In my search to distance myself more from unethical, disrespectful companies, at the same time trying to provide a safe and secure space for those that follow the Transformational Meditation Group, I've decided to move away from Discord and use the more secure end to end encrypted Matrix network.Â
Discord has worked brilliantly for me during the past years. Especially when facilitating online meditation sessions with you all, while I'm away from home. However, in order to have a good time on Discord, members are required to be active. It's after all a group chat/messaging system with the option for audio/video meetings. I also had hoped to attract more teachers to the group in order to collaborate in facilitating more yoga/meditation sessions online. In the end, the whole Discord server ended up with me being the only active person while the around 150 members were basically waiting for me to entertain them. Since it costs me quite some money to keep the discord server up in addition to Discord becoming quite complicated to maintain, I decided to move the community over to the much more secure and decentralized Matrix network.Â
Apparently, some of the members of the discord server liked that idea and jumped right over to our community on Matrix. Â

Matrix is free to join with an already existing account from Google, Facebook, or Apple. You can also create a fresh account. When you join you will notice that it is quite similar to our community website and that it has the look and feel of apps like Telegram and other messaging apps. Communities are actually called Spaces and when you join the TMG-community space you will get the opportunity to join any room in that space that suits your interests. This means that, unlike discord channels, you will never be bothered by messages from rooms that you don't care about. Are you only interested in following along with our guided meditation sessions and want to follow what we post on the website here? Then you only have to join the Live Guided Meditation room and the Community Stream room. In addition, it is now easier than ever to join our weekly live Heart-Brain Coherence session straight from the Live Guided Meditation room but also from this website. No new accounts and extra logins are required.Â
Slowly but surely we are switching to services from providers that are more conscious of what they are doing. Providers that value their customers and don't disrespect them by selling their information, or trying to manipulate their information stream with algorithms tailored to do more harm than good. We went from Facebook to our own community website, powered by Tribe. We use Odysee and the Lbry network as an alternative to youtube. We are in the process of getting more and more people over to Vero as a far better alternative to Instagram. We are now switching from Discord to Matrix and will be completely free from Discord in the coming weeks. We have linked our Matrix community to Telegram so people can use both, without missing out on information.Â
I hope you appreciate our continuing efforts to make our services easier to access as well as provide you with better social media alternatives.Â