we eat? Separate from our lineage of ancestors? Our ideas and cultures and languages and art? From here, in separateness, we suffer because we see only our mental projection and not the actuality of things. In the understanding, acknowledgement and embrace of our fundamental interconnectedness, our inseparatablity from all that we see, all that we experience, all that is; when we abide in this knowing of the heart, the mind is at rest and the soul is at peace. From here, in unity, we are love. For us, a blend of stilling the mind, opening the heart and dancing in the Soul is God made manifest on Earth. The divine incarnate. We all have the potential, and indeed perhaps the responsibility, to pursue this highest truth. Beyond the means and vehicle, beyond the tradition, lineage or practice, beyond these we find that the faith in the undertaking, the love of the process and the joy of the dance are key. We bow down in gratitude to the Gurus, teachers and wisdom holders sharing these universal human values since time immemorial. We feel blessed to have crossed paths and can only offer ourselves in service to you to share their teachings. We pray that the dance of God flow from within and that it bring the full spectrum of colour and light to the magical world around you. For it is certainly a dance beyond expectation or imagination and is most wickedly divine.

11.01.2022 1.09.2020 Abiding in the stillness of Spirit, He is completely satisfied with all that She gives Pic: Odin getting some moonrise yoga in. Mother nature meets Father awareness in the dawning of a new era. ... Our collective vulnerabilities have been exposed, but also our strengths. The process of cleaning is messy. The process of learning makes one often feel insufficient. But here we are, chugging along, thanks to one thing; the indomitable and unconquerable spirit of humanity inside each and everyone of us. For those on the fence and tempted to divide, we say double down on love, keep the fertiliser of your awareness on what you want to grow and trust in the cosmic dance. See beyond form and the outward appearance of things. Focus on the liberty of your breath. Focus on the radiance of your own soul Steer clear of the abyss of the negative. Know what is yours, what is collective and what to ditch. For the Evil inside finds home in self righteousness, judgement and pride and the Good a refuge in the truthful, loving and humble. Be willing to let go of everything you ever thought this life was about; the time of mind has come to an end. The Soul is rising, the wave is building. A collective centred in love is upon us and your heart holds the key. Leave the rainbows and unicorns at home, so too all outward devices for the true saviour will unite us in the formless light of our collective awareness. She, the Goddess, has continually provided for 4 billion years of life on earth. There has been enough resources for all of your ancestorsto manage till now. The future is bri An isolated pocket of harmony in an otherwise barren universe, we can trust that we sit atop Her, the heavenly throne of the Earth. And who is worthy of such boon, what act is deserving of Her grace? Who has paid the requisite price? None other than you dear friend. Your being, the light of your Soul, is worth every single ounce of goodness she has paid. The jewel of your awareness, unparallelled and unrivalled in this cosmos, is everything she could want, and more, the one thing she can't have but only exalt. For your worth is in your being, not your doing. Who you are is more than what you do, what you say or what you feel. Allow her to lavish you with gifts. She will. Allow her to spoil you with riches. She will. Allow her to devote herself entirely to you. She will. Block her love through shame, guilt, unworthiness, fear and hate and your rivers will run dry. Distrust her capacity to provide for all and She will crush you from the inside out. The limit to your receiving is proportional to how much you cling. Let go of everything, and she will honour you with more than you can imagine. Surrender your life, and you will inherit immortality. Surrender your Soul, and Godliness will be yours.

10.01.2022 Every morning we hear their call, as they glide in partnership.... above us all

10.01.2022 06.12.2020 The seeds will self germinate Pic: a family portrait before @anjarosetyrrell departed on the next chapter of her journey. Its the nature of a tree to fruit, and for the fruit to contain seeds. The seeds, given the right environment will continue the legacy of the tree in the eternal flow of life.... We bow down to the seeds of our soul that found fertile ground in the grace of our Guru and we offer in return our service to the seed of your soul. May it flourish and grow such that one day your own fruit nourish beautiful souls that in turn share the love. To Anja, it was an honour to have you in the space and we look forward to where this journey continues. May the grace of the Guru illuminate your path and destroy all obstacles with His swift grace. Om namah Shivaya!

10.01.2022 10.09.2020 Only in Fear do we say things we don't mean Pic: the stoic Grandfather tree, our staunch guardian, showing us that death can be as magnificent as life. Fear of death lurks as an ever present temptation, hiding in the peripheries of our being and governing more than we could know.... Cloaked in masks of mind, sometimes layers upon layers deep, it acts to separate us from our pain. Being vulnerable to the uncertainty of life means we open ourselves to legitimate, lawful, painful wounding. If we have been hurt, like most of us alive, we can unconsciously don a set of defensive armour and get out there slashing anything that resembles the original thing that hurt us. After the carnage, we still want more blood. After the blood bath, we wonder why we suffer. For the true perpetrator, our root fear, goes unchecked. There are no victors in this battle; only the mindless perpetuation of evil onto beings who have not actually wronged us. Operating in life from this unconscious fear, one that seems to have taken a collective, indiscriminate grip of much of our society, is however, its own punishment. Fear hurts the weak of mind but not the brave. Fear hurts the timid of heart but not the courageous. For to believe in Fear presumes a knowledge of absolute context that no mortal possess. The hope? Sharpen your mind to see through the illusion of agenda and soften your heart so that you love those you disagree with. The outcome? A one pointed embrace with God that transcends both mind and heart, a love that sees perfection in all moments, including this one of increadible pain and suffering. I pray that we accompany the exile of Fear into the dark night of the cremation grounds such that the light of incinerating flesh may make us see day again. That from the carnage there is clarity. That from the torture there is triumph. For those who know this mantra, and those who don't alike, bow your head in reverence and pray that the axeman's blow is clean. No one is getting out alive. Om Namah Shivaya

09.01.2022 1.06.2020 She will pay you back everything you give Pic: @rajni.susegad charging up our winter veggies in the mandala veggie garden. Here She sits facing the West with her back to a stone wall, placed to introduce the earth element to the east west fire line of the sun. ... The stones also create habitat for lizards who will hopefully snack on any unwelcome guests. The love that we can send in silence and in song be repaid in full and then some. In our experience at least... why not try for yourself? Throw some love out there and see what comes back!? The joy of this experimental experiential approach is you get to see what works, for you. Proof either way, ad you need to see it. At Kailash, we sing to our veggies and bless our chai, not out of obligation, duty or expectation but to selfishly taste the sweetness of love. If you aren't growing your own food, perhaps a nice practice could be offering thanks to the farmers who did, this gratitude will nourish you more than any form. Much love

08.01.2022 Howdy Fam and Friends! Please join Thomas Lorenzo Fernandez and I as we livestream an improvised concert this WEDNESDAY 28th OCTOBER 6:30am to 8:15am AEDT right... from the heart of Kailash Collective. The sharing will be an improvised meditative session bringing you the magic of Thomas on guitar and yours truly doing a cameo with one of my Nepalese bowls. Find a connection to the place of one, the home of unity within as the sounds of nature blend with the pained yet loving vibrations of Thomas's classical guitar. This year has pushed us all and though the tests have come, here we still are, united in our humanity, able to share what we love, albeit a little differently. Tickets are available with flexible pricing from $2 via the link Please let us know if you are excited by COMMENTING and TAGING any muso's or meditators who need good vibes in the morning. Let's share this far and wide to help support Thomas as the music industry has been one of the most hard hit and more than the tickets, musicians thrive on having an audience to play to. https://events.humanitix.com/one-within-nature-from-the-gra Oh and check out the vibes and video of the rehearsal!

07.01.2022 5.09.2020 Engaged in the drama but not caught in it Pics: Some fresh signs to help our guests find their way, freshly mulched beds and some happy veggies in the arvo sun. Like a spider dancing on its web, we are inspired to hear and share a message of lightness, playfulness and grace.... Though life may never cease to fling 'stuff', as long as the internal forces are centred to something higher there is merit in the grind for it and you will have a trajectory. Much bubbles beneath the surface of even the most calm faces and life is wild, untamed and raw in all Her glory for every single one of us, each and every day. We pray that beneath the turbulent waves of daily drama that the calm celestial waters of the divine flow into your being. At this place, a place of rest, joy, and reverence for the majesty of life, we meet. Here, Surrendered to ourselves, surrendered to God, we are Home.

07.01.2022 27.12.2020 The point cannot be grasped Like the space in the centre of the bowl, the void cannot be held and cannot be contained. The vibration dances wildly around itself and hints at a centrality it can never fully experience. ... The elusive centre, absent, withheld, invisible, is the eye of the hurricane. A moment of peace, surrounded by chaos, never itself steady or eternal but emergent from the wild winds of destruction. The point is birthed by vibration. Just as the Son is born to reveal the Father. The knowing of God on earth, in our hearts and minds and great collective endeavours, is ever present yet of an elusive nature. His absent yet emergent ways are always at the centre, but never truly here in any way knowable to the mind. In the Soul, the eternally empty is felt as a breath of fresh air we call love. Hold Him at your peril, for He is beyond holding. Let go of Him to your delight, for Surrender and He are one. @davidwegman

06.01.2022 12.11.1985 / 2020 Bashed by the Goddess I light a lamp, because the days of the dhooni are done.... Kali comes to lick away the tears. Joy and Sadness. Love. The end of the road. Bliss. Tired of unworthiness. Drenched in Love. Moved. Serenaded. Birthed again and again. This body was Born of the eternal spirit. Form came to light to raise the immortal. No resistance or ego game, no self-inflicted misery or suffering can stop the love from rising. No self-destructive tendency can prevent the truth of love from being shown. The priceless cuddles and licks of a divine witness, the Goddess Dog. The love and blessing of my partner-in-crime more valuable than any form. The reflection of the pure light in her Eyes. A love so pure. A love so holy. A Soul devoted. Who knows the extent of the journey to here? Who knows what it has taken? A cast of thousands. A cast of millions. A cast of the mindful one, manifest in the many. The divine love of the Goddess. Is this the day I was born or the day that I began to die into myself more fully. Was it the birth of greatness or the death of smallness. Why not both? The birth of Form and the death of the Soul, and the birth of the soul and the death of Form, each moment thereafter when grace is let in. And from this grace, the rise and rebirth into the incarnation. In each moment, the Death is present. In each moment, the Birth is present. These are the eternal truths. That through the interface of the mind, the unborn and dying are made one. A wave form collapse of the polarity. Into Him. From Him. And back again. Supported by the absent. Held by the formless. Seen by the transparent. Heard by the silent. Felt by the touchless. Held by the Armless. Loved by the heartless. Lit by the Darkness. Exalted by the Humble. Bowed by the Righteous. Devoted by the Guru. Honoured by the Shameful. Revered by the Unholy. Despised by the Everything. Understood by the Nothing. Beaten by the Downtrodden. Upheld by the Wicked. Graced by the Sinful. Grown by the Lifeless. Counted by the Innumerable Woven by the Unspun. Tangled by the Order. Serenaded by the Tone-deaf. Enlivened by the Dead. Deadened by the Living. Understood by the Soul. Ignorant by the Mind. Opened by the Closure. Closed by the Opening. United by the Division. Divided by the Unity. Beloved by the One. The One by the Beloved. See more

06.01.2022 We (Rajni and David) have both been OVERWHELMED by the support you have shown for our residency program!!! Thank you for all the likes, shares and comments; they have allowed some amazing people to connect, enquire and now join us out in the Grampians . Still a bunch of space and availability, so please get in touch if you are keen.... For those looking to find out a little more about staying with us, and what makes us tick, please feel free to have a look at our video https://youtu.be/mFU3o4nEE3Q

06.01.2022 09.12.2020 The Tiger is ready for a hunt, The Lion hears Her cry She wants to devour the immortal, and God wonders why? Can any beast tame, His wild unruly hair? Let alone entice Him, deep into Her lair,... For He is the One, from where it all came, beyond the Hunter, He is the Game The prey and the predator, are both His servant unknown, to them they are bound, but will inevitably be shown, That together they die, the Tiger and Lion in embrace, a blue moon will shower them both, in His divine grace The Hunter and the hunted, have again become one, a sensually violent encounter, His love loads the gun And both creatures die, from a simultaneous trap, life is a one way street, and there ain't no going back Onward and upward, together we rise! #kailashcollective

05.01.2022 26.05.2020 Play, get dirty, get clean Pic: A local out for a morning stroll. Captivated by the stunning light, @rajni.susegad snapped this amazing pic to later lament the dirty glass from behind which it was taken.... Like the various filters through which we see reality, how much dirt and grime is acceptable for us to tolerate as we attempt to see what we need? When does the dirt detract from the vision or inhibit seeing entirely? What even is the dirt that clouds your view of life? Negative thoughts? Biases? Suffering? Clear vision free from suffering is a great aspiration, but life in the mud slinging world is dirty business with perhaps inevitable accumulation of detritus When it comes to staying clean, two strategies emerge; not playing or regular maintenance. Given that life is a profound miracle just too good to resist, not playing seems like a kind of douchey way out. I say play, get dirty, and then get clean. For us at Kailash, the quickest way to get clean is to sit down, be quiet and surrender. #kailashcollective

05.01.2022 03.09.2020 Stay soft in the Heart but firm in your Love Pic: some lovely visitors on the morning walk. The maternal spirit of the kangaroo is almost unrivalled and though the journey for a neonate isn't easy (having to crawl along thick fur as a tiny speck before it reaches the pouch.) Its just reward, though, is a heavenly warm abode next to mum (for an average of 190 days in the pouch!)... We pray this time in the pouch has brought you close to the feminine spirit; self care, nurture and gentleness are assets for both healthy individuals and healthy societies. Let our recoveries not be dominated by pushing, fighting and ignorance but by softening, flowing and surrendering, for true insight comes to clear minds and open hearts. Much love to you, our planet Earth and all its marvellous creatures, and to the great cosmic Mum in all her myriad forms. ! Jai Ambe Maa !

04.01.2022 Our garden is in full moon after the Blue Full moon. ft Jerusalem sage

04.01.2022 07.12.2020 Trust in the madness What part of us thinks that we are even capable of understanding His ways? What part of us thinks we can comprehend the intricacy of His drama?... This desire for sense, for a world we get, prohibits us from embracing the world that 'is.' The world that Is, the sum total of being, in its perfection, cannot be got, understood, or held in the mind. It can only be surrendered to, like a leaf to the wind. Cling to mind for even a second and the moment is lost. Trust in the madness, and again it will be found. #gurutattva

02.01.2022 8.9.2020 The way to God is through incarnating the spirit Pic: I dug a hole! Well not really, Darryl, our legendary earth moving man gave a solid 12 hours of excavating and bobcatting helping us get our bathroom and shower sorted out. Look up Adam's earthworks / wimmera wastewater treatment in horsham if anyone needs a hand out this way! During the evening we had some fascinating chats, and Christ featured heavily.... "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 I take this to indicate that the way to the ultimate is through the incarnation of Christ... in one's own life. That to know God we don't need to pray to an outside Jesus but to the spirit of Christ (or your ideal being, for me my soul) inside our heart. I don't identify as a Christian, and mean no disrespect to those that do if this is a liberal interpretation, but I strive to learn and be guided by my Soul, that part of me that resonates when I hear truth. Much of what I heard today, from my own mind, I can categorically reject as not the voice of my soul, but that of a wounded and hurt boy, perhaps even the voices of pained ancestors. Meditation can help in discerning truth from falsehood and in strengthening one's power of attention. But today, the saviours were the courageous spirit of my love and partner in crime, and to rest my awareness in a great conversation about personal encounters with the divine. Faith affirming, miraculous, enlightening, reviving and fun. Never be afraid to take the mind and heart to a place you hold dear, for the grace is always waiting for us to turn into it its divine radiance. That love, that power, that unbridled Godly spirit of creation, is unparallelled to anything we know. We pray that if you are feeling down that sharing in the joy of the Soul with a kindred spirit brightens your day.

01.01.2022 7.09.2020 In the empty love of equanimity, prayer and meditation meet Pics: sprucing up the office entrance in the glorious spring sun I never grew up understanding prayer, preferring to arrogantly look about whilst the other kids had their heads bowed.... I'm still relatively new at it, and at first didn't understand how being in dialogue was going to take me closer to the divine. Meditation was initially envisaged by me as a way to cut through the supports of the mind and to arrive in equanimity and peace. But now I see it as a tool to work in conjunction with prayer to love God with an even sharper focus and intensity. Heart and mind singing together. In this space, where the empty void floats and God is known as love, I Surrender. Its up to Him to take me beyond. #kailashcollective