Open TRAINING

Return to the Source | Meditation Retreat

Summer Focus: Rooted Radiance

Thursday - Sunday 4pm -7pm CT
July 16 - 19, 2026

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  • Level: Open
  • Video time: 12 hours
  • Access: 6 months




Course overview
This journey guides you to recognize Shen as simple presence, revealed as interference quiets rather than something to create.

You’ll learn to distinguish clarity from emotional intensity, refining experience without amplifying it.

From there, you’ll explore how to remain centered in connection, relating without losing yourself.

Finally, you’ll learn to return and store energy rather than disperse it.

These stages cultivate a stable, integrated awareness that remains calm, clear, and grounded in all conditions.


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July10 until July 2nd.

A 4-Night Immersion in Stillness, Clarity, and Inner Stability

This retreat is not about adding, but returning.

Shen (神) is not emotion or thought, but presence itself—clear, steady, and naturally luminous when unobstructed. Most experience only its distortion through reactivity and stimulation, mistaking intensity for clarity.

Practice shifts from creating presence to removing interference. Stillness reveals what has always been there, exposing tension, disturbance, and underlying patterns.

This four-night journey guides you through a complete arc of inner cultivation.

• Begin by recognizing Shen as simple presence, not something to create but something revealed when interference quiets

• Learn to distinguish clarity from emotional intensity, refining rather than amplifying experience

• Explore connection without losing your center, remaining present within yourself while relating to others

• Learn the essential Daoist principle of return, allowing energy to settle and store rather than disperse

Each session blends lecture, guided meditation, and silence—
so the work moves beyond ideas into direct experience.
Not only could I feel the energy you were projecting during meditation, I could feel when you shifted the intensity up and down.

I was being pushed backwards when you turned it up - through the computer! Simply Awesome! 
Patrick