Rashani shares transparently, unapologetically and directly—celebrating the inseparability of ordinary humanness and the essential nature of being. She offers no dangling carrots, no magical formulas for “self-help”, no impressive answers or ultimate truths, no false promises. She encourages us to find the extraordinary within the ordinary, the lotus emerging from mud, the hidden song within the cry and the miraculous within the mundane.

“Simply by bringing attention to, and welcoming, whatever is occurring, we naturally discover the law of impermanence and how to befriend resistance. It’s the irritant that creates the pearl,” she reminds us.

Rashani invites us to simply BE present in each unrepeatable moment, to discover that within every ordinary nano-second is awakeness itself—regardless of any inner confusion or challenging outer circumstances. She invites us to question our false identities, to let the masks fall away so that we can experience our unfragmentable totality, which some refer to as our “true nature” or “the intrinsic, original true wakefulness” that shines ceaselessly.

Rashani does not call herself a “spiritual teacher” or a Buddhist. She is simply a co-inquiring friend on this ever-changing, pathless journey. She has encountered similar challenges and edges that many others have faced and, even though by nature she is an introvert, she is very open about sharing her life and near death experiences with transparency, vulnerability, humor and honesty.

She encourages us to decolonize our minds, to differentiate between the weather and the sky; to discover what remains when we give up seeking, avoiding, deflecting, projecting, assuming, pretending and manipulating—and to notice the space in which emotions and thoughts appear, and to allow everything that arises to appear and dissolve naturally.

“My invitation is to directly experience reality versus the stories we were told—and have assumed—are reality. While investigating our endless narratives, we realize that only a thought or a belief can divide the seamless, ever-changing moment into categories—into good and bad, right and wrong, subject and object, into self and other. In discovering the invisible portals which inevitably lead to present moment awareness, we are reminded, again and again, that we have always been complete and whole.”

Rashani reminds us that awareness is a powerful solvent that can dissolve mental obscurations, delusional thinking and suffering.

Rashani does not come with any set agenda and remains open and curious, genuinely excited to witness and participate in the unknown as it ceaselessly unfolds. She asks, “Can we experience ourselves as a fluid, constantly morphing, dancing fractal, while simultaneously staying true to our unique suchness—instead of (mis) identifying as the garments that others dressed us in with their expectations and projections?”

She understands—and is fascinated by—how the collective uses individuals to heal the whole and often reminds us to step out of our personalities from time to time, to see how the field wants to use us for the transformation of the whole/collective.

After more than four decades of bearing witness to—and holding space for—individuals, couples, families and communities, Rashani sees every person as an alchemist. She assists others in discovering how to transform poison into nectar, pain into medicine and opposition into opportunity.

Rashani sees effortless being as a natural state. For the past twenty-one years, she has deepened her exploration of ‘doing,’ ‘not doing’ and ‘nondoing.’ Her main practice since 2003 has been “effortless action,” also known as wu wei.

Rashani exclaims, “Wasn’t it Saint Teresa who said, “I don't want to talk about God, I want to talk to God.”? Likewise, Rashani doesn’t talk often about “love” or “oneness” or “awakening”. She would much rather co-create a field of energy, an alchemical container, in which everyone can directly experience their essential nature—which consists of love, interconnectedness, wakefulness and joy.

She continues, “By simply welcoming whatever is arising we come to witness and directly experience the ordinary, uncontrived, interdependent, fundamental nature of who and what we are. It’s important to not become an “absolutist”! It’s easy to be pulled into that seductive vortex.

When we welcome every moment with curiosity and awareness, instead of resistance and judgment, our lives begin to flow effortlessly and freely. This is where our childlike innocence can be very useful. Can we meet our emotional reactions and habitual behaviors as openly as a child meets a blooming flower? Are we able to enter and savor the often-forgotten territory of wonder? If so, labels and stories begin to dissolve naturally, and we can embrace all of what and who we are.

Undoing stressful beliefs and discovering what we are when we’re not repeatedly searching for conceptual explanations or answers—and not pathologizing ourselves (and others)—is wonderful medicine.

The “internalized allopath” is deeply imprinted into the conditioned mind. As we get to know it and recognize how harmful it can be, we can begin to unshame ourselves and peacefully access our own primordial wisdom. It’s important to know the difference between the aliveness and wisdom of direct experience and the deadness and hollowness of fabricated intellectualized logic…

…I’m simply inviting you to meet in the miracle of each moment, regardless of what you’re thinking or feeling—or expecting. We’re rediscovering the simplicity of wonderment and exploring transparent intimacy and sustained inquiry as a way of life.”

We are the chrysalis and the butterfly!