Koh Phangan is an island in the Gulf of Thailand, and for many people it is a place to slow down, breathe and turn inward. In May 2022, Dr. Be was invited to the Orion Healing Centre there, one of the biggest and best-loved yoga and healing centres on the island, for a series of talks and workshops.
From nothing into space
The first workshop began at the very beginning. How does a pattern unfold out of nothing into space? And what is space, really? From there we followed the thread to the world’s spiritual traditions and found the same geometry waiting in many of them.
Yoga has its own geometric language. In the Tantric traditions of India, a yantra is a geometric diagram used in worship and as an aid to meditation. At its heart sits the bindu, a single point seen as the source of creation, and around it unfold triangles, circles, lotus petals and an outer square. A point that becomes a whole world: it is a picture of the same question we were asking.
Because we were in a yoga centre, much of the workshop turned towards the body’s energy system. We touched on the chakras, and on the idea of the observer: the one who watches, and who is part of what is being watched.
Learning to think in shapes
A second course was about geometric thinking: how geometry can be applied to life, and how it helps us see one thing in relationship to another. We looked at how to map our own thoughts, our brain and our emotions, how to sort inner processes into clear compartments, and what it means to reach a higher awareness of space and time.
Where the mat meets the maths
In a talk, Dr. Be showed how geometry is truly the blueprint of everything. For many in the room, this was new ground. They lived in the yogic world of body, breath and meditation, but had rarely linked it to science or mathematics. Seeing the two side by side opened up a whole field of ideas for the island’s spiritual community, and inspired many people to dive deeper into the subject.
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