A 9-month exploration of Being & Becoming
with Brent Swift & Jessica Rose October 2024 - June 2025
Intention:
Touching source together, an awake, transformative space emerges.
Within this space we will explore our inherent connective nature, align with the evolutionary frequencies of shared unity, and open to and nurture new expressions of humanity in harmony.
We will center our awareness in Our Luminous Heart which represents:
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the shared experience of the group heart we will become together
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the divinization of humanity - the process of becoming our divine selves
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Source - the ground luminosity or ground of being
As we move through and beyond individual perspectives, we access the ground luminosity or the ground of being which is the foundation of our evolutionary becoming.
Through this process, we will align with and directly experience aspects of human potential that are only possible as we become a unified body, stabilized in Source, experiencing together.
This journey allows us to foster a profound sense of intraconnection and unity, within which our uniqueness flourishes, as we simultaneously experience the unique qualities of this shared body of the group we are creating.
Explore, Experience, Emerge: Our Luminous Heart
This hybrid class focuses on creating a shared, transformative experience rather than information dissemination. Together, both in person and online, we will:
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Explore: Delve into new ways of connecting and being.
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Experience: Engage in practices that foster – a profound sense of connectivity, being part of a whole greater than your individual self, shared unity and evolutionary levels of consciousness, stabilizing in the ground of being.
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Emerge: Discover new expressions of our shared humanity.
A warm welcome to you, as we come together to explore evolutionary ways of being human together. The great shift underway in our shared humanity is an opportunity to open to our intraconnectivity, expanding beyond our current understanding and experiences of who and what we are as separate. The exploration of our evolving Life, that which changes, is a continuous opportunity to experience the stability of that which is unchanging, the ground of our being, always here, always now.
Just as the river flows to its ocean home, the ocean of consciousness we are remains, ever-present, even as new ways of returning to or evolving ways of experiencing Self emerge. The synchronous awareness of: that which changes and that which is unchanging, existence and evolution, our unified and unique self, being and becoming, opens an expansive multidimensional perspective.
We perceive beyond the ordinary as we behold both the extraordinary and mundane in unison, revealing the love that weaves it all.
Together we will learn to navigate and attend to our group heart as a gateway, and
be part of the miracle as a shared evolutionary body of our becoming, emerges through and as us.
Join us on the adventure of Our Luminous Heart.
Be part of this unique and unified body of becoming
as an evolving template for a new humanity,
a new world in harmony.
This course supports:
Experiencing Shared Unity
We are each gateways to and expressions of source. By fully turning towards and opening to one another, our shared origin reveals. This orientation allows us to experience new emergent properties of togetherness, beyond separation.
Stabilized in the source of existence itself, we experience our uniqueness, indivisible from the unified being we become together.
Embodying the
Energetics of Evolution
Upgrade your nervous systems and
meridians to the new evolutionary frequencies available now. Be a clear vessel through which humanity's unique and unified evolutionary expressions emerge.
Recalibrate to the evolutionary frequencies of a more beautiful world, which are available now.
True Listening
The profound wisdom of Source resounds and is ever-present, accessible as we cultivate the art of stopping to truly listen.
Learn to listen to Source by truly being present with another. Attune to Source and the evolutionary sounds of existence manifesting through our shared unity and our group heart.
IntraConnectivity
Meet in the living intraconnectivity of our shared group heart, a portal for new expressions of consciousness.
Intraconnection: the connection between something that is already whole.
Multidimensional Perception
Learn to broaden your subjective awareness beyond the individual to an enhanced unified experience.
Grow the capacity to perceive from a plethora of orientations simultaneously,
without a sense of separation or
preference. This exemplifies multidimensional perception.
Expanding Beyond
Together we are becoming a portal for the future to manifest through us now, for something to be created that has never been before.
In this experiential space we will explore the creative unknown, allowing it to inform and transform; us, humanity and beyond.
Through this shared unity, experience
living "future" potentials here & now.
Divinization
This is a call to harmonize our humanity and divinity, and together awaken a unified expression of new human being, intraconnected with all of life.
~ization: the process of becoming or making like
Connecting as Community
Together we will create a container of community, within which our shared unity may emerge and be experienced.
Explore connection beyond the separation and survival of individualism.
You are not alone. Connect and engage with nature and beings on a spiritual path.
Trusting Life
As we open to life as our teacher, we can meet every experience as an expression of Source.
By accepting rather than resisting our current reality, we can experience destabilisation and unravelling as gateways to presence, allowing us to further stabilize into the ground of being.
Surrender stories of suffering and separation, allowing yourself to settle into the simplicity of ever-presence, always available now.
Praise & Insights from offerings with Jessica & Brent
What the heck are we doing?
We'll draw upon the following resources, as well as those we are yet to discover:
Dyads, triad and other group practices
Upgrading meridians
Chanting, mantra, toning, and singing
Nervous system optimization supports
Joy
Energy or Qigong Exercises
Inquiry
Nature walks
Practices to experience our group heart, our shared body of unity
Fire circle
Dancing
Play
Drum led journeys
Additional possibilities are:
Energetic Entrainments
Tuning Forks
Sacred Geometry
Embodiment Practices
Canoeing
Labyrinth walking
Forest bathing
Embodiment Practices ~ Somatic Presencing
Ritual
Embody Truth Practice
Energetic Sovereignty Techniques
Periods of Silence & Stillness
Group Activations
What this course includes:
Engaging & Experiential In-Person Immersions
Nine in-person one day immersions with two seasoned embodied spirituality teachers and practitioners.
Community Evenings
Eight 2 hour virtual evening gatherings with Jessica, Brent and Our Awakening Community.
Continuing Education
12 CEUs are available for Massage Therapists.
Class Recordings
You will receive access to recordings of all day-long and evening classes.
Commune with Nature
Held amidst the serene embrace of nature, you'll have access to acres of scenic trails, tranquil lakes for canoeing, a meditative labyrinth, and at times we will circle
around an outdoor fire pit.
Meridian Educational Materials
This course will include meridian upgrades and rebalancing as well as the introduction of specific points to further open and expand connectivity through the heart. You will receive handouts for home use and play.
Apply by August 19 and receive this
Special bonus offering:
Meditative Mantra 40 day group practice
Be supported to engage a 40 day spiritual practice with Jessica Rose.
(includes 6 virtual meetings over the 40 days) ~ valued at $108
Dates and timed tbd. Recordings will be available.
Dates & Times
This Powerful 9 Month Program begins October 19, 2024
A Sunday cohort may be added, enrollment dependent, to keep class size small.
Saturdays: 12-6 PM (in person)
October 19 January 11 April 12
November 16 February 8 May 10
December 14 March 8 June 7
4th Mondays: 7-9 PM (virtual)
October 28 January 27 April 28
November 25 February 24 May 26
December 23 March 24
What this program asks of you:
Curiosity and Willingness
A willingness to truly engage this adventure, as we may find ourselves stepping into new realms of human experience and consciousness, paving the way for humanity's evolution.
Possibilities we have yet to imagine reveal, as we surrender certainty and engage with genuine curiosity.
Our willingness to tell the truth about what is being experienced in a given moment is the doorway beyond the known.
Connectivity
A desire to be part of something greater than yourself by deepening in community and connectivity.
Self-Accountability
To be self responsible for and able to attend to your own reactions and not make it about others.
A Readiness to go Beyond
the "me" Story
Explore beyond stories of your past or individual trauma. You know there is more to life than working on your personal stuff for the rest of it.
Participation
Show up for yourself, for each other, and for our shared group heart.
Your attention and the quality of your presence matters.
Program Tuition
Sliding Scale Tuition Paid in full: $2300-3100 (by October 5)
Payment Options: Monthly plan: $288-388 for 8 months (October to May)
Tuition is due by the 5th of each month
Deposit: A non-refundable enrollment tuition deposit of $350 reserves your place in the program.*
Financial Assistance: Need an alternative payment plan, contact us with a
proposal.
If called to attend and require a different exchange to do so
please contact us with a proposal.
One partial work exchange is available for each cohort.
Family Special: If two people from the same household attend,
the sliding scale for the 2nd person is $144-$388.
Cancellation Policy: Once the program begins, you are committed to pay the
full tuition.**
*We have already begun working with the energetics of the forming group and that will continue to deepen and refine as enrollment begins.
**There are limited spaces in this program, and once it begins, no participants are allowed to join. The intimate nature of this allows us to develop deep trust and a stable container together. The program demands a high level of commitment, opening the door for the full potential of our becoming together.
It is important for participants to be fully committed to the entire program and plan ahead to make space and time for it during the nine-month period. That said, Jessica and Brent recognize that abrupt, significant life changes can occur, and we will work with any participant in such a situation to make the best decision under the new circumstances.
Registration
Step 1: Submit Your Application
Once your application has been received and reviewed, you may be asked to schedule a phone check-in with Jessica or Brent if more information is needed.
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance on a rolling basis.
Step 2: Enroll in the Program
Upon your application being accepted, you will receive an email from us inviting you to enroll in the program by completing and signing an Enrollment Agreement and making a tuition deposit to hold your place.
Meet Brent & Jessica
Location
Experience the blessing of coming together as spiritual community.
Day long gatherings will be at Gwinwood Retreat Center.
Enjoy forest bathing, meditative labyrinth walks, or simply being upon
these 29 sacred acres with a peaceful lakeside setting.
Less than 15 minutes from Olympia, this retreat center promotes spiritual well-being
and wholeness for groups and individuals in connection with nature.
6015 30th Ave SE
Lacey, WA 98503
References & Inspirations
IntraConnected: MWe (Me + We) as the Integration of Self, Identity and Belonging
by Daniel J. Siegel
Interconnection: The connection between separate parts
Intraconnection: The connection between something that is already whole.
"IntraConnected reveals how our culture may give us a message of separation as a solo, isolated self, but a wider perspective unveils that who we are may be something more—broader than the brain, bigger even than the body—and fundamental to social systems and the natural world.
Our body-based self—the origin of a Me—is not only connected to others but connected within our relational worlds themselves—a WE—forming the essence of how we belong and our identity. IntraConnected discusses that bond, as well as other realities of our intraconnected lives."
"When something is mysterious, there is an energy, a magnetism about it that draws you to it, that makes you want to know more about it. It propels you to ask questions, to explore and, hopefully, to learn. Eventually you understand that you
can not grasp the totality of Great Mystery, your Creator, with the small mind, with the logical, linear mind.
Great Mystery can only be understood and remembered through the experience of Oneness."
Grandmother Twylah Hurd Nitsch, of the Wolf Clan of the Seneca People
Physicist and philosopher Karen Barad
Intra-action: entities do not preexist their relational entanglement. Instead, entities emerge through their relational dynamics.
Inter-action: the existence of separate entities that come together to affect each other.
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"People and things are intermingled, there is intra- not interaction: so the two intra-acting bodies are not completely separated from each other (whereas in inter-action all inter-acting elements maintain a level of independence)"
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A phenomenon is "made and unmade THROUGH interaction" with human and non-human actors.
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"Interactions defer and deflect responsibility. In intra-actions responsibility is distributed among the constitutive entities."
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"Thinking in terms of intra-action means giving up subject-object dichotomies, linear time, cause-and-effect relationships as well as individual agency."
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"Intra-action understands agency as not an inherent property of an individual or human to be exercised, but as a dynamism of forces" (Barad, 2007)
This suggests that entities and their emergent properties are not independent, rather they are defined through their intra-actions.
Intraaction is explored within the framework of agential realism, Barad's broader theory of relational ontology. Ontology is the philosophy or study of the nature of existence, reality, being, and becoming.
"Humans must coalesce into physical relationships and groups that
belong to a higher order"
Teilhard de Chardin
Carl Calleman: New 6 week online course starts August 10
The 9 Waves of Creation - exploring the waves of the mayan calendar system and their current importance for this evolutionary stage of humanity.
In Unilocality All Forms Exist Within One Another
The Jeweled Path, A.H. Almaas, pg. 296
The Freedom Vehicle makes it possible to have these types of unity experiences – we call them experiences of unilocal unity, or unilocality – with another person, a group, or the whole universe. Unilocality is the view of reality related to a nothingness that has no sense of space, extension or distance. The experience of being in union in this nondimensional nothingness is unilocal unity. It can arise as the experience of two or more individuals sharing the same location often experienced as being inside each other. Unilocality is neither dual nor nondual. We are not talking here about an ocean of consciousness that unites all forms as they arise within it – the nonduality of the boundless dimensions; nor is it dual, when individual forms are separate and relating spatially. In unilocality, all forms exist within one another.
Dr. Sará King, Thomas Hübl and Dr. Dan Siegel – The Neuroscience of Belonging
A podcast which deep dives into the idea of the collective nervous system, how we can learn to experience it, and how that can help us shift from defining the self as a solo entity to understanding humanity as fundamentally intraconnected.
The Illuminated Love Oracle
Charles Eisenstein: The More Beautiful World Our Hearts know is possible and other works
Gangaji - non duality