Every school has a first class. Ours gathered in February 2019 at The Space in Goa, the small state on India’s Arabian Sea coast, the smallest in the country by area. It was our very first Sacred Geometry Teacher Training, and our first retreat of its kind: for about a week, every single day, we lived and breathed sacred geometry.
A year later we came back to The Space for the second training. Each time, the course grew a little and found more of its own shape.
Engineers, artists and seekers at one table
The people who came could hardly have been more different. There were engineers and artists, teachers and designers, and people on a spiritual path. Some wanted to carry these ideas into their own work, others into their yoga or meditation practice, and some simply wanted to go deeper into a subject that had fascinated them for years. All of them, we are sure, left with far more than they came for.
From a single point to higher dimensions
We began at the very beginning, with zero, and followed the pattern as it unfolds: into a point, out into the plane, and on into space and higher dimensions. Step by step, the same geometry turned up in places that seem worlds apart: in atoms and in the solar system, in ancient symbols and in the way we manifest, and in our own everyday lives. We learned to draw the figures with compass and ruler, and we learned the science behind them.
The best way to learn is to teach
The course was packed with ideas, and the trainees didn’t just take them in. They had to teach them back, in groups and in their own way, turning what they had understood into playful exercises for everyone else.
This is an old insight. Nearly two thousand years ago the Roman philosopher Seneca wrote that people learn while they teach, and modern research agrees: in one study, people who simply expected to teach a text afterwards remembered more of it, and organised it better, than people who expected a test. Psychologists sometimes call this the protégé effect.
So we explored which modalities and accelerated learning tools make a concept memorable and fun, and how the same idea might be taught to adults, to spiritual seekers and to children. Each trainee found their own approach and their own words, until they were ready to guide workshops themselves.
Meditation, chanting and big questions
Each day began quietly, with meditation and chanting. We shared our meals at the same tables, and in between we philosophised about the bigger questions of life, and about how the blueprint actually unfolds.
A community that stayed
It was an intense week, and a joyful, mind-opening one for everyone: to watch so many separate things come together into one picture. Above all, it brought us close. Years later, many of us are still deeply connected.
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