It all began in the season of 2016/17 in Goa, India, a place that has long drawn spiritual seekers from all over the world. Near Palolem, at a place called Space Goa, once a week, in the warm afternoon, a table filled up with coffee and cake, paper, a drawing compass and a ruler. That was all we needed to explore the universe.
The workshops were led by Dr. Be together with geometer Colin Power, and they were wonderfully free-flowing. All sorts of people came: travellers from every background, yoga students, spiritual seekers and consciousness explorers, and sometimes children too.
Back to school, the fun way
Many people said it felt like going back to school, only this time it was a joy. One circle, then another, and geometry began to emerge on the paper. The big questions followed by themselves. Where do we come from? What is geometry, really? How are proportion, music and art connected? How does our solar system move?
Thinking with your hands
The compass made all the difference. These were not ideas to memorise but shapes to create. When you draw a pattern yourself, you understand the process behind it, and numbers become something you can see. Through the drawing, something begins to emerge in the mind as well: you learn to see how the pattern actually grows, step by step.
With so many yogis and seekers around the table, we often turned to the symbols of the Indian tradition and explored what their geometry might be telling us. A few little exercises, and a philosophical conversation would open up all by itself.
A playful inquiry into nature's secrets
Those lush tropical afternoons held the spirit of everything that came later: curiosity first, the hands before the formulas, and the biggest questions of life explored together in an easy, playful way.
We still gather like this today, online and in person. See where we meet next →
Come curious. Come as you are. All perspectives welcome.