Awakening Embodied Presence
Awakening Embodied Presence
Awakening Embodied Presence
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A Contemporary Approach to Tummo, Dzogchen, and Healing.
In this experiential course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. You'll learn to safely engage with intense sensations, emotions, and bliss states while remaining grounded in the experience of immediate, open, non-interpretive awareness.
Taught in a modern, pragmatic style without being tied to specific cultural traditions, this course will guide you through a progressive series of practices that work with the breath, the subtle body, and always-available open awareness. Whether you're entirely new to these practices or a seasoned practitioner, this course will help you integrate these profound methods into daily life, supporting more presence, authenticity, and compassion in your relationships, work, and sense of purpose in the world.
Course Details
Classes begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. This experiential eight-week course offers weekly 60-minute live Zoom sessions, printed materials, and pre-recorded practice tutorials.
During this experiential eight-week course, you'll learn how to integrate Tummo breathwork with the nondual view of Dzogchen to catalyze deep healing, unwavering presence, and unconditional kindness. Classes begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2024. All sessions and study materials are recorded and posted to the learning platform.
All sessions and study materials are recorded and posted to the learning platform.
We learn by teaching one another, and cohort participants will have opportunities to connect.
The class does not require cultural or religious affiliation with Tibetan traditions. The only requirement is being a human being with curiosity and grit.
The class does not require cultural or religious affiliation with Tibetan traditions. The only requirement is being a human being with curiosity and grit.
Discover how to safely harness the transformative potential of Tummo while grounding your practice in the non-dual view of Dzogchen.
Whether you're seeking to heal from patterns of anxiety, navigate intense emotions, or live with greater ease and presence, this course will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you invite complexity, experience present aliveness, and investigate resistance to present experience. Discover how to safely harness the transformative potential of Tummo while grounding your practice in the nondual wisdom of Dzogchen.
Whether you're seeking to heal from patterns of anxiety, navigate intense emotions, or live with greater ease and presence, this course will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you invite complexity, experience present aliveness, and investigate resistance to present experience. Discover how to safely harness the transformative potential of Tummo while grounding your practice in the nondual wisdom of Dzogchen.
Whether you're seeking to heal from patterns of anxiety, navigate intense emotions, or live with greater ease and presence, this course will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you invite complexity, experience present aliveness, and investigate resistance to present experience. Discover how to safely harness the transformative potential of Tummo while grounding your practice in the nondual wisdom of Dzogchen.
When you engage with the Embodied Awareness course, you become part of a community of people who are also seeking practical ways to clarify what matters most and address any obstacles to living with greater freedom, embodiment, and kindness. Throughout the course, we will explore and provide guidance on various challenges that participants may face, such as:
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Difficulty integrating breakthrough experiences from retreats back into daily life.
Struggling to balance the desire for self-improvement with the need for self-acceptance.
Breathwork to moderate persistent stress and overstimulation from daily activities.
Feeling that meditation or therapy are not achieving the desired outcomes or benefits.
Wanting to confront personal identity issues and embrace a more complex understanding of the self.
Learning to relate to anxious feelings with unconditional kindness.
Design an impactful meditation practice that is meaningful and sustainable.
Past traumas resurfacing during meditation, making emotional regulation more challenging.
Absence of effective restorative methods to downregulate the nervous system.
TRADITIONAL RESOURCES
Dzogchen and Tsa Lung
Dzogchen and Tsa Lung
Dzogchen and Tsa Lung
This course will incorporate Dzogchen instructions from Vima Ladrup and the Tsa Lung method associated with Vajrayogini practices. Bruce Tift, with his 40-year background in Vajrayana Buddhism and marriage and family therapy, will offer insights into integrating Buddhist practice with therapeutic approaches.
Somatic and Physiological Interventions
Somatic Interventions
Somatic Practices
Somatic Practices
Somatic Practices
In this course, we will train to be present with immediate, embodied, sensation-level experience, aiming to cultivate more frequent moments of open-heartedness and presence. We are fortunate to have Jonny Miller join us, who will share methods to promote healthy nervous system response and recovery.
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awbery
Founder of Evolving Ground
"Peter has a kind and generous teaching style. He has studied with traditional teachers, and manages to translate the practices for Westerners while preserving their essence."
Brian Lewis, MD, MPH
Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville
"He's the real deal, a solid practitioner, very pragmatic and has a personable approachable teaching style."
Andrew Graham
Long-time Yogin
"Peter is a humorous, knowledgeable, and creative teacher. He knows the whole path and can guide you beautifully, blending tradition with modernity."
Manuel Franz
Hospice Nurse
"One of the most insightful, germane, and potent Vajrayana teachings I've ever received, 10/10 recommend. Peter is beyond based."
Matthew T Phillips
Senior Cloud Engineer
"Peter has succeeded in making a very complex and rich subject accessible. He is a thoughtful and approachable teacher. Highly recommended."
Jenny Burkhardt
Biomedical Engineer
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Meet The Guest Teachers
Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller helps founders and leaders cultivate calm and rewire their stress response. His course, "Nervous System Mastery," provides evidence-backed protocols to rewire human neurobiology, offering a life-changing toolkit designed to cultivate calm, upgrade resilience, and increase aliveness. His unique approach combines cutting-edge scientific findings with practical, accessible techniques.
Jonny Miller helps founders and leaders cultivate calm and rewire their stress response. His course, "Nervous System Mastery," provides evidence-backed protocols to rewire human neurobiology, offering a life-changing toolkit designed to cultivate calm, upgrade resilience, and increase aliveness. His unique approach combines cutting-edge scientific findings with practical, accessible techniques.
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT, has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for twenty-five years, and worked in a psychiatric ward and as a family therapist with social services. A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than forty years, he had the good fortune to be a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and to meet a number of realized teachers.
Bruce Tift, MA, LMFT, has been in private practice since 1979, taught at Naropa University for twenty-five years, and worked in a psychiatric ward and as a family therapist with social services. A practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism for more than forty years, he had the good fortune to be a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and to meet a number of realized teachers.
Cultivate the wild courage to participate wholeheartedly in the endless stream of spontaneous, open experience.
Cultivate the wild courage to participate wholeheartedly in the endless stream of spontaneous, open experience.
Cultivate the wild courage to participate wholeheartedly in the endless stream of spontaneous, open experience.
Stress Inoculation & Nervous System Dexterity
Embodied immediacy bolsters our innate ability to endure existential intensity without dissociating into a habitual reactive response.
Stress Inoculation & Nervous System Dexterity
Embodied immediacy bolsters our innate ability to endure existential intensity without dissociating into a habitual reactive response.
Stress Inoculation & Nervous System Dexterity
Embodied immediacy bolsters our innate ability to endure existential intensity without dissociating into a habitual reactive response.
Working with Vulnerable Feelings
When challenging emotions arise, we can choose to bring our attention to an immediate, embodied, sensation-level relationship with those feelings. Sensations offer no interpretation, commentary, or story. In brief moments of Dzogchen practice, we can simply be present with what we might call vulnerability, allowing ourselves to fully inhabit the raw, unfiltered experience of being alive.
Working with Vulnerable Feelings
When challenging emotions arise, we can choose to bring our attention to an immediate, embodied, sensation-level relationship with those feelings. Sensations offer no interpretation, commentary, or story. In brief moments of Dzogchen practice, we can simply be present with what we might call vulnerability, allowing ourselves to fully inhabit the raw, unfiltered experience of being alive.
Working with Vulnerable Feelings
When challenging emotions arise, we can choose to bring our attention to an immediate, embodied, sensation-level relationship with those feelings. Sensations offer no interpretation, commentary, or story. In brief moments of Dzogchen practice, we can simply be present with what we might call vulnerability, allowing ourselves to fully inhabit the raw, unfiltered experience of being alive.
Health Benefits
This course aims to equip participants with methods that support digestive fire, enhanced immunity, creative power, fortified libido, and feeling of lightness and well-being.
Health Benefits
This course aims to equip participants with methods that support digestive fire, enhanced immunity, creative power, fortified libido, and feeling of lightness and well-being.
Health Benefits
This course aims to equip participants with methods that support digestive fire, enhanced immunity, creative power, fortified libido, and feeling of lightness and well-being.
The Unexcelled Method
Tummo encourages us to participate wholeheartedly in the vivid appearance of our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
The Unexcelled Method
Tummo encourages us to participate wholeheartedly in the vivid appearance of our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
The Unexcelled Method
Tummo encourages us to participate wholeheartedly in the vivid appearance of our experience. Tummo will not help us transcend our messy human lives. Instead, we aim to dissolve the apparent conflict between messy and transcendent.
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"Strong recommendation for Peter, he's based, and a highly accomplished practitioner."
Charlie Awberry
Founder of Evolving Ground
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Incorporate embodied presence into your everyday routine. This retreat is aimed at individuals seeking to nurture embodied immediacy, work with their nervous system, and foster an attitude of open-hearted presence.
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VIP Coaching Package
$2500.00
Personalized Tummo and Dzogchen instruction. This package includes 1:1 coaching sessions and unlimited voice-memo access to Peter. Selecting this tier supports the participation of scholarship students.
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Scholarship
$400.00
If you are a student, BIPOC, monastic, health worker, or would like financial assistance, please contact me. I aim to promote the adoption of these beautiful practices, and a few scholarships are available for those who are running lean.
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Practitioner
$800.00
Incorporate embodied presence into your everyday routine. This retreat is aimed at individuals seeking to nurture embodied immediacy, work with their nervous system, and foster an attitude of open-hearted presence.
Enroll Now
$2500.00
Personalized Tummo and Dzogchen instruction. This package includes 1:1 coaching sessions and unlimited voice-memo access to Peter. Selecting this tier supports the participation of scholarship students.
Enroll Now
Scholarship
$400.00
If you are a student, BIPOC, monastic, health worker, or would like financial assistance, please contact me. I aim to promote the adoption of these beautiful practices, and a few scholarships are available for those who are running lean.
Enroll Now
Peter McEwen's focus is to provide instruction and support for practitioners who are balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands. In a society that prioritizes output, meditation and mindfulness practices are often conflated with self-optimization. Instead, Peter encourages viewing meditation as a tool that reveals our immediate experience - discomfort and all - as a reliable source of well-being and problem-solving. Peter has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism and has been a Dharma Gar participant under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche since 2008. The challenges he faced in his early experiences ignited his passion for making the transformative power of meditation, embodiment, nervous system balance, and emotional wellness accessible to all people. After the powerful awakening experiences of his youth, Peter continues on the path of practicing dharma, embodiment, and emotional regulation with the help of some amazing and wakeful teachers. People like Dzongsar Khyentse, Bhaka Tulku, Lama Pema Dorje, and Bruce Tift have been a source of kindness and wisdom, and he is profoundly grateful to have been able to work with such gifted teachers.
Peter McEwen's focus is to provide instruction and support for practitioners who are balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands. In a society that prioritizes output, meditation and mindfulness practices are often conflated with self-optimization. Instead, Peter encourages viewing meditation as a tool that reveals our immediate experience - discomfort and all - as a reliable source of well-being and problem-solving. Peter has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism and has been a Dharma Gar participant under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche since 2008. The challenges he faced in his early experiences ignited his passion for making the transformative power of meditation, embodiment, nervous system balance, and emotional wellness accessible to all people. After the powerful awakening experiences of his youth, Peter continues on the path of practicing dharma, embodiment, and emotional regulation with the help of some amazing and wakeful teachers. People like Dzongsar Khyentse, Bhaka Tulku, Lama Pema Dorje, and Bruce Tift have been a source of kindness and wisdom, and he is profoundly grateful to have been able to work with such gifted teachers.
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Peter McEwen's focus is to provide instruction and support for practitioners who are balancing the dizzying array of work and family commitments that modern life demands. In a society that prioritizes output, meditation and mindfulness practices are often conflated with self-optimization. Instead, Peter encourages viewing meditation as a tool that reveals our immediate experience - discomfort and all - as a reliable source of well-being and problem-solving. Peter has completed the traditional 3-year retreat curriculum of Vajrayana Buddhism and has been a Dharma Gar participant under the direction of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche since 2008. The challenges he faced in his early experiences ignited his passion for making the transformative power of meditation, embodiment, nervous system balance, and emotional wellness accessible to all people. After the powerful awakening experiences of his youth, Peter continues on the path of practicing dharma, embodiment, and emotional regulation with the help of some amazing and wakeful teachers. People like Dzongsar Khyentse, Bhaka Tulku, Lama Pema Dorje, and Bruce Tift have been a source of kindness and wisdom, and he is profoundly grateful to have been able to work with such gifted teachers.
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