Rinu is a soul space and candle house devoted to the remembrance that we are light, wrapped in the story of being human. Energy expressed through form. At its center is Alyssa Shanahan, a mystic and seer whose psycho-spiritual approach to self-actualization illuminates the unique intelligence moving through you, as you, in this lifetime. Her lens is shaped by immersion in Human Design, mediumship, and non-dual philosophy, grounding the path of awakening for secular and mystically-minded souls alike. Offerings of personal energy mapping, beeswax candles, and earthly musings serve to keep humankind in conversation with light.

You are (not separate from) nature itself.

Humans are the only part of nature that forget they are nature. We spend lifetime after lifetime trying to answer the very questions our disconnection creates. What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Trees do not question their direction. Rivers do not debate their timing. But the human being, born of the same earth and governed by the same laws of nature, learns early to mistrust its own inner current.

Soul. Spirit. Awareness. Energy. Nature. Consciousness.

Different words, same essence: the invisible intelligence moving through form. It is not separate from biology, nor is it opposed to science. It is mechanical. It is memory. It beats as your heart, breathes as your lungs, digests, senses, responds—without requiring your belief. And still, we are the only species taught to override it.

Spiritual traditions, at their best, were never about escape. They were about return. About peeling back the false self—not to dissolve identity, but to remember what it was before it was shaped by approval, trauma, performance, and fear. That self—the one that moves from the inside out—is not concerned with image. It does not ask to be validated. It expresses because expression is its function. It speaks because speaking is its nature.

Most people are not expressing themselves. They are repeating themselves—what they’ve been conditioned to be, what they believe will be accepted, what won’t threaten the shape of their life. RINU exists as a container for those ready to see the difference. Not because expression is aesthetically pleasing. But because conscious, truthful expression is the spiritual task of being alive—and the only way we create a world that reflects it.

Simplicity, elevated by ritual.*

⊹ 100% ethically harvested beeswax from local Massachusetts apiaries that honor the bees.

⊹ Natural honeyed scent and a bright golden glow.

⊹ Crafted by hand in small batches as gateways to your downtime.

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You are (not separate from) nature itself.

Motion graphic by Sofia Crespo