Radiance Academy
The Living Art of Vitality
Radiance Academy is rooted in a simple understanding: vitality is a practice, it requires cultivation.
Through Practice Through Presence Through Movement Through Stillness Through Embodying how to BE exquisitely ALIVE
A Living School of Embodied Wisdom
Radiance Academy brings together ancient medicine traditions, elemental philosophy, somatic inquiry and contemplative practices into an embodied art of study.
The teachings weave together:
Five Element + Classical Daoist Medicine,
Kundalini Kriya + Breathwork,
Meditation + Mindfulness Practices,
Shamanism + Intuitive Cultivation,
Seasonal Wisdom + the Cycles of Nature,
Herbalism + Plant Spirit Medicine,
Ritual + Ceremony
The Radiance Model
We exist in a continuous exchange with life…. receiving, attuning and transmitting within a dynamic field of reciprocity.
The Radiance Model explores this exchange through four embodied practices: Sensing what is present, Attuning to what is possible, Embodying that potential, and Transmitting it into the world.
SENSE → ATTUNE → EMBODY→ TRANSMIT
What we embody, we transmit. What we transmit enters into reciprocity with the world around us.
The Principles of Radiance
I. AWARENESS CREATES CHOICE We cannot transform what we cannot perceive.
II. THE BODY IS A VESSEL OF WISDOM We learn to sense, listen and trust embodied intelligence.
III. VITALITY IS CULTIVATED We tend the conditions that allow life force to flourish.
IV. WHAT IS STAGNANT MUST MOVE Movement creates the conditions for transformation.
V. WHAT WE PRACTICE, WE BECOME What we cultivate through practice becomes an embodied way of being
VI. WE ARE NATURE, EMBODIED We belong to the rhythms, cycles and seasons of Earth, Sky and the Elements.
VII. RADIANCE IS MEANT TO BE LIVED Conscious participation is how we create ripples of impact
THIS IS A SCHOOL OF PRACTICE.
Some teachings are quiet.
Some are raucous, vigorous and f^cking intensive.
Some happen seated in meditation. Some happen within the rhythm of a drum
Some happen breathing, shaking, sobbing, dancing or lying on the earth. Some happen around a fire. Some happen in a circle. Some happen in the solitude of your own daily practice.
Radiance Academy is an embodied study.
We learn through experiencing. We learn through practice.
Ways to Practice together
Private Sessions
Classes
Workshops
Women’s Retreats
“Nikol is absolutely incredible with her work. After our first session together, I immediately had a felt sense of integration around the stuff I'd been talking about in therapy for years. She somehow seems to conduct magic between the heart, body, and mind. I don't really have words for how she works, but it's changed my entire way of feeling through my life. I recommend her to all my friends who are at a point of wondering in their lives. If you are at all on the fence, go see her.” Katie Crafts
