About Workshop
What happens when your inner life and outer life intersect in a moment of convergence? This immersive session invites participants to pause and engage in a contemplative virtual reality experience through the Four Sacred Portals: Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement.
Each portal offers a unique perspective on aligning with their true nature, embracing both gifts and shadows, and reconciling the inner and outer divides that shape our lives. Through sound, imagery, and guided reflection, they will explore the meeting point of the finite, time-bound self and infinite, essence-based nature—a space of convergence where wholeness and presence emerge.
Whether new to inner work or deepening a long-standing practice, this journey offers an intuitive, heartfelt framework for living in greater congruence, connection, and compassion.
About Speaker
Irma Velasquez is an author, artist, and co-founder of Deep Living Lab, an international nonprofit devoted to helping people live from their whole selves. For over two decades, she has coached, facilitated, and led groups, integrating the Enneagram into personal transformation and special education. She is the author of Fish Dreams: A Mother’s Journey from Curing Her Son with Autism to Loving Him as He Is, blending professional expertise, lived experience as a mother, and social leadership. Her work bridges art, spirituality, and presence-based practices, creating spaces where participants reconnect with themselves, embrace wholeness, and foster meaningful change in their communities.
Kelly Gatzke-Jelle is an artist, digital designer, and innovator working at the intersection of art, technology, and wellbeing. In collaboration with her two daughters and two sons, she shapes immersive somatic art experiences through The Manas Collective—the nonprofit founded by her daughter, Mahala Berry, and devoted to nurturing healing through creativity and community. Together, their intergenerational practice becomes a living tapestry of play, wonder, and remembrance, inviting people of all ages to soften, awaken, and return to curiosity, compassion, and inner peace. Kelly’s wider body of work includes the Healthy Minds app, created with neuroscientist Dr. Richie Davidson, and the global public art platform CODAworx.com.