- [Vishen] Hi there, Mindvalley community, this is Vishen Lakhiani and I'm recording this
from Barcelona, where we are running special education projects.
So, this month in Mindvalley, we're gonna be bringing you a master class with the late
legendary teacher, Psalm Isadora.
Psalm, sadly passed away a couple of months ago.
She was a friend and a powerful teacher in the Mindvalley community.
When we brought Psalm to Mindvalley's Academy in May last year, 2016, people fell so in
love with her teachings on Tantra and intimacy, but sadly, Psalm passed away a few months
back.
And when this happened, we asked ourselves,
"What should we do with Psalm's Tantra Touch
program?"
We spoke to her family and we offered to take the program down if that was their wish.
Instead, what we heard from Psalm's family, and Psalm's key allies, and her son Gabe,
is that they felt that in every teacher, in every author, the other legacy lies in their
teachings.
And the worst thing you can do is to no longer present their teachings to the world.
So in the spirit of Psalm's teachings of Tantra and intimacy, to help her legacy spread farther,
we came to understand that the best thing we can do for Psalm is to ensure thousands
more students experience her greatest work, which is Tantra Touch.
And so, what I wanted to do is let you know that we're gonna be bringing Tantra Touch
to you as our featured program this month, and you'll get to experience that beautiful
master class I recorded with Psalm before she passed away.
People love this class, and I trust you will too.
I also have a special message for you from Psalm's son, Gabe.
Gabe wanted to share with you what his mother meant to him, what her work meant to him,
and our community, so you have a better idea of where Psalm's legacy is going in the future.
So let me introduce you to Gabe.
- [Gabriel] My name is Gabriel Valdez, I'm Psalm Isadora's son.
I am currently taking over her business.
My mother's business was focusing on Tantra, and it is an old art form that originates
from India.
I have gone on multiple trips with my mother to her ashram, and I'm very interested and
super psyched to be taking on the work.
My mother really stood for freedom and empowerment, especially for women, but not just women,
for everybody, spiritually and really down at the core, emotionally.
So many of us have a hard time breaking through our intimacy barriers.
It's a very big problem in the world.
It causes most people to not be very close with each other.
So at the end of the day, my mother really wanted people to be able to heal their wounds
and be able to be closer to each other.
Because that's usually where pain comes from, this lack of, you know, emotional support,
lack of people connecting with each other, also just not being able to release the pain
that they've incurred or experienced through sexual abuse, physical abuse, any kind of
abuse.
It's really what my mother stood for, was Tantra was a way to heal that pain.
And as my mother used it, I feel like now I'm gonna use it.
It was something that she used to heal the pain from her childhood that nobody should
ever experience.
And now that she's gone and it's just me here, I feel that the same medicine that worked
for her can work for me as well.
So I've decided to keep my mother's legacy going because it really meant something to
her, and because she was one of the most important things in my life, actually, the most important
thing in my life.
I brought it upon myself that it's something that I need to do, to continue bringing this
out to everyone that needs it.
My mother believed that she could help thousands of people if she got this message out to the
mainstream.
And so, I feel that she kind of hit the wall and she made a mark.
She made a dent on the wall, but she didn't quite fully finish the job.
And I think that now it's up to me to pick it up and keep it going to make sure that
everybody hears this message, and that this movement does not stop.
But sadly, through my mother's death, it would actually empower the movement and boost the
movement to everybody in the world.
And I've chosen to do this with Mindvalley because I've noticed that my mother was already
helping hundreds of people on her own within her own community.
People were flying from all over the world.
She flew to others and delivered this message, but it was so small.
And what I realized was that when my mother teamed up with Mindvalley, she was able to
gain so much more exposure and really put her message out on like a big blast.
I mean, so much more people were able to see it, and I saw that Mindvalley was really giving
her the tools and the right way to deliver the message.
So after my mother passed, well, before my mother passed, I really had no interest in
Tantra.
In fact, the very work that my mother did repelled me because it was very foreign and
I didn't understand it.
And growing up with a conservative Christian father, here and there, on and off, our relationship
was also obscure at times, but I didn't think that Tantra was good, and I didn't see the
positive benefits of it.
But after my mother died, I saw how many people truly loved her and the great things that
she really did for people.
And, you know, when her students received the news, there was a state of panic and chaos.
They were ready to walk away, they were ready to give up on Tantra, they thought maybe it
didn't work, the breathwork doesn't exist, it's just made up.
And, you know, it didn't work for Psalm, it's not gonna work for anybody.
But that's a lie.
That's a lie because I've seen those people come to the house and tell me how much she
really meant to them, and what she did for them in their marriages, and their friendships,
and just the way that they feel about their sexuality now.
I mean, she helped sex workers, and doctors, and all kinds of people that you just wouldn't
believe, you know.
And I know that when the women, the women under my mother's brand saw that, and they
saw me come up and stand up for what my mother believed in, it was a pivotal movement to
them, that this movement does need to go on, because, you know, if Gabriel Valdez, the
son of a tantric hippie mother, you know, couldn't bear Tantra before this happened,
all of a sudden, he is the one telling us that we can keep going and we can do it, then
obviously, there must be some good truth to this.
And I know that she really stood for something amazing.
So of all the information I've given you today, I hope that you really consider carrying my
mother's legacy forward through one of her great courses called Tantra Touch, that you
can purchase up on Mindvalley.
And I really wanna reach my hand out to everybody that's been so supportive and just sharing
all the love.
It's keeping me in much better places than I probably would be without it.
And I'd like to extend my hand out and hope everybody enjoys what my mother left behind.
I know I do.
- [Vishen] Thank you, Gabe.
And thank you for tuning in.
Please remember, Psalm's masterclass will be airing this month in Mindvalley Academy.
You can enroll in the class below.
And I look forward to doing everything I can to help bring Psalm's incredible wisdom to
thousands and millions more people, like yourself.
I'll see you on the masterclass.