Most parents, at some point, carry a question they don’t say out loud. Why is this so hard? Why does this child press on exactly the places that are hardest to hold? Did I do something wrong? Am I the wrong parent for this child?

What Sri Kaleshwar recovered from the ancient palm leaf manuscripts of India offers a completely different frame: your child is not a blank slate who arrived empty, waiting to be shaped. They arrived as a soul — formed, ancient, already knowing — with their own history and direction in place before they drew their first breath. And they chose this family specifically.

In this first session of the Raising a Soul series, Ambika shares what this tradition says about who your child arrived as, why the friction between you is not failure, and what the ancient world understood about the soul of a child that most of modern parenting has entirely forgotten. The teaching draws directly from The Holy Womb Chakra by Sri Kaleshwar, and is offered in a way that requires no prior experience with this tradition — only a real question and the willingness to look at your family from a completely different place.

Your Child Chose You is the opening session of an eight-month series called Raising a Soul, exploring what ancient wisdom says about the relationship between parents and children. One session per month, one hour, one layer deeper into understanding the particular soul you came here to raise.