Meet Patrick Zeigler
From the Great Pyramid to the Living Experience of Sekhem All-Love
Patrick Zeigler is the originator of Sekhem as an energy-healing modality and the founder and teacher of Sekhem All-Love.
For more than four decades, he has shared meditation, conscious breath, energy awareness, emotional integration, Inner Sound, movement, and direct spiritual experience with people throughout the world.
His work grew from a lifelong search for direct experience rather than belief alone. That search carried him through humanitarian service, the Middle East, Egypt, Sufi spiritual practice, Nepal, India, extended meditation, and an extraordinary night inside the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Patrick does not present himself as a guru. His purpose is to create a supportive field in which each person can experience the living presence of All-Love directly within themselves.
Chapter one
The search begins
Patrick's journey began with fundamental spiritual questions.
Is the Divine something we must believe in, or can it be experienced directly? Can spiritual energy be felt through the body? Can the human heart awaken beyond fear, separation, and inherited beliefs?
Rather than accepting simple answers, Patrick followed these questions through travel, service, meditation, prayer, and direct exploration.
His path crossed cultural and religious boundaries. Each experience contributed something, but Patrick did not seek to create another rigid belief system. He continued searching for the living experience beneath spiritual traditions and names.
His search carried him through Yemen, Egypt, Nepal, and Sudan. These journeys brought together spiritual exploration and practical service—from meditation and Sufi practice to spending one year in 1985 assisting with sanitation in an Ethiopian refugee camp in Sudan.
Chapter two
The Great Pyramid experience
In 1980, Patrick traveled to Egypt and entered the Great Pyramid of Giza.
During an extraordinary night inside the pyramid, he remained alone in the King's Chamber and entered an intense encounter with living spiritual energy.
The experience moved through the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of his being. He experienced powerful vibration, fear, surrender, expanded awareness, and a profound presence that could not be explained through ordinary thought.
A deep rhythmic sound, like an immense heartbeat, seemed to move through the chamber. As resistance and fear softened, the experience opened into an overwhelming field of love and spiritual presence.
Patrick did not leave the pyramid with a completed healing system. The experience initiated a process that continued unfolding over the following years. It became the original seed of what would eventually emerge as Sekhem.
Fear, surrender, and love
The Great Pyramid experience revealed an important principle that would remain central to Patrick's work: transformation does not come from fighting against experience.
Fear became a doorway into surrender. Surrender opened into love. The experience showed Patrick that spiritual energy could move through the body as a living intelligence.
This energy was not experienced as personal power, control, or superiority. It was a presence that invited openness, trust, and direct participation. Patrick's later teachings continued to explore this movement from resistance into awareness, from separation into connection, and from fear into the living heart.
Read the full story of that night.
The Heartbeat of the Pyramid
Chapter three
The Sufi connection
Following his years of travel, meditation, and humanitarian service, Patrick's path brought him into contact with Sheikh Mohamed Osman Abduh al-Burhani and the living practice of Sufi remembrance.
In Cairo and Khartoum, Patrick entered gatherings of zikr—circles of prayer in which sacred names, conscious breathing, rhythmic movement, music, and devotion became one continuous experience.
Zikr was not simply something Patrick observed. He entered the movement directly. As voices joined, bodies swayed, and the rhythm deepened, the boundaries between the individual and the group began to soften. Remembrance was no longer an idea held in the mind. It became a living vibration moving through the breath, body, heart, and entire gathering.
Sheikh Osman offered Patrick a spiritual connection rooted in humility, surrender, discipline, and love. The experience helped Patrick recognize that spiritual awakening did not require withdrawing from the body. The body itself could become an instrument of remembrance.
“Remembrance is not held in the mind alone. The breath remembers. The body remembers. The heart remembers.”
Within the shared movement of zikr, Patrick experienced the power of a unified spiritual field—a living presence created when people opened together beyond fear and separation. This understanding would later become central to Sekhem All-Love and Patrick's work with group energy.
The words All-Love gradually became an expression of this direct remembrance: not a belief to be accepted, but a presence to be breathed, felt, and lived.
Inhale: All
Exhale: Love
The path was no longer only a search for spiritual experience. It was becoming a way of entering the living field together.
Chapter four
The Himalayan years
Service, water, and the wisdom of the mountains
Patrick spent two years serving with the Peace Corps in Nepal, working alongside local communities to help install water systems in remote Himalayan villages.
The work was practical, physical, and deeply connected to the land. Reaching the villages often meant traveling through mountains and terraced valleys where roads were limited and daily life followed the rhythms of the earth, the seasons, and the availability of water.
Patrick did not arrive simply to bring an outside solution. He worked with villagers, learning from their knowledge of the mountains while helping develop systems that could carry water into their communities. Service became a way of listening, participating, and becoming part of village life.
During these years, Patrick also entered a very different kind of education. He spent time with local shamans and spiritual teachers whose knowledge had been transmitted through generations of direct experience.
Among these teachers was the shaman Bal Badur. Through drumming, rhythmic movement, ceremony, observation, and shared presence, Patrick encountered spiritual practices that were inseparable from the body, nature, ancestors, and the living earth.
The local shamans did not separate spiritual life from ordinary life. Healing, prayer, community, weather, water, the mountains, and the unseen world existed within one continuous field of relationship.
Patrick also meditated and studied with local gurus. Each teacher offered a different doorway, yet the deepest lesson remained the same: spiritual understanding could not be received through concepts alone. It had to be entered, practiced, embodied, and lived.
“The mountains taught me that service and spiritual practice were never separate. One carried water to the village. The other awakened the living water within.”
The Himalayan years brought together two dimensions of Patrick's path that would remain inseparable—practical service to human life and direct exploration of spiritual consciousness.
The water systems carried something essential into the villages. The shamans and gurus revealed another kind of current: the subtle movement of awareness through the body, nature, community, and the spiritual heart.
These experiences later helped Patrick understand that spiritual energy must remain grounded. Awakening was not an escape from physical life. It was a deeper entrance into relationship, responsibility, service, and the living world.
In the Himalayas, Patrick discovered that the path could be both deeply mystical and completely practical—rooted in the earth while opening into the unseen.
Chapter five
Service in Sudan
In 1985, Patrick spent a year working in an Ethiopian refugee camp in Sudan, where he assisted with essential sanitation needs.
Responding to the conditions he encountered, Patrick created a modular toilet system that could be constructed using practical materials and repeatable components. Wire mesh, reusable cylindrical forms, mortar, and prefabricated concrete sections allowed the system to be built in stages and adapted to the needs of the camp.
Patrick worked alongside Ethiopian and Sudanese colleagues, sharing ideas, materials, and physical labor. The work was not separate from his spiritual search. It revealed another dimension of that journey: presence expressed through practical service.
This experience deepened Patrick's understanding that spiritual awakening is not only discovered through meditation or sacred places. It can also be lived through cooperation, human dignity, and responding directly to the needs before us.
Chapter six
Forty days of silence
India, Yogiji, and the Sound of the Soul
Patrick's journey eventually brought him to India and into a profound period of meditation under the guidance of Yogiji.
Yogiji's teaching centered upon direct experience of the soul. He taught that the physical senses are instruments, but the awareness looking through the eyes, listening through the ears, and witnessing the breath is the soul itself.
Patrick entered a complete forty-day period of silence and withdrawal from ordinary life. There was no conversation, no outside communication, and no food for the full forty days. He slept for only approximately three hours each night and remained in sitting or walking meditation for close to twenty hours every day.
This was not a retreat designed around comfort or the pursuit of unusual experiences. It was a radical turning inward—a sustained surrender of speech, food, sleep, distraction, and the ordinary movements of the mind.
The beginning was extremely difficult. Much of the early practice was performed with the eyes open. Patrick remembers the experience as excruciating and reaching a point at which he wanted to stop.
Then something changed.
Patrick describes it as though a switch moved within his consciousness. The need for ordinary sleep began to lessen. During meditation, he discovered that he could enter the deep, dreamless Delta state while remaining consciously aware.
Meditation was no longer only an activity performed while awake. It began to enter the depth ordinarily reached through sleep. Patrick experienced that conscious Delta meditation could provide a profound form of rest while awareness remained present.
“Something switched within me. Meditation entered the depth of sleep, yet awareness remained present.”
The Sound of the Soul does not belong to the past or future. It is always sounding within the present.
Yogiji connected this awakening within deep stillness to the Sound of the Soul—the subtle inner vibration that does not belong to the physical ears and is not created by thought.
In Yogiji's teaching, the Sound of the Soul is always in the present. It does not move into the past or future. When the mind listens deeply to this inner resonance, awareness can remain present even as the physical body, dreams, and ordinary mental activity become still.
Through deeksha, Yogiji brought awareness to the spiritual heart, crown, and inner sound. The transmission was not presented as something belonging to the teacher. Yogiji taught that the physical master may guide and initiate, but the true grace arises from the inner Source.
As Patrick listened more deeply, the Sound of the Soul became an anchor of consciousness—a living current carrying awareness beyond thought, identity, and the familiar boundary between waking and sleeping.
Yogiji described the individual and universal dimensions of being as two expressions of one soul. As the inner curtain dissolves, the apparent separation between the personal and impersonal begins to disappear.
Two forms remain visible, yet the consciousness within them is one.
The forty-day meditation became one of the most demanding and transformative experiences of Patrick's life. It deepened his understanding of silence, conscious Delta, Inner Sound, surrender, and non-duality. This was Patrick's own experience under Yogiji's guidance—later 10-day, 21-day, and 40-day retreat programs in India do not ask participants to follow the same fasting or sleep practice.
These experiences later entered the living foundation of Sekhem All-Love: the understanding that spiritual awakening is not something the mind creates. It unfolds as resistance softens and awareness recognizes the living Source already present within the body, the breath, the heart, and the silence.
In forty days of silence, the search turned completely inward. What remained was not Patrick and the Source as two separate realities, but one consciousness recognizing itself.
Chapter seven
The emergence of Sekhem
Patrick is the originator of Sekhem as an energy-healing modality. Its foundation began with his powerful spiritual experience inside the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1980 and continued through Sufi zikr, Himalayan teachings, humanitarian service, meditation, and direct spiritual exploration.
In 1984, Patrick began teaching the energy publicly. The work became known through different spellings and expressions, including Seichim, Seichem, and later SKHM.
Rather than remaining a fixed healing technique, the work continued to evolve through Patrick's direct experience. Meditation, conscious breath, emotional release, movement, Inner Sound, group energy, and the awakening of the spiritual heart became increasingly important.
This evolution became Sekhem All-Love—a living, experiential path that brings the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual bodies into one field of awareness.
“Sekhem is not a system frozen in the past. It is a living field that continues to reveal itself.”
Today, Patrick and Sirley share Sekhem All-Love internationally through workshops, retreats, meditation, breathwork, music, teachings, and community. The heart of the work remains simple: helping each person experience All-Love directly within themselves.
Chapter eight
What Sekhem All-Love is, and how it is practised
Sekhem All-Love is an experiential approach to healing, meditation, consciousness, and spiritual awakening. It is not presented as a belief system. Participants are invited to enter the experience through the body, breath, emotions, mind, heart, and spiritual awareness.
- Physical — breath, sensation, energy, movement, trembling, relaxation, and embodiment.
- Emotional — recognizing, feeling, expressing, releasing, and integrating emotions without judgment.
- Mental — observing habitual thoughts, identities, beliefs, and patterns while allowing greater spaciousness.
- Spiritual — opening into presence, silence, unity, inner illumination, and awareness beyond the separate self.
Nothing needs to be forced. Each person is encouraged to listen to the body and allow the experience to unfold naturally.
Shenu Meditation
Shenu Meditation is an essential part of Patrick's work. It invites awareness to move inward, beyond ordinary mental activity, toward embodied presence, subtle energy, inner listening, and stillness.
Rather than fighting the mind or trying to manufacture a spiritual state, participants learn to notice what is already present beneath habitual thought. Breath, sound, awareness, and the natural intelligence of the body become doorways into direct experience. Meditation gradually becomes less about doing and more about allowing.
Inner Sound
Inner Sound Meditation invites awareness to turn away from external noise and listen within. As the body settles and the mind becomes quieter, subtle inner vibration, tone, silence, and presence may become more recognizable.
The practice is not about imagining a sound or forcing an unusual experience. It is an invitation to become deeply receptive to the current of consciousness already present beneath ordinary mental activity. Patrick continues to explore Inner Sound through workshops, meditation retreats, and extended periods of silence.
Conscious breath and the living wave
Conscious connected breathing is one of the central practices within Sekhem All-Love. Breath creates a bridge between the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of experience.
As breathing deepens, energy may begin moving more clearly through the body. Natural trembling, spontaneous movement, emotion, sound, energetic waves, or deep stillness may arise. Patrick does not encourage participants to imitate someone else's process or force emotional release. The invitation is to remain present, listen inwardly, and allow the living wave to move naturally.
Inhale: All
Exhale: Love
Eventually, breath, awareness, energy, and the mantra can become one continuous movement.
The heart of All-Love
At the heart of Patrick's work is the recognition that love does not have to be manufactured, earned, or imposed. All-Love is not merely a personal emotion. It is the living presence discovered as resistance softens and the experience of separation begins to dissolve.
This does not require denying fear, grief, anger, pain, or trauma. These experiences are invited into awareness with honesty and compassion. What has become frozen can begin to move. What has been divided can begin returning to wholeness. Awakening is not an escape from humanity. It is a fuller embodiment of life, presence, and love.
Sacred sites
Sacred sites are an important part of Patrick's work. Meditation and group practice have taken place in ancient landscapes and spiritual centres throughout Egypt, India, Nepal, Peru, and other parts of the world.
The Great Pyramid, Egyptian temples, Himalayan mountains, meditation spaces in India, and ancient ceremonial places offer environments where silence, history, nature, and collective intention can deepen awareness.
These places are not presented as objects of worship. They are entered with humility and respect — as spaces that may help participants listen more deeply and experience the relationship between the human body, the Earth, and the sacred.
Non-duality and direct experience
Patrick's work points toward non-duality — the recognition that the deepest level of awareness is not separate from life, love, or the sacred.
This is not offered as a philosophical idea that participants must believe. It is approached through meditation, breath, silence, energy, the body, the heart, and direct observation. As the mind becomes quieter and resistance softens, the boundary between the observer and the experience may also soften.
The invitation is not to create another spiritual identity. It is to recognize the presence that exists before identity and separation.
Chapter nine
More than four decades of teaching
Patrick began publicly sharing Sekhem in 1984.
For more than four decades, he has taught internationally across many cultures, languages, religions, and healing traditions.
His work continues to evolve through direct experience rather than becoming fixed as a rigid system. Classes may include Shenu Meditation, conscious breathwork, Inner Sound, movement, sound, emotional integration, energy awareness, group practices, silence, and non-dual inquiry.
The central invitation
- Become present.
- Listen to the body.
- Allow the energy to move.
- Open the spiritual heart.
- Enter the direct experience of All-Love.
Patrick's role as a teacher
Patrick does not present himself as a guru or ask participants to follow him. He creates a supportive field in which people can explore their own experience safely, honestly, and directly.
The purpose is not to reproduce Patrick's experiences. Each participant has their own body, path, and way of awakening. Patrick offers guidance, practices, presence, and the wisdom of more than four decades. The discovery belongs to each person.
The work today
- Sekhem All-Love workshops and retreats
- Shenu Meditation
- Inner Sound Meditation
- Conscious connected breathwork
- Emotional and energetic integration
- Spiritual heart awakening
- Non-duality and direct spiritual inquiry
- Darkroom meditation
- Sacred journeys through Egypt
- Extended meditation retreats in India
- Teacher development
- International classes and community gatherings
The experience continues
The invitation is your own direct experience
Patrick's history explains the roots of Sekhem All-Love, but the work is not intended to remain a story about Patrick.
The true invitation is for each person to enter their own direct experience.
The living presence encountered in Egypt, expressed through Sufi zikr, deepened through meditation in India, and shared through more than four decades of teaching is not confined to one person, culture, religion, or place.
It is an invitation to breathe, feel, listen, surrender, awaken, and recognize All-Love within.