Each year, we enter the new year through a 10-day morning practice inspired by two words of the Guru Gayatri Mantra. In January 2027, we arrive at the final two words: NIRNAME · AKAME.

An invitation to loosen our identification with who we think we are, what we believe we need to become, and what we think life should be. To become a little less attached to our story. A little less occupied with maintaining our identity. A little more available to what is.

And as we become less attached to what defines us, we become more sensitive to something subtler. Something that does not need to be defended. Something that does not need to be proven. Something that can simply be experienced.

2027 · 11 · Two ones standing together

2027 carries the vibration of 11: two ones standing side by side. We can see the first 1 as the individual self — our personality, history, needs, fears and protective strategies — and the second 1 as our higher or subtler Self, the dimension of us that can observe, listen and remain connected to something larger.

The question becomes: can these two dimensions of ourselves stand together without one taking over the other? And can we bring this same capacity into relationship?

To stay connected to myself without losing you.
To stay connected to you without abandoning myself.

Two people standing together. Two nervous systems. Two realities. Neither needs to disappear for connection to exist. This is where subtlety meets stability.

Stability is not immobility

We often imagine stability as the capacity to remain strong, centred and unaffected. But a regulated nervous system is not a nervous system that remains permanently calm. It moves. It can mobilise when action is needed and return to rest when the action is complete. It can open toward another person and return to itself. It can meet intensity without necessarily losing its centre.

Stability, then, is not the absence of movement. It is the capacity to move without losing ourselves. This is also at the heart of co-regulation.

Can I stay present when someone beside me is struggling? Can I feel another person’s experience without immediately needing to change it? Can I remain connected to myself while remaining available to you? Can I hold my arms up when everything in me wants to stop — not through violence toward myself, but through presence, curiosity and relationship with the experience?

This is one of the teachings of 11: learning to hold apparent opposites.

Effort and surrender. Movement and stillness. Self and other. Visible and subtle. Life and death.

Making space

Nirname Akame invites us to allow something to fall away: slowing down enough to feel where our life force wants to move, and where we no longer need to invest our prana.

There comes a moment in every cycle when effort is no longer the answer. We stop pushing. We stop trying to maintain everything. We listen. We create emptiness. And from that emptiness, what needs to be born can emerge.

It is a return to a right rhythm. Action when action is needed. Rest when nothing needs to be done. Engagement when life calls us forward. Release when something has completed itself. A nervous system flexible enough to move between these states without becoming trapped in any one of them.

What if stability means excluding less of ourselves?

Our instability does not only come from what happens around us; it also comes from the enormous amount of energy we use to protect ourselves from parts of ourselves. Parts we don’t like. Parts we don’t understand. Parts we learned were unacceptable. Parts touched by fear, vulnerability or shame.

Shame whispers: this part of me cannot be seen. And so we contract. We control. We adapt. We hide. We disconnect. We construct an identity that allows us to belong. But maintaining that identity requires energy.

What if stability does not come from protecting ourselves more? What if it comes from needing to exclude less of ourselves?

This is another doorway into NIRNAME: beyond the name I have given myself, beyond the person I believe I must be. And AKAME: beyond the constant movement toward something else, beyond the need to become, beyond the desire to complete ourselves through something outside of ourselves. Not as a rejection of identity or desire, but as the possibility of discovering what remains when, for a moment, we stop holding onto them.

Stability & Subtlety

During these 10 mornings, through Kundalini Yoga, meditation, mantra, mudra, somatic awareness and relational exploration, we will investigate the relationship between stability and subtlety.

We will challenge our stability and explore our capacity to stay present under intensity — physically, emotionally and relationally. We will play with mudra and the subtle field, exploring how very small changes can transform our inner experience. We will listen to the nervous system and observe where we contract, where we push, where we abandon ourselves and where we disappear into the other.

And we will create space. Space between stimulus and reaction. Space between ourselves and our story. Space between what is finishing and what has not yet been born.

Perhaps, beneath all the effort to become someone, there is already something stable. Not rigid. Not fixed. Not protected from life. But sufficiently rooted to move with life.

Subtle enough to listen.
Stable enough to stay.