About Us
Rowan Gabrielle
Artist, Entrepreneur, and Author
Co-Author of the books; “Sacred Commerce, A Blueprint for a New Humanity” and the E-book; “Age of Consciousness, Surfing the Disruption”
Rowan Gabrielle is a pioneering leader and social entrepreneur in the global consciousness movement. For over three decades, she has honed her visionary yet grounded approach, guiding humanity in reconnecting to our innate beauty, goodness, and truth.
Through her presence, Rowan helps people access their inner power, inviting them into deeper coherence, purpose, and sovereignty. Her work is about deepening, remembering, and re-patterning.
Weaving in the concepts of Emotional Intelligence, Rowan works internationally with individuals and groups, helping them to build personal and community resilience.
Rowan began her entrepreneurial journey at 19, initially importing superfoods and later co-founding a series of ventures that culminated in the purchase of America’s historic WholeLife Expo. Her early achievements include launching eco-fashion events; Awareness (2001) and EcoPetal (2006).
Her production expertise spans TV, video, events, and festivals. She conceived and produces the Union of the Kingdoms, a live art and music festival that has been held in both the UK and US, inspired by her photography, capturing the unseen energies of nature and spirit.
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As CEO of KidsEQ.com, Rowan and her team are building an international initiative to empower families with the tools of emotional literacy, building on the legacy co-created with her late husband, Ayman Sawaf, that produced a 21-book series on Emotional Literacy, two award-winning films, and three TV series, through Enchate Entertainment, founded in the 1990s.
Rowan is the creator of The Emotional Alchemy Course, a transformative teaching for adults to master their inner world through radical self-responsibility.
Rowan lives in South West England with her 14-year-old son. Together, they have built a rich life within a co-creative community of friends, living in nature and growing lots of veg.
Ayman Sawaf (1953 to 2022)
Ayman, aka ‘Happy the Man’ definitely enjoyed “a life well lived” not without its trials and tribulations, but with great gusto and ‘joy the Vive’. He leaves a great legacy. His visions have already touched many and will continue to touch many more.
He has left us the architecture of Emotional Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Alchemy, and Sacred Commerce. Many of his blueprints are still to be fleshed out, but thankfully, he infused them into many hundreds of people, all of which will hopefully continue to co-create with us thanks to his inspiration and love.
For a deeper insight into his work: Aymansawaf.com has a full list of his extraordinary accomplishments in this one lifetime. Sacred Commerce will remain the place to come to understand the essence of his work and to join the co-creative team that continues to work to develop it.
Ayman Sawaf (1953 to 2022)
Ayman, aka ‘Happy the Man’ lived with great gusto and joie de vivre. Over his lifetime his work touched many thousands of people, and he leaves a great legacy; the architecture of Emotional Literacy, Emotional Intelligence, Emotional Alchemy, and Sacred Commerce.
Aymansawaf.com has a full list of his extraordinary accomplishments in this one lifetime.
Sacred Commerce is the hub for his life‘s work and aytopia.com is the community expression. His legacy will of course, far outlive him, and our gratitude towards this truly great soul grows daily, as we live into the wisdom he so elegantly synthesised.
May his work flourish and may his love continue to touch many millions of souls.
Our Story
Ayman and Rowan met in 1992 and after the initial disgust, (due to a deep-seated judgement/opinion about Coca-Cola) sparks most definitely flew and a deep recognition and remembering was felt by both.
Where Emotional Intelligence Meets Entrepreneurship
Sparks flew, not necessarily your regular sparks of body chemistry – but spiritual sparks around a love of business as a potential spiritual path and avenue of evolution, seeding ways for humanity to more elegantly grow up and for people to begin to live in right livelihood. In the 30 years they spent as partners they spent most of their time together – co-creating all manner of businesses and homes – their main focus however was on the development of real tools to assist themselves and fellow humans in their understanding and development of self. They focused on what they considered to be the most essential tools for awakening and every day happiness: Emotional Literacy and Emotional Intelligence.
the marriage of business and spirituality
They also developed the Meme of Sacred Commerce – the marriage of business and spirituality – leading to one living one’s destiny. The partnership continues although Ayman is now working from the angelic realm, participating through dreams and through the many treasures he left buried inside the many humans he touched whilest he was here.
Together Ayman and Rowan created an international community that continues to grow and develop these memes and to build out the Aytopia.com platform that they built in the last year of their lives together on earth.
Ayman and Rowan
Ayman and Rowan met in 1992, and after Rowan’s initial disgust due to a deep-seated judgment of Coca-Cola, sparks most definitely flew, and a deep recognition and remembering were felt.
They both saw business as a potential spiritual path and avenue of evolution, and spent the 30 years they had together developing tools to assist themselves and their fellow travelers in understanding and developing self. They focused on what they considered the most essential tools for awakening and everyday happiness.
In Ayman’s last year on earth, he and Rowan wrote “The Age of Consciousness, Surfing the Disruption.” Containing the essence of their joint learnings, this short e-book is your guide to navigating the world as it transitions from the old paradigm to the new. The Aytopia.com platform was conceived with a vision of it becoming a community-owned business incubator for evolving the tools of Sacred Commerce to support creators, teachers, and visionaries.
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Ayman’s Departure, His Light Remains
Ayman departed his body in February 2022. Rowan always said he lived like a comet, a bright light that you wanted to be around all the time knowing that it wouldn’t necessarily be here for the long run but that for as long as it was you had to be around its light. Ayman was an international treasure and poured his love for humanity into the many projects he seeded, he created friendship and intimacy quickly and was a significant impact in the lives of many hundreds of individuals.
All of us at Sacred Commerce feel sure that his work will not only continue, but will in fact flourish due to the love that he shared so generously with so many. Sacred Commerce is the hub for his life‘s work and aytopia.com is the community expression. His legacy will of course far outlive him and our gratitude towards this truly great soul grows daily, as we live in to the wisdom he so elegantly synthesised, he was an unusual soul and not always the easiest to live with but always without fail a most inspiring person to be around. May his work flourish and may his love continue to touch many millions of souls.