The Holistic BodyGraph

Picture this: you’re running your business, managing your relationships, and trying to care for your body, but it feels like no matter how much you do, you’re always running on empty. You wake up already tired, you second-guess decisions long after making them, and you catch yourself comparing your ideas to everyone else’s—sometimes wondering if you’ve lost touch with who you really are. 

This cycle is exhausting, and it’s one so many female creatives and entrepreneurs quietly live in. 

You already know how important it is to reduce your experience of stress, and to make the best use of the energy that is available to you. 

The truth is, we often lose energy in subtle but powerful ways: second-guessing our decisions, absorbing other people’s ideas and emotions more than we need to, or trying to push ourselves in directions that don’t align with who we really are. And don’t even mention self-care or the time it takes just to manage chronic illness! Over time, this creates exhaustion, stress, and even self-doubt. 

Your Holistic BodyGraph acts like a personal blueprint, helping you understand how you are naturally designed to relate to your:

• emotions
• thoughts, ideas, beliefs
• identity
• body
• energy. 

It sheds light on how you are designed to make decisions, and where you’re most susceptible to stress. It also reveals how other people’s thoughts, emotions, and drive can influence you, sometimes leaving you drained without even realizing why. 

The Holistic BodyGraph offers a way out. Instead of trying to push harder or wasting energy trying to be someone you’re not, the BodyGraph helps you see your unique design. 

The moment you start working with your BodyGraph, something shifts. You stop fighting against yourself. Stress softens, and your body feels a sense of safety it may not have felt in years. 

It doesn’t mean you’ll never face stress again—but it does mean you’ll know where it’s coming from and how to meet it in a way that supports your well-being. With this deeper understanding, you’ll begin to reclaim the clarity and vitality you need to create and sustain your business. 

Discover the peace, clarity, and inner strength that comes with living in alignment!

 The Holistic BodyGraph is a chart, a visual representation of the whole you that came into being at the time of your birth:

• your core personality
• your energy design for how you “get things done” and move through this world
• how your personality will influence others
• how and why others are likely to influence you
• how you naturally make decisions. 

This chart is based on the exact date, time, and place of your birth. It is a natal astrological chart, and encodes the planetary influences that were present at the place and time of your birth. 

This natal astrological chart is then folded in with three other ancient wisdom systems:

• The I Ching
• The Chakra system
• The Kaballah.

Together, these form the Holistic BodyGraph. 

There is also a secondary date that is calculated automatically in the BodyGraph. It is based on a date 3 months before you were born. This gives you access to:

• nuanced information about your body
• the unconscious drivers of your actions
• how your ancestry may be affecting your actions and outcomes today.

The Holistic BodyGraph is a chart- was an organic, holistic reflection of the whole you and who you are designed to be:

• Your body and energy
• Your mind and how you arrive at decisions
• Your spirit and the wisdom of ancient spiritual traditions like the I Ching, the Chakra System and the Kabbalah
• Your emotional and relational self.

You are a dynamic individual. You have been living your design your whole life whether you know it or not. 

This Holistic BodyGraph focuses on the nine Centers, the Channels connecting them, the Gates (based on the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching), and the planetary influences in our lives.

The BodyGraph and the nine Centers are the foundations of the Holistic BodyGraph.

There are no formulas, shortcuts, or rules of behavior for making decisions or getting things done. There is only the dynamic flow of your energy and being, there for you to experience, learn from, and grow with. 

In January of 1987, Ra Uru Hu (born Robert Allen Krakower in Montreal, Canada) was living in Ibiza, Spain. One evening he had an experience with what he would later call “the Voice”. For the next eight days, the Voice gave Ra the details for the structure of the Human Design system, and Ra wrote it all down. 

The Human Design system was presented as an elegant synthesis of ancient knowledge- the I Ching, the Chakra system, astrology, and the Kabbalah. When Ra first began to share this information with others, he was clear that the information did not come from him- the Voice had given it to him. Ra said Human Design belonged to everyone. In the early years, Ra thought that the mechanics of Human Design should be explored in a scientific way through individual experience. 

Zen Human Design

Ra Uru Hu first came to America in 1993. He met a couple whose task it was to establish the Human Design System in America. The two people were Zeno Dickson and Chaitanyo Taschler, both living in New Mexico at the time. They were among his first teachers in America and in the world. Together, they helped him develop a clear visual representation of the BodyGraph. Zeno and Chaitanyo called this early Human Design revelation Zen Human Design. 

At that time, Ra said that the Human Design belonged to everyone. Human Design was not his invention- it didn’t come from him; it came through him from the “Voice”. 

Later additions 

Throughout the 1990's, Ra continued to make additions to the Human Design system. These were his interpretations of previous material, or what he said were ongoing revelations. These became the present-day version Human Design. 

The Holistic BodyGraph is based on the earlier teachings found in Zen Human Design. I believe that the later additions reduce the depth and self-knowledge  available, to formulas and short cuts not part of the original Human Design. For these reasons, I choose not to incorporate these later additions in my Holistic BodyGraph sessions. 

What was the concept of "no choice"?

One of Ra’s early teachings included the concept of “no choice”. That is, that the design as revealed in our chart is fixed. We cannot change our design and our fate is pre-determined.

Zeno and Chaitanyo came to disagree with this. They believed (as I do) that we all can live a conscious life. We can observe our actions and reactions, and take responsibility for what we do. Our Human Design Bodygraph is fixed by our birth time and location. But how we respond to the information in our Bodygraph is our own choice.

We are not victims of fate. I believe we can be active participants in co-creating our lives.