Deep inside our Hearts there is a meeting place where the Heavens and Earth unite as one; an infinite space where the ecstatic mysteries of life are revealed and where we discover an irrevocable sense of peace. I call this tender, beautiful, limitless dimension of ourselves — the Mystic Heart.
Thousands of years of religious tradition, countless self-development practices, and all of the awakened spiritual teachers the world over are all really pointing us back to this Mystic Heart, back into our original consciousness — back to Presence.
What I am here to offer you is a steady and sustainable path towards the Mystic Heart, an opportunity to be initiated into a deeper relationship with yourself and discover the infinite beauty that lies within.
My work is to establish you on a direct and focused path of self-realization, and to empower your inner-guru so that you may come to rely on your own instincts as you journey home into your Mystic Heart.
Through a combination of authentic mystical practices, reflections, open-hearted conversations, activations, and guided meditations we will establish you on a unique evolutionary path that suits your unique soul energy.
We are here to learn how to meditate in total stillness as much as we are here to dance in harmony with creation.
One of my central focuses is the integration of both spirit and body into a greater whole. The most transcendent spiritual states are not relevant if they do not integrate with our everyday lives, and our ordinary lives are limited and devoid of spirit without the experience of the Mystic.
The path to the Mystic Heart doesn’t have to be complicated or lofty — it is completely accessible from where you are now.
Your journey home will require courage, patience, dedication, honesty, sincerity, and devotion— but if you give yourself to it fully, you will find exactly what it is that you seek.
I am here to be a bridge between the form and the formless, between the transcendent and the embodied, and between the mind and the Heart.
Since 2004 I have dedicated my life to spiritual practice and studying the many ways in which traditions around the world approach the ultimate human pursuit of spiritual illumination. My journey of self discovery has taken me all over the world and to many dimensions of reality, from the mystical heights of ecstasy to the depths of human suffering.
Having traveled beyond this plane through both intensive meditation practice and a Near-Death-Experience that left me hanging on the edge of life and death, I became deeply intimate with the transcendental realms.
The 16 years after my NDE represented my integration phase, where I dedicated myself to the art of Embodiment. Here, the highest spiritual truths became integrated with my day-to-day reality and I learned to honor the wisdom of my body, emotions, and the human experience itself.
These experiences have made me into somewhat of a sherpa between the many dimensions of reality that guides people up the mountain of Spirit and back down to the ground of primal Being.
My dharma, or spiritual purpose, is to share simple, intuitive, evolutionary pathways that are accessible, while still retaining their essential mystic potency.
Having touched the Absolute, I carry the imprint of the eternal consciousness beyond life and death. I am here to transmit that imprint to you and help you to touch the Absolute yourself.
My Specialties
Over the years I have been initiated into some of the most beautiful, rare, and potent mystic yogic practices in the world.
Kriya Yoga
The Holy Science of Kriya Yoga is an ancient system of pranayama and meditation, known as the Lightning Path, established in the West by Paramahansa Yogananda. Visit Kriya Yoga Mandala to learn more.
Mantra
The vibrational language of the Divine through which we retune ourselves to pure consciousness. I focus on Sanskrit mantra, and specifically on the seed syllables of the Great Goddess.
Mystic Heart Breaths
9 breaths that empower the heart to be the center of our consciousness, and work directly to open the Mystic Heart, the infinite field of enlightenment within.
Tantric Sexuality
The practice of tuning our senses to the mystic heart and engaging our sexuality as a powerful force of meditation and yogic expansion.
Unraveling the Mystic Heart
The most effective way I have found to reflect and transmit the heart-essence and share yogic initiations is through a dedicated container where I focus on only 2 to 3 students at a time.
My Style
I am uncompromisingly dedicated to Truth and unafraid to use my sword of wisdom, but I prefer to be gentle and nurturing, as that is my nature.
The container I hold is grounded and spacious yet charged; deep, yet light-hearted. Neither of us takes ourselves too seriously, but we remain present with the infinite spiritual potential in the field.
My experiences with life, death, and the Eternal have given me the ability to see deep into a person’s internal essence. I have found that this can cause both existential fear, and a deep sense of liberation. The key is simply to arrive with transparency, a sense of humor, and open-heartedness.
My Orientation
My focus is on helping to illuminate the hearts of specific souls who are positioned to have a profound impact on the greater collective through their own awakening.
I choose to work with those who sincerely desire to know themselves and expereince God; who are willing to surrender everything in the divine pursuit, and who are here to help make the world a better place.
Mentorship Themes
Meditation
Meditation nourishes mind, body, and soul, and provides us with an infusion of pure life-force energy on the deepest levels of our being. When we meditate we rest our minds, open our hearts, and get closer to ourselves and the whole of life. On one level meditation is a simple act of self-love that improves our overall wellbeing, and on the next it can be the vessel through which we are supported in becoming free, liberated souls.
There is simply no substitute for still, silent meditation. It is in the stillness where the Truth is revealed and we receive a direct imprint of our soul’s innate wisdom. Relaxing into a sense of spaciousness beyond the mind not only connects us to our true nature, it is also extremely supportive in navigating everyday life.
The more we tap into meditative stillness the easier it translates into the flow of our lives, making our existence itself a meditation. Guiding you into progressively deeper meditative states is one of the primary focuses of my work. I do this through guided meditations, channeled practices, and through the rest of specialities listed here.
Tantra
Tantra is the weaving together of all dimensions of Self into total spiritual wholeness. It is a path of balance wherein we find the union between all polarities that exist within and outside of ourselves.
Whereas classical yoga is focused solely on transcendence, Tantra is about finding integration between the transcendent and the embodied. Tantra teaches us to embrace the body, senses, emotions, and our dynamic human nature as inherently and beautifully Divine.
In the modern world, and especially in the West, Tantra is associated almost exclusively with sexual practices — and while these practices can help us on the journey to self-realization, without proper context they easily become deterrents.
I offer Tantra teachings through a holistic lens that incorporates both body-based and sexual practices alongside more traditional practices such as Mantra, Yantra, Meditation, Goddess Worship, and the cultivation of total Presence.
Breath Mastery
Mastering the breath is the most intuitive and effective way to shift our consciousness and awaken to our True Nature. It is the simplest, most natural, and most universal path to self-realization.
Learning conscious breathing enters us into a conversation with our soul and helps us to create a bridge between our spirit and body. Breath mastery helps us to create a relationship with our inner landscapes and unlock the secrets of our subtle bodies.
There is really no way to describe the beauty of cultivating an intimate relationship with our own breath. It is something that is easily overlooked in society, and even within the realm of spiritual practice. Because it is so simple and ubiquitous the true potency of a healthy breath-practice is often obscured, but I am here to show you just how beautiful and profound the breath can be.
Having studied and practiced breath in-depth for 21 years, I draw from a wide variety of beginner to advanced level breathing practices suited to your unique evolutionary path.
Embodied Living
The journey of spiritual awakening isn’t only about reaching the transcendent realms of eternal bliss; it is also about embodying Truth by integrating our highest spiritual realizations into our everyday lives.
Embodied living is about embracing our tender human existence with simultaneous awareness of our divine origin. It means living in harmony with life and in healthy relationship with our emotions, our minds, our bodies, and with others. Ultimately, embodied living means learning to live from our Heart.
Some of the main themes I work with here are: cultivating Presence, conscious relating and relationship alchemy, nervous system regulation, psychological self-knowing, and living a healthy and balanced lifestyle.
Among my favorite Embodied Living practices are the Micro-Yogas — awareness techniques that help us to integrate our soul’s essential state into our everyday life.
When our spirit is fully embodied, we naturally live out our dharma – our soul’s most essential purpose.
The Path of the Goddess
Naturally my path has been one of devotion to the Divine Feminine, which has held the greatest spiritual influence in my life. I feel that now more than ever, the virtues of the Goddess — compassion, receptivity, and nurturing — are necessary for us to evolve and come into harmony as a society.
Throughout the last 18 years, the Divine Feminine has shown up in my life in the form of the Six Mahadevi — Six Divine Archetypes of the Goddess, each representing a unique principle of creation, and each with the ability to guide us home into the Mystic Heart.
The 6 Goddesses are alchemical mirrors for our evolution. Through their guidance and reflection we come to embody their energetic qualities and remember our innate wholeness.
Through many initiations and revelatory experiences, the Goddesses entrusted me with Sri Shakti Tantra, their pathway into the Mystic Heart. This pathway is Tantric in essence and consists of many of the same practices of Mantra, Pranayama, and Meditation, with a special focus on cultivating a direct relationship with each Goddess.
Matters of the Heart
The heart is the portal to our primordial essence. It is the unifying space of original consciousness that dissolves all the duality of our minds and harmonizes us with our true nature. Really, the entire spiritual journey can be summed us as one that leads us from the mind into the heart. By consciously opening the heart, untying long-held knots, and exposing hidden chambers to the light of love, we are engaging in a powerful and necessary act of yoga.
In mentorship, I open the space for matters of the heart— your most challenging internal processes, your resistances, your hopes, your dreams, and whatever it is that allows your heart to unravel and reveal its true essence.
Once we are established in heart consciousness, we can then engage the mind wisely, as a loving servant of the heart, ensuring that all of our actions and mental processes are guided and sourced from love.
By clearing and cleansing the heart, nurturing it, supporting it, and honoring it, we are naturally unraveling ourselves into the Mystic Heart— that infinite space of enlightenment within.
My Story
One of my earliest and clearest memories is of staring off into the emptiness as a young child, discovering the immense light that would appear when my mind was receptive and still. Like many children, meditation started early and naturally for me, but I would soon be thrown full-force into the madness and undeniable suffering that exists in this world.
My childhood was full of joy as much as it was emotional extremes. Struggling to integrate my parent’s divorce and destructive behavior at the age of 10, I dove head-first into my troubled teenage years, which were bittersweet — painted by simple joys, deep depressions, tender agonies, and adventurous explorations, with some glimpses into the depths of my soul sprinkled throughout. In high school I went from the torment of deep depression, wearing all black, self-harming, and listening to heavy metal music, to researching psychedelics and listening to music that inspired my soul-path, and by the end of high school I had started to study Mysticism and practice meditation again. At the age of 19 I took initiation into an esoteric yoga lineage, Kriya Yoga, and my spirit was forever ignited. I practiced intensely for a couple of years, experimenting with fasting and solitude before returning to my teacher to receive higher initiations.
This next stage in my unfoldment would lead me into another initiation, this one more intense than I ever could have imagined. At a powerful and sharp crescendo of my spiritual journey in which I was spending several hours daily absorbed in spiritual trance, I was involved in an SUV rollover in Africa. After witnessing two of my brothers pass on from this world to the next, I left my body for 2 weeks while I was in a coma. While out-of-body I traveled in other dimensions for what felt like eons, received profound spiritual initiations, meditated with yogis in the transcendent realms, visited the darkest of hells, and at one point left existence behind to go beyond into the Infinite.
From this incomprehensible realm of peace, I was shocked back into my body by a team of doctors, and it was in that moment I realized that I was here to serve humanity — not to escape to some far-off realm of bliss. For years I had been meditating on leaving this world behind — transcending it. Now I set my intentions firm, and began to focus my devotion towards my human family.
A few months post-recovery, I set off on a 6-month solo journey through India, which fulfilled my deepest yogic yearnings. I met many mystics, sages, and saints who initiated me into rare mystic practices, prophesied my path, and blessed my mission to serve humanity.
My journey since then has been one of integration and refinement. While continuing to deepen my practice, I focused on healing deep trauma, and learning to embody the indescribable transcendent truths gleaned from my out-of-body experiences, in my daily life.
In 2017 I met my wife and began to focus heavily on the alchemy of relationship and the process of dual spiritual cultivation. For the first 8 years of our relationship we embarked upon a profound journey of surrender, living on grace alone, and traveling to various locations to receive yogic activations, soul songs, and the esoteric pathways we share in our Yogini Institute.
After a 21 year period of deep inner-cultivation, I am so happy to be able to offer you the distilled essence of my journey and the rare and potent spiritual practices I have been blessed to carry.
The Mystic Heart is the abode of Truth; an ever-expanding field of enlightenment, wide enough to encompass both the greatest suffering and the most blissful ecstasies.
The Mystic Heart is the place of Nirvana, Satori, Liberation, Self-Realization, and it is also the place where these transcendent states merge with the tender human experience and flow out into our lives to touch all we encounter.
May we all come to know the beauty, peace, and bliss of the Mystic Heart.
With Love,
Marco André
