Alaya is a Sanskrit word meaning 'inner essence.' This work is based on the principles of mindfulness, heartfulness, and insight. Body-oriented methods, creative expression, honest encounter and meditation are used in working with the material of our lives to both deepen one's sense of self and move beyond ėself.Religion and science have attempted to help us answer that question, and we can use what they offer us. But they cannot think for us. They certainly cannot fe el for us. Alaya is a process that helps us discover our own answers to the question "Who am I?" What we find when we inquire in this way can then direct us in the important choices in our love and work. Alaya offers guidance and teaching to develop the skills necessary for this endeavor, while at the same time respecting that the answers belong, finally, to each of us, as free and unique individuals. Alaya Process is founded on the principles of heartfulness, mindfulness, and insight. The principle of heartfulness encompasses an open, present, loving, compassionate heart that accepts things as they are and sees things as they could be. It is a heart that sees and appreciates the actual and sees and cherishes the possible. Mindfulness is the integrated awareness of, and attention to sensations, feelings, mind and how it works, and the contents of mind. Insight is an understanding or perception of things as they are, by attuning to one's being or one's own heart. It is a comprehension directly from Alaya consciousness that returns to, and realizes, our unity with all.