iSōma is a community-rooted path of facilitation, art, ceremony, activism and leadership that returns us to what sustains the human Spirit.

We bridge our ancestral values and re-centre them in contemporary practice, restoring coherence between the fire of purpose to serve, which is increasing in people around the world by the day, and the capacity to walk in that direction with humility and care.

This is not a technique or additional certification to stack atop other ribbons or accolades. Grounded in over 24 years of combined rite work, clinical depth, and ceremonial tradition, iSōma is an apprenticeship that matures capacity through ritual, time on Country, time in the void, personal practice, pauses for integration, and a community whose arrows point toward thanks reciprocity.

This path requires us to stay, really stay, with the intensity of being alive, of being born, living and dying, and in the restoration of harmony with nature. The Earth itself, so alive, animates the simplicity of the cycles around us — the great rhythm of the story within all stories and the root of our archetypical frame that we’ll hold during these next 12 months.

Our industry is fast becoming, in some places, washed out, brittle and depleted. We need to feed it well, replenish it again. We want the healing arts, Ceremony and leadership — and all their offshoots — to become trustworthy and sincere again.

This path invites us to leave behind goal-oriented, pathologising models of working with others. To stop objectivity, analysing and reducing people to fit into diagnostic tools, coaching blueprints, or spiritual facsimiles.

iSōma holds both horror and hope for the current state of our world.
Outrage towards the atrocities of an active genocide against the Palestinian people is a healthy response for a human with a heart. This is yet another cycle in a long list of intentional moves by ideas that dehumanise one another at the cost of Life, so much cost.

May it mobilise our numb, distracted selves and shatter the reality we grip in the West — that this is ‘the good life, ripe for the taking’.

May it rattle us alive and give us the courage to look at ourselves and back in history, and take in what it is we've been doing to one another for thousands of years, and to do our part in the repair we so desperately need.

The wheel needs to turn, and we need all hands on deck.

Our ancestors' devotion was remarkable in its steadfast consistency, and many of us have forgotten just how present their support remains — if we stop leaning on hyper-individuation and psychologised practices as the way forward.

Instead, we invite you into places — be it here or somewhere else — that resonate, where we turn toward each other and realise there really is something solid in the old ways. 

We’re opening this path as an opportunity to walk it in community.
If your arrow is pointing in the same direction as ours, we might just walk it together, as we were always meant to. And at the end of it all, we might find our way back to the original agreement: to cherish life.

With deep care,
Amber and Kurt