Ariole Kesari Alei was born in West Vancouver, Canada on November 26, 1961 and soon thereafter moved to Manitoba, Canada in the precious arms of her beloved family.
Ariole graduated Honors with a keen interest in Physics, Math, Languages and Social Studies. A 'Coach' from a young age, Ariole was instrumental in creating new initiatives including a Mini Folklorama, being nominated by her High School Student Council as 'Special Advisor'. A natural Public Speaker, she convened numerous projects to give voice to others' ideas.
Ariole began dancing at the age of seven. By eight she traveled two hours by bus to attend the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. A Graduate of its Professional Division, Ariole attended Banff School of Fine Arts and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, chosen as the initial student performer for the annual Festival.
An audition tour through the Eastern US led her 'home' to the Anna Wyman Dance Theatre - in Vancouver, Canada. Ariole toured internationally with the AWDT for three years. It was in rural Quebec, Canada where she first experienced the true power of her mind. Rehearsing the most intricate role in the repertoire for hours at a time purely in her mind, she wowed herself, her colleagues and the audience with an absolutely perfect performance. This awakened her love and devotion to exploring consciousness.
Two years into her touring with the Judith Marcuse Dance Company, she experienced a divine 'accident' in which her knee and hand were fractured. As her bicycle - and her body - crashed to the pavement, her 'mind' was suspended - like in a cartoon's text bubble. She heard the words "this is a blessing" and "it will show itself - like the spokes of a wheel throughout Time". She was completely unafraid while others viewed this as a tragedy - assuming this 'accident' to be the end of her performing career.
Visions began in earnest. She was 'shown' a series of dances, and lighting designs, and costumes. She was 'dictated' details of how - and where - to tour. Nine months after the breaking of her knee, she leap-frogged over the entire seniority of her profession, and without direct human 'apprenticeship', she became a solo performer.
Her inaugural solo tour - "there's a camel on my back" - was an immediate hit. "Hot show", "must see", "not to be missed" buzzed through the performing community. Within fourteen performances, she experienced packed houses.
It was on the afternoon of her solo premiere that she first 'met' her muse - the entity who had so masterfully guided her how to heal her knee - and how to tour solo.
"The most challenging and rewarding experience of my life" is how she described this first year of solo touring. After three cities of five performances each, she began to hit a wall. Knowing that this was another 'message', she completed a full evening performance which was broadcast on local television - then 'listened in'.
"Let go dance" was the message she heard, crystal clear. Those around her thought she was nuts. 'How can you just let this go, when you're at the height of everything?' The inner message said more. "There is something you must do now, that only you can do."
Within months an amazing constellation of sychronicities took place, showing her clearly that the vision she had been shown when she was ten was about to take place. Within weeks she was in what later she would refer to as 'seclusion' - a period of seven and a half months in which she lived alone, primarily in cloistered nature settings, unplugged from human society, being magically 'rewired' to receive more expansive states of consciousness.
True to the vision when she was ten, a book was written through her. Densely 'coded', it would be years and five more writings before 'the book' would be written in a language accessible to the general public. "Birds' Eye View - A Travel Guide to the Universe" was born.
In the intervening years between seclusion and now, she was led into a kaleidoscope of activities. In 1992 she participated in the Global Forum - the parallel non-governmental conference to the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Returning home to Vancouver following the Earth Summit, Ariole convened the 'Post Earth Summit Conference' and made her first public facilitation appearance in years. This non-traditional gathering included a circle, an elder, and a talking stick. Half of the hundred and eight attendees stormed out at lunch. The other half stayed, in a delerious daze, saying "I've been waiting for this for years". The ViA Vision Into Action Society was swiftly born, coordinating numerous initiatives to connect the 'spokes of the wheel' - disparate social and environmental change interests and groups. ViA's innovative iniatives assisted citizens to access their ability to pro-actively, co-creatively attune to 'visions' of what is possible - beyond what currently 'is'.
Ariole's guides once again began speaking to her more frequently and fluidly. After a short series of international tele conferences in which she would share her visions of global transformation and consciousness awakening with an increasingly large group of international thinkers, Ariole's guidance beckoned her to 'go global'.
She convened a gathering of Visionaries in London, England. Within months she was in Dharamsala, India to meet personally with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan 'seers'.
Two Tibetan Rinpoches accompanied her to rural England to meet personally with several other individuals key to her visions. Then her 'global visionary work' went into gestation again.
She was guided in quick succession to design and lead a series of movement, psychic awareness, and consciousness workshops in London. Then her guidance spoke in the crystal clear energy of her highest visions. She was to call together a group of people, in London, for one weekend. During this weekend she would enter trance - and publicly share her visions. To her blissful surprise, this was the beginning of deep and intense awakening experiences with a group of twenty-four people over the course of two years. The 'AT' Group as they self-named themselves (Ascension Teachings) was a mind-expanding journey of entering into collective trance and awakening to the intricate 'as above, so below' grid of creation.
In 1999 she was guided to return to Vancouver, where she soon met Colin Hillstrom. Again she was led 'into society and out of seclusion', this time to launch a Corporate Consulting Practice. ViA Vision Into Action Consultants custom-designed corporate wellness programs and vision / mission clarification processes for two years.
In 2002 she followed in Colin's footsteps and became a Certified Solution-Focused Ericksonian Coach - an opportunity to create a 'profession' of something which came so naturally to her since childhood - 'bringing out the best in people'. It was during this training that she knew it was 'Time'. "You will dance again, stronger than ever. And you will know when, and where, and why." These are the words her guidance had assured her with when - fourteen years earlier - she had been asked to 'let go dance'.
At the age of forty, Ariole returned to the stage for three years of solo touring, performing "Ascend" and a revised version of "there's a camel on my back". She was lauded with reviews including "Easily one of the most alluring performances of the year" and "Alei is a master". Her solo touring blossomed into choreographing for ensembles, being commissioned by the Ballet British Columbia Mentor Program for whom she created two contemporary ballets. "Kundulaian" is an homage to the many street children and lepers whom Ariole met in India and Brazil. "L'esprit Éternelle" is a glorious whim of a ballet, lifting dancers and audience alike into realms of consciousness via the beauty of the body.
In the same year that Ariole returned to the stage, she and Colin married in a blissful private ceremony in their rose garden.
In 2006 they together launched Veraxis Coaching and Training (the corporate wing) and HeartSong Solutions (the public wing) including HeartSong Matchmaking, "the world's first holistic matchmaking service for growth-oriented singles".
Colin and Ariole published four books simultaneously - "it's like giving birth to quadruplets" - in autumn 2006. "Bird's Eye View - A Travel Guide to the Universe" and the trilogy "Awaking Instinct * Running the Gauntlet * Windows Through Time" by Ariole, "HeartSong - Conversations About Love, Joy and Sex" by Colin and Ariole, and "When A Man Really Loves A Woman" by Colin.
By April 2007 Ariole's next book was born, in response to the international wave of interest in the DVD "The Secret" and her concern of a potential crash in its viewers from 'a ticket to paradise' to 'dismay and disillusionment'. (See the book's Foreword for details.) "The Simplexity of Abundance - 4 Steps to Plenty" fills the gap of 'what to do with this incredible abundance potential' by teaching simple to apply soul-based Law of Attraction practices.
It was this book that launched Ariole as an international Tele Class teacher, beginning with the 16 Week "Abundance In Action" Mastery Series in which Ariole assists participants - each ecologically from the comfort of their own home - to transcend ego desires and attune to life-transforming soul desires.
In July 2007 "H.O.P.E. = Healing Ourselves and Planet Earth - A Blueprint for Personal and Collective Change" was born - a book title which had been gestating within her since her participation at the Earth Summit.
More Tele Class Series were swiftly birthed, several at a time, each based on one of her growing library of books. "The Power Of Anger - Blasting Through Your Limitations and Transforming The World" was soon written, in response to several 1-1 Coaching Sessions which evidenced a need and readiness in humanity to understand the true purpose and value of anger - what Ariole describes as our 'rocket fuel for life'.
Coming to completion with the work of HeartSong Solutions and the relationship based 'holistic meeting events' which she envisaged and facilitated for two years, Ariole began to focus again on her ultimate passion - the awakening of human consciousness.
In June 2008 the first "HOPE" Retreat took place near Saskatoon, Canada. The second and third took place near Grand Forks and Saskatoon in August and September of 2008. A Core Team by this time had naturally evolved, calling forth deeper teachings, explorations and discovery. Three Core Team Retreats took place in Saskatoon, Cochrane, and Saskatoon, with a small Team gathering at a sacred 'grandmother' cave near Sedona in December 2008.
This rapid acceleration via the "HOPE" Retreats gave birth to vision and initail mapping of The "H.O.P.E." Project.
As with many cosmic contracts - borne of intricacy beyond the grasp of the human mind - The "H.O.P.E." Project has been in gestation since February 2009.
The "HOPE" Retreats are a mini version of 'seclusion' in which Ariole gently and powerfully guides participants from a constricted vantage of 'looking up from down' - the limited human perspective, to the limitless vantage of 'looking down from up' - the seat of the gods.
It is anticipated that real-time "HOPE" Retreats may begin as early as spring 2009. For information, please email.
It is through the delicate and irreversible awakening of human consciousness that this planet will thrive.
You are a part of this all-inclusive, grand opportunity - this time-to-be-alive.
May your journey into CONSCIOUSNESS be filled with Joy and Light ...
And so it is :-)
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