The space holder’s compass

What is the Space Holder’s Compass?

The Space Holder’s Compass is a personal map of guiding principles, values, and practices that anchor you as a facilitator. It is the inner tool you return to when navigating challenges, holding group energy, and maintaining clarity, compassion, and steadiness. Like a true compass, it keeps you oriented toward your highest intentions as you guide others through transformation.

How to Build Your Space Holder’s Compass:

Identify Your True North: Write three core values you want to embody as a facilitator.
Mark the Four Directions: Choose four qualities (e.g., compassion, courage, clarity, creativity) that will guide you in different situations.
Name Your Anchors: List 2–3 practices or rituals that bring you back to center when things feel chaotic (e.g., breathwork, grounding exercises, a mantra).
Create Your Map: Draw or design your compass visually with these elements labeled. Add symbols, colors, or words that feel resonant.
Activate It: Write a short vow or prayer you will recite before holding space to align with your compass.

Yukti Verse 2 from “The Radiant Sutras” by Lorin Roche, PhD

Radiant One,

The life essence carries on its play through the pulsing rhythm of outward and inward movement.

This is the ceaseless throb, the rhythm of life- terrifying in its eternity, exquisite in its constancy.

The inhalation, the return movement of breath, sustains life.

The outgoing breath purifies life.

These are the two poles between which respiration goes on unceasingly. Between them is every delight you could desire.

Even when the senses are turned outward, your attention on the external world, attend also to the inner throb, the pulsing on the creative impulse within you.

Yukti Practice 2 (Excerpt)

MARUT = lightning and thunderbolts, roaring like lions, the flashing ones, the shining ones, wind, air, breath, the 5 pranas of the body

Marut suggests that breath is wild and magical, like lightning. Let go of your civilized self and welcome your wildness, your storms.

The practice here is to do nothing- simply enjoy the show as this magic stuff flows inward, turns, flows outward, and then turns again.

Consider these thoughts:

“I am awake to the electricity of life.”

“The dynamic power of breath is renewing me moment by moment.”

“Nature is wild and serene, and so am I.”