No matter where we go or what we do our body will be with us. For this reason, we see it as essential to have a rich relationship with our body. Our bodily experience is layered and dynamic. It is primary that we learn the language our body communicates in. Becoming more informed about receiving communication from our body and skilled in translating and applying that information has value in many contexts. We need this if we hope to integrate trauma, unearth insights and generational wisdom, as we navigate uncharted territory during a Journey, or as we work the Emergence phase of the 3 Phases.

This pillar offers literacy in trauma and integration. We learn about the different types of trauma and different approaches to the integration of trauma -all grounded in science, practice, and ancient traditions. This pillar offers education and practices to maximize human potential and secure the foundations of our psychological/physical bodies. This pillar offers education and practices to deepen our embodiment of awe, sensuality, and pleasure. These most juicy elements of being human are centralized and remind us that there is unreasonable joy available. Inviting us to an erotic engagement of life instead of a neurotic reaction.

The Shamanic/Energetic Medicine (SEM) Pillar invites us to bring our collective ancient practices into our daily life. We employ the word ‘shamanic’ broadly to name the radiant fact that all our human ancestry -no matter where we come from, how we identify, or what religion/spirituality we claim- once used the same Earthly events to heal, commemorate, mourn, inspire, plant and sow, and celebrate existence. Every ancient people had a ceremony connected to lunar & seasonal cycles. Every ancient people had a ceremony connected to birth, maturation, elderhood, and death. And every ancient people included types of storytelling, feasting, and dancing when it came to these ceremonies. They also shared the same knowing that every aspect of nature -from animal to ecosystem to element- had personality and was Essential Nature expressing.

SEM also reminds us that there is a mysterious and mighty event occurring within us and all around us. We receive the Laws of Thermodynamics, Evolution, Spirit in action/dance, the 3 Phases of Transformation (TK), the Hero’s Journey, the Perennial Philosophy, and honor that all these are telling a similar story through different lenses. The AQAL unfolding and enfolding signature to the human experience is Novelty breathing. SEM and TK make room for Novelty to breathe.

Witness Conscious Meditation (WCM) is an umbrella term encompassing the realizations by sage’s around the world about meditation and it’s connection to communion, union, and identification with Ultimate Reality. WCM is a silent, motionless, open-eyed meditation practice asking us to be radically awake to the present moment. We also apply enigmatic questions of self and reality with the intent to deconstruct our ill informed ego identities. This allows us to update our philosophical orientation and consciously inhabit Essential Nature. WCM help’s us uncover a way of perceiving from the seat of Essential Nature rather than purely conceptual thinking.

We advocate this style of meditation because it supports our journey through the Uncovering, Claiming, and Emerging phases.

Raw Communication is about embracing the evolution of communication. It includes the development and understanding of Needs and Emotional Literacy, the ability to “meet others where they are at” while remaining consciously intimate, & updating our communication skills as our perceptual lens evolves.

In this modal we incorporate the work of R.A. Masters, Marshall Rosenburg, and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to identify, define, understand, and communicate our emotions and needs in a conscious and healthy way.

Integral Theory is a modal of reality created by Ken Wilber that offers an all-inclusive mapping of consciousness using the AQAL framework. AQAL stands for "all quadrants, all levels, all lines, all states, and all types." Integral Theory provides us with a “map of sense making.” It can be applied to the personal, relational, and the systemic so we may perceive more holistically that which we bring our attention to.