The Inner Journey
What is the Inner Journey?
Benefits of participating for men and women
How is Inner Journey different
Cost
What is the Inner Journey?
The Inner Journey is a 3 1/2-day residential program designed to support you in powerfully and dramatically transforming the quality of your life. The Inner Journey's unique multi-dimensional approach is drawn from years of experience and research into a wide range of personal development, philosophical and spiritual practices. Your experience at The Inner Journey will have you connect to intellectual, physical, emotional, and spiritual parts of yourself that you may never have experienced before.
The weekend is dynamic, joyful and heart-opening as well as very deep and peaceful. A new perspective is gained– one that opens your heart and mind to a deeper understanding of yourself and others. This profound awakening can catapult you into a new dimension of living: feeling fully alive, self-expressed and acknowledged for who you truly are.
What are the benefits of participating in The Inner Journey?
General:
- Newfound depth of connection to your loved ones
- Greater openness and honesty in relating to others
- Self acceptance and inner peace
- Expanded awareness and sense of balance
- Teachings about the essentials of life: mindfulness, love, awareness, men, women, death, aging, sexuality, spirituality
- An expanded sense of your unique gifts and talents
- Strength, willingness and direction to move forward in areas of your life that have been stagnant
- A passionate and fulfilling life in which you are fully self-expressed
- A connection of your mind and body
For Men:
- A new sense of PURPOSE in life
- Deeper connection your SEXUAL ENERGY
- Revitalized ENGAGEMENT IN LIFE
- Taking ACTION, overcoming procrastination
- Deeper sense of BEING a MAN
- APPRECIATION of women
- SELF-RESPECT as a man
- BROTHERHOOD of men
- Reconnecting or AWAKENING of your POWER
- COURAGE to face life’s decision
- If you have children, your own ‘FATHER PRESENCE’ will be more POWERFUL and LOVING
For Women:
- Sisterhood of women
- Understanding men more deeply
- Appreciation of your essential qualitie
- Expansion of your feminine radiance and essence
- Healing wounds of the heart
- If you have children, your care and love will be revitalized
- Joy and ‘juicyness’
- Feel connected to your body and how it responds to emotion
- More balance between your feminine and masculine energy
- Your outer and inner beauty will shine even more
- Expand your ability to express love and receive love
- Celebrate all the phases of life
How is Inner Journey different from other courses?
There are many courses available that are designed to create breakthroughs for in our lives and all of these can be valuable in their own way. The uniqueness of the Inner Journey is it’s multi-dimensional approach. In designing the program, Michael used the wisdom of the ancient five element system, a philosophy that distinguishes a natural balance to everything. The balance and inclusivity of The Inner Journey is not only the ability to reach a broad variety of people but to have you experience aspects of many different approaches to transformation.
Often, we are inclined to participate with a certain type of program based on our personalities. What we find is that when people stretch themselves to experience something more unknown, or even a little uncomfortable, the opportunities for growth are expanded.
Content/Design
The Inner Journey has two "wings"; self-awareness and love. These two are not always adopted together in other programs or spiritual teachings, and this is one of the gifts of the workshop.
Awareness: During the course, participants have an opportunity to explore how their thought processes, (Eckhart Tolle refers to this as the mind or “ego”) can sometimes create patterns in their life that hinder personal growth and create an existence that lacks passion and full self-expression. The course uses many techniques to foster self-awareness including Jungian archetypes, work with the super ego, journaling, sharing, and presencing techniques.
Love: Participants have a wonderful opportunity to explore their relationship to love, how it currently lives for them or doesn’t, and how one may have more access to it in their lives. Many of us have experienced emotional "wounding" at a very young age and as a result have protective-coping mechanisms and emotional blockades. As adults, these coping mechanisms created to protect us at an earlier time in life can also cut us off from fully experiencing natural, human emotion and thus dampen our capacity to fully love and accept ourselves, our partners, our family, our friends, and very often our spiritual source. The course uses several ancient techniques from all over the world to foster this exploration of love, including breathwork, various meditative practices, movement, emotional release and experiential processes. The result is that participants gain greater conscious access to their hearts and the capacity to love, forgive and feel compassion.
How is the weekend organized?
The workshop begins with men and women working in separate groups as they explore personal and collective issues relevant to their gender. Through powerful experiential processes, meditation, discussion, journaling and individual coaching, participants take their journey inward. They begin to practice self-awareness and presence and come to understand and appreciate the gifts of the masculine and feminine energies within themselves. Participants share that this approach to the weekend provides a level of trust and connection unlike anything they have ever experienced.
This initial inner exploration prepares participants for the second portion of the program when men and women come together for a profound healing between the genders. This powerful part of the journey addresses the barriers people often have with each other as a result of past experiences. Those barriers begin to dissolve and participants are left with an opening for authentic self-expression and a deeper connection to themselves, others and their spiritual Source.
Where and when is the Inner Journey held?
The Inner Journey Seminar is held at peaceful retreat sites in the United States, Canada, and Europe. The program begins on a Thursday evening at 6pm and completes on Sunday around 6pm.
For dates and more details please see the communities tab (top left) for The Inner Journey workshop closest to you.
What is the cost for the Inner Journey?
The cost of The Inner Journey varies between communities. See Communities tab (top left) to find cost, location, and dates for The Inner Journey in that area.
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Who participates in the Inner Journey?
Anyone 18 years of age or older who wants an extraordinary, loving, passionate and successful life. The Inner Journey welcomes people of all races, religions, ages and sexual orientation.
Who presents the Inner Journey?
The Inner Journey is led by highly experienced facilitators of diverse backgrounds. See About in the pull-down menu to read more about the program facilitators.