When I finally decided to teach others “how to do this stuff,” my first challenge was to understand how my own perceptions function and how they fundamentally differ from most other people’s awareness. I found that even very astute observers did not understand how they got what they got intuitively. I discovered that there was a lot of research into “feeling” our feelings in the physical body and releasing them through many different forms of physical, psychological and emotional therapies. But what was not taught or even understood consciously by wonderful teachers, was how we sense, or the location from which we sense. This was slowly being revealed to me as the sacred anatomy.

It turned out I had made assumptions growing up about skills I thought everybody developed and used consciously. It was an awakening for me to discover that most people were not aware of what was happening to them, around them, and in response to their independent actions and interactions with others. I realized there was something unique about me; finally… my hypersensitive liability- the curse of my childhood as an adult became my inspiration, my path and my gift. I then could begin to lead others to see their hypersensitivities as tools and not punishments or burdens.

Learning by trial and error, I slowly came to see that there were not five or even the six senses hinted at by parapsychologists, mediums and psychics, but there were at least nine levels or ways of sensing.

This led to the development of the intensive workshop, Awakening the Nine Levels of Sensing. What you will learn are a group of new sensate awarenesses that reside outside the five senses. Together we will redefine the accepted definition of extra-sensory awareness and may in fact step into the realm that it may become. I believe that it is time to stretch the idea of sensing beyond the somatic processing- touchy-feely world that stands as a culmination of lessons grasped by the physical body. I further believe we must allow ourselves to deeply sense the mystery all around us. I am sure many people already use some of these differing levels of awareness instinctually, as a reaction to living. But it is in bringing to conscious awareness the truth of our ability to understand and integrate this vast perceptual reality into our palette of awareness that extends the capacity of what it means to sense.

There are nine different states of being, nine different ways of perceiving reality, nine different tools for conscious interaction with life. Together they present a holistic approach to how to interact not only with the condensed light that we call matter but the more subtle personal skills we develop as people.

These nine different states exist within the integrated anatomy and are a learned function of this anatomy. Much as parts of the physical body hold the tools for developing expanded physical sensing such as the acutely trained hearing of a musician and the gentle touch of a massage therapist, the other larger anatomy contains the tools for developing the other eight levels of sensing. I have discovered and mapped this territory and will guide you into a new and exciting place.

I am excited for you to join me at the beautiful Open Sky Retreat Center in Sebastopol, California, for an amazing journey into what it means to be alive!