Prema
A home for art, movement, music and health education, named after the Sanskrit word for divine love - the principle everything here is founded on.
Most platforms take 30% or more just to connect people with the work they make. Here, artists and educators keep 80%, and every penny of the rest goes back into building community spaces where people can come to learn, move and heal.
Namaha
there is no me, only everything.
3 - 6 - 9
Our mission statement in code
We aim to conduct symphonies through the dance these numbers follow. Acts of harmony orchestrated through the sound they move too... our universes song.
A - U - M
A - Creation - 3
Supporting those bringing beauty into the world through their art. Currently offering quality art prints and original pieces on natural materials, a script for the first season of a mockumentary, music sessions and a movement practice named Yogus.
U - Preservation - 6
Let's nourish and protect our ecosystems, our health and our culture. We provide education on the ways we can heal our bodies and our planet. Currently offering Ways to Wellness - a four-week health and wellbeing programme - along with life coaching.
M - Destruction - 9
Facilitating the dissolution of what no longer serves our world, and allowing space for consciously crafted creations and teachings to emerge from the ashes. Creating positive shifts in awareness through every offering.
Our dance with Shiva and Shakti
Everything follows the threefold act of Shiva: he creates, preserves and destroys, endlessly and cyclically.
As beings unaware of our own karma, we follow this pattern of creation and plant seeds that can bear tainted fruit - following Shiva's fourth state, concealment from the true nature of existence. This creates maya, the illusion we take our reality to be: a plastic and heavily polluted world. But as an active part of that same consciousness, we can choose instead to plant seeds in the light of pure awareness, flowing with Shiva's fifth state - revelation, or grace. The liberation that comes with aligning to love and truth.
We hope to align god's will with that of the goddess - our earth, our bodies, and Shakti, the feminine creative principle, with her five fundamental powers.
Chit Shakti - the power of consciousness or awareness
Ananda Shakti - the power of bliss or joy
Iccha Shakti - the power of will or desire
Jnana Shakti - the power of knowledge or wisdom
Kriya Shakti - the power of action and manifestation
Shiva and Shakti share a fivefold dance, forming 55 when combined - a number that carries us toward the golden ratio and the Fibonacci sequence, the great spin of creation, a pattern found throughout the natural world.
Spirals unfold throughout our spanda - our vibrating cosmos. From the Milky Way down to every cell in our bodies. Our DNA helix spirals at roughly 34 angstroms long and 21 angstroms wide, Fibonacci numbers which add up to 55. The same number appears within our bodies and mind - with the 22 bones in our skull and 33 vertebrae in our spine also adding upto this numerical whirling symbol.
Word and will
In the mystical tradition of the Kabbalah, the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet are held to be the building blocks of creation - we craft our world through word and will. Plato may have said it best: god is thought.
Thirty-three is the highest degree in Freemasonry, and the age of Jesus at the crucifixion. It's long been read as a symbol for the rise of consciousness - the awakening of kundalini energy travelling the spinal cord.
Our cells divide following another interesting pattern: the binary sequence - 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and on. This is where Shakti comes into form, with the spirit of Shiva unseen. Reduce each of those numbers to a single digit by adding its parts together - 16 becomes 7, 32 becomes 5, 64 becomes 1 - and a loop appears: 1, 2, 4, 8, 7, 5, endlessly. Three, six and nine never enter it. We read that as Shiva's creative, sustaining and destructive principles at work, present everywhere and never entering form: the spirit of god moving through the goddess, and the dance behind the song - AUM, or OM as it's more commonly known. The primordial sound of the universe, creating, preserving and destroying without end
Our mission is simple: to share that song and dance, through Prema — divine love's will.