Hello. I am Bala.

Founder of Just Love Forest

I help people people create capacity and space to look deeply, listen and learn. Using nature as the guiding wisdom, you’re invited to remember underlying truths, inviting old stories and experiences that no longer serve you to lovingly fall away.

My experiences offer you a combination of meditation, forest, plant and nature therapies combined with learned knowledge, experiences and daily practices.

I come from a professional entrepreneurial business background and love to help those like my former self break free and experience deeper purpose, belonging and peace - right now.

If you’re not sure exactly what this means for you and you feel a little nervous or scared, but your heart or intuition have brought you here, then you are in the perfect place at the perfect time to realize everything is perfect. Courage is an important thing. I look forward to sharing with you.

All the initial listening sessions are donation-based. I’d enjoy hearing about your journey and seeing whether we can be helpful to each other along the way.

Just Love,

In partnership, the forest & I can offer:

• Stress and anxiety reduction

• Worthiness and self love

• Thriving interrelationships

• Life’s purpose and dharmic path

• Climate grieving and healing

• Grieving a loved one leaving their body

• Reconnection to dispel depression

• Unconditional love

• A life of service

• Speaking and living truth

• Remembering life is sacred

• A life of balance, healthy living, tending to the forest within you

My Life experiences that may be helpful to you

• Born in July 1979 in Atlanta, oldest of three siblings

• Taught 80 2nd and 6th graders English and Math in Honduras

• Guided groups week long canoe treks through the Boundary Waters Wilderness Canoe Area

• Part of trail building teams in the mountains of New Mexico

• Came out to my family and friends at age 18

• Have lived in NYC for 3 years, London for 6 years

• Launched my first start up, Meople.com at age 20

• 13 year executive career in digital marketing with 360i where I made over $400K a year by age 23

• Managed an office of 125 people and a P&L by age 25

• First made over $1M when I was 30

• Founded technology company CloudTags and raised $6.5M

• Founded Belong, a peer coaching community for LGBT people

• Been married twice

• Intense unsought and unexpected spiritual awakening at 39

• Intensive mystic meditation experiences

• Realizing what was really important, met Neem Karoli Baba and Ram Dass, who gave me the name Balarama and focused inward on my spiritual path that lead me to sell many assets to buy and steward 716 acres of land, now known as Just Love Forest, as a place for spiritual discovery and healing

• Have spent time with plant medicine teachers in Costa Rica and Peru

• Certified Forest Therapy Guide as part of the association of nature and forest therapy (www.natureandforesttherapy.org)

• Currently being certified as a meditation teacher by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach as part of the Greater Good Science Center at University of California, Berkeley

• I know what unconditional love is and I live freely

Let’s learn to live life freely together. Everything is perfect.