October 17 - 19, 2025
Registration opens October 1 and closes October 15
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Friday PM - October 17 || 5-7pm Pacific / 8-10pm Eastern
Using Eye Gaze as a Ladder to Transcendence
Leader: Colleen Godfrey
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques and Concentration, Clarify & Equanimity. Step by step instruction will be provided.
Fee: $10 per person
Overview:
Using Eye Gaze as a Ladder to Transcendence: Climbing the Arc of the Jhānas with Unified Mindfulness
What if the most profound meditation states weren’t distant or mysterious—but the natural result of training three reliable skills?
In this workshop, we’ll explore the Jhānas—classical stages of meditative absorption—through the clear framework of Unified Mindfulness. Rather than treating Jhānas as exotic or unattainable, we’ll learn how they arise naturally when Concentration, Clarity, and Equanimity (CC&E) are cultivated in balance, using the technical skills of See, Hear, Feel (SHF).
Our primary tool will be the yogic practice of drishti—focused gaze. By working with specific eye positions, we strengthen concentration, refine sensory clarity, and expand equanimity. What may seem subtle at first becomes deeply significant, revealing how small shifts in perception create a natural arc toward stability, joy, and transcendence.
The result is a mind unified in the truest sense: concentrated and settled, steady and clear, yet attuned to the flow of subtle experiences.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this workshop, you will:
Strengthen Concentration through the steadying effect of drishti (eye positions).
Refine Clarity by recognizing subtle sensory shifts as meaningful signposts on the path.
Deepen Equanimity so that joy, ease, and spaciousness unfold without grasping.
Map experiences to the Jhāna arc in plain UM terms, seeing how Concentration, Clarity & Equanimity combine to support states of transcendence suitable for modern, daily life practice.
Gain confidence that transcendence is not beyond you—it’s an accessible, practical expression of trained attention. With sustained practice, you gain an understanding of and ability to access the absolute using simple applications of See, Hear & Feel and Concentration, Clarity & Equanimity.
This workshop is for everyone—beginner, intermediate and advanced meditators.
Why This Matters
In Unified Mindfulness, the skills of CC&E are the foundation for practice. The Jhānas show us what becomes possible when those skills mature and harmonize. By integrating ancient practices like drishti with a modern framework, we bridge subtle awareness with everyday accessibility. This is not about chasing states—it’s about recognizing how your practice naturally deepens, and how subtle becomes significant on the path to transcendence.
In preparation for this program, it is helpful to understand the four technique families in the Transcend Quadrant:
See, Hear, Feel Flow,
See, Hear, Feel Space,
See, Hear, Feel Back, and
See, Hear, Feel Now.
Read or review from Shinzen Young’s manual - Five Ways to Know Yourself :
Chapter 3 — The Way of Tranquility,
Chapter 4 — The Way of Flow
Chapter 8 — Feel In, See In, Focus In, Just Note Gone: Work with Vanishings, The Path of Visual Experience,
The Path of Body Experience, The Path of All Experience , The Path of Goneness.
Saturday AM - October 18 || 5-9am Pacific / 8am-12pm Eastern
Non-Separateness, from Surface to Source
Leader: Kevin Lacroix
Type of Program: Special Theme
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the See, Hear, Feel family of techniques.
Fee: $20 per person
One way to think about Transcendence is to go beyond our usual experience of life as consisting of solid and separate things. When our levels of Concentration, Clarity and Equality are high, we can discover a non-separateness that’s hiding in plain sight—an interrelatedness of all *things* at the surface level, as well as a perfect completeness that precedes and permeates everything in the story of solid-and-separate.
In this program, we’ll explore how we each experience separateness in the 3 sensory spaces (See, Hear, and Feel) and how the appearance of Separateness itself - when met with mindfulness - is the opportunity to experience Transcendence.
In preparation for this program, please:
Read or review - See Hear Feel: An Introduction
(just up to p.10. We won’t be doing the SHF technique, but some of the principles and language will be helpful to understand)
Read of review the definitions in the Unified Mindfulness Wiki:
Saturday PM - October 18 || 10am-2pm Pacific / 1-5pm Eastern
Embracing Not Escaping: Transcendence Hiding in Plain Sight
Leader: Ralph Andradez
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: A familiarity with See, Hear, Feel family of techniques
Fee: $20 per person
Transcendence in mediation is often presented as a far away goal, shrouded in complex theories and concepts that - while intended to help - can often make it seem remote, unattainable, and even intimidating. But what if it isn't that complex? In this session, we'll be exploring how transcendence can be experienced not as some distant attainment, but directly, as an aspect of our ordinary awareness. Together, we'll engage in thought experiments, playful exercises, and UM techniques to cut through concepts and uncover experientially how self, time, and separateness can be transcended, not by searching beyond, but by embracing what is already present with us. This will be an adventure into transcendence that's available right here and now, and an exploration of the benefits of well-being that it can bring both to ourselves and our fellow beings. I hope to see you there!
There is no preparation for this program beyond arriving with a beginner’s mind!
Sunday AM - October 19 || 8am-12pm Pacific / 11am-3pm Eastern
Relax, Rest, Let Be
Leader: Malin Rozon
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: A familiarity with the Feel Rest and Do Nothing techniques.
Fee: $20 per person
Learn a special exercise called "Relax Everything" to induce Rest in the sensory system. Then progress to focus on Rest in all three sensory categories (See, Hear, and Feel), and finally to Do Nothing. This series of techniques can incline the sensory system towards a radical thinness and spaciousness of experience, through which the fundamental "absolute" qualities of awareness can emerge clearly. Let's explore this together.
In preparation for this program, please:
Watch Video: Focus on Rest
Watch Video: Do Nothing
Review ‘Five Ways to Know Yourself’
Focus on Rest, pp. 35-39, and
Do Nothing, pp. 40-41.
Sunday PM - October 19 || 1-5pm Pacific / 4-8pm Eastern
The Joy of Innocence
Leader: Zenshin (Candice) Bernes
Type of Program: Special Offering
Prerequisites: A familiarity with Feel Rest, Feel Flow, and an understanding of Equanimity will be useful
Fee: $20 per person
We are sometimes complicit in our own suffering. We hold together patterns of relating to what arises, patterns that reenforce an idea that we are inherently flawed or in need of being fixed in some way. This practice is an invitation to let conceptual frameworks fall away. It is an opportunity to know ourselves at a deeper level, in the space that lies before.
In preparation for this program, please:
Review ‘Five Ways to Know Yourself’
Chapter 3: The Way of Tranquility
Chapter 4: The Way of Flow
Introduction: Equanimity, pp 14-17
Read or review Intro to Ultra: Transend pp 4-6
Read or review definitions in the Unified Mindfulness’ Wiki: