Hey there! I’m Robert O’Kruk and my friends call me Robbie, so you can too 🙂
The short version is this. I’ve realized the happiest I will ever be is through serving others, helping people and earth thrive. My deepest desire is to have people, events, conditions and anything else that bring the opportunity for love to overflow through me and into others around me, causing the same for them and for all of us together to overflow with love and thrive with earth. One of the best ways I’ve discovered to make this desire a reality is by teaching meditation and helping others to meditate. If you still want to learn more about me! Read on 🙂
I was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and led a normal life by Canadian standards up untill the age of 24. My parents were together and loving, I had many friends, I went to college and eventually I had a 9-5 office job with stable income and great benefits. At a relatively young age, I had achieved what society had guided me to and told me would make me happy.
If you’re reading this, I bet you can resonate with the fact that money and security are not what make us truly happy. They have a role to play in any abundant life, but chasing them is not the way to happiness. This slowly clicked for me after I received my first few raises. The first brought some elation, which quickly dissipated, the second and third brought nothing. Nothing except the louder pondering of questions in my mind “why do I not feel fulfilled”, “how can I be happier”, “this is not what I want to do for the rest of my life, so why do it now?”.
A series of events brought me to a point in my life where I had decided I wanted to be a digital nomad. Someone who travels the world while working remotely from their computer. So I did it, I quit my job, I sold almost everything I owned and booked a flight to Bangkok Thailand with my partner at the time.
At the time of writing this, I’ve been away from home and travelling without pause for almost 14 months. Let me fill in the blanks about this adventure.
With my adventures across South East Asia my mind was reeling, I was constantly having experiences that changed my entire perception of the world. Humbling is one of the best words I can use to describe my experiences. To not just acknowledge that other people around the world live a much more challenging life and have less access to opportunity but to realize that I have a responsibility to help others and to make the world a better place. When I was growing up, I never really gave it much thought, why was I born a healthy white male in Canada with amazing parents. Whenever this thought briefly crossed my mind, I just attributed it luck of the draw…I was lucky and that was that.
But I no longer believe in luck or coincidence, I believe in intention and synchronicity. I feel grateful to have acknowledged and felt that I was fortunate in my youth because I was being given tools and opportunities to help others. I wrote the following and I read it every single week to remind me of these realizations:
I am privileged
I have the education, intelligence and willpower to inspire the world to be better
I have a responsibility
Along my travels through another series of events and more, I decided to book a yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India. A place some call the world mecca for yoga. It was here during my training that my mind was open. On the first day of classes one of my favourite teachers Roshan invited us to try something throughout the course which was do not accept, do not reject everything we teach you during this course. Keep an open mind, but do not submit blindly to what we teach. I did exactly that and I learned one of the many beauties of yoga, that it is an experiential science. It is not a religion which can often invite blind faith, there are no leaders and there are no truths that you must accept.
There is guidance on practices, which you do by your own free will, and through this practice you gain experience. Through this experience you may realize truths of what yoga teaches us, not as the word of some preacher or book, but as genuine experience for yourself.
While I was in my teacher training I fell in love. I fell in love with another and through this love I started to learn to fall in love with myself. Perhaps it was the other way around, but it matters not! 🙂
Through this mindset I embraced during my training and through this new experience of love I had a series of profound spiritual experiences without willing or consciously trying to do anything. Up to that time I had never believed in anything outside of science and what was tangible. But…these experiences were extremely tangible and I realized just a glimpse of the wisdom and truth that yoga can teach us.
Through this path I deepened my practice of meditation before eventually realizing that I would be interested in guiding groups of people in their meditation practice, or simply hosting for others to practice together.
So this leads to writing all of this, making this website is part of what I intend to turn my desire of sharing love with others into reality. Guiding others in meditation is how I have found success in doing it.
Thank you for reading. I truly look forward to meeting you and meditating with you. Namaste
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