Graduate Stories

We all hope to leave a legacy. We want our life to be a gift to our family, to people we care about, and our larger community. We want to make a difference.

Nine Gates Graduates impact our world in inspiring and differentiated ways. Their transformation at the individual level often involves struggle as well as breakthroughs. Collectively they demonstrate a determined movement from living unconsciously to learning to live awake. What is your journey and your unique gift to offer?

Three unique women each rediscovers her authentic self, offering her life in service.

Discover how three unique women pursue paths of self- realization, gaining increasing ability to contribute more of themselves in loving service to the world. Although through different expressions such as energetic healing, teaching, and even equine therapy, they share a journey of becoming humbly more.

Ann

Growing up in England, Ann’s family encouraged her innate capabilities towards intellectual pursuits. Her success flourished as she received acclaimed high-level degrees and generated impactful work for society. Yet, something was missing for Ann. Her intuition poked at her, indicating a more meaningful life was possible. As she faced her own challenges and resistance from those around her, she learned she didn’t have to separate the world of traditional academia from spiritual heart-led approaches. Her journey exposes a way of integrating these seemingly disparate worlds, ultimately building bridges between science and spirit and gaining respect in the process.

Tejpal

When Tejpal was young, her inner-guidance forewarned that without a radical search for her own soul-deep truth, she could repeat old familial patterns or completely lose her self. Eventually she leapt into an interior journey of great distance and determination ~ a journey destined to uncover her greatest gifts. As a teacher and intuitive energy healer, leader in kundalini practices, a renowned writer, public speaker, Tejpal invites individuals into their own healing experiences of self-realization.

Megan

Born a high sensitive, Megan knew she wanted to help ease the pain and suffering of others. Untrained as an empath, she often felt overwhelmed in the midst of other people’s emotional struggles. With training, she learned she could center herself and ground into something deep within, allowing her to remain present within her heightened sensitivity. Today, in her clinical work as a nurse practitioner and a teacher, Megan integrates bioenergetics, traditional medicine, and her deep, resonate empathy into a holistic approach to healing body, mind and soul.

Discover how Karen’s life and her unwavering spirit opened her heart to the experience of self-love.

An advocate for mind, body, spirit integration as a restorative path to wholeness and health, Karen passionately works for the lessening of human suffering. A tireless visionary, she works to bridge the human desire for wholeness into our medical delivery systems – to instill a holistic approach to well-being and optimal health of both the systems and the human beings they serve. She creates a force for transformation. Discover how Karen’s life and her unwavering spirit led her to the heart-opening experience of self-love. As a child, Karen grew up quick and fearless. Her independence led her into marriage and creating her own family at a young age. As she continued into adulthood she was met with a dying husband, confusion at what she truly wanted as well as a painful divorce. Karen rose to the challenge of listening to the conflict inside and began seeking pathways to break free of old patterns and find her place in the world. With gratitude for the role Nine Gates played in her transformation, today Karen serves as a facilitator to enable other people in experiencing their own ways to awakening.

When Loren was young he often felt trapped from expressing his deeper self. As his transformative process unfolded, he learned how to bring his true self into his life.

As a resident of San Francisco, CA, Loren works as an executive manager for a corporate retailer. A co-worker’s life-changing leap of faith, after attending Mystery School, enticed Loren into his own transformative experience of possibility. With more courage required than in any leadership decision, he turned toward a life he had always longed to know. He discovered that life. Loren reveals his ability to lead consciously, with insight and compassion within executive level work. Loren has always been ambitious. Throughout his life, he continued to accomplish many milestones of culturally defined success. This involved a thriving executive career. Yet, as Loren began to explore deep within his inner self, he discovered that many forms of his creative expressions and heartfelt leadership skills were waiting to be unleashed. Through his journey, inclusive of the transformative container of Nine Gates, Loren slowly began to bring these aspects of himself to life, combining love with leadership and deeper connections with family.

Tom transforms the quality of life by embracing stillness, welcoming quietness and shifting from mind into heart-centered leadership of family and life.

A long-time resident of Portland, Oregon,Tom served as Executive Director of Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Oregon and Southwest Washington [RMHC®]) for 15 years. In the spring of 2014, he sold his home and set out on a journey through America. Forty-eight blogs and 26,000 miles later, he’s now working on a book about the trip – and serving as a consultant to not-for-profit

Growing up, Tom was referred to as “The Golden Boy” because he wanted things to be done perfectly. His own internal transformation taught him that perfection is an underlying truth always waiting for recognition.

Throughout his early career, Tom pursued intellectually-driven leadership. Yet, despite continued success as a renowned executive and a close knit family, he still felt there was a more meaningful way of life out there for him. Tom’s explorations led him to Mystery School in the midst of an RV, cross-country road trip determined to find what the God of human experiences means to people. Through these journeys, Tom met the God of human experiences inside his own heart and life.