Untangling the Mind: Practical Ways to Overcome Cognitive Fusion

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

Three practices that don't usually live in the same room

Unique Self Realization Most non-dual teachings stop at True Self — the recognition that separation is an illusion, that you are the One. That's real and important, but it's incomplete. Unique Self teaching, developed by Marc Gafni, takes the next step: the One is having a you experience. You are not separate from the whole, and you are irreducibly, specifically you. This retreat doesn't just teach that distinction — it creates the conditions for your body to discover it directly.

Recognition Practices Drawn from the Kashmir Shaivism tradition and the Recognition Sutras lineage, these practices work with a radical premise: awakening isn't something you achieve. It's something you recognize — something already happening that you've been overlooking. The practices are simple, direct, and body-based: noticing moments when your stories weaken, when sensation becomes more vivid than narrative, when awareness recognizes itself. No Sanskrit required.

Somatic Intelligence Core Energetics is a body-centered therapeutic modality that works with the connection between physical tension, emotional holding, and the patterns we build to protect ourselves. In this retreat, it serves as the ground: we don't just talk about false selves and true selves — we locate them in the body, feel where they live, and discover what happens when the body is given permission to release what it's been holding.

These three streams aren't offered as separate workshops. They're woven into a single practice field — 60% experiential and embodied practice, 25% relational work (dyads, witnessed speaking, small groups), and 15% teaching to orient the experience. Pedagogy exists to point. The real work happens in your body.

A word about "tantric": in the Kashmir Shaivism tradition that informs this retreat, tantric means that every dimension of experience — sensation, emotion, desire, thought — is a valid doorway to recognition. This is not the popularized "California Tantra" of Western imagination. This is a lineage of awakening through the body, not despite it.