Pause 9 in Cairo, Egypt in 2026

Like all of Deep Living Lab's work, Pause 9 is rooted in Roxanne Howe-Murphy’s The Four Sacred Portals: Your Journey of Wholeness and Deep Kinship With Life. These portals—Sacred Holding, Sacred Trust, Sacred Connectedness, and Sacred Engagement—offer pathways into our deepest capacities to live from and engage with life in kinship and wholeness.

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Pause 9 - Art That Reflects the Journey Within

A powerful visual experience that debuted at the IEA Global Conference in July 2025, this installation reflects the inner movement from patterned identity toward greater presence and truth. In collaboration with The Manas Collective.

Peek Inside the Process

“Through sound, light, and gentle sensory elements, this immersive experience invites you to soften into who you think you are— and remember the deeper truth of who you truly are. No fixing. No striving. Just a pause... A breath... A return."

-Irma Velasquez

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