Born As The Earth Zen Academy - BEZA

05/08/2025

Invitation to connect in Muizenburg, Cape Town

We're hosting a Live Workshop Series called *Embodied Enlightenment:*

In this Workshop, Nangaku provides you with a reliable and direct pathway to discover and engage the wonder of your innate humanity - the body of your being and its limitless capacity for illumination, creativity and freedom.

These forgotten, ancient techniques are made available to return humanity to their inherent purpose and birthright.

Saturdays 10:30 - 16:30 PM
16 August; 13 Sept; 11 October; 15 Nov
Commons Muizenburg

VALUE EXCHANGE:
R500 DANA Payment for each Workshop
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BONUS OFFER:
Attend any of one of the Workshops for Free when paying in full for the upcoming Medicine of Nature Module.

👉🏽Read more about Medicine of Nature Module: https://bornastheearth.com/apprentice-training/

👉🏽 To Join the Cape Town Workshop Series:
https://calendly.com/bornastheearth/embodied-enlightenment

With gratitude
BEZA Team
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30/07/2025

Advanced Gatekeeper Apprentice Training
Medicine of Nature Module

21 August - 5 October 2025

Make Way for your Truth - The world needs your undomesticated, truest self in this moment.

A group of deeply curious and dedicated BEZA Students and Apprentices will embark on an 8 week deep dive into the Authentic Medicine of Nature.

This training is for the committed ones who are eager to uncover their authentic selves and give the gift of their unwavering Truth to the world.

We will explore the subtle and spontaneous workings of Nature as a guide to bringing you into a more intimate relationship with your originality and genuineness.

✨Schedule your Alignment call: https://calendly.com/bornastheearth/gatekeeper-apprentice-training-interview

👉🏽Read more: https://bornastheearth.com/apprentice-training/

⭐️BONUS OFFER INCLUDED: Upon paying in full for the 8 week training, you receive a FREE 1 Day Embodied Enlightenment Workshop in Cape Town.

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BEZA Team
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Daily.To discern if this training is appropriate for you at this time on your journey, and to create a diverse cohort of Apprentices, Nangaku would like to engage with you in an alignment interview.During the interview he will present a basic outline of the training and what to expect. Nangaku will

28/07/2025

Our holistic approach to teaching works with all aspects of you…

We consider you inherently perfect, complete and full of potential – everything you are looking for is within you. We value the wholeness of your person: your thoughts, emotions, fears, demons and hopes. The true you is welcomed out and appreciated. Each sangha member starts where they are, with all they have, in full acknowledgment of what they like and dislike, what they long for, and what they’re running away from. This is the starting place for transformation.

BEZA’s teachings are practical and spiritual…

The spiritual applications you are being asked to learn and role-model are non-dogmatic, simple and practical. This practical learning is profoundly spiritual. Every act is a door to abundant, spontaneous creativity. Empowered and mindful, you will become your own master teacher.

Connect with BEZA's mentors and Teachers
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22/07/2025

Make Way for your Truth
The world needs your undomesticated, truest self in this moment.

Becoming intimate with the elements of Mother Earth we re-member ourselves back together through practical spirituality and ritual. Created for our times, the BEZA Gatekeeper Apprentice Training supports you in unlocking your inner-wisdom and become a Wisdom Keeper — an initiated Gatekeeper of the 5 Elemental Bodies of the Medicine Wheel.

Each Elemental Body (Fire, Water, Earth, Nature, & Stone) has particular medicines related to every manifestation of mind, body and spirit – thoughts, emotions, aspirations, abundance, sustainability, health and freedom etc.

A group of deeply curious and dedicated BEZA students and Apprentices will embark on an 8 week deep dive into the Authentic Medicine of Nature.

This training is for the committed ones who are eager to uncover their authentic selves and give the gift of their unwavering Truth to the world.

We will explore the subtle and spontaneous workings of Nature as a guide to bringing you into a more intimate relationship with your originality and genuineness.

Apply: info@bornastheearth.com
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28/06/2025

Community Talking Circles

You're invited!

There is an immense need now, more than ever, to slow down, to listen with heart, and speak with wisdom.

To find solutions to our challenges as a collective we gather in our Circle of Connection to recognize and honour our shared humanity and interconnectedness.

When trust is cultivated, one’s heart’s wisdom and truthful expression has what is needed to build purposeful alignments and effective collaboration. This, in turn, reinforces trust and fosters much needed resiliency, flexibility and reliability in all relationships.

At BEZA we train community members and group facilitators, equipping them with essential tools to build and maintain the growing need for community connection.

Join Circle of Connection
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09/05/2025

By attuning, cleansing, and bringing energies into balance, Gatekeepers become the Wisdom Keepers of the World. They are initiates of the 5 Elemental Bodies of the Medicine Wheel — the body of Mother Earth from whom we originate.

A Gatekeeper upholds integrity and responsibility in all relationships – professional and personal. They serve the transformational power of love for the benefit of all beings.

Training includes:

Zen & Elemental Meditation Guidance Training

Circle of Connection Training

1 x Personal Divination session

2 x Mentoring sessions

Personal development within a spiritual community

Integrative training supported by student facilitators

Schedule designed to accommodate the working parent

Spacious time between modules for Integration

Each Module tracks 2 moon cycles (approx. 56 days of assimilation and dissemination of illumination)

Inclusive of supportive embodiment modalities: meditation, mentoring, talking circles, divination, breathwork, creative arts, movement and more

🌀Apply: www.BornastheEarth.com
Application close 16th June

09/05/2025

Gatekeeper Training in the Earth Element is an initiation into Self.

We have all been on a long and winding journey, ultimately searching for ourselves. This is the journey homeward – the Great Return: a Homecoming.

Study how abundance and karma are related and how to orient yourself at the various stages and cycles of growth.

Embrace your healing power as you open to Mother Earth’s Love.

Celebrate the diversity of all dualities and manifestations as you connect to the unifying, common ground of community, home, identity, and otherness.

🌀Applications open www.BornastheEarth.com

07/05/2025

Divination is an ancient healing craft which has been used for centuries to connect with the ancestral realm and make the Invisible World, visible.

Becoming a diviner or seer is akin to being a mentor and guide into the mystical realm.

Usually you come to a divination session with a deep question. Your question and the ensuing divination lifts the veil to the invisible world which is complete in potential.

By way of your ‘ask’ of the invisible world (Other World and Ancestral Realm) for guidance (to make visible) as to what hidden energies are constellating in your life, you discover how to open the way for healing.

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03/04/2025

Voices of Female Zen Teachers

Master Dogen writes, “There is an expression that’s been spoken since ancient times, that has been spoken from India and that has been spoken from heaven, it is: if you fall because of the ground then you get up by using the ground. If you seek to get up apart from the ground, in the end it is not possible.”

Bonnie Myotai Treace is a Zen teacher and nun, the founder of Hermitage Heart, and formerly the abbot of the Zen Center of New York City (ZCNYC).

She teaches currently in Black Mountain and Asheville, North Carolina. Myotai Sensei is the first Dharma successor of John Daido Loori, Roshi, in the Mountains and Rivers Order (MRO), having received shiho, dharma transmission, from him in 1996.

Serving and training for over two decades in the MRO, she was the establishing teacher and first abbess of the ZCNYC.

At the Monastery she was the Vice Abbot, the first director of Dharma Communications, editor of Mountain Record, and coordinator of the affiliates of the MRO.

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12/03/2025

The rushing of rivers, the rise and fall of tides, the stillness of a hidden spring—each carries the rhythm of life itself. Water is not separate from us; it is us and we are it, shaping our journey as it shapes the land.

Delight in the mysteries of Water in our weekly article release as we prepare for the opening of the Compassionate Water Gateway on the 27th March.

Apprentices will learn to tune into the rhythms of water, refining their ability to sense, relate, and respond with emotional intelligence and deep presence. Water teaches the art of harmonisation—flowing between interactions, sensing the unspoken, and embracing the unseen.

Through this fluid connection, Apprentices will develop a heightened awareness of balance, sensitivity, and relational depth, discovering how to embody compassion and resonance in both the tangible and intangible aspects of life.

Read the article and begin the journey: [https://bornastheearth.com/since-the-beginning-water-announces-life/]

🌀Applications close 16th March
Apply: www.BornastheEarth.com

07/03/2025

Water teaches the art of harmonisation—flowing between interactions, sensing the unspoken, and embracing the unseen.

Emotions are the oscillations of Water, reflecting the ebb and flow of our inner world.

Tears become the body's release, like fresh rain cleansing parched earth.

Our clear, still waters hold the weight of what is unspeakable, quietly resolving distorted into calm. It teaches us to cleanse, recharge, and realign our inner states, revealing the body itself as a flowing system—a harmonic hologram of the great waters of the world.

By learning to listen deeply, we will cultivate a profound sensitivity, allowing them to respond to themselves and others with openness, clarity, and compassion.

The Compassionate Water Module takes us into a deeply intimate relationship with Water, not just as an element, but as a living guide to balance, presence, and relational flow.

🌀Applications close 16 March

🌀Apply: www.BornastheEarth.com & book an alignment call.

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05/03/2025

Dear Community

We invite you to embark on a Journey with Water💧

During the Prelude to the Compassionate Water Module, we will release a new article each week, offering an unfolding stream of stories and insights that invite reflection and preparation for the journey ahead.

These writings will explore the significance of Water through the ages—its spiritual connection, its resilient determination, and its role as a mirror and medium of communication —guiding readers to sense the deeper currents that flow beneath the surface of everyday life.

Like stepping stones placed across a river, each exploration leads intuitively to the next, revealing the passageways across the eternal flow of time with spaces in between to pause, reflect, and feel the Water Way speaking to you.

💧The Gatekeeper Apprentice Training is not merely a transmission of information; it is an invitation to align and sense the currents of your journey toward the ocean of peace and harmony.

Read the first article & step into the flow: [https://bornastheearth.com/since-the-beginning-water-announces-life/]

🌀Applications close 16 March.
Apply: www.BornastheEarth.com

Explore the sacred wisdom of the water element - its healing power, emotional intelligence, spiritual significance and role in transformation and shamanism.