Haruka's journey
She had never expected to be doing what she is doing right now. Many had stopped her from pursuing an ascetic life at ashrams in France and in India for a year.
However, this experience has built her foundation today that allows her to be free from the concept of "I-ness."
"Who am I?" "What is the essence of being?"
These are the questions she has been asking since young.
She stopped asking these questions while being in a corporate environment for 4 years and she felt that her soul was dying.
She took a career change by going to a design school (NAFA) for 3 years and then worked in a Fine Arts industry (Singapore Tyler Print Institute) for 5 years.
While studying at NAFA, she had a chance to go to Shanghai to do her internship at an interior design firm. However, when she arrived there, she was informed that there would be no one who could speak English in the office and therefore she would need to manage for 3 months on her own.
She felt alone and depressed by herself.
At that moment, she had this thought "everything looks like closing down on me. When this happens, it is time for me to open up a door to something that I had said no to. "
So she went outside of the house and literally 3 steps out of the apartment, she saw this big signage "Y." She wondered what this Y stood for and she realised that it was a yoga studio. In the past years, she had said "no" to many people who had recommended her yoga.
"this is it" she thought.
This is the beginning of her journey in this path of healing, spirituality and self-discovery.
While working under a great mentor and also with internationally renowned artists at STPI have also taught her the meaning of "work" and "life" in an unconventional way. The experience here has also taught her the importance of "observation, process and non-result driven trials."
She had continued pursuing her journey to deepen her practices by visiting ashrams in India, Vietnam, France and by learning from monks in Japan while working.
Eventually, she had left everything to pursue her spiritual journey;
to experience "not to earn" and "to live with what she has."
After a year of monastic life, she has returned to Singapore to practice and to share her spiritual life in a day-to-day environment. This is her new challenge; to be in harmony in any circumstances. Her practices have been tested so that she can share what she has experienced with others with "real" experiences.
Experiences:
Certified body talk practitioner/ yoga and meditation teacher (500/ 1700 hrs)/ yoga therapist/ kids yoga/ reiki master/ singing bowl sound therapist/ language of Light practitioner
When she was working at STPI, she always thought how nice it would be if she only had to deal with colors. Her sensitivity to colors was intensively trained during this STPI period; responding to the standard of professional artists; subtle differences in shades.
After coming back from her monastic life, she took colors as a mean to express her perception of this world; world as colors as frequency & as an energy.
Ever since then, people around the world have found this soul-mandala to support their space and themselves.
Haruka and Mandala
