Expression of Deep Gratitude

Dear all; Venerable Khenpo Tsultrim Tenzin Rinpoche, Venerable Khenzur Nyima Wangyal Rinpoche, Venerable Lovon Lama Shagdarsuren Bayanjargal; & Venerable Amarzul Purevdorj; Ancestral wisdom keepers, shamans, and practitioners,

It is with profound gratitude and respect that AKHAMANI expresses the appreciation that we feel after manifesting the Universal Fire Mandala through the lighting of the Unifying Ancestral New Fire in Switzerland during the summer solstice of 2026.

We are grateful for the unfolding of the time we shared together and hope that you have all returned well to your homes. 

We are still integrating all that has been revealed, learned, and all that we were privileged and blessed to experience with everyone.

We are deeply moved by the wonderful exchanges, teachings, ceremonies, and rituals that came together from different lineages around the world.

Our deep gratitude goes to the lamas, khenpos, rinpoches, and monks for setting the foundation of our gathering through the three smoke offerings that were performed by them to align the way, clear & cleanse the path, call in the Fire Spirit, and make abundant offerings to the local spirits of all lineages present. We thank them for their exemplary act of unity, and egoless collaboration – a seamless merging of intention and action. For their selfless service and devotion to the Universal Fire Mandala that was generated during our gathering of the Ancestral New Fire in Switzerland. For their fast, sleepless nights, un-interrupted prayers, and devotion to the wisdom light.

We thank you dear Lamas, Khenpos, Rinpoches, and Monks For merging with the intention of the Unifying Ancestral New Fire and flowing despite all the ripples that arose, always in harmony, in selfless service, and unification for the benefit of all sentient beings and all of creation.

We are equally grateful to the Mexican lineages for their exemplary humility, selfless dedication and collaboration in resolution of all hurdles faced. For their constant protection through their offerings, prayers, songs, chants, and sacred smoke. For their dedication to the Unifying Ancestral New Fire’s core intention: unification. For their exemplary respect for the way of life of others. Never wavering from the shared purpose: that this fire would burn not for one, but for all. 

Thanks to all of you, we were able to see that it is possible to unite many lineages and wisdom keepers together in one ceremony; cultivating and nourishing one fire that contains and unifies various ways of life. Thank you for guarding the wisdom of our ancestors and for the resilience displayed in the continuation of your practice towards compassion and respect for yourselves and for one another.

We thank the many elders, spiritual leaders, and wisdom keepers from around the world who welcomed us into their sacred places and who have taught us and guided us throughout the last seven years. It is, in big part, thanks to you that we were able to manifest the Unifying Ancestral New Fire In Switzerland. Without your commitment to this vision long ago, the Universal Fire Mandala would not have been possible.

We thank the many lineages across the world who accompanied us from a distance and who lit their fires in union with us from their sacred sanctuaries. Your presence was felt. 

We extend our deepest gratitude to you Crizalia, who represents the initial spark for this gathering. Your selfless dedication to ancestral communities and the greater good—through your lifelong journey and work with akhamani—has shaped you into the venerable wisdom keeper you are today. This event would not have been possible without your unwavering commitment. You serve as a vital bridge connecting diverse cultures and ancestral communities. Through your life’s work of continuously learning and incorporating ancestral wisdom from communities world wide, you have woven threads that brought together countless wisdom keepers and sacred ashes, preserved for millennia across the globe. Your exemplary qualities of dignity, humility, gratitude, and your compassionate, respectful approach rooted in loving-kindness, have made this event a reality.

We thank you, Jonas Allgaier, for your devotion, selfless service, and commitment to the intention of the Unifying Ancestral New Fire. For your tireless years of work, self-transformation, and dedication to learn & live in the ways of the sacred fire ceremony. For accepting the responsibility as keeper of the sacred ashes and the way of the fire ceremony of your European Ancestors.  

We thank you Tamara Träbert & Felix Maier for being the water aspirants of our ceremony and for helping me (Crizalia) establish the balance of Fire and Water in all rituals and ceremonies performed throughout our gathering. 

We thank Jonas Allgaier, Tamara Träbert, Felix Maier, Sabine Fievez, Frédéric Fievez, Nancy Claes, & Florian Berg for your selfless service to the event. For your dedication to the flow of the logistic unfolding of our gathering. You kept us nourished, hydrated, and comfortable. Thank you for the countless hours of work that you offered freely. 

I thank my husband Thomas Le Blan and my Children for their patience, support, and help through all the years of work in the making of this ceremony. Thank you for accepting my absences over long periods of time as I traveled the world to be in retreat, ceremony, and pilgrimage to learn from the ancient fire keepers of the world. Without your unconditional support, I would not have had the capacity to bring this vision of the Unifying Ancestral New Fire to reality. – Crizalia 

We also thank the shamans from Mongolia and Siberia who accepted to come at the last minute. We were happy to have welcomed you. Thank you for your songs. It was our first time working with all of you and the first time that you were invited to take part in our Akhamani events. Though our communication was complex, we are grateful to have met you. And even though you did not stay for the Unifying Ancestral New Fire, we appreciate having had the opportunity to witness a little glimpse of your spiritual lineage. For that, we thank you. 

We thank all of the participants for their presence, their practice, and their flexibility. For remaining open to the various teachings and practices of the Fire Ceremony. For allowing yourselves to go beyond separation and for integrating to the intention of the Universal fire Mandala: UNIFICATION, RESPECT, & CONTINUATION.  

We also thank the few people who, in their own capacity, contributed to the financial support of our gathering. I especially thank my husband Thomas Le Blan for making this event financially possible.   

Together we are stronger, and united we are strongest.

The Spark of the Unifying Ancestral New Fire

We are still speechless and in awe having witnessed the flames that rose when the ancient ceremonial ashes of Tibet, Nepal, India, Peru, North America, Mexico (the Wixarika and Olmec) and the Sami (last surviving tribe in Europe) were united.

Despite the intended lighting of the ambers in the ancestral ways of the Sami people, who work with ancient percussion techniques to spark the bark of the Birch tree, it was the spirits of the ancestors, carried in the ashes, when untied, who decided that it was time to start the ceremony. Their coming together lit the new flame that kindled the new fire. That spark, those flames that rose no one could pretend to claim to own, for it was not lit by men, nor by the will of anyone present. It was a sacred fire, born and kindled from the ancestors’ unification alone.

Not a single lineage dared to take credit for such a blessing as it came not from any one any one lineage alone, it occurred from the act of the unification of the ashes empowered with the spark of the light of the wisdom fire.      

This act transformed the Unifying Ancestral New Fire in Switzerland into a Universal Fire Mandala. A whole night Fire ceremony that invited practitioners to be in silent meditation to commune, contemplate, and connect with the light of the wisdom fire.

The Mirror of the Light of the Wisdom Fire Reflects Projections that Can Feel Hard to Face 

Not every lesson comes dressed in light. Not every healing arrives through joy.

Some of the deepest initiations—the ones that crack you open, rearrange you, and bring you face to face with your own shadow—come cloaked as projections that are reflected by the light of the sacred mirror of the wisdom fire. 

The light of the wisdom fire is the sacred mirror that reflects the energetic blueprint you’ve been living by—consciously or unconsciously. It shows you the patterns you repeat, the beliefs you inherited, and the stories you tell yourself about who you are and what you’re worthy of.

It can feel confronting. But it’s not meant to break you. It’s meant to reveal what needs work.

The mirror of the light of wisdom fire is there to show you the experiences, and dynamics that reflect back to you the aspects of yourself that are hidden, suppressed, or forgotten. It shows you what still lives in your blindspots. What still aches in your nervous system. What you still believe you need to perform, protect, or project in order to be loved, to be accepted, to feel valued.

We live in a culture that teaches us to project blame and escape discomfort. It’s easier to point the finger at someone else than to sit with the parts of ourselves that played a role in the disharmony.

But the sacred mirror of the light of the wisdom fire invites us to pause. To stop outsourcing our pain. To stop assigning our power of responsibility to others.

To stop identifying as victims of life—and start showing up as co-creators of our reality.

The mirror of the light of the wisdom fire doesn’t just show you what’s wrong “out there.” It shows you what’s unhealed within you. That person who triggers your abandonment wound, that mirrors your lack of boundaries; or that stranger who activates your unworthiness. Even that individual who makes you feel invisible. They are all reflecting what’s still vibrating within you and that needs healing and expansion.

Meditating in silence, in contemplation, in communion with the light of the wisdom fire is not an easy practice because it reveals, and brings you face to face with all of your unresolved, limiting internal dynamics.

It reveals who you truly are, where you truly are, how you truly are, when you truly are, and why you truly are. It burns away the masks that are worn and hidden behind smiles and pretty words, bringing you face to face with what your actions express about you.   

It reveals the patterns that you keep reliving because your nervous system confuses them with love, compassion, wisdom, and power.

It reflects the behaviors you defend because they once kept you safe. It reveals the stories passed down generationally that you’re still living out like inherited scripts.

It brigs to light the sacred parts of you—your power, voice, pleasure, intuition, wisdom, and loving kindess—that you’ve exiled in exchange for belonging. And until you see all of that, feel it, experience it, and integrate it, you’ll keep encountering the same suffering and discomfort in life. You will continue to project your wounds onto the world. 

The mirror of the light of the wisdom fire teaches you to awaken the truth within, to catalyze, to reveal, to rupture. This can feel devastating. But when viewed through the higher consciousness of the light of the wisdom fire, even endings can become altars. Sacred turning points that realign you with what is true.

The mirror of the light of the wisdom fire doesn’t just reveal what’s been fragmented, it helps you reclaim it. You begin to retrieve the parts of yourself that you left behind in exchange for survival. The parts that learned to stay quiet. The parts that you dimmed to be digestible. The parts that were buried because they were too difficult to face. And this is precisely the medicine, the blessing, the teaching of what is reflected through the silent contemplation of the mirror of light of the wisdom fire. It invites you to stop waiting for someone else to see you. And to start seeing yourself—clearly, honestly, and wholly.

Bless the ones who triggered the unraveling. 

Bless the ones who couldn’t stay. 

Bless the ones who held the mirror so clearly that you could no longer look away. 

Because it was never about them. It was always about the return to wholeness.

Integration & the Practice of Continuity

To walk with the light of the wisdom fire is to become aware of your internal dynamics consciously; it  is to walk the path of self-responsibility.

Not shame.

Not guilt.

It is to practice honest coherence: say what you mean, and mean what you do. Actions always show who we truly are. 

It is the opportunity to say yes, I see how I abandoned myself, and now I come home. To say yes, I see how I repeated the pattern and now I transform them. And that’s the real initiation. To turn the light of the wisdom fire into a doorway. To let it become the map that guides you back to the parts of yourself still waiting to be transformed and that have held you suffering through limiting cognitive and behavioral patterns. 

Some reflections reveal beauty. Some reflect the ache of being unseen. 

But the sacred ones, they reflect your truth— raw, radiant and unfiltered— so you can choose to remember yourself again. Not every reflection is meant to feel good. But all are meant to free you. 

And the reflection you most resist? That’s the one holding the key to your liberation.

It matters not how small or big you start, what matters is continuity. The continuation of the practice, of walking, of coming back to wholeness. Of coming back to presence as is. 

It is through the loving kindness that arises from the light of the wisdom fire that unity is possible.

The Unifying Ancestral New fire in Switzerland served to bring us together, from different paths of life, with different perspectives, to look within, and rise above all separation so that true unity could be achieved through the practice of coming home to ourselves, through the silent contemplation with who we truly are. Through the art of being and connecting. 

It is the act of unification, through active being and connecting, that manifested and emanated the light of the Universal Fire Mandala. 

Not all who started the ceremony stayed and that is ok. What matters is the continued practice and what we do day to day. It is about the ongoing process and unfolding of presence, of being, of connecting; of being responsible for our thoughts, feelings, emotions, choices and actions; it’s about respect, the attitude of resolution, and unification. 

May the merit of the Universal Fire Mandala benefit all sentient beings and sustain all lineage holders in unity.

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