This article is a synthesis of the Anatman Odyssey of October 11, 2026. An Odyssey in which silence spoke louder than words, and twelve sentences were enough to open an infinite territory of presence.
There are Saturdays when life lays before you a gift so simple that it takes you a moment to recognize it. ✨ The sound of a bell. An in-breath. A release. Then the silence, spreading like a silk sheet over all the accumulated tension.
On this Saturday, October 11, 2026, a few of us gathered — on Reunion Island with Marie-Anne, around the futon with Shakti Anne, MaHA, Dona, Sylviane, Noëlle, Ramda, Sandrine, Préma, Francis and so many other hearts. 🤍 Three steps to climb together: yoga, chanting, meditation. And at the end of the path, a revelation of astonishing power in its sheer simplicity.
Twelve Sentences to Vanish into the Light
Do you know that feeling? 🌱 A heart that has been carrying too much for too long, an inner territory that has grown too heavy to defend. And then someone whispers in your ear: “All there is to do is breathe in, deeply, and let everything go.”
Twelve sentences. That is all the guided meditation offered that evening. 💫 Twelve sentences like twelve stepping stones laid across the stream so that you could cross the ford of sacred disappearance. Between each one, silence. An inhabited silence, dense and alive — the silence that is the true language of the Non-Self.
What you are about to read is not a report. It is an invitation to make the journey again with me. To feel, in your own body, sitting there as you read, what relaxes, what opens, what welcomes. 🦋
For Anatman’s meditation is not a technique. It is an encounter. An encounter with that within you which has never needed to defend anything in order to exist.
Realizations During the Guided Meditation of the Anatman Odyssey
🎁 This 10-minute excerpt from the beginning of the guided meditation (in French) is offered to you by ANATMAN TV.
Be prepared. This meditation has almost no words. ✨ Between each sentence, long minutes of pure silence. And yet — or rather, precisely because of this — every sentence spoken carries the weight of an entire universe.
Foot against foot. Hand against hand. Connected to an invisible web. And twelve keys turning, one after another, to lead you to the heart of disappearance. 🕊️
Total Surrender to Now
“I am going to surrender totally, to now.”
Can you hear the dizzying depth of that sentence? 💫 It isn’t “I’m going to try.” It isn’t “I’m going to work on it.” It is I am going to surrender totally. Totally. A word that doesn’t negotiate. And to now — not to yesterday, not to tomorrow, not to some more convenient moment. To now.
Now is the only place where surrender is possible. Everywhere else, there is still a self keeping guard, calculating, postponing. Here, in the instant being born as you read these words, there is a door. And behind the door, there is no one left. Only what is. 🤍
Breathe In and Let Everything Go
“All there is to do is breathe in, deeply, and let everything go.”
All. 🌱 Did you notice that word? All there is to do. As if spiritual liberation lay in a gesture so simple that you could spend an entire lifetime walking past it. Breathe in deeply — the air enters, fills, expands. And then let everything go. Everything. Not just the breath: everything.
Plans. Fears. Identities. The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. The wounds we protect. The victories we brandish. 💫 Everything. In a single breath. That is the secret hidden in the most ordinary sentence in the world.
Letting Go Continues After the Out-Breath
“And after the out-breath, it keeps on letting everything go.”
Here is the secret passage. 🦋 Do you think letting go stops when the lungs are empty? No. That is exactly where it truly begins. After the out-breath, in that pause where the body naturally waits for the next in-breath, it keeps on letting everything go.
Notice the “it.” No more “I” doing the letting go. It lets go. Letting go becomes autonomous, impersonal, cosmic. You are no longer the author. You are the wonder-struck witness of a liberation that happens all by itself. 🕊️
Relaxed Hands
“The hands are relaxed.”
The hands. 🤍 These two instruments that seize, build, defend, squeeze, plead, cling. The hands that have carried everything you have carried. The hands that have released everything you have lost.
Now they are relaxed. Simply relaxed. Resting. Open to the sky or turned toward the earth. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that they no longer grasp. And when the hands stop grasping, something very ancient within you finally stops fighting. 🌿
Every Part of the Body Relaxed
“Every part of the body is relaxed.”
Every. Part. 💞 The sentence takes its time. It invites you to make the journey. The toes. The ankles. The calves. The knees. The thighs. The pelvis. The belly. The heart. The shoulders. The nape of the neck. The face. Every inch of your bodily territory receives these words like a blessing.
Dona would write in the chat: “Gratitude for this grounding, powerful, unifying breath.” 🙏 Grounding, powerful, unifying. Three words to describe what happens when every part of the body answers the call to relax.
Every Part of the Body Lets Everything Go
“Every part of the body lets everything go.”
We move on to the next stage. ✨ It is no longer just muscular relaxation. It is cellular letting go. Every cell carries memories. Old contractions. Silent vows to stay on guard. Promises never to suffer again, never to love again, never to trust again.
And there, in that lengthening silence, every part of the body lets everything go. 💫 Three words. An inner earthquake. Sylviane would write: “thank you for the unexpected laughter too, love you”. Unexpected laughter. That is exactly what happens when the body truly lets go: it laughs, because it suddenly realizes it never had any reason to hold on so tightly.
Nothing Resists Anymore
“Nothing resists anymore.”
Three words. 🕊️ Three words that tear a veil. Nothing. Not “almost nothing.” Not “just a little.” Nothing. And this “nothing” that no longer resists marks the end of a war you were waging without even knowing you were waging it.
What were you resisting? Life as it is. This body as it is. This past as it was. This moment as it arrives. And suddenly, in the peace of meditation, nothing resists anymore. 🤍 That is the purest definition of peace.
I Am That Which Welcomes Everything
“I am that which welcomes everything.”
Here is the turning point. 🦋 The “I” changes its nature. It is no longer the small “I” that identifies with its story, its name, its body. It is the capital I, the paradoxical Non-Self, which no longer defines itself by what it possesses but by its infinite capacity for welcome.
I am that which welcomes. Everything. Difficult emotions. Radiant joys. Passing thoughts. Sensations in the body. The noise outside. The silence within. 💞 I am no longer a content. I am the space that contains. And space has no limits.
Totally Welcomed, Now
“I am totally welcomed, now.”
And then, a breathtaking reversal. ✨ Not only do you welcome everything — you are welcomed. By whom? By the very thing within you that welcomes. By life itself. By the vast silence that enfolds you during meditation.
Totally. Now. 🌟 MaHA would write at the end: “So much emotion. Gratitude.” Because being totally welcomed is an experience few human beings ever know in a lifetime. And when it comes, it brings tears. It makes you tremble. It releases whole layers of accumulated loneliness.
Disconnecting from the Territory
“We are going to very gently disconnect, our territory.”
Very gently. 🌿 The voice takes care. It knows that what has just happened is sacred, delicate, precious. You don’t come back abruptly from such a journey. You gently disconnect the territory — the bodily, mental, identity-bound territory you usually inhabit.
Noëlle would write: “gratitude for this silence”. 🙏 Yes. Gratitude for this silence that made the disconnection possible. Gratitude for this wordless space where the Non-Self could breathe freely.
Gratitude and Thank You
“Thank you, gratitude, thank you.”
Three words on a loop. 💫 Like a rosary. Like a mantra. Thank you — gratitude — thank you. Gratitude is the natural language of someone who has just been totally welcomed. It cannot be forced. It springs forth. It overflows.
Shakti Anne would write in the chat: “gratitude I love you I love us”. I love you. I love us. 🤍 From singular to plural. From me to us. That is the very movement of gratitude: it always widens the circle.
I Love You
“I love you, I love you, thank you.”
And to end — or to begin, for this is where everything starts again — these three words that change a life when they are truly spoken. 💖 I love you. To whom? To life. To oneself. To the other. To all the others. To no one in particular and to all that is.
Marie-Anne would write it in Creole: “MI AIME ZOT TOUTE” (I love you all). 🌟 Préma would reply: “Mi aime aou” (I love you). I love you in the language of the Island. I love you in the language of the soul. I love you in every language in the world, because love has only one language: that of the open heart.
And so this silent meditation comes to an end. Twelve sentences. An ocean of silence. And a heart — yours — that is no longer quite the same. 🦋
The 12 realizations of this meditation at a glance — click on a row to jump to the passage. ✨
| No. | Realization | In one sentence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Total Surrender to Now | “I am going to surrender totally, to now.” |
| 2 | Breathe In and Let Everything Go | “All there is to do is breathe in, deeply, and let everything go.” |
| 3 | Letting Go Continues After the Out-Breath | “And after the out-breath, it keeps on letting everything go.” |
| 4 | Relaxed Hands | “The hands are relaxed.” |
| 5 | Every Part of the Body Relaxed | “Every part of the body is relaxed.” |
| 6 | Every Part of the Body Lets Everything Go | “Every part of the body lets everything go.” |
| 7 | Nothing Resists Anymore | “Nothing resists anymore.” |
| 8 | I Am That Which Welcomes Everything | “I am that which welcomes everything.” |
| 9 | Totally Welcomed, Now | “I am totally welcomed, now.” |
| 10 | Disconnecting from the Territory | “We are going to very gently disconnect, our territory.” |
| 11 | Gratitude and Thank You | “Thank you, gratitude, thank you.” |
| 12 | I Love You | “I love you, I love you, thank you.” |
The Power of Sacred Habit
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. 🌿 Can you hear that rhythm? It isn’t a schedule. It is a backbone. An invisible architecture that keeps life standing when everything else wavers.
“We do yoga six days out of seven,” the voice reminds us during the session. Six days. Not a program. A sacred habit. 💫 And the difference between the two makes all the difference between a life that wears itself out and a life that reveals itself.
“Yes, a living, channeled yoga.”
A program wears you out. A sacred habit embodies you. A program demands willpower. A sacred habit simply asks you to choose to come back. Again. And again. Until it is no longer a choice, but a natural breathing of the soul. 🌱
Marie-Anne, on Reunion Island, writes as she arrives: “Gratitude to be together again to share this moment after a hard day.” Do you see? The hardness of the day doesn’t disappear. It is offered up. It becomes the very fuel of the practice. 🙏
For what six years of practice teach you is that what is alive is never a given. “For those of you who have been following for six years. Always something new,” the voice murmurs. Always. 🦋 Sacred habit is not the repetition of the same. It is faithfulness to an appointment where something new awaits you every time.
And that something new, today, is this almost entirely silent meditation that is about to carry us away.
Realization of the Yoga
Before the silent meditation, there was the fire of the body. 🔥 Anatman’s yoga is not gymnastics. It is a living channeling that prepares the temple to welcome silence.
It all begins with arms raised to the sky, shoulder blades stretching, and this founding instruction: “I welcome all my emotions, I welcome.” 💫 Do you hear it? It isn’t “I fight my emotions.” It isn’t “I manage them.” I welcome. And in that welcome, emotions do what they need to do: they pass through.
“The more tense, stiff and muscular I am, the more I am in the body, the more I feel everything that is happening.”
The sacred paradox of yoga: conscious tension opens the door to deep relaxation. 🌿 We rise onto tiptoe, calves taut, thighs contracted, abdominals engaged. And within that fully inhabited tension, something is released that slackness could never have reached.
Then comes the self-massage of the neck. And this extraordinary instruction: “I surrender to my inner masseur.” ✨ You let your own hands be guided by an intelligence that is not that of the mind. Your thumbs find exactly the points that are asking to be released. As if someone, inside, knew.
The posture of surrender arrives. Hands behind, head tilted back, spine stretched. And the mantra springs forth: “To life, I love you. I surrender to you. Gratitude for your perfection.” 💞 Gratitude for the perfection of life. Even when it burns. Even when it tears apart. Its perfection is not comfortable — it is right.
Next comes the squatting frog. Three minutes of breath of fire. Air in, air out through the nose. It heats. It cleanses. It prepares. 🔥 Then back on the floor, legs raised with the strap, and this instruction that sums up all of Anatman’s yoga: “I surrender completely.”
“If it shakes, it shakes. If it jolts, it jolts. If it laughs, it laughs.”
All the wisdom of the body lies in these three sentences. 🦋 You don’t decide what needs to come out. You let out whatever wants to come out. Kundalini tremors, jolts, unexpected laughter, tears flowing for no apparent reason. Everything is welcomed. Nothing is judged.
And to close the yoga, this deeply moving mantra: “Gratitude for having a very good relationship with myself. I love you, I love you. Gratitude, create my best scenario.” 🤍 Having a good relationship with yourself. That is the true fruit of yoga. Not flexibility. Not strength. Tenderness toward the being you inhabit.
From This Meditation Was Born the Theory of the Creation of Reality
When twelve sentences are enough to bring you back to the center of yourself, you begin to understand something essential: reality is created in the space of that which welcomes. ✨ Not through effort. Not through clenched willpower. Through total welcome of now.
Alexandre Anatman’s Theory of the Creation of Reality was born from these silent moments where nothing resists anymore. It teaches that your best scenario isn’t built — it is revealed when you stop defending your territory. 💫
To go deeper into this understanding and learn to consciously create your reality from the Non-Self, here is the central teaching that has emerged from these years of practice:
I am that which welcomes everything. I am totally welcomed, now.
All there is to do is breathe in, deeply, and let everything go.
The more tense, stiff and muscular I am, the more I am in the body, the more I feel everything that is happening.
Voices from the We
In this Odyssey, silence spoke. But the chat sang. Here are the voices of the We, the testimonies that weave the living web of our tribe. 🤍
The Sound and the First Breaths
Before the meditation begins, there is the arriving. Voices settling in, hearts greeting each other across the oceans.
- “Good evening everyone, gratitude to be together again to share this moment after a hard day. Sending you thousands of hugs from Reunion Island” — Marie-Anne
- “The sound is perfect, kisses” — Marie-Anne
- “Hi 😊” — Préma
- “hello everyone” — Jean-Pierre
- “hi tribe” — Shakti Anne
- “Hello 🙏” — MaHA
Yoga and the Mantras of the Heart
During the body practice, the chat becomes a choir. The “I love you”s fly, languages blend. The Creole of Reunion meets the French of the mainland in one shared celebration.
“Mi aime aou ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥” — Préma
- “Hi my friend, I love you” — Marie-Anne
- “MI AIME A OU” — Marie-Anne
- “I LOVE YOU ALL WITH A BIG HEART FULL OF LOVE” — Marie-Anne
- “MI AIME ZOT TOUTE Soft hugs” — Marie-Anne
- “Gratitude for these beautiful frequencies of love” — Marie-Anne
- “I’m sending a shower of roses into your lives” — Marie-Anne
- “Om Ram Sri Ram Jai Jai Ram Sitaram 🎊🔥💛” — Préma
- “Beautiful ALL blessING” — Acnaib
Meditation and Inhabited Silence
And then comes the almost wordless meditation. In this silence, the few messages that spring up resonate with tenfold power. Every word is a diamond.
“Gratitude ❤️ for this grounding, powerful, unifying breath…. 🫶💫” — Dona
“gratitude for this silence” — Noëlle
- “thank you for the unexpected laughter too, love you” — Sylviane
- “Gratitude..love youuuu” — Ramda
- “THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU” — Sylviane
Farewells and Final Gratitude
At the end, hearts overflow. Emotion overflows. The last messages are mutual blessings, thanks, bonds growing stronger.
“So much emotion. Gratitude 💖💞🙏” — MaHA
- “Gratitude 🙏” — Sandrine
- “gratitude I love you I love us” — Shakti Anne
- “gratitude to my dragoness” — Shakti Anne
- “gratitude for being with my friend Mathilde” — Shakti Anne
- “Thank you so much for your LOVE” — Marie-Anne
Themes: surrender · silence · non-self · gratitude · welcome · presence · letting go · channeled yoga
This article was originally written in French: Comment s’abandonner totalement à maintenant : 12 clés d’une méditation silencieuse — S11E16
