Welcome to Your Second Life

This immensely popular course is for everyone who has been confirmed by an approved Waking Down teacher to have transitioned into the second life, and would like to benefit from the immense cultural wisdom we’ve collected about it.

Many of those who have attended this event have gone on to train as Waking Down mentors, and some have become teachers. Welcome to Your Second Life (WTYSL) is a prerequisite for our next two advanced courses, Deepening in Your Second Life (DSL) and Advanced Mutuality Skills (AMS). As with all our courses, there will be a high ratio of teachers to participants.

WTYSL is a tribal gathering, celebration, and sharing that is sure to inspire and nourish all who attend. It is a deep and powerful group exploration of the many joys and challenges that all practitioners face at this stage of the journey. Experience has taught us that receiving a basic orientation and establishing appropriate support systems are crucial to your greatest happiness and healthiest development in your second life.

We will explore some of the following topics, depending on each group’s needs and interests:

Overview of the Second Life, its Challenges and Benefits

  • Disappointments and fantasies about awakening
  • Discovering new trust and confidence in Self, Others, and Being (beginning with discovery of fears, wounding, and lack of trust)

Living the paradox

  • The Core Wound and the Conscious Wound
  • How it changes over time. Dropping vs. oozing. “Losing it.”
  • Starkness, rawness, ordinariness. Lack of buffers.
  • Deepening and integration of human and divine natures over time
  • Wellness of Being

Understanding & Navigating the Shakedown

  • Why it’s necessary, why it’s difficult, what to expect, and why
  • Dissolution of bodily, emotional, and mental beliefs, conditionings, and patterning
  • Dissolution of who/what you thought you were
  • Process of reconciling wholeness of realized being with a fractured sense of conditioned being
  • With deeper wellness of Being comes awareness of previously inaccessible pain
  • Broken zones and split off parts are not available for inspection until they are
  • The impact of natural exposure to material you could not previously have allowed in consciousness
  • Embodiment Yoga requires BEING IT
  • Not only dark and difficult! Integration, peace, bliss, depth, maturity

Importance of Support in the Second Life

  • Importance of having networks of connections that are stronger than the logic of your broken zones
  • Useful therapeutic modalities and skillful means

The Importance of Waking after Awakening

  • Wellness and presence give you the ability to hold more and more tension and opposites, and to face wounds, conditioning, and whatever IS, as well as the strength to do whatever it takes to heal and integrate where you can.
  • Creating a meditation practice that works for you
  • Devotion now that you’re Onlyness

Mutuality and Intimate Relationship

  • Mutuality, daring, speaking your truth, deep listening
  • Falling in love with everyone; “tantric initiations”
  • Discovering and addressing distrust and other issues in relationship
  • The wound of relationship
  • The need to be met bodily
  • Balancing Waking, Down, & Mutuality—discovering your preference(s) and making sure to include the other(s)

Your Unique Nature and Purpose

  • Only you can be you. Finding out who you really are; learning to truly accept who you are cooperating with your personal tendencies, expressing your gifts, fulfilling your purpose, becoming at peace with what is.

Completions

  • Ongoing support options
  • Final comments from teachers and participants

Morning large group meetings will focus on topics mentioned above that are relevant to you; afternoon small groups are designed to assist you in your most cutting-edge personal exploration. The small groups that form during this course will be encouraged to continue meeting by telephone for a few months after the event for the sake of deepening support and mutuality.

This course is open to all whose Second Births have been confirmed in official interviews. You might have only recently passed through your Second Birth awakening. Or, perhaps you have been living in your Second Life for some time, but have never taken this course. You might even have already taken this course, and would like to renew your focus, support, and sense of community. Whatever the case, you are welcome.

This event takes place over the course of four days, beginning on Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m., and ending on Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. The cost is $625, with a $50 discount for early registration. Optional follow-up phone bridges are also available at $25 per session. Please contact us to register and receive specific details, including schedule, lodging, and travel information.