Exploring Consciousness

This isn’t “just” meditation. It’s training for your consciousness.

Most people spend years hoping expanded awareness will just happen. In two days you will learn how to reach it on purpose. Safely, skilfully, and with an experienced trainer in the room with you.

Exploring Consciousness is the Monroe Institute’s introduction to expanded states. Using Hemi-Sync® audio technology you move beyond the limits of the physical senses, come to understand more of your Total Self, and begin collecting 26 practical consciousness tools that you carry into ordinary life. In time, with practice, you will be able to reach these states without the audio at all.

In the very first guided meditation, most people feel the shift.

What we practise over the two days

• Reaching expanded states of awareness using Monroe’s proven method — states that usually take years of practice to attain and hold
• Releasing limiting patterns, and opening to your own inner guidance
• Coming to understand your nonphysical, energetic body
• Real self-empowerment — direct experience, not theory

Is this the same as Gateway?

It is built from the first two days of the six-day residential Gateway Voyage® programme.

Here is what that actually means for you. If you are waiting for a place at the Virginia campus, those fill many months ahead. This weekend is available now, and you arrive at Gateway already able to reach the states everybody else is learning to find, you may find that this gives you a deeper experience when you do get to Gateway. Many people have shared that doing the exercises multiple times is of great benefit. If you are coming to one of my Gateways, the same is true. And on its own it is enough to open the door to Going Home.

Who it is for

Anyone. There is no prerequisite and no previous experience is needed. You do not have to have taken anything else with me, or with Monroe, to come.

It is also a good weekend for Monroe graduates who want to keep their skills warm, and to meet other people who are doing the same thing.

What happens when we do this together

Doing this work in a group builds an exponential experience for everyone. The group energy adds to what each person is able to reach, and everybody gets the benefit of it.

My classes are live, on Zoom, with a group. We sit together, we practise together, and I am there with you while it happens. Some of the exercises we use are only used inside the programmes, because they were designed to be used with a trainer present.

There is research on what a group does. In 2017 a team at the Max Planck Institute took 313 people through nine months of mental training and then measured how their bodies handled stress. The training that involved other people; compassion, and seeing through somebody else’s eyes; reduced the stress hormone itself by up to 51%.

And the exercises used inside a Monroe program are not the ones commercially available. Some of them are proprietary and are only used in the programs themselves. The deeper exercises and a trainer come together, on purpose, and that is what you are booking.

A group is not the social part of a weekend. It is part of how the weekend works. Doing this work together builds an exponential experience for everyone. The group energy adds to what each person is able to reach, and everybody gets the benefit of it. If what you are hoping for is experiences, that is a real reason not to be on your own with a set of headphones.

And if something comes up that you have no experience of yet, you will not be working out what it was on your own. I have been training Monroe programs for over 16 years, and I have a broad basis of understanding because I have deeply studied this work for almost 40 years. I will not tell you what your own experience means; only you can know that; but you will have an experienced trainer there with you while you work it out.

Why do this with somebody rather than on your own

There is more than one good way into this work. Choosing from your own sense of what is right for you is how you lean into trusting and using your own intuitive gifts. If this feels like the right step, I look forward to sharing the program with you.

The details

• Two days, Saturday and Sunday
• 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. Mountain time (11.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. Eastern)
• Online, on Zoom — join from anywhere
• All prices are in US dollars
• You will need somewhere quiet, headphones, and something to write in

This is for you if you have sensed there is more… and you are ready for the tools.

2027 dates

• Monday 18 – Tuesday 19 January 2027 – a midweek class. Booking now.
• Saturday 20 – Sunday 21 March 2027 – not open for booking here yet, email me and I will put you on the list for the March class.
• Saturday 19 – Sunday 20 June 2027 – not open for booking here yet. Email me and I will put you on the list for it.
• Saturday 11 – Sunday 12 September 2027 – not open for booking here yet. Email me and I will put you on the list for it.