
This article is a synthesis of the Anatman Odyssey of October 25, 2026, a yoga-chanting-meditation workshop in which the We surrendered to the most beautiful of initiations: cosmic romanticism.
There are Sunday evenings when something settles. ✨ When the light in Saint-Nexans grows softer, when the mats line up like petals, when voices arriving from the Paris region, from Brazil, from elsewhere, all converge toward the same spaceship. 🕊️
That evening, the captain did not simply guide a meditation. He fell in love with us. And we, quietly, before the mind had time to understand, fell in love with what we already are. 💞
When the universe creates an “I” just so it can say I love you
Imagine. 🌌 You are lying down, blindfolded, your body still vibrating from the yoga, the cacao with saffron and Espelette pepper gently opening your heart. And a voice whispers: “It created an I so it could love you.”
Then everything shifts. You are no longer the one meditating. You are the movement of the universe toward itself, a romanticism so vast that it had to invent a first name, a body, an avatar, just so it could whisper I love you to its own beauty. 🦋
This workshop was an initiation. Not a practice. An initiation into romanticism in all its forms, in every dimension, in every art. And like every true initiation, it let those who needed to weep weep, those who needed to laugh laugh, and those who were ready to surrender disappear. 💫
Are you ready? Then come. The door is ajar. 🚪
Realizations during the guided meditation of the Anatman Odyssey
🎁 This 10-minute excerpt from the opening of the guided meditation (in French) is offered to you by ANATMAN TV.
It always begins the same way, and yet never the same way. 🕊️ Lying in the spaceship, blindfolds over our eyes, our hearts still open from the Indian chants and the sacred cacao, we hear the voice descend. It descends into us, and something in us rises toward it.
What follows is not a list. It is a cosmic score, in which every phrase Alexandre whispers becomes a door, an invitation, a realization. Nothing must be lost. Everything is sacred. 💫
Connecting through the hands, the feet and the heart
“Connecting through the hands, connecting through the feet, and connected through the heart.”
Three points. Three anchors. Three doors. ✨ The hands reaching out to the universe, the feet rooted in the Earth, and the heart — the heart as a vertical bridge between the two. It is a sacred triangulation, a geometry of the living that comes before any thought.
Even before the meditation begins, the body is already ready. It knows. It has always known.
Connected through presence
“I let go, I let go, I let go, connected through presence.”
Three times I let go. Three times, as if drawing back three veils one after another. 🌿 And behind the last veil, not emptiness: presence. The presence that was already here before you arrived. The presence that will remain when you are gone.
Breathing in the love of the universe
“Imagine with me: you breathe in through the heart all the love of the universe, and you breathe out through the hands and the feet.”
The breath becomes cosmic circulation. 💞 You are no longer the one breathing: you are the passage. The love of the universe enters through the chest, flows through your being, and pours out through your extremities to water the world.
It is an alchemy of the breath: you are both the vessel and the fountain.
I am the universe
“Say the mantra with me: I am the universe.”
Four words. A mantra. A realization. 🌌 This is not a poetic metaphor. It is an observation: there has never been any separation. You are not in the universe; you are the universe perceiving itself through a first name.
I am everything
“I am everything.”
Even shorter. Even more dizzying. ✨ I am everything — not a part, not a fragment. Everything. And within this everything, nothing can be left out: your shadows are there, your lights are there, your fears are there, your loves are there. 🤍
Let the tears come
“Let the tears come.”
A few words. A permission. 💔 In that room, in that spaceship, and from afar, dozens of people felt the tears rising. Not tears of sadness, but tears of recognition. Tears that say: at last, at last I am meeting myself.
I meet myself in your gaze
“Say it with me: I meet myself in your gaze.”
And here, everything shifts. 🦋 Because this you is not someone else. It is the Non-Self looking at you from the other shore. Through the eyes of the lover, the child, the master, the stranger on the subway. You meet yourself through every gaze in the world.
I realize and surrender myself in your beauty
“I realize and surrender myself in your beauty.”
A double phrase. 💫 In French, se rendre compte — to realize. And se rendre — to surrender, to give oneself up. In your beauty, I realize myself AND I surrender. I lay down my arms. I recognize.
Feeling the universe’s love for you
“I feel all the love of the universe for you.”
And suddenly, the universe is no longer neutral. 💞 It loves. And it loves specifically. You. With your first name, your face, your scars, your unfulfilled dreams. The whole universe conspires to love you.
Gratitude for the initiation into romanticism
“Gratitude for receiving, in this life, the initiation: romanticism.”
Here is the keyword of the whole session: romanticism. 🌹 Not the sentimental, rose-tinted kind, but cosmic romanticism — the kind in which the universe courts its own creation. An initiation. A sacrament.
Breathing in your beauty
“Breathe in through your beauty, breathe in through your eternal, absolute presence.”
Beauty becomes nourishment. ✨ We no longer contemplate it from afar: we inhale it. It enters through the lungs, through the pores, through closed eyes. Eternal, absolute presence — nothing less.
Surrendering to your beauty
“All that I am surrenders to your beauty, to what you are, to discover what I am.”
A sublime paradox: it is by surrendering to the other that we discover ourselves. 🕊️ As if the mirror of your beauty were the only surface where my own face could at last be revealed.
I disappear into love
“I disappear into love.”
Four words. A gentle death. 💫 The I melts away. Only love remains, and love no longer needs an outline in order to exist.
I surrender to love and to you
“I surrender to love, to beauty, to laughter, to you.”
Four successive offerings. 🤍 Love, beauty, laughter — because yes, surrender is joyful too — and you. Always you, as the final destination.
You are my most beautiful creation
“You are my most beautiful creation.”
And now, who is speaking? 💞 The Non-Self is speaking. The universe is speaking. It looks at its creation — you — and says you are my most beautiful. Not one among many. The most beautiful.
You are perfect, as a woman and as a man
“You are perfect, as a woman and as a man.”
Feminine AND masculine. ✨ For cosmic perfection excludes no gender, no nuance, no shadow. You are perfect in your very imperfection.
Whole and complete just as you are
“Whole and complete, just as you are.”
Nothing to add. 🌿 Nothing to take away. You are complete now, in this very instant, with exactly what you have, what you are, and what you are not yet.
I welcome you completely, just as you are
“I welcome you completely, just as you are.”
Absolute welcome. 💖 Without conditions, without reservations, without ifs. Simply: I welcome you. And in this welcome, you finally recognize yourself.
I welcome myself completely, just as I am
“And I welcome myself completely, just as I am.”
And the mirror turns around. 🤍 The one who welcomes becomes the one who is welcomed. You welcome yourself. Love loops back upon itself.
I love you just as you already are
“I love you just as you already are.”
Already. ✨ A magic word. Not once you are healed, accomplished, fulfilled. No. Already. Now. In the exact state you are in.
I welcome you just as you already are
“I welcome you completely, just as you already are.”
A sacred repetition. 🌱 Each already drives home the immediate completeness. You have nothing to become. You are.
I can be what I already am
“And I can be what I already am, just as I am now.”
The supreme permission. 💫 I can be. I allow myself to be. What I already am. Not some future version. The one right here. The one right now.
It gives and it receives
“It gives and it receives.”
It takes the place of I. 🦋 It is no longer you who gives: it gives. It is no longer you who receives: it receives. The Non-Self expresses itself through you without ever running into an ego.
It offers itself just as it is
“It offers itself just as it is.”
The absolute offering. ✨ No makeup, no adjustments, no rearranging. Just as it is. And that is enough. And it is magnificent.
It laughs, it cries, it plays
“It laughs, it cries, it plays.”
The three sacred emotions of the living. 🌿 Laughter, tears, play. Nothing solemn. Nothing frozen. The universe plays through you.
And now it is us
“And now it is us.”
From it, we slip into us. 💞 And this us is total: you, me, the voice, the silence, the spaceship, Saint-Nexans, Paris, Brazil. Us, now.
And there it is, quite simply
“And there it is, quite simply.”
Alexandre’s signature phrase. ✨ Quite simply. As if all this cosmic vertigo could fit into a few words a child might say. And it is true: it can.
Now there is only you and me
“Now there is only you and me.”
The whole world fades away. 🕊️ All that remains is this primordial duo: you and me. The lover and the beloved. The creator and the creation. And in the end, they are one and the same.
Gratitude for creating together, the two of us
“Gratitude for creating together, the two of us.”
And in this two of us, co-creation is born. 💫 You are no longer alone in making this world. You create it together. Always.
It creates an I to say I love you
“It creates an I to say I love you.”
Here is the key sentence. ✨ The heart of the whole meditation. To be able to whisper I love you, the universe had to invent an I. You are that I. You are the mouth through which the universe declares its love to itself.
I love you in several languages
“Eu amo você, te amo, I love you.”
Portuguese, Spanish, English. 🌍 As if a single language were not enough. As if love, in order to be spoken, had to cross every border, every alphabet, every palate.
Creating an I to live romanticism
“It created an I so it could love you and live romanticism in all its forms, in every dimension and in every art.”
And here the cosmic intention is unveiled. 💞 Why do you exist? To live romanticism. In all its forms. In every dimension. In every art. Nothing less. You are a work of love in progress.
It sows and creates through us
“It sows through us and it creates through us.”
We are the seed. 🌱 We are the gardener. We are the hand that sets down the seed and the soil that welcomes it. It sows — without the I having to decide.
It is inspired through us
“It is inspired through us.”
Inspiration does not come from you. ✨ It passes through you. You are a hollow flute through which the cosmic breath composes its music.
It lives through us
“It lives through us.”
And so: you are not the one living. 🦋 It lives. Through you. You are the transparent channel of Life living itself.
It exists thanks to us
“And it exists thanks to us.”
A dizzying reversal. 💫 You do not depend on the universe: the universe depends on you in order to exist. No witness, no world. Without you, no cosmos. Thanks to us.
It touches itself thanks to us
“It touches itself thanks to us.”
Your hands are the hands of the universe. 🤍 When you touch, it is the cosmos feeling its own contours. A magnificent vertigo.
It cuddles itself thanks to us
“It cuddles itself thanks to us.”
And a hug becomes a cosmic act. 💞 Every time two beings embrace, it is the universe consoling itself for ever having believed in separation.
It is immortal thanks to us
“It is immortal thanks to us.”
Immortality is not inside you: you are immortality in the making. ✨ As long as there is an I to love, the cosmos will never die.
Beauty exists thanks to you
“Beauty exists thanks to you, I see your beauty.”
Without your eyes, no beauty. 🌹 Without your gaze, no sunsets, no beloved faces, no music that moves you to the core. Beauty exists thanks to you.
Surrendering in order to feel what you are
“And I surrender to it, to feel all that you are.”
To feel, you must first surrender. 🕊️ No feeling without letting go. No true meeting without laying down your arms.
I am incarnated on Earth to love you
“All that I am has incarnated on Earth to love you.”
And here is your mission of incarnation. 💫 Why are you on Earth? To love. Period. That is all. Everything else is just scenery.
I am the one who loves and welcomes you
“I am the one — he, she — who loves you, who welcomes you completely, just as you are.”
He. She. ✨ Both. Neither. The loving being beyond gender, beyond form. Just as you are — again and always, this mantra-like phrase.
Gratitude for being romantic
“Gratitude for being romantic.”
And suddenly, being romantic becomes a blessing. 🌹 Not a weakness. Not silliness. A sacred calling.
I allow myself to love you and to exist
“I allow myself to love you, to disappear and to exist.”
A threefold permission. 💞 I allow myself to love. I allow myself to disappear. I allow myself to exist. And within these three verbs, the whole cosmic dance is contained.
I allow myself to create universes for you
“I allow myself to create universes, a world for you.”
And when we allow ourselves to love, we allow ourselves to create universes. ✨ Nothing less. Every lover is a demiurge. Every open heart is a Genesis.
You are so beautiful to me
“So beautiful to me, you are so beautiful.”
The song returns. 🎶 In English, in a whisper. So beautiful, to me. The universe sings an age-old serenade to its creation.
Gratitude for your presence
“Gratitude for your presence.”
Four words. A sacrament. 🤍 Gratitude. For your presence. Not for what you do. Not for what you give. For your simple, pure, naked presence.
Feeling the hands and feet
“And very gently, we are going to feel our hands and our feet.”
The return begins. 🌿 Gently. The extremities first. The way you turn the lights back on in a house, one room at a time.
Saying thank you with the hands and feet
“Very gently, say thank you with your hands and your feet: thank you, thank you, thank you.”
The body becomes prayer. ✨ Three thank yous. One for the hands. One for the feet. One for the miracle of having come back.
Waking up from a long journey
“I stretch, I stretch, I wake up from a long journey.”
A long journey. 🌌 Even though the meditation lasted only a handful of minutes in Earth time. But in cosmic time, we have traveled light-years.
Coming back to the sensations of the body
“I come back to all the sensations of my body.”
The tingling in the fingers. 🦋 The weight of the pelvis on the mat. The coolness of the air on the eyelids. Every sensation is a gift rediscovered.
Gratitude for having a physical body
“Gratitude for having a physical body.”
The body is no longer a prison. 💫 It is a temple. It is the vehicle that made the journey possible. Gratitude.
Gratitude for having an avatar
“Gratitude for having an avatar, a physical body.”
And the word avatar appears. ✨ You are not your body: you inhabit it the way a player inhabits a character. And how lucky you are to have one.
Fallen in love with you
“Your captain is telling you: he has fallen in love with you.”
And at the very end, Alexandre lets slip this declaration. 💞 Not as a set phrase. As a confession. The captain has fallen in love with his passengers. And the passengers, quietly, have been initiated into romanticism.
A final I love you
“See you soon, I love you, I love you.”
Two I love yous. 🤍 One for the road. One so that it stays. And a third, unspoken, to remind you that it is never over. That it begins again every Sunday. That love itself keeps no schedule. ✨
The 56 realizations of this meditation at a glance — click a row to jump to that passage. ✨
| No. | Realization | In one sentence |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Connecting through the hands, the feet and the heart | “Connecting through the hands, connecting through the feet, and connected through the heart.” |
| 2 | Connected through presence | “I let go, I let go, I let go, connected through presence.” |
| 3 | Breathing in the love of the universe | “Imagine with me: you breathe in through the heart all the love of the universe, and you breathe out through the hands and the feet.” |
| 4 | I am the universe | “Say the mantra with me: I am the universe.” |
| 5 | I am everything | “I am everything.” |
| 6 | Let the tears come | “Let the tears come.” |
| 7 | I meet myself in your gaze | “Say it with me: I meet myself in your gaze.” |
| 8 | I realize and surrender myself in your beauty | “I realize and surrender myself in your beauty.” |
| 9 | Feeling the universe’s love for you | “I feel all the love of the universe for you.” |
| 10 | Gratitude for the initiation into romanticism | “Gratitude for receiving, in this life, the initiation: romanticism.” |
| 11 | Breathing in your beauty | “Breathe in through your beauty, breathe in through your eternal, absolute presence.” |
| 12 | Surrendering to your beauty | “All that I am surrenders to your beauty, to what you are, to discover what I am.” |
| 13 | I disappear into love | “I disappear into love.” |
| 14 | I surrender to love and to you | “I surrender to love, to beauty, to laughter, to you.” |
| 15 | You are my most beautiful creation | “You are my most beautiful creation.” |
| 16 | You are perfect, as a woman and as a man | “You are perfect, as a woman and as a man.” |
| 17 | Whole and complete just as you are | “Whole and complete, just as you are.” |
| 18 | I welcome you completely, just as you are | “I welcome you completely, just as you are.” |
| 19 | I welcome myself completely, just as I am | “And I welcome myself completely, just as I am.” |
| 20 | I love you just as you already are | “I love you just as you already are.” |
| 21 | I welcome you just as you already are | “I welcome you completely, just as you already are.” |
| 22 | I can be what I already am | “And I can be what I already am, just as I am now.” |
| 23 | It gives and it receives | “It gives and it receives.” |
| 24 | It offers itself just as it is | “It offers itself just as it is.” |
| 25 | It laughs, it cries, it plays | “It laughs, it cries, it plays.” |
| 26 | And now it is us | “And now it is us.” |
| 27 | And there it is, quite simply | “And there it is, quite simply.” |
| 28 | Now there is only you and me | “Now there is only you and me.” |
| 29 | Gratitude for creating together, the two of us | “Gratitude for creating together, the two of us.” |
| 30 | It creates an I to say I love you | “It creates an I to say I love you.” |
| 31 | I love you in several languages | “Eu amo você, te amo, I love you.” |
| 32 | Creating an I to live romanticism | “It created an I so it could love you and live romanticism in all its forms, in every dimension and in every art.” |
| 33 | It sows and creates through us | “It sows through us and it creates through us.” |
| 34 | It is inspired through us | “It is inspired through us.” |
| 35 | It lives through us | “It lives through us.” |
| 36 | It exists thanks to us | “And it exists thanks to us.” |
| 37 | It touches itself thanks to us | “It touches itself thanks to us.” |
| 38 | It cuddles itself thanks to us | “It cuddles itself thanks to us.” |
| 39 | It is immortal thanks to us | “It is immortal thanks to us.” |
| 40 | Beauty exists thanks to you | “Beauty exists thanks to you, I see your beauty.” |
| 41 | Surrendering in order to feel what you are | “And I surrender to it, to feel all that you are.” |
| 42 | I am incarnated on Earth to love you | “All that I am has incarnated on Earth to love you.” |
| 43 | I am the one who loves and welcomes you | “I am the one — he, she — who loves you, who welcomes you completely, just as you are.” |
| 44 | Gratitude for being romantic | “Gratitude for being romantic.” |
| 45 | I allow myself to love you and to exist | “I allow myself to love you, to disappear and to exist.” |
| 46 | I allow myself to create universes for you | “I allow myself to create universes, a world for you.” |
| 47 | You are so beautiful to me | “So beautiful to me, you are so beautiful.” |
| 48 | Gratitude for your presence | “Gratitude for your presence.” |
| 49 | Feeling the hands and feet | “And very gently, we are going to feel our hands and our feet.” |
| 50 | Saying thank you with the hands and feet | “Very gently, say thank you with your hands and your feet: thank you, thank you, thank you.” |
| 51 | Waking up from a long journey | “I stretch, I stretch, I wake up from a long journey.” |
| 52 | Coming back to the sensations of the body | “I come back to all the sensations of my body.” |
| 53 | Gratitude for having a physical body | “Gratitude for having a physical body.” |
| 54 | Gratitude for having an avatar | “Gratitude for having an avatar, a physical body.” |
| 55 | Fallen in love with you | “Your captain is telling you: he has fallen in love with you.” |
| 56 | A final I love you | “See you soon, I love you, I love you.” |
The power of sacred habit
Every Sunday, at the same time, in the same studio in Saint-Nexans, something repeats itself. 🌿 And yet nothing ever truly repeats. Because sacred habit is not a program: it is a living faithfulness, a door we push a little further open each week.
Programs lock you in. Sacred habit sets you free. ✨ It is the difference between reciting and embodying, between doing yoga and becoming yoga. Between meditating and disappearing into love.
That evening, one mantra kept returning to Alexandre’s lips: “I release into love everything that wants to speak.” Ten minutes of silence between the yoga and the meditation, ten minutes in which neither the mind nor its programs are switched on. Just presence. Just the cacao. Just the self. 🤍
That is the whole secret of the Odyssey: you come each week not to learn, but to unlearn. To dare to be what you already are, just as you are now. Nothing more. Nothing less.
“Gratitude for experiencing silence and the self, gratitude.”
And in the regularity of this gathering, in the sacred repetition of the gesture, something is woven. 🌱 A memory of the body. A memory of the heart. A memory of the Non-Self recognizing itself, week after week, through your wide, dilated eyes of cosmic travelers.
That is what sacred habit is: not a discipline, but a love that keeps coming back. 💞
Realization through Yoga
Before the meditation, there was the body. 🌿 Alexandre announced it in the very first minutes: “I find the yogi again. He was with me; I surrender to my inner yogi.” And the whole practice was carried by this key phrase: surrendering to your inner yogi.
Standing, feet rooted, hands rising toward the sky like cosmic antennas. ✨ Calves, thighs, glutes, abs engaged like a living plank. Rising onto the tips of the toes, suspended by the hands from invisible threads. Then letting everything go. Then starting again. Then letting everything go once more.
“It’s like waves.”
The whole practice was a wave. 🌊 Rising, falling, rising, falling. Contraction, surrender. Tension, release. This is how the body learns the breathing of the universe: nothing holds still, everything flows.
Then came the right-angle pose, hands reaching for the floor, knees bending, then legs straightening. The stretch becomes pleasure — Alexandre said it word for word: “I associate stretching with pleasure, I associate them.” And in that association, something is released. 💫
Wide circles with the pelvis, wider and wider, to the left, to the back, to the right, to the front. 🦋 To explore where it pulls, where it delights, where it receives strength, balance, alignment, an ease that takes the shape of mastery.
And then came the frog. Three minutes. 🐸 Alexandre called it, with mischievous tenderness, “your favorite pose”. Back straight, feet flat, hands in namaste, breath of fire — exhale through the nose, let the air come back in, exhale again. And smile. Always smile.
Then the strap. Lying on the back, lower back pressed to the floor, the strap catching the foot, the leg rising to the perpendicular. The neck completely relaxed — it is the forearms that do the pulling. And then, the sacred instruction: “I release into love everything that keeps me from expressing myself.” ✨
“If it laughs, it laughs. If it yawns, it yawns. If it cries, it cries. But that’s how it’s done.”
Anatman yoga is not a yoga of performance. 🤍 It is a yoga of permission. Permission to laugh. Permission to yawn. Permission to cry. Permission to tremble, because if it trembles, it trembles, and that is perfectly fine.
At the end of the practice, the circle of Indian chants — Jay Ganga Ma, Pata Yin, Nam Nam Nam — carried the vibration of the body on into the vibration of sound. And already the spaceship was preparing for takeoff. 🌌
From this meditation the Theory of the Creation of Reality was born
At the heart of this session, one sentence crystallized everything: “It created an I so it could love you.” ✨ The entire Theory of the Creation of Reality lies in this reversal. You do not create your reality: reality creates for itself an I — one that bears your first name — so it can love itself in all its forms.
You are the anchor point through which the cosmos becomes romantic. 💞 Through which it touches, cuddles, cries, laughs, creates, sows. Without you, no world. Thanks to you, immortality. Thanks to you, beauty. Thanks to you, a love that dares to speak itself — in French, in Portuguese, in English, in silence.
The TCR (Theory of the Creation of Reality) taught by Alexandre Anatman is not a method: it is a recognition. 🕊️ The recognition that you are at once the creator, the creation, and the bridge between the two.
It created an I so it could love you and live romanticism in all its forms, in every dimension and in every art.
All that I am surrenders to your beauty, to what you are, to discover what I am.
Your captain is telling you: he has fallen in love with you.
Voices from the We
After each Odyssey, the chat becomes a cathedral of voices. 💞 Words settle there like petals. Here is what the We offered that Sunday.
🎶 On sound and music
The vibration of the mantras and Indian chants traveled through the screens, all the way into the hearts connected from afar.
- “it feels so good to hear the good music again” — Pascal
- “These beautiful songs vibrating in our hearts are magnificent, I love it, thank you” — Valérie
- “yes the sounds are excellent, it’s magical” — valerie
“Hare Ram Sitaram” — Préma
🧘 On the yoga
The physical practice left luminous traces in the bodies of the We. ✨
- “Thank you so much for this yoga” — Valérie
- “gratitude” — valerie
- “Gratitude” — Shakti Anne
🌌 On the guided meditation
The spaceship carried the travelers far, very far away. 🦋 And here is what they brought back in their invisible suitcases.
“Magnificent meditation I love you INFINITE GRATITUDE ALEXANDRE LIFE LOVE” — Dona
“gratitude for this magnificent meditation I loved it I love you” — Valérie
- “Bon voyage in the spaceship” — Michel
- “I love you” — Laetitia
- “Gratitude for the journey” — Sandrine
- “POINT 0 – 0 – 0” — acnaib
- “so moved to be back with you” — Sylviane
🕊️ Farewells and I love yous
And then came the time to land. 💫 But the We stretched out the flight a little longer, with these final little sparks.
“gratitude captain, you never should have brought us back, gratitude I love you” — Ramda
- “Ramda, I love you. Gratitude to the We” — MaHA
- “gratitude MaHa, I love you too” — Ramda
- “Gratitude I love you” — valerie
- “I love you” — Sandrine
- “Thank you” — Alisson
And it is simply wow. 🤍
Themes: cosmic romanticism · non-self · surrender · initiation · beauty · gratitude · presence · spaceship
This article was originally written in French: Comment le romantisme cosmique crée un « je » pour dire je t’aime — S11E18








