who we are

We’re a wellness hub dedicated to integrating ancient teachings into modern living. We provide flexible, personally tailored yoga teacher training, one-on-one dynamic coaching and healing sessions, community events, retreats, and weekly insights through our e-newsletter that inspire mindful, meaningful well-being.

Co-founded by Ryan and Rachel Friedman, a brother and sister duo deeply curious about what practices, perspectives, and lifestyles contribute to thriving ecosystems. We are committed to listening to and amplifying the voices of peers, elders, and youth from various sacred wisdom traditions spanning multiple continents, religions, and cultural contexts. Click here to collaborate with us.

May this platform serve as an invitation to consider the possibility the Divine is real and wants to engage in a loving relationship with you.

What would the world look and feel like if we all earnestly tried to share the unique gifts, personalities, and resources we have been endowed with as an offering to the Divine and all of creation? 🤲 Where every word we speak a song 🎶 and every step we take a dance 🕺💃, fiercely compassionate for the dignity and welfare of all beings.

Let's bring that reality to life.

meet the team

Maharani Krishna Bhakti Goswamini

Maharani, born in Chile, is a Bhakti monk, holistic healer, and 5th Generation Usui Reiki Master, with more than 50 years of experience devoted to the sacred path of spiritual service. She began practicing and teaching Reiki at the age of eight, developing an intuitive mastery and a compassionate presence that continue to guide her work today. Before dedicating herself fully to healing, Maharani worked as an art historian in the Vatican Museums, where she deepened her understanding of sacred symbolism, devotional traditions, and the spiritual meaning embedded in historical works of art. This unique background enriches her approach to healing, bringing depth, reverence, and a global spiritual perspective to every session. Maharani beautifully weaves Reiki into all of her offerings, allowing each experience to serve as a journey of energetic restoration and inner balance. Her modalities include breath work, tarot, crystal healing, limpia, sound healing, and flower essence therapies. Whether working in person or remotely, she holds space with warmth, clarity, and devotion, guiding clients toward peace, harmony, and a renewed sense of alignment.

Rachel Friedman

Rachel's personal journey, education, and professional experience reflect a deep passion for spiritual connection to God as the wellspring from which healing arises. She is a Certified Trauma-Informed Coach who specializes in serving women who have experienced sexual trauma, reproductive loss, disordered eating, and addiction. Creating loving spaces for women to be supported as they venture within and connect to the truth of how loved and worthy they are is truly her, “why.” She facilitates free support group sessions for women who have experienced sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and addiction. Rachel's story to finding solace in Yeshua as a Messianic Jew, her nearly 4 years of sobriety, and her own intimate experiences with sexual trauma and reproductive loss have uniquely shaped her compassionate heart. She holds a B.A. in Sociology with Latin honors from the University of California San Diego and has provided alternative healing modalities at Sharp Hospital, San Diego, California. She is a contributing author to Eating Disorders Anonymous (EDA) - The Story of How We Recovered from Our Eating Disorders, EDA, 2016. She led a high-performing client services team for a leading fashion company, where she intentionally fostered a human-centered atmosphere in tandem with corporate success. In her free time, you can find her tending to gardens, sewing, and spending time with her loving husband, Blake.

Anjalique Knight

Anjalique is a strategic leader and educator dedicated to transforming the principles of reciprocity and non-judgmental care into sustainable organizational systems. As a Queer, Neurodivergent, Afro-Caribbean woman raised in the US South and a mother, her journey is intentionally grounded in service. Anjalique’s philosophy of systemic healing is built upon her work in Public History and African American Studies. This includes her foundational role as a research assistant on the African American Trail Project (Tufts University). Her educational specialty lies in curriculum and programmatic design focused on undertold and hidden histories. Her capacity for deep, compassionate presence is embodied by her work as a full-spectrum guide supporting individuals through profound life transitions, empowering them to make decisions rooted in authenticity. Professionally, Anjalique leverages her expertise as the Director of Education and Outreach at the Pauli Murray Center, managing fiscal oversight of grants, spearheading strategic programs grounded in equity and community advocacy, and successfully pioneering an equity-based hiring redesign. When not on a soapbox, you will find Anj running around with dogs or learning about the natural world alongside her toddler.

Ryan Friedman

Ryan strives to fix his mind, heart, and hands on loving, serving, and glorifying God and those who strive to walk a God-conscious life. He is a novice student in the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya Vaisnava lineage of Bhakti/Devotional Yoga and is deeply passionate about human and environmental rights. A B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University led him to primary authorship of published research in wearable, AI-driven medical device technology. He served in the US military as an internal special investigator and owns and operates a real estate investment business. He holds over 1,000 hours in traditional yoga teacher training certifications and Thai massage. He is the copy-editor of the textbook Complete Guide to Yoga Practices, Yoga Vidya Gurukul, India (2020), which has been used to educate 5,000+ yoga teachers around the world. He holds a Permaculture Design Certificate from the San Diego Permaculture Lab and two natural building certifications from Cob Hill Natural Building (USA) and Thannal Natural Homes (India), which he drew upon to design and build a cob cottage from the ground up. Ryan is in his final semester of studies at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy. Catch him barefoot in the soil building earthen homes, tending to cows, and chanting, like his Jewish ancestors used to.

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Our Approach

Finding Inspiration & Lessons in Every Turn

What would the world look and feel like if we used time-tested practices and perspectives to shift the mode of being from individualism, consumerism, and exploitation to collectivism, devotional service, and regenerative spiritualized stewardship?

Our Yoga Teacher Training, Living Lineages, offers a robust curriculum that maintains the authentic integrity of Yogic roots and traditions. Living Lineages is the first of its kind (that we are aware of) designed to meet you where you are through a hybrid offering with a personally tailored schedule and engaging elective opportunities that also results in an official Government of India Diploma.

None of the rich and insightful messages we share, to include in our Weekly Wisdom Email, are new. None of the ideas are our own. The content we relay pays homage to the voices, lived experience, and cultural knowledge of Indigenous communities all over the world (all of us belong to one). Sources are directly cited wherever possible and permissible by the interviewee.

All of our sessions, events, and retreats are designed from a space of love and humble curiosity. We utilize evidence-based practices and explore time-tested practices and perspectives to support individual and collective wellbeing.

It is with deep respect, reverence, and humility that we share wisdom from cultures and ecosystems which have been (and continue to be) directly and indirectly placed on the verge of extinction with the advent of imperialism, slavery, the Industrial Revolution, and exploitative/non-regenerative economic models.

The first Homo sapiens (the early modern human) scientists are aware of started walking this Earth approximately 300,000 years ago. They learned from other plant and animal species who were present on Earth millions of years prior. As time progressed, major weather events occurred and tectonic plates shifted. People inhabited new places and became finely attuned to their surrounding environment. Culture formed. Eternal scriptures revealed. Spiritual traditions brought forth. Wars fought. Regenerative land stewardship techniques practiced. New generations birthed.

Let's tap into the vast wellspring of distinct yet oftentimes shared practices, perspectives, and stories of our ancestors, many of whom were intimately connected with Divinity and nature... early humans.