A free live session with Yama of DevaYama
The Art of Awareness: The discipline of turning awareness into action
Why moments of clarity fade once everyday life takes over, and a simple daily practice to recognize your patterns and build the discipline to act on what you know. A free live session with Yama of DevaYama.
By the end of this session, you'll understand why your clearest insights slip away after a few weeks, and you'll leave with a practice small enough to begin tomorrow morning.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 19:30 to 21:00 (CET), live online, free
The art of awareness in 30 seconds
You know what needs to change. You've seen it clearly. So why do you keep falling back into the same patterns?
Because knowing something is not the same as living it.
A powerful insight can show you what is true, but without awareness in everyday life, that clarity can quietly fade.
The Art of Awareness is about turning what you know into how you live, one small choice at a time. Not by forcing yourself to change, but by learning to notice, return, and act.
In this free live session on October 27, I'll show you how to make that practice part of ordinary life.
Why do insights fade after a retreat or ceremony?
You come home from a retreat, a ceremony, or a conversation that changed something. For a few days, everything is clear. You know what matters. You know what you want to do differently.
Three weeks later, the old rhythm has quietly taken over again. The inbox, the to-do list, the same reactions in the same moments. The clarity you felt so strongly has turned into a memory.
Perhaps you've tried to hold on to it with routines, journals, a morning practice you kept up for eleven days. And somewhere a quiet voice says: I just don't have the discipline.
"Books helped me to know with the mind, and therapy helped for only a while."
How can discipline feel like care instead of pressure?
Imagine that an insight stays alive in your week. Not because you push yourself harder, but because you've learned how to come back to it in the small moments that happen anyway: putting the kettle on, opening your laptop, the breath before you answer someone.
That is what this free session is for. We look at what makes awareness fade, and we practice together, live, a simple way of returning.
What is the art of awareness?
Short answer: it is the practice of noticing when you've drifted away from what you know, gently coming back without judging yourself for having drifted, and letting that knowing guide one small action.
Most of us think of awareness as something we either have or lack. In my experience, after years of ceremony, dieta and guiding people through the Medicine Path, it works more like a path through the forest. It stays open because we keep walking it.
Awareness is not always comfortable. Once you see a pattern clearly, you can't really unsee it. That is where awareness becomes responsibility. I see it. So what am I going to do with what I see?
The moment of clarity is a gift. The discipline is what you do on the Monday after. And the forgetting is not failure. Every time you notice you've drifted and come back, you are doing the practice.
Research on habits points in the same direction. In a well-known study from University College London, published in the European Journal of Social Psychology (Lally et al., 2010), it took participants on average 66 days for a new daily behaviour to become automatic, and missing a day now and then did not undo the process. Coming back mattered more than never slipping.
In this session, you'll discover why insight fades even when it was real. You'll learn how discipline can come from care instead of pressure. And you'll leave with one small practice of returning that fits into the day you already have.
Yes, I want to join
Who is Yama?
I'm Yama, founder of DevaYama and Kolibri Heart Medicine. I'm a ceremonial facilitator, plant medicine singer and teacher, and a lifelong student. For 15 years I have been learning from indigenous teachers and medicine people, among them the Huni Kuin and Yawanawá in the Amazon, and guiding dietas in Peru.
For a long time, I hated discipline. It felt like a strict voice from the outside telling me what to do, and I thought having no structure was freedom. But I was more lost than free. Much of the discipline in my life had been imposed on me from the outside.
When I finally reached the point where I really needed things to change, I discovered a very different kind of discipline, one that comes from inside: the discipline of awareness. Keeping myself accountable for what I knew to be true, and practising what I knew supported me, instead of ignoring it or fighting it. That changed my life profoundly.
It taught me something simple: awareness only becomes transformation when we live what we know. I continue to learn this, every season. This session is what I've come to understand so far.
"Yama consistently coaches and challenges you in an authentic and loving way, with assignments and feedback, which keeps you aware of yourself and your own transformation."
She also dares to be vulnerable in this process, sharing insights drawn from her own experiences and real-life examples.
"Working on it for the rest of my life, and that's okay for me."
It feels welcome, and it does not feel like something I must do, but something I want to do.
What will you take away from this session?
- Clarity about why moments of insight fade, even when they were real
- A different relationship with the word discipline, one that feels like coming home rather than pushing
- A one-minute practice of returning that you can start tomorrow morning
- A taste of what it's like to be guided by Yama, without any obligation
What does the session look like?
- Live on Zoom, 90 minutes, with real interaction, not a recorded pitch
- Yama opens with a song and a short meditation
- A practice we do together, live, so you feel how it works instead of only hearing about it
- A live coaching moment: Yama works with one participant on a question submitted beforehand
- Space for your questions at the end
- For those who want to go deeper afterwards, an honest look at what that could look like, without any pressure to decide
This session stands on its own. If you joined Your Inner Compass, you'll notice it picks up where we left off: your compass shows you what wants to grow, and the art of awareness is how you keep walking toward it.
This webinar is free.
Save my free spotTuesday, October 27, 2026, 19:30 to 21:00 (CET), live online on Zoom.
Frequently asked questions
What is the art of awareness?
The practice of turning what you already know is true into how you live, one small choice at a time. It is less about willpower and more about noticing when you've drifted, returning without judgement, and taking the next small step from there.
Why do insights fade after a retreat or ceremony?
Because daily life has a strong rhythm of its own. An insight needs a small, repeated practice to become part of that rhythm. Without it, the old patterns quietly take over again, even when the insight was real.
Why do I keep falling back into the same patterns, even when I know better?
Because knowing something is not the same as living it. A powerful insight can show you what is true, but without awareness in everyday life, that clarity can quietly fade. The art of awareness is the practice of noticing when you've drifted, returning, and taking one small action from what you know.
Who is this free session for?
For anyone who has had real moments of insight, through ceremony, retreats, therapy or inner work, and notices how hard it is to keep them alive in daily life. No prior experience with ceremony or plant medicine is needed.
When and where does it take place?
On Tuesday, October 27, 2026, from 19:30 to 21:00 CET, live online via Zoom. You receive the link by email after registering.
Do I need to have joined Your Inner Compass?
No. This session stands on its own. If you were there, it builds on what we explored together.
I'm not a disciplined person. Is this for me?
Especially then. This session is not about more willpower or stricter routines. It's about a softer kind of discipline, one you can practice on your busiest days too.
Is this really free?
Yes, completely. No hidden costs.
Will there be a recording?
Yes. The session is recorded, and the recording is available in our Membirds community for a small contribution.
Is this webinar secretly a sales pitch?
Near the end, I'll share what it looks like to go deeper, for anyone who's curious. Most of the session is simply the practice itself.
Closing quote
"Slowly I am learning that I am not something to be fixed."
I am already whole, and still I love this work of inner growth.
Closing
We all know the moment of seeing clearly. What we're learning, together, is how to keep coming back to it, and how to let it shape the way we live.
Join us on October 27