Unlocking the Secret of the Golden Flower
A 12-Week Journey Into Daoist Meditation, Inner Alchemy & the Art of Turning the Light Around
For centuries, Daoist practitioners have used a deceptively simple practice known as "Turning the Light Around" to return awareness to its source.
The Secret of the Golden Flower offers a map for this journey.
What is the Golden Flower?
The Secret of the Golden Flower is a relatively "modern" Daoist text (only a few hundred years old!), a masterpiece that condenses thousands of years of wisdom into simple yet profound practices.
While its teachings are simple, understanding and mastering them takes true guidance and commitment.
The Secret is open to all and yet inaccessible for many ~ because the instructions are leading us to something beyond the Mind. The guidance can only point the way, not take us all the way there. To do that, we need to understand what lies behind the words and uncover their deeper alchemical intention. This is where the true power lies.
Embark on this deep journey of self-reflection and meditation
Join Our Transformative 12-Week Journey
Starting October 14, embark on a life-changing journey to Unlock the Golden Flower. Over 12 weekly live Zoom sessions, you'll learn and practice the art of "Turning the Light Around," integrating essential techniques like breath work, meditation, mindfulness, and energy work.
Sessions from October 14 - January 27
10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/18, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27.
No class for Veterans Day, Thanksgiving week, or the weeks of Christmas and New Years.
What You Get:
12 Weekly Live Zoom Sessions (Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 PM Pacific / 8:30 - 10:00 PM Eastern), recorded for you to review or if you miss a week.
Exclusive Community Group to share insights, ask questions, and build community.
Comprehensive training & ongoing support in the core fundamentals of Meditation, Breathwork, Mindfulness and more that will empower your practice.
Your path to transformation begins now.
Each week we will discuss 1-2 chapters of the text as we simultaneously slowly deepen and expand our meditation practice to align with the textual flow.
I. The Celestial Mind
Meeting the original awareness beneath ordinary mind.
II. The Original Spirit and the Conscious Spirit
Learning to distinguish our deepest awareness from the conditioned mind.
III. Turning the Light Around and Keeping to the Center
Turn awareness inward and return to its source.
IV. Turning the Light Around and Tuning the Breathing
Use breath and awareness together to stabilize the inner practice.
V. Errors in Turning the Light Around
Recognize the traps and mistakes of inner practice.
VI. Authenticating Experiences of Turning the Light Around
Learn to recognize genuine transformation.
VII. The Living Method of Turning the Light Around
Take the practice beyond formal meditation.
VIII. The Secret of Freedom
Awareness becomes free from compulsive movement.
IX. Setting Up the Foundation in a Hundred Days
Establish the inner foundation through sustained practice.
X. The Light of Essence and the Light of Consciousness
Distinguish innate awareness from ordinary conscious activity.
XI. The Intercourse of Water and Fire
Bring opposing energies into harmony.
XII. The Cycle
Understand awakening as a dynamic cycle rather than a fixed state.
XIII. Song to Inspire the World
Coming full circle, back to ourselves.
Turn the Light Around
Ordinarily, our awareness is constantly moving outward.
Toward the next thought. The next desire. The next problem. The next experience. The next thing we believe will finally make us whole. The Golden Flower points in another direction.
Return to the Center
What happens when we turn inward?
Words can point toward the experience, but they cannot offer what truly unfolds. That is where practice begins as we settle into ourselves.
Discover the Golden Flower
The flower is revealed through the refinement of awareness.
As awareness becomes more subtle, something begins to reveal itself that cannot be grasped through thought alone.
Over the course of twelve weeks, we will explore what happens when awareness begins to turn back toward itself.
Tools we use
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Learning to work with the mind as a gentle ally on the path to stillness. Without forcing the mind into silence.
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Using breath as a bridge between body, mind, energy and awareness. This is the breath work of remembering. The breath of primordial life.
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Transforming the energy within to allow our higher-self to emerge.
Exploring the transformation of ordinary experience through sustained awareness.
and more
Non-Dual Awareness
As we deepen into the practice, we begin to explore what happens when the distinction between observer and observed becomes more transparent.
And then we bring this awareness into ordinary life, relationships, work and the creativity of every moment.
And we can begin to ask the question: What does it mean to live from awareness rather than to simply experience it?
What Can Change Through This Practice?
More Spaciousness
Begin to notice thoughts without being pulled along by every one of them. As awareness settles, a greater sense of spaciousness can emerge between what happens in the mind and how you respond.
A Renewed Relationship With Emotion
Instead of being swept up in every emotional impulse, you begin to recognize what is happening in the moment. With greater awareness, choice emerges allowing emotions to move through you without needing to become who you are.
Living From Awareness
The practice doesn't end when meditation ends. Over time, awareness begins to enter ordinary life, changing how you meet emotions, relationships, challenges, creativity, and the world around you.
This course is designed as a gradual unfolding.
Each week gives us an opportunity to explore a different aspect of the teaching and then practice it together.
Who Is This For?
You have tried meditation but struggle to deepen into the practice.
You have a spiritual practice but feel that something deeper is possible beneath the techniques you currently practice.
You are drawn to Daoism, meditation, energy work, or inner alchemy.
You have experienced moments of profound stillness or expanded awareness and want to understand them more deeply.
You're looking for a sustained practice rather than another inspirational spiritual experience.
Why study the Golden Flower with me?
I have spent decades exploring meditation, Daoist mysticism, nonduality, energy, consciousness, and the territory between ordinary awareness and direct spiritual experience. I’ve been studying Daoism for over 25 years, and my relationship with the Golden Flower comes through these years of practice.
I am interested in the living teaching underneath the words, the ongoing transmission that has traveled across generations to reach us at this moment.
Ancient teachings can be very beautiful, but their real value is unlocked when we allow them to change the way we experience ourselves.
That is the territory we will explore together.
Let’s find out
You've spent a lifetime looking outward for the next answer, experience, breakthrough, or version of yourself.
What happens when you stop searching and turn the light around?
For twelve weeks, let’s follow this ancient practice and unlock the secret.
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