About Us

We met in 2017, in a yogic community to which we were both deeply devoted. Kyle had been teaching full time there since 2013, an engagement that would end at the end of 2020.

In 2021, life brought us back together. What began as a short-term collaboration teaching retreats at the Hridaya Family Retreat Centre in Chiapas, Mexico, quickly revealed a shared vision.

In nearly 3 decades of combined seeking, practice and teaching there was a recurring theme, a kind of Achilles heel, that no body seemed willing to address and yet we could no longer ignore:

Where was the human being in all this awakening?
Where was the teaching that included not just the bliss of stillness, but the rawness of anger, the ache of heartbreak, the terror of not knowing who you are? So many teachings seemed to ignore the domain of embodied experience. To dismiss emotion. To treat life itself as some kind of distraction from the spiritual path.

Why were the path and teachings of the ancient ascetics being adopted without question, by modern day practitioners and aspirants with lives, partners, jobs and dreams for the future?

We saw brilliant, sincere practitioners get overwhelmed by life.
We saw devotion to God, but denial of humanity.
We saw serious practitioners collapse under the weight of unacknowledged trauma, unmet needs, and unresolved pain.

So we began to shape something different.

Together, we created a retreat called All Embracing Love
A space where the deepest spiritual insight and the messiest human experience could meet.
Where psychological healing wasn’t seen as separate from spiritual practice, but as an essential part of it.

Rooted in Kyle’s years of somatic/Tantrik practice and Sasha’s work as a licensed psychotherapist, we built a retreat that didn’t split the human and the divine.
One that recognized: the more we include, the more whole we become.
And that real awakening isn't about escaping the self but embracing every aspect of embodied experience.