Shimmering Seahorse and Sea Kelp Sangha

Students of The Awakening are encouraged to join The Shimmering Seahorse and Sea Kelp Sangha.  It meets on Zoom one Saturday a month for two hours.  The first hour and a half is devoted to intense exploration of the practice, and the last half hour is open to questions and comments.  The Sangha is the foundational glue that brings together students of The Awakening from all over the world, and each monthly gathering keeps enriching and deepening your experience of the koans.

 

I used to offer an annual yearlong Sangha in which I would start in January from the very beginning and then, slow step by slow step, keep adding pieces to the puzzle until it culminated the following December in a direct experience of The Great Wide Open.

 

I don’t want to wait that long anymore and instead wish to dive in to the deep end of the practices in every gathering.  To this end I’ve created the Hollow Bamboo Dharma Foundations of Practice 146 page ebook.  It covers all the current practices and koans and, chapter by chapter, takes you on an ever deepening journey inside yourself, and I have made the purchase of the manual the prerequisite for joining the Sangha.  

 

The price of the ebook is $50 and can be paid through the website Store.  You are then eligible to join the Sangha monthly gatherings which I have decided to offer this year completely on a dana (donation) basis.  You are free to offer dana, also through the website Store, at any time in any amount.  In this way I feel I won’t be excluding anyone from exploring these radical teachings as part of the Sangha.  And if anyone truly can’t afford to offer any dana, they too can be a participant.

 

In the past I found that far too many people opted to watch the recordings of the Sangha sessions rather than participate in them live.  I far prefer to have all of you present, and so I’m no longer offering recordings of the sessions to students living in the Americas and Europe.  I will, however, send recordings to any of you who live in Asia or Australia as participating in middle of the night sessions doesn’t make any sense to me either.

 

Every month or six weeks you may email me to schedule an hour long one-on-one private Zoom meditation during which you can also share questions and observations.  The fee for a private consultation with me is $150 for an hour long call.  For participants of the Sangha, the Zoom call is once again offered completely on a dana basis.

 

The next meeting of The Shimmering Seahorse and Sea Kelp Sangha is April 5th at 8 AM Mountain Time, and it is open to everyone independent of whether or not you've already purchased the manual of practices.   The Zoom link for every month will be sent to you a few days prior to the session in an Embodiment email newsletter.

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Private Retreats at Bambu Hueco 

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I enjoy working with students intensively one-on-one, and I invite practitioners who feel ready to dive deeply in to the koans to travel to Bambu Hueco and enter in to intensive retreat.  For the foreseeable future we will be offering both a seven and ten day intensive retreat format although longer retreats may be available depending on your meditation experience.                    

Your retreat will be a mix of exploration on your own coupled with intensive personal instruction, deep bodywork, and dreamwork.  Starting with a sunrise meditation and morning practice at the cottage, you will then walk over to the outdoor meditation hall and sit with me for two hours of personal meditation instruction and sobhet (spiritual instruction).  In the afternoons you will again be meditating on your own at the meditation cottage, and you will either receive a deep bodywork session from me or do a dreamwork session with my wife Coco.  There will be ample time to take walks on the path around our property, do your preferred form of exercise, enjoy the swimming pool, and create your own magical music at the chime arch.
 
Bambu Hueco is situated at the southern tip of the Nicoya peninsula, one of the five Blue Zones in the world where people not uncommonly live past 100 and remain active.  One of the features of Blue Zone longevity is a diet rich in legumes, vegetables, fruits, and grains, and we will serve you light but nutritious vegetarian Blue Zone meals:  a main meal at lunchtime, a light salad for dinner.  We will stock the cottage with foods for breakfast—local fruits, yogurt, granola, nut milks—that you can prepare on your own.  
 
To schedule a retreat please email me directly (will@embodiment.net) and let me know of your meditational background, why you're drawn to an intensive retreat at Bambu Hueco, and when ideally you'd like to come.  I will then be able to determine if a retreat here is appropriate for you and will get back to you.  To support the work at Bambu Hueco suggested dana for the Seven Day Retreat is $5000.  Suggested dana for the Ten Day Retreat is $7250.  If you want to enter in to retreat with your spouse/partner/friend in the practice, suggested dana for the Seven Day Retreat is $8,000 and suggested dana for the Ten Day Retreat is $10,000.  Once you're accepted in to the retreat, you will need to send a non-refundable $2000 deposit, and I will send you detailed instructions on traveling to Bambu Hueco.  
 
As with all the teaching I do, I want your experience, and the deepening of your meditational path, to be life-transforming.  I want you to have a direct experience of what I call The Great Wide Open by the time you leave, and I also want you to head back home with an understanding of how to continue the practice on your own.  Retreats can be entered in to either as a Pureland student or as a Ganjasangha student.  The teachings are identical. 

 

 

Couples Gazing Intensive with Will and Coco Johnson      

The gazing practice of Rumi and Shams and Radha and Krishna continues to be the most powerful and transformational practice that I have ever come across to deepen the bond between couples and reveal the directly experienced truth of the consciousness of union.  We gaze and become one.
     
Entheogenic medicines dramatically accelerate the potency of the practice. Exploring the practice on cannabis or MDMA simply needs to be experienced to be believed.
     
In this intensive four day retreat we will guide you in the full range of gazing practices.  Meditating with kasinas prepares you for the explosive encounter that occurs when you and your partner lock eyes.  On day three we will radically increase the potency of the practice through ingesting a mild dose of MDMA.  I repeat again:  exploring the practice on an entheogenic substance needs to be experienced to be believed.  The journey of unfolding is powerful and dramatic and gives you a direct enlightenment experience of The Great Wide Open out of which everything emerges.
     
Cost of the four day retreat is $7500.  Email Will at will@embodiment.net, and let him know of the nature of your relationship with your partner and why you wish to explore this practice.  Once you're accepted into the retreat, you will need to send a non-refundable $2000 deposit, and I will send you detailed instructions on traveling to Bambu Hueco.  

 

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Consultations with Will Johnson

Will Johnson is available for hour-long private Zoom consultations if you wish to speak to him personally about any issues you may be having with your meditation practice or anything really that’s coming up for you in your life.  To schedule a Zoom consultation go to my website Store and select the Private Consultation button. After you submit your payment of $150, email me at will@embodiment.net to schedule your consultation.  

 

In that email, list three possible times that will work for you, and I will get back to you and confirm which one works for me.  I’ll then send you a Zoom link for our session.  

 

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