Honoring Our Mothers • Sound Healing Meditation & Lecture by Maestro Rev. Brien Egan

Sunday, May 10th, 2026

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About the Guest Lecturer

Maestro Rev. Brien Egan, CHt, CRM, CKRM is an author, certified hypnotherapist, a reiki master, karuna reiki master, maestro shaman from the Shipibo lineage from Peru, pranic energy worker, crystal bowl sound healer, EFT practitioner, quantum touch practitioner, sedona method practitioner, chakra cleansing teacher, qi gong teacher, an ordained minister from the Essene New Life Church, has his B.S. in Psychology with a minor in Special Education and is the director of the Sound Healing Conservatory. 

He has been practicing and teaching spirituality for over 21 years. He has done a lot of work with children, families and individuals by leading workshops, classes and through individual or group sessions. He also designed and ran a kid's spiritual summer camp for 13 years which taught children many quantum physics and spiritual concepts, meditation and mindfulness practices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUrkpJKpXAg

Healing Meditation: Honoring Our Mothers

Hold [all those on our healing tree and on your prayer lists] in your hearts, as we hold ourselves in the space, in the quiet, in the now.

As we bring ourselves into this space, take a deep full breath in.

Hold it, breathe in a little bit more, and just sigh it out.

I want you to take into your heart your mother, your mom. I want you to see them there as they are.

And I want you to hold gratitude and surround them in a light bubble of gratitude, holding the reverence for the sacredness of who they are and how they brought you into this world, into this space, into this existence.

I want you to send them as much compassion and love and understanding and oneness that you can. Breathe in deep into the space.

Just be present some more. As much as you can. Hold it. And hold your whole body really tight. And we're going to breathe out with an "ah" sound, just for our moms.

That gratitude, that sanctity, that overwhelming grace that we give to our mothers for bringing us to this place, to be here, to be now, to be present, to be alive.

And I want you to hold your own heart, especially if you are a mother, for your children, for your family. And hold the grace that you deserve at every moment for all the beautiful and wonderful things that you are and that you've done for everyone, every mother everywhere.

Breathe deep into that space.

Breathe in some more. Breathe in even more. Holding compassion, holding love, holding healing for all mothers everywhere.

Breathe out slow and easy into that space. Letting that flow to them as it flows to you.

If you've ever had to be in that role of a mother for someone, even if you don't have children of your own, you understand. Just as you have that reverence for your mother, hold that space for them in your heart now and allow the sound to move through you and around you.

Taking our mother into our hearts once again.

Bringing our mother through our bodies, down through our feet, into the earth — to greet Mother Earth, to receive the healing of Mother Earth.

To receive the blessing and the benediction of Mother Earth. As she holds us, gives life and birth to us, just as our mothers have done for us. We allow this deep, divine, eternal connection to be our wellspring of health and vitality in this moment and all moments. As we allow this, it becomes, and so it is.

Gratitude for everyone. All directions of space and time.

Get back behind your eyes.

Slowly present into the room when you're ready.

Honoring the Mothers Among Us • Lecture

Thank you all for being present for that. Raise your hand if you're a mother.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you for holding space for someone else in their life. Thank you for being that vessel, that perfect creative force.

As we allow ourselves to honor — whether it was a Hallmark holiday or whatever — honor the beauty that is motherhood, and that is being able to care for and raise another to be themselves in their fullest self. It is such a great honor.

I want to apologize on behalf of all males everywhere for the lack of consideration that has probably been bestowed upon many of you. And I'd also like to extend that to my wife — that deep compassion and understanding for the beautiful things that she has created for our life and my family and for all of my children, and for being the rock and the foundation and the wellspring that they can grow and become the best part of themselves and to fully express themselves.

And especially to my mother, who raised me and who's dealt with all of myself, all of my things — because none of us are perfect, we're all in our journey, you know.

I especially want to hold it for my mother right now because she had double duty. She had me, and she had my sisters. My sister came into this world with great difficulties. She was severely and profoundly disabled, and she wasn't able to be expressed in her life in the best way she could. And so my mother had that hardship of understanding and having to hold compassion for that, and to live her life in the best way that she could. And as she did that, it helped me to show up like that for other people.

So everything that I am is because of her. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for Mother Earth, for holding the space, and for being the grounding point for all of us to understand that we are all on this journey together with compassion and understanding and growth.

Just knowing that we all have these big pieces and parts that we hold for other people is vitally important. It's something that really needs to be honored more. We all need to show each other more grace and more understanding and more compassion in all the ways that we show up or we're able to show up.

And to be able to reach out and lend that hand, like all mothers do. Because I'm sure that everyone in here, whether you've raised a child or not, you've been a mother to someone. And you've had to be mothering for someone — even the guys in here. We've had to show up to take care of other people, and to care, and to raise, and to show that person or those people how to be their best selves and how to really show up despite anything that's showing up in the world.

And that's really something that we need to honor more. Something we need to just respect and cherish.

The travesty of the patriarchy is that the matriarchy is still there waiting, still holding that space for it. And it's time for us — as men and fellow humans — to step back and to let the matriarchy be equal and in full partnership and full connection and communication everywhere we can.

So I invite you to see where you can do that more. See how you can show up more for the women in your life — maybe the ones that don't realize that they're in those roles, or maybe the ones that do. To really respect and to show them how much they are the foundation of what we are.

A Reading from What Is Enlightenment?

Today I am going into a little bit of Bibliomancy. The book I am going to be looking at is What Is Enlightenment? Exploring the Goal of the Spiritual Path.

"Even a momentary contact with the divine is a stupendous experience. Some of the most famous men on earth, the greatest thinkers and the ablest writers, such as Plato, Plotinus, Parmenides, Dante, Wordsworth, and Tennyson have had the experience. Emerson and many, many other renowned men and women had this singular experience thrust upon them, often to their grateful amazement. Most of them had undergone no spiritual discipline, and there were even some who had no firm belief in God. For even when unexpected, the experience leaves a permanent mark on life, which uplifts the individual and grants them insights into the nature of things that are not possible for those who never see beyond the veil."

"The experience always has the same characteristics. It is incredible that so many learned men and women, both scientists and scholars, should ignore a phenomenon as widespread as mystical experience has been. The phenomenon becomes even more surprising when we observe that all great founders of religion, and some of the greatest philosophers, writers, and artists, were endowed with the typical vision. All of them recognized it for what it was — a fleeting glimpse of another life and another world."

"Yoga signifies a momentary glimpse of ourselves unfettered by flesh and the allure of the earth. For a short time we are invincible, eternal, immune to decay, disease, failure, sorrow. We are but drops in an ocean of consciousness in which the stormy universe of colossal suns and planets looks like a reflection that has absolutely no effect on the unutterable calm, peace, and bliss that fill this unbounded expanse of being. We are a wonder, an enigma, a riddle. Even those who have access to it sometime in their lives cannot describe mystical experience in a way others can understand. For the soul belongs to another realm, another state of existence, another plane of being, where our senses, mind, and intellect flounder in the dark."

"Yoga also signifies the fact that this metamorphosis of consciousness is not only bone and flesh, but a thinking, feeling, knowing entity whose true nature is still hidden from the scholars of our age as it was hidden from the wise men of the past. Consciousness is something intangible to our senses and mind. Neti, neti — not this, not this — save the Upanishads, for it cannot be described in terms of anything perceived by our senses or apprehended by our minds."

"Can you explain to yourself what or who you are? What is the nature of this thinking, knowing, feeling entity which is conscious of the world around it and is never able to answer the question — once it came, and where it has to go?"

"Material progress is a preliminary step to spiritual awakening. In every civilization of the past, when the smoke and dust of the battles and struggles for supremacy died down, the eternal questions — who am I, and what is the mystery beyond this creation — begin to agitate the more intelligent and evolved individuals of the populace."

"The answers furnished by wise men among the Egyptians, Babylonians, Indo-Aryans, Chinese, Persians, Greeks, and Romans are still on record, and it is obvious that it is only this restless hunger of the soul to discover itself that has prompted most of man's mental, artistic, and scientific growth. In fact, at the beginning, all knowledge originated from the pressures exerted by the religious thirst in man."

"There is nothing so erroneous as the opinions expressed by some scholars and men of science that religious experience is a pathological condition of the brain or an invasion from the unconscious. This irresponsible attitude destroys the very foundation of the previous urge responsible for the progress of mankind."

"Yoga aims to give these momentous questions answers which cannot be furnished by skeptical denials, drug use, mantras, breathing exercises, or meditation without other moral virtues. In order to be effective, yoga must be practiced in the fullness of all its eight limbs or branches. Everyone who aspires to the supreme experience must strive for perfection."

"They must begin first with the development of their personality. 'I call him alone a Brahman,' — that is, a spiritually awakened person — 'from whom lust, anger, pride, and envy have dropped off like a mustard seed from the point of a needle,' says Buddha. Mere recitation of the well-known mantra, Om Mani Padme Om, popular among the Buddhists in Tibet, where its rotation millions of times on prayer wheels could not bear any fruit, and one who did not follow the other teachings of Gautama the Buddha."

"The tragedy is that people do not understand what enlightenment or self-realization means. It is a colossal achievement."

The Yoga of Motherhood: Connection as Sacred Practice

And I will stop there just to bring it all back around. The word yoga means yoke — means connection. And so what are mothers for us? They are our connection to source, to what we come from.

They are the cradle that holds us. They are the life-giving presence that we live our life through and for. The greatest feeling in the world is to feel that your mom's proud of you.

So everybody, if you would with me — let's hold a moment of presence for our mothers. And let's do an Om Mani Padme Om. What that signifies, what that means, is "the jewel is in the lotus." The cradle, the mother, is being received and is holding the son, or the child.

We're going to take a deep breath in. We're going to do Om Mani Padme Om.

Deep breath. Holding presence. Breathing deeper. Hold it.

Allowing that resonance of our voice to move to our mothers, to ourselves, to the Divine Mother. Allowing all those connections to be within us. As we hold in our hearts the divinity that we are, that they are — that we can cradle within ourselves as we embody and hold this yoga of self.

As we become the yoke, we become the cradle for divinity with every breath and every step. We allow this. And so it is.

With that, I say thank you. Thank you for letting me share. Thank you to all the mothers out there — recognized and unrecognized. I see you. I am grateful for you. Thank you.