ESSENCE

A 9-month journey of heart healing & reconnecting with your essence.

August 22nd, 2025 - May 16th, 2026

Who were you before the hurt? Before someone told you who you should be? Before you unconsciously absorbed beliefs about how to live from the world around you? Who were you before painful experiences shaped your view of yourself and life? Who are you beneath the layers of collective pain, guilt, and shame? Who are you when you're completely honest with yourself? What does your soul look like? What does your essence feel like? What is the color of your unique light? Do you even remember what it feels like to truly be you?

When we arrive on this Earth, we forget—we forget ourselves, our essence, our true nature. Life continues to pull us away from ourselves, lost in a sea of expectations, man-made rules, and noise. But perhaps that’s the quiet beauty of this human experience: we forget so that we can remember. And once that remembering begins, once we touch the depth of who we truly are, we can’t return to pretending we don’t see it. We begin to live differently—with awareness, with truth, with heart, and with embodied essence.

ESSENCE is a profound 9-month personal journey where you are committed to returning home to yourself. The journey includes safely exploring triggers, pains, wounds from past experiences, learning tools to expand our capacity to hold space for yourself, reconnecting with your inner child, working on blocks and barriers that hold you back from your highest potential, reestablishing the new connection with self, healing the connection with others, alchemizing pains & struggles into resources & wisdom, reconnecting with your heart truest desires, rediscovering your uniqueness, reclaiming the lost hidden part of yourself to come into your wholeness, stepping more into your callings & purpose, and many more.

We will meet 3-4 times each month, depending on the theme of the month. You’ll also have access to resources and tools in our private portal, a monthly support and sharing circle, and one-on-one support during the final three months of the journey.

I. The Tunnel

Every journey begins somewhere, often at a breaking point, when everything feels like it’s falling apart, and the life we once knew suddenly seems strange and unstable. The mask we’ve worn, the false self we’ve held onto, starts to crumble under our feet. Uncomfortable truths rise to the surface, demanding to be seen. It’s an awakening. We ask ourselves, “Why me? Why this?” But beneath the pain, there’s a quiet, gentle voice whispering, “There’s so much more than just a soulless life.” 

This is life’s initiation — a call to step closer to our true purpose, our highest potential, the person we’re truly meant to become. The tunnel ahead might feel dark and frightening, full of unknowns, but with trust, surrender, and our heart’s guidance, we will recognize that the map that always within us. We face our deepest fears, and in doing so, we learn to befriend them and expand our capacity to hold & create a safe space for ourselves to be.

SEPTEMBER - BRINGING THE UNCONSCIOUS TO LIGHT

OCTOBER - INNER CHILD HEALING

NOVEMBER - GRIEVING & TENDING

II. The Bridge

The heart is the bridge. All manifestations begin in the unseen, woven from the threads of visions and ideas, before meeting the willingness of the body to bring them into form, and they are united in the space between worlds — the heart space. Without tending to the heart, we’ll continue to face unhealed triggers and wounds that block us from fully embracing our deepest desires. Fear and feelings of smallness will arise, bringing past hurts to the surface as a way to protect us from future pain. But as we expand our capacity to hold space for ourselves and trust our own decisions, we learn to let fear be present without giving it power. We become the ones who choose, who rewrite the story of our future. In this work, we learn to soften and reopen our hearts—to ourselves and to others. Heart work is deep, tender, and vulnerable—and we will do it together, in community.

DECEMBER - REESTABLISH THE CONNECTION WITH SELF

JANUARY - CONNECTION WITH OTHERS. HEALING IN COMMUNITY

FEBUARY - PURE HEART’S DEEPEST DESIRES

III. The Sun - The Light - The Flame

Some of us feel at home in the spotlight, while others find comfort in the quiet corners. It’s not about changing who you are, but about honoring your unique light, living in a way that feels true to you, and flowing with different phases of life. In these final three months, we begin to open to our deeper purpose—the quiet callings, the truth of who we are. It’s a time of gently reclaiming the parts of yourself that may have been pushed aside or silenced out of fear or pain. Your essence, your uniqueness, everything that makes you you, is not only here to sustain you, but to guide and fuel the life you’re meant to live.

We’ll gather 3–4 times each month, depending on the theme we’re exploring. You’ll also have access to resources and tools in our private portal, a monthly support and sharing circle, and one-on-one support during the final three months of the journey.

MARCH - YOUR ESSENCE

APRIL - YOUR PURPOSE & CALLINGS

MARCH - EMBODIMENT & INITIATION

Payment Options —

Full Payment: $2,500

Payment Plans:

If you are under 28, unemployed, BIPOC, living in a country of unequal exchange, experiencing hardship,… and would like to join but need financial support, please reach out via email: dearestara22@gmail.com.

As within, so without. Thousands of souls walk this path beside you, across all realities and timelines, through time and space, past and future. You are both guide and guided, held by the unseen, cradled by the infinite.

You are never alone.

About Ara & her journey

Hi my name is Ara. I’ve played with this introduction for quite some time and I realized that perhaps I’m not meant to be captured by any titles or labels because I don’t fit in any of them. I make my own definition, I guess. I am a multifaceted being and interested in many different things, but at the core, I am super passionate about understanding oneself at the deepest level — the soul essence. Since I was still a kid, whenever I had a chance to deep talk with someone, I always talked about life and how I valued staying true to my heart no matter what. I soon realized during those years I was in school, and the society I grew up in, no one really taught us, the young generation, to connect with our hearts. Instead, they trained us to be a certain way, chasing the external validation & strictly following someone’s corrupted rules even though it didn’t feel right. People taught us to survive this life, (this was always what they said), but I knew deep down there is so much more in life than just what it appears to be. And it can be different: deep, profound, and meaningful. It can be aligned with my heart and soul. It can be purposeful rather than just sleeping through life. So in my quiet rebellion, I stood my ground, followed my heart, and listened closely to my intuition, even when I had zero clue what it meant at that time. I walked blindly, with my inner guidance as a compass, despite so much heartbreak and pain and shame coming directly at me from the outside. 

That’s how I’ve always been, but the real journey hadn’t begun until I moved to the US at the age of 17. It was quite obvious to me that all that happened after that was divine orchestration — a major dark night of the soul. Feeling isolated and left out, I got triggered a lot by seeing my friends having a great time. All of a sudden, ever “negative” emotion you can think of — jealousy, envy, childhood traumas, hate, shame, competition, numbness, hurt — were coming up to the surface simultaneously. I was presented with two options: one is to let those emotions eat me away, or two, dive into its root to understand what’s lurking in the shadow. 

You know what I chose. That was how my journey began.

I’ve learned a lot about myself and life in the past 6 years. I’ve collected many tools to help me navigate this path and the wild unknown, especially letting my body know that it’s safe to soften my heart and expand my capacity to allow all parts of me to co-exist. The full moment of this journey was finally reconnecting with the well of overflowing emotions that have always existed within me, but were shut down and closed off by the past heartbreak. For a long time I told myself that healing means staying emotionally regulated, but the truth is that healing means being able to reopen my heart and embrace all experiences that make me alive.

Then I realized this truth about myself. The truth that is so simple yet it took a long journey to understand, reclaim, and embody it fully: the essence of my work is to hold space for people to get in touch with their essence. I couldn’t think of anything else I would want to do that feels like just an extension of my being, like when I have a deep, honest, heart-to-heart conversation with someone about their heart’s deepest desires, and guide people back to who they truly are at the soul level.