Going on your soul’s journey is a wild and bold adventure wherein new and
dormant possibilities of humanity will be discovered. Soul Essence Education offers a foundational support to succeed on this exploration.
Educating a Divine Being in a Human Body
Our education is concerned with the question: Who are you divinely and how can you express your divine essence? We will ask this question over and over again, exploring the answers it brings forth. Nobody can answer this question for somebody else. Nobody can take that journey for you. Everyone has to march this path and enjoy its joys, its difficulties, its challenges, its victories, its new horizons…
Sacredness as the Curriculum
Accompanying our youngsters on their development into adulthood, our first and foremost item of the curriculum is the apprenticeship of the sense of Sacredness. We acknowledge that this consideration in education is revolutionary. However, we believe strongly that this approach will offer the necessary tools and means to create a harmonious future for humanity.
A sacred reverence towards life links us up with all and everything, and thus enlarges our consciousness into a oneness-consciousness.
A sacred reverence towards life acknowledges the existence of spirit behind all manifestation, us included, and thus stimulates the co-creation with spirit through matter.
A sacred reverence towards life is the key to unlock the mystery of the divine. The consideration of such an attitude will be offered before any other knowledge. Such methodology will awaken centers, senses and organs that are yet asleep in humanity. Only a sacred and heartfelt attitude can open up these unknown horizons inwardly and discover new understandings of the working of the universe and the manifestation of life.
A sacred reverence towards life will bring about the practice of prayer as an innate relationship with life: may each breath be a prayer.
A sacred reverence towards life will inspire the development of meditation (focusing on a subject), contemplation (allowing its essence to embrace our heart and soul) and identification (becoming one with that essence).
A sacred reverence towards life will generate a profound respect towards the elders and result in a co-creative awareness towards the concept of family and community. In such an environment each child will safely discover its own authenticity and express this in a harmonious way. Learning becomes an active co-creation of a healthy community.
Soul Gifts
Inspired by nature, where every plant has its particular essence to share, we understand that each human being is born with specific gifts to offer: our Soul Gifts. Each Soul Gift is like an inner seed that wants to develop, grow, blossom and share its beauty. Every seed knows exactly what to become and how to co-create in its environment; so does this inner seed. Just as it is not necessary to explain to a sapling how to become a tree, neither is it necessary to teach a child to express its genuine essence. The only requirement is a supporting environment for the sapling or the child to develop into its authentic splendor.
Family Structure
Since the family – father, mother, other siblings – is the first learning environment in our lives, it represents the fundamental foundation for successful growth. In maturing, the child expands this family concept into a wider circle of people and activities – Ohana (Hawaiian term for kinship) – until he or she ‘flies out of the nest.’ Rainbow Tree Space of Love offers an environment of ‘family-consciousness’ wherein the child can smoothly expand from its personal world towards a collective awareness where loving care for all and everything becomes the essence of each breath.
The world of the Soul into a 3D World
At birth, the consciousness is still linked with the immensity of soul life where we came from. Little by little we awaken more here and remember our life over there as a ‘dream.’ In early years, most of the child’s consciousness is living in that world of beauty and wellbeing. Although this openness towards what we call the ‘invisible world’ is very alive, a great deal of the young child’s attention is focused on its development here on three-dimensional earth. Our education takes special care to maintain and foster that innate connection with soul while the child becomes more and more awake in ‘our’ world.
We offer a specific approach in relationship with each Soul-Phase.
Nature as the School and the Teacher
Nature as a living, loving and intelligent being can never be replaced by any type of human technology. Communicating with the gnomes, fairies, devas and all nature spirits of different hierarchies, plunges us into the creative forces of nature and allows the soul to grow. Such a pure relationship is the best way to comprehend the magic of their Love and Life.
Entering into this inner world of Nature develops one’s soul’s connection, through which we can discover the pure knowledge of the universe.
Gardening
Nature gives us plenty of goodies that feed us physically and spiritually. We recognize the importance of eating the food we grow ourselves and consider the science of gardening a very important part of the curriculum. This includes flowers, herbs, trees and landscaping.
Building Your Space of Love
Children are passionate about creating their own space, whether it is a tree house, clubhouse or just a blanket over a chair. This resonates with the innate desire of the soul to build one’s sanctuary. Our first ‘sanctuary’ is our body. No one else can build our body for us. In the same way, only we can build our outer ‘sanctuary.’ In nature, all animals know exactly how to construct their nest; Soul Essence Education brings back this innate ability to build one’s own ‘personal space.’ We will learn how to build and construct, in the physical, emotional and mental world, our own sanctuary and impregnate it with love.
In a healthy society, everyone will create their own living place: their ‘Space of Love’.
Beauty
Beauty is an expression of love. We present a loving co-creation of beauty as the inspiration for our education and for our lives. We honor and promote beauty in our environment and in our actions as well as beauty in our feelings and thoughts.
From Sunrise to Noon to Sunset to Midnight to Sunrise
At dawn, all of nature’s forces are expanding into a new day, a new life. Their energy envelops the human being with that essence, giving the opportunity to extend one’s consciousness into a new domain. Dawn offers the best conditions to receive new teachings. As a fruit, these notions will ripen under the warm afternoon sun. The real integration occurs during a peaceful night sleep where the learning experience can be harvested. Anchored within one’s consciousness, this new ability can be expressed upon the next sunrise in a sweet expansion of heart and mind.
In a Collective Environment
Built on and centered around the family structure, our education is nestled within a village-setting formed by the students, parents, educators, mentors, family, friends, and the surrounding community. Their co-creative interaction lays the essential foundation for our school to thrive: the community supports the school and the school supports the community.
When living and learning are thus woven into each other, one learns to embellish life experience and one’s life will enlarge the learning process. The school will become one’s life, as life will be the school. True learning will be the apprenticing of ‘living together in universal beauty as one family.’
Daily Activities
Done every day, daily activities are the perfect occasion to introduce sacredness into our life. As simple as these chores may be, they all contain a spiritual meaning. Soul Essence Education introduces this spiritual aspect to every moment in life. This gives a tremendous spiritual and physical dimension to life and forms the foundation on which we discover, explore and develop our divine gifts.