What is Sekhem?
A living wave of energy, inner sound, initiation and All-Love
Sekhem is an Egyptian word associated with power, vital force and spiritual energy. It can also be understood as the Source of all things. In this understanding, Sekhem is both the living power that moves through creation and the Source from which energy, consciousness, sound and love arise.
Sekhem All-Love is a living, evolving spiritual and energy practice centered in direct experience. The word Sekhem is often understood as power, vital force, or the Power of Powers. It may first be experienced as vibration, warmth, current, inner sound, spontaneous movement, or a wave flowing through the body and consciousness.
Sometimes the movement is subtle and almost silent. At other times it may arrive with the force of a hurricane. Sekhem does not ask a person to manufacture intensity or remain artificially still. It invites the whole being to open to the energy that is present and allow it to move.
The experience is not merely something to believe in. It is something to enter, feel and become.
The path to Sekhem
From Kundalini and sacred geometry to the Great Pyramid
Long before Sekhem was publicly taught, Patrick Zeigler’s path began with the study of Kundalini yoga. Through breath, meditation and direct experience, he began exploring the movement of energy, the chakra system, the opening of consciousness and the relationship between the crown, the heart and the body.
As an architect, Patrick developed a deep interest in sacred geometry. He studied the relationship between form, proportion, energy and consciousness, and became especially drawn to the geometry of the pyramids. This architectural and spiritual exploration eventually led him to Egypt and to the Great Pyramid of Giza.
In 1980, Patrick spent a night inside the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid. During that night he encountered an overwhelming presence and a powerful movement of energy. Vibration, sound, fear, surrender and an opening into love became part of an initiation that changed the direction of his life.
His journey continued through Egypt and Sudan, where he studied Sufi practice and zikr with Sheikh Mohamed Osman Abduh al-Burhani. The Sufi remembrance of divine love deepened into the breath and living vibration of All-Love.
Beginning in 1982, Patrick spent approximately two years in the Himalayas of Nepal. There he meditated and studied with local shamans and spiritual teachers, further exploring consciousness, energy and direct spiritual awakening.
In 2018, Patrick entered a forty-day meditation in India with Yogiji. The extended period of meditation opened another dimension of the work. The vibration was no longer encountered only as movement, energy or physical manifestation. It could also be approached through deep listening, inner sound and the silence from which sound arises.
Following the forty-day meditation, Patrick incorporated Inner Sound Meditation and non-duality into Sekhem. These practices expanded the work beyond energy movement and emotional release, opening a direct exploration of consciousness, unity and the Source of all things.
Inner Sound Meditation became a way of listening beyond ordinary external sound. Patrick refers to this subtle inner vibration as the Sound of the Soul.
Patrick also spent several years studying bodywork, emotional release and hypnotherapy. These studies gave him practical experience with the different ways energy and consciousness may express themselves through the human being.
Bodywork revealed how energy may appear physically through sensation, vibration, breathing, tension, trembling and movement.
Emotional-release work revealed how grief, fear, anger, joy and other deeply held feelings may rise and move when the energy begins to flow.
Hypnotherapy offered insight into the mental body, subconscious patterns, memories, beliefs and the inner structures through which people understand their experience.
Kundalini yoga, sacred geometry, the Great Pyramid initiation, Sufi zikr, the Himalayan years, bodywork, emotional release and hypnotherapy were not separate conclusions. Each became part of Patrick’s growing understanding of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.
In 1984, Patrick began publicly sharing Sekhem. He is the originator of Sekhem as an energy healing modality. Over more than four decades, the work has continued to evolve through direct experience, initiation and the awakening of the heart.
- Before 1980
- Kundalini yoga with Yogi Bhajan, architecture, sacred geometry and Inner Sound Meditation
- 1980
- Initiation inside the King’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid
- 1982 to 1984
- Meditation, Vipassana with Goenka and study in the Himalayas of Nepal
- 1984
- The first public sharing of Sekhem
- 2018
- Forty days of meditation in India with Yogiji. Afterwards, Inner Sound Meditation, the Sound of the Soul and non-duality were incorporated into Sekhem.
- Across the journey
- Several years of bodywork, emotional release and hypnotherapy
The living current
Become the wave
Sekhem may manifest as a living current moving through the body. The energy can arrive in pulses, waves, spirals or sudden surges. A participant may experience trembling, shaking, spontaneous movement, changes in breathing, heat, cold, inner sound, vocal expression, pressure, expansion or profound stillness.
The body is not treated as an obstacle to spiritual awakening. It becomes one of the doorways through which the energy is encountered.
The intention is not to control the wave from the mind. The invitation is to breathe, remain present and gradually surrender into the movement until the separation between the person and the wave begins to soften.
The intensity of an experience is not a measure of spiritual success. A gentle current can be as meaningful as a powerful physical manifestation.
Emotional release
When the energy moves, what has been held may begin to flow
As the Sekhem wave moves through the emotional body, feelings that have been suppressed, frozen or protected may rise into awareness. This can include grief, fear, anger, longing, laughter, joy, tears or emotion that has no immediate story or explanation.
Emotional release is not forced. Participants are not asked to perform, dramatize or search for trauma. The invitation is to breathe, feel and allow the energy to move without judgment.
At times the release may be gentle, like ice slowly melting. At other times it may feel like a storm moving through the entire being. Crying, shaking, sounding, deep breathing or spontaneous movement may become part of the process.
Breathing was not created merely to revisit trauma. Emotional release is one movement within a much larger journey of awakening. The deeper invitation is to allow what has been divided or held apart to return to the heart.
Initiation
Opening the crown, opening the heart
Initiation in Sekhem is not simply information passed from one person to another. It is an invitation into direct relationship with the living current.
The crown may be experienced as an opening to Source. The energy may descend through the crown, awaken the heart and move through the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. The heart becomes the meeting place between the human and the divine, the personal and the universal, the individual wave and the greater ocean of consciousness.
As the heart opens, true love may be recognized as something deeper than an emotion directed toward another person. All-Love points toward an unconditional, timeless presence that is already within and around us. It is the Source from which life arises and the field in which all experience appears.
The breath becomes a simple doorway:
Inhale: All
Exhale: Love
The purpose is not to create a temporary spiritual experience. It is to awaken the connection between the crown, the heart, the body and Source, and to allow that connection to become lived experience.
Inner sound
The Sound of the Soul
The Sekhem wave is not encountered only through physical sensation or emotional movement. The same living vibration may also reveal itself inwardly as sound.
The Sound of the Soul is approached through deep listening. Attention gradually moves beneath external noise, thought and effort. What first appears to be silence may begin to reveal a subtle tone, vibration, current or field of sound that does not seem to come from the outside world.
Listening with the whole being
This inner sound becomes another doorway into the living presence of Sekhem. The wave may be felt in the body, opened through the heart and heard within consciousness.
The practice is not about forcing a particular sound or imagining what should be heard. It is an invitation to listen with the whole being and allow the inner vibration to reveal itself naturally.
As listening deepens, the distinction between the person who is listening and the sound being heard may begin to soften. This opens naturally into non-duality: the recognition that the listener, the sound, the wave and the Source are not truly separate.
From movement into non-duality
Sekhem may begin as a powerful experience of energy moving through the body. It may bring shaking, emotion, breath, sound and the opening of the heart. Yet the same current may eventually lead beyond movement into a direct experience of unity.
Non-duality does not deny the body, emotions or individual life. It reveals the deeper ground in which they all appear. The wave moves, the hurricane moves and the inner sound vibrates, while the Source remains whole and undivided.
All-Love is the heart of this recognition. True love is no longer experienced only as something passing between separate people. It is recognized as the living presence and Source within everything.
The still point
Stillness is found within the hurricane
Sekhem contains both the storm and the silence.
One person may sit quietly and feel only warmth. Another may shake, cry, move or experience waves of energy passing through the entire body. Another may encounter both intensity and stillness within the same initiation.
The hurricane is not the opposite of stillness. At the center of the movement there may be a place that is completely present, silent and undivided. The wave moves, emotions move and the body moves, yet something deeper remains open and aware.
The experience does not need to be dramatic to be real. It also does not need to be quiet to be spiritual.
The four bodies
Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual
The energy may move through all four dimensions of a life. Select a ring or a name to explore how each is met in practice.
The body that breathes, aches, rests and knows.
Practice begins where you already are: in sensation, posture, tiredness, warmth. Nothing is bypassed. Attention returns to the body again and again, not to fix it, but to be present with it.
These four are described as one continuous life, not four separate selves. What is noticed in each differs from person to person — and from one sitting to the next.
Direct experience
The invitation is to experience it for yourself
Descriptions can only point toward Sekhem. The deeper understanding comes through direct experience: breathing, feeling, opening the heart and allowing the living wave to reveal itself in its own way.
No two people experience the work in exactly the same manner. Nothing needs to be forced, compared or reproduced.
Sekhem All-Love is an experiential spiritual practice. It is not medical care or psychotherapy, and no cure or particular outcome is promised. Anyone managing a health condition should continue working with their healthcare professional and seek appropriate guidance before intensive practice.