Beautiful Souls 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 โ Joel
Current Season
Spring 2026 โ The Architecture of Attention
From Perception to Wholeness ยท March 23 โ June 21, 2026
Movement 1 โ The Architecture of Attention (Weeks 1โ4)
March 23, 2026 โ Week 1
The Troxler Effect: What Fades From Awareness
A live visual demonstration โ then the discovery that the same neural mechanism operates in emotional life. Where you place your attention determines what you perceive.
March 30, 2026 โ Week 2
The Zeigarnik Effect: Wired for Completion
Your mind won't release what's incomplete. The 3 AM loops aren't weakness โ they're your biology reaching for wholeness.
April 6, 2026 โ Week 3
Filling-In: The Stories Your Brain Builds
Your brain never leaves a gap unfilled. The question is: what are you training it to fill gaps with?
April 13, 2026 โ Week 4
Coming Home: Touching Your Inner Knowing
Beneath all the fading, the looping, and the filling โ there is a place in you that has never been damaged by any of it. Your essence. Your heart's knowing.
Integration (Weeks 5โ6)
April 20, 2026 โ Week 5
Integration โ Rest & Absorb
Lighter practice. Space to integrate the first movement's teachings into daily life. Let the body lead.
April 27, 2026 โ Week 6
Integration โ Embodiment
Continuing to soften, absorb, and embody. Practices that support integration rather than introduction.
Movement 2 โ The Practice of Emotional Evolution (Weeks 7โ10)
May 4, 2026 โ Week 7
The Sacred Pause: Interrupting the Machinery
Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lives your freedom.
May 11, 2026 โ Week 8
Conscious Story-Making: Rewriting the Fill
Not positive thinking. Not bypassing. Evolution. "This is painful AND I am growing through it." The AND is the key.
May 18, 2026 โ Week 9
Completing the Loop: Working with What Won't Fade
The question isn't how to make the rumination stop. It's what this incompleteness is trying to complete.
May 25, 2026 โ Week 10
The Ripple: Coherence, Sensitivity & the Field
Your sensitivity is not a flaw to manage. It is a refined instrument to calibrate. Your coherence changes the field around you.
Integration & Closing (Weeks 11โ13)
June 1, 2026 โ Week 11
Integration โ Rest & Absorb
Lighter practice. Space to embody the full arc of the season before closing.
June 8, 2026 โ Week 12
Integration โ Embodiment
Continued softening and embodiment. Practices that support presence and wholeness.
June 15, 2026 โ Week 13
Summer Solstice Closing โ Celebration & Wholeness
Celebration of the full journey. Carrying the teachings forward into summer. Season closes June 21 on the Summer Solstice.
Your Guides
Meet the Team
Meditation
Sybille Heyms
Sybille 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.
Yoga
Naima Mire
Naima 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. Specializing in Yin, Restorative, and Hatha yoga, Naima creates accessible environments where participants explore movement at their own pace. Beyond her formal practice, she brings creativity and warmth as a poet, storyteller, and comedian, creating spaces for authentic expression and resilience.
Qigong
Sharlene Dunk
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. She extends her services both in-person and online through her passion project, Where Earth & Sky Meets Rock & Water. Her mission centers on empowering individuals with practical knowledge and awareness tools for their personal wellness journeys.
Moderator
Ella Rhoades
Ella is a certified mindfulness meditation teacher through Dharma Moon and US Tibet House, and 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. 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.
Moderator
La'Shawn Denise
La'Shawn 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. Known for her warmth and quiet intuition, La'Shawn has a natural gift for bringing people together. A passionate advocate for solo travel and the empowerment it brings, she carries warmth, presence, and gentle humor into every space she enters.
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Welcome to the community, beautiful soul.
Much love and light
