Guatemala Retreat - Session 1: October 10th, 2025

Guided Meditation: You are just aware by your nature

- Deepening into the stillness of your being.

- The mind looks for stories to attach meaning to.

- The egoic movements ‘I got it’ and ‘I lost it’.

- Who or what is aware?: story-less, impersonal Awareness.

- Awareness is just aware of the experience of effort, Awareness can’t make effort.

- Discernment: effort Vs vigilance.

- The paradox: absolute and relative truths exist simultaneously.

- Direct experiential knowing: techniques are useful until they are no longer needed.

- The lifelong process of integration: can you get comfortable and enjoy it?

- Physical pain as a gateway to healing past unprocessed emotions and energies: trusting the innate intelligence of the body to process and release.

- The 'pain meditation’: how to meet the experience of physical pain.

- The practice of Embodied Awareness.

- A shift in the focus of attention: you can’t lose Awareness.

- The opening of the heart and the transmutation of past unprocessed energies as a side effect of abiding as Awareness.

- The foundation of presence: here, aware that perceiving is happening, including the aliveness of the body in your attention.

- Unconditional love: allowing without taking ownership of any experience.

- Honoring the body and its needs.

- The different kinds of tears.

- Giving the body permission to grieve.

- No experience defines you, Awareness.

- Transmuting layers of protective energies and past unprocessed pain.

- Preferences on the human level are natural.

- There is only one Consciousness.

- The mind gets a distorted pleasure from identifying with a suffering conceptual 'me'.

- Allowing the heart to break wide open.

- Building presence power: consistency with the practice and the power of prayer.

- Learning to ride a bike: keep coming back to your practice until it becomes your natural state.

- Societal conditionings around crying: breaking the cycle and embodying healthy masculinity.

- The mind’s tendency to focus on experiences: ultimately all experiences are temporary.

- What feels true?: Living in the unknown and following your inner guidance moment to moment.

- There is only ever this moment.

- Two sides of the conceptual self: ‘l am a victim’ and ‘I am special’.

Length: 1:48:50