Beautiful Souls Online Community

May you be available to witness what you've never witnessed before about yourself so that you might heal and grow.

Welcome to a sanctuary created specifically for reconnecting with your heart's wisdom and inner truth.

Through our daily practices of meditation, somatic exploration, and contemplative inquiry, you'll develop the capacity to listen to your inner voice with both compassion and courage. Our community offers the supportive environment where you can safely explore the landscape of your heart, cultivate greater presence, and integrate these practices into your everyday life.

Together, we create space for authentic expression, meaningful connection, and transformative growth. We're grateful you've chosen to join us in nurturing the beautiful soul within.

Welcome home.

Much love and light

Joel

Themes For Summer 2025

Breaking Caretaker Patterns

June 23, 2025: Recognizing the Helper Pattern Becoming aware of automatic caretaking and fixing behaviors, understanding their origins, and learning to pause before assuming responsibility.
June 30, 2025: Energetic Boundaries for Empaths Learning to maintain energetic separation and protection, especially for those who easily absorb others' emotions and problems.
July 7, 2025: Replenishment Practices Developing sustainable self-care routines to prevent burnout and compassion fatigue for those in helping or caretaking roles.
July 14, 2025: Reciprocal Flow Cultivation Creating balanced relationships with healthy giving and receiving, breaking patterns of one-sided caretaking and self-sacrifice.

Embodiment Practices

July 21, 2025: Body Wisdom Awakening Reconnecting with the body's innate intelligence and learning to trust somatic signals as valuable guidance, especially for the intellectually-oriented.
July 28, 2025: Rooting and Centering Developing a stable inner foundation and center point that supports clarity and presence, particularly during stressful or overwhelming situations.
August 4, 2025: Vibrational Healing Using sound and vibration as tools for energetic alignment and healing, with focus on balancing the chakra system and subtle body.
August 11, 2025: Fluid Movement Integration Experiencing the meditative quality of fluid, conscious movement as a pathway to presence and expression beyond words.

Integration of Spiritual Understanding

August 18, 2025: Form and Emptiness Exploring the Buddhist understanding of form and emptiness, learning to recognize the impermanent, fluid nature of all phenomena.
August 25, 2025: Consciousness Gardening Understanding how thoughts and mental patterns grow from seeds in consciousness, learning to cultivate positive qualities and transformative awareness.
September 1, 2025: Everyday Awakening Bringing mindfulness into ordinary activities, finding the sacred in the mundane, and practicing presence with "eyes open" in daily life.
September 8, 2025: Reality as Construction Exploring how personal and cultural conditioning shapes perception, and learning to recognize the constructed nature of what we call "reality."

September 15, 2025: Interdependence and Interbeing Exploring our profound interconnection with all life, recognizing how we arise in dependence upon countless conditions, and cultivating awareness of how our actions ripple through the web of existence.

Meet The Team

Sybille Heyms

Meditation

Sybille Heyms is an integral coach, teacher, and guide with over 15 years of experience, complemented by 25+ years in law. Her practice centers on guiding individuals toward inner peace, authentic expression, and self-discovery. Through meditation, she creates spaces for experiencing inner stillness and heart-centered awareness. Sybille believes that connecting with emotions, voice, present moment awareness, mental clarity, and physical embodiment are foundational elements for personal empowerment and living with purpose.

Naima Mire

Yoga

Naima Mire is a yoga facilitator and mindfulness coach with a practice centered on guiding individuals toward embodied awareness and healing through intentional movement. Following a transformative hip injury that introduced her to yoga, she discovered the profound connection between breath, body, and mind—a wisdom she now shares with others. Specializing in Yin, Restorative, and Hatha yoga, Naima creates accessible environments where participants explore movement at their own pace. As a RYT 200 Yoga Teacher with certifications in meditation and life coaching, she weaves mindfulness practices, somatic awareness, and gentle humor into her teaching. Beyond her formal practice, Naima brings creativity and warmth to her work as a poet, storyteller, and comedian, creating spaces for authentic expression and resilience.

Sharlene Dunk

Qigong

Sharlene is a certified wellness practitioner with diverse expertise spanning Radiant Lotus Qigong, Relaxation Therapy, Intuitive Energy Healing, Reiki, Crystal & Sound Therapy, and Natural Health Consultation. Prior to 2020, she operated a wellness-focused retail establishment offering mindfulness tools and meditation resources, while hosting regular meditation sessions and educational workshops. Today, she extends these services both in-person and online to individuals and groups through her 'Heart's Song' and passion project, Dragon Song Grove.Her mission centers on empowering individuals with practical knowledge and awareness tools for their personal wellness journeys.

Ella Rhoades

Moderator

Ella is a community support specialist and meditation moderator who facilitates Saturday meditation sessions and the Beautiful Souls Sharing Circle. With a diverse background in therapeutic recreation, horticulture, and mosaic art facilitation within healthcare settings, she brings a unique perspective to wellness and creative expression. Drawing inspiration from coastal environments and the inherent beauty of all living beings, Ella's passion lies in guiding individuals to harness their creative potential as a transformative pathway toward healing, vitality, and holistic wellness. Her approach centers on creating welcoming spaces where authentic connection and artistic exploration flourish, and she carries a genuine joy in witnessing each person's journey toward wholeness. Above all, she is deeply grateful for every soul who joins this shared path of discovery and healing.

La'Shawn Denise

Moderator

La’Shawn Denise is a compassionate presence with over two decades of experience rooted in care, connection, and service. With a background as a classroom teacher, ESL instructor, and in roles within healthcare and travel, she brings a calm presence and a natural ability to help others feel truly heard and supported. Her professional journey has touched the fields of education, wellness, and community programming, always centered on uplifting others through empathy and thoughtful communication.

Known for her warmth and quiet intuition, La’Shawn has a natural gift for bringing people together and connecting them with others who can support their growth. She finds healing and joy in everyday practices such as tending to her garden, taking daily walks, and watching sunrises. A passionate advocate for solo travel and the empowerment it brings, she brings warmth, presence, and gentle humor into every space she enters.

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Community Guidelines

Community Guidelines for The Beautiful Souls Online Community:

The Beautiful Souls Community is a soft space where members are encouraged to show up in good faith and hold space for each other's vulnerabilities as we expand through mindfulness and heart connection.

Community Guidelines:

-Please treat each soul with the same respect, kindness, and mindful consideration that you'd like to be treated with.

-Discriminatory, harassing, or abusive behavior will not be tolerated in any form.

-Acknowledge and respect the boundaries and personal space of all community members.

-Obtain explicit consent from others before offering feedback, guidance, or speaking on their behalf.

-No soliciting of any kind.

-All members are responsible for safeguarding the confidentiality of their login information and account.

-Expressing romantic feelings for another member within public chat forums is inappropriate.

If you experience strong feelings for Joel (or another facilitator), this might be transference. Refer to the 'Transference' section for guidance on how to address these emotions.

-Zoom links and Community are provided for active members of the Beautiful Souls Community. Please do not share community resources with non members. Instead please guide them to sign up for membership at asoulcalledjoel.com

Transference

Transference is a common phenomenon in mindfulness communities, where individuals unconsciously project feelings and experiences from past relationships onto the current one. This can manifest as strong emotions (sometimes romantic) or reactions towards a teacher or coach, often stemming from unresolved childhood issues. It's crucial to recognize that these feelings may arise from the dynamics of the relationship rather than the actual characteristics of the individual.

In this context, it might be beneficial for you to explore the underlying needs that are being met by Joel's presence within the community and through other outlets. By examining these needs, you can bring awareness to deeper, often unconscious, emotional patterns and facilitate healing and personal growth.

Guidelines Violations Protocol

A first-time violation will result in a formal warning.
A second violation will result in suspension of membership privileges. During the suspension period you will not have access to the community chat, daily meditations on Zoom or the “Tools for The Soul” archive. The Beautiful Souls Team will review your membership status and determine whether reinstatement is appropriate.

Guidelines for Live Sessions

To create a respectful and focused environment for all, please be mindful of your on-screen movements during live meditation sessions. If your movements are not recognized as a mindfulness practice, you will receive a direct message with a gentle reminder to turn off your camera until you are settled for your practice.

Recognized mindfulness practices include:

Seated Meditation
Journaling
Yoga
Qi Gong
Walking Meditation

In this shared space, everyone contributes to the collective energy and intention. If you are busy with daily errands but want to connect through intentional listening, we ask that you keep your camera off. To maintain a mindful atmosphere, repetitive disturbances may lead to the temporary pausing of your video.

To ensure everyone stays present during the meditation, we kindly ask that you refrain from commenting in the Zoom chat once the daily question and reading are complete and the practice begins. Our moderators will disable the chat feature during meditation to minimize distractions. We'll then re-enable it for sharing farewells and Namaste blessings at the session's end. If you have something to share related to the practice, we encourage you to use the Beautiful Souls community platform at asoulcalledjoel.com. This allows the conversation to continue outside of the live Zoom session.

Additionally, to support safe driving habits and overall safety, we ask that you also keep your video off if you are listening to meditations or sharing circles while driving. If you are driving and would like to participate in a sharing circle, we ask that you pull over and stop your car to share, ensuring your presence and safety.

If you have any questions, please email La'Shawn or Ella at the emails below, and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

[email protected]

Welcome to the community, beautiful soul.

Much love and light.