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Spiritual Practices

Your embodiment and spiritual practice - what keeps you rooted, open, and available.

Current Daily Practice

Morning:

• Sun/grounding (connection + vitamin D)
• Physical movement (30+ pushups, stretching)
• Meditation/breath awareness

Evening:

• Reflection on what brought satisfaction
• Gratitude practice

Active Practices

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Personal Practices

Individual embodiment and spiritual work

• / Deep Meditation - Silent retreats (35+ days total), daily sitting practice
• - Conscious breathing, pranayama, breath awareness
• Physical Practice - Jiujitsu, pushups, stretching, daily sun time
• Time in Nature - Grounding, wilderness connection, solitude
• Chi Gong - Energy cultivation (intermittent practice)

Men's Group Practices

Work done in community with brothers

• - Weekly calls, quarterly gatherings
  • Mirroring blind spots
  • Speaking uncomfortable truths
  • Being witnessed in edges and shadows
  • Processing patterns with brothers

Ceremony & Plant Medicine

Integration from ceremonies and retreats

• Ayahuasca dietas (Peru integration centers)
• Wachuma journeys (Sacred Valley)
• Vision fasts (wilderness rites)
• Use
  for each major ceremony

Teachers & Lineage

Primary Teachers:

• - Transpersonal facilitation, men's work
• - Masculine/feminine polarity
• - Shadow work and integration

Lineages:

• Vipassana tradition (S.N. Goenka)
• Rebirthing Breathwork
• (vision fasts)
• Andean medicine traditions (Q'ero)

Men's Groups

Current Group:

• (weekly calls)
• Brothers: (add names when comfortable)
• Next call: (update weekly)

Practice Evolution

How your practice has changed over time

Early Phase (2018-2020):

• First ayahuasca ceremony (doors opened)
• Vipassana introduction (35 days total in centers)
• Learning to feel again after years of numbing

Integration Phase (2021-2023):

• Breathwork, yoga therapy, chi gong
• Men's work with Amir, John Wineland
• Sexual transmutation practices
• Vision fasts in wilderness

Current Phase (2024-present):

• Daily morning practice (movement, sun, meditation)
• Weekly men's group (brotherhood)
• Integrating practices into coaching work
• Less ceremonial, more embodied daily life

What Supports Practice

Internal:

• Willingness to feel everything
• Commitment to not bypassing
• Trust in the process
• Connection to purpose (
  )

External:

• - brotherhood accountability
• - relationship as mirror
• - teacher support
• Sacred Valley Peru - nature access
• Stable internet when needed (currently issue)

Physical:

• Morning sun exposure
• Quiet space for meditation
• Open space for movement
• Access to wilderness/nature

What Disrupts Practice

• Unstable infrastructure (internet, housing)
• Over-functioning for others (
  )
• Problem-solving mode hijacking morning time
• Reactive patterns (
  )
• Abandoning self to manage others' comfort

Integration Markers

How you know the practice is working

Internal shifts:

• Faster pattern recognition (4 months vs 4 years)
• Can hold discomfort without fixing
• Breathing stays deeper under stress
• Less reactive, more responsive

Relational shifts:

• Can speak truth even when uncomfortable
• Notice healer pattern activation quickly
• Maintain boundaries with
• Show up authentic in

Work shifts:

• Coaching from lived experience
• Can hold space without over-functioning
• Integration work shows up in
• Able to guide
  through what I've walked

Practice Log

Quick notes on what's active

2026-01

Week 3 (Jan 15-21):

• Daily: Morning pushups, stretching, sun with Lauren
• Men's Group: Bringing
• Disrupted: Internet issues blocking morning meditation flow
• Learning: Infrastructure affects practice consistency

Previous Months

(Add as you track)

Last updated: 2026-01-23