To our NAMO Fam

Hi Team,

I’ve been reflecting deeply on the current state of wellness and why there is so much confusion around this work right now.

Wellness has become extremely trendy, and while I believe it’s beautiful that more people are becoming interested in healing, sound, ritual, and self-awareness, there is also something important happening that we cannot ignore: mediocrity and urgency are being normalized.

People are being certified over a weekend and immediately stepping into roles as facilitators without years of practice, discipline, mentorship, observation, or understanding of what it truly means to hold space responsibly. The issue is not that people are curious about wellness. The issue is the speed, the lack of depth, and the absence of ethics and safety in many trainings today.

Holding space requires responsibility, discernment, emotional maturity, energetic awareness, and real experience.

Working with sound, energy, emotion, trauma, the body, and the psyche asks for years of listening, studying, practicing, witnessing, and refining yourself. A diploma alone does not create wisdom. A weekend training does not automatically prepare someone to guide others safely.

And honestly, I believe people are beginning to feel this collectively. There is so much noise, so much performance, so much social media wellness culture, that many people no longer know what is real practice and what is presentation.

This is part of why I feel attendance in classes everywhere is shifting. People are overwhelmed by surface-level spirituality, fast certifications, and constant facilitator culture. The depth is getting lost.

This is why I speak so much about ethics, boundaries, responsibility, projection, discernment, and integrity in facilitation. Because this matters deeply.

I am proud that at Namo we take this seriously.

I am proud that we are strict about who facilitates, how they facilitate, and the level of commitment required. Practice is sacred. Apprenticeship is sacred. Discipline is sacred.

The guru image ( my teacher my teacher has to go)

Because of this, I also feel a transition happening for us. By September, I envision Namo moving more toward a school, workshops, trainings, talks, and deeper study spaces, with fewer casual classes and more intentional education and practice.

We are here to do the work.

And the work takes time.

We are living in a time where visibility is often valued more than mastery, and I believe our role is to continue protecting the depth of this practice instead of diluting it.

People may not always understand the difference immediately, but over time, integrity speaks for itself.

Thank you for continuing to walk this path with care, responsibility, discipline, and respect for the practice.