Our Mission
“Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
R. Haus Institute, LLC is an educational and healing institute providing the highest quality books, ethnographies, blogs, podcasts, videos, online classes, workshops, and coaching by weaving together ancient and contemporary knowledge to promote the integration of science and spirituality, purposeful living, and planetary stewardship. All educational and healing modalities draw upon the unique life experiences and formal training of Dr. Alex K. Ruuska as a social scientist, environmental steward, author, professor, and therapist.
Vision Statement
R. Haus Institute, LLC. represents a way of being as well as a way of doing. This transformative educational and healing institute seeks to bring together ancient and modern knowledge to educate people about how to foster and maintain healthy, harmonious, and balanced relationships between and among all living systems of this planet. This aim is achieved by equipping people with knowledge as well as practical tools to catalyze understanding, purposeful living, and responsible actions. Using holistic approaches that incorporate experiential learning, the natural and social sciences, art, and the wisdom of spirit that dwells within every living being, this institute seeks to enhance the welfare of all the sentient life systems that will inherit the individual and collective life choices of human beings living in the twenty first century. This institute promotes the preservation of democratic ideals, human rights, and planetary stewardship over profit. It is a friend to all of those who are targeted for speaking truth and advocating responsibility in an age of profiteering and earth exploitation.