ABODE began as my own healing process. After an unravelling at 21, I started, at 22, to document and trial what was returning me to balance: how I established myself, invited my inner healer and journeyed my own inner medicine.
Nothing in me was ever broken. This process restored me. It brought me back into relationship with my own creative essence, the biology that made me me, and taught me to see it, love it, receive it and choose it, until I could choose to feel chosen. The pain, the suffering and the challenges didn’t break me; they opened me to more of myself, and I learnt to integrate them.
In essence, it was a re-raising. From the present moment, I chose to raise myself again, through myself, without abandoning my past or anything that had brought me there, whether it hurt or not. ABODE is how I raised myself.
Dis-ease was alleviated, and I came home to myself, to an innate sense of belonging. I was no longer the same person: I had transformed, and found a whole new way of living who I am. And it amplified my ability to teach and to heal.
Then people began to feel it. They’d come to a yoga class and say, “That’s not yoga. What is that?” I’d tell them it was my own little thing, and that I just knew it had helped me. Soon they wanted workshops to learn more, and then a teacher training. It was held through yoga, Reiki and Ayurveda, but what people received was something different: the same process that brought me home to myself, and made me who I am today.
Randall Simpson, Founder
