In this engaged and experiential program, with four in-depth workshops, you will immerse you in the wisdom and transformative journey of Adventure in Zanskar and learn how to distill the most important insights from your own epic journey.

In my bestselling book, Adventure in Zanskar, I not only go on a courageous adventure, I also refine my ability to interpret the lessons learned and to absorb wisdom from the masters I encountered and the culture I embedded herself in.

In this program, you will develop a deeper understanding of key principles of perennial wisdom I learned while living in Zanskar, including interconnectedness, impermanence, non-grasping, and generosity. You will learn liberating ways to interpret your own experience. And you will also discover how to truly see the epic nature of your own path of development as you write about your own journey. In this unique format, you will not only delve more deeply into the insights of the book, you will also make them your own by applying them to the narrative of your own life.

Through these four highly focused and intentional discovery workshops, you will discover a wellspring of inspiration and learn to avoid the common mental habits that undermine our passion and knock us off track. I have refined these methods of pursuing personal, collective, and cultural transformation over decades, inspiring the many adults I have worked with and creating a thriving non-profit to bring the key insights, in a relevant format, to more than 17,000 urban high school students. What I teach comes with a sensitivity to life circumstances, compassion for the difficulties we all encounter, and a pragmatic approach to transformation. In this program you will have the opportunity to work directly with me to feel into these supports and allow them to open up new vistas in your own inner life.

Why Embark on this Epic Journey program?

So many of us undervalue our own experience and overlook the sustaining wisdom that can support us on a day-to-day basis. These habits of self-sabotage knock the wind out of our sails and keep us searching or grasping for what we have already realized. Meditative teachings from all traditions show us how to relate to our minds and to these habits, yet too often we hear those teachings in a rarefied retreat environment without understanding how to live them in our own lives. Through this series of in-depth workshops, using Adventure in Zanskar as a springboard, you will explore the most profound insights of one unique epic journey and at the same time learn how to apply the universal principles revealed in your own life.

When you engage in each self-contained workshop, the perennial principles of awakening and transformation will come alive. You will experience how meditation and contemplation can both be a gateway to illumination, wholeness, and fulfillment. You will have the opportunity to engage in a form of deep dialogue with others that can open portals of profound understanding. You will also have the opportunity to write and reflect on your own epic journey, seeing how it is not the details that matter as much as the lens through which you are perceiving.

Most of all, in this program, working closely with my guidance, you will discover an orientation to life that is filled with joy and curiosity. You will touch into that innate human goodness that is part of the fabric of life, giving you hope, inspiration, and strength. We all need a community of deep discovery and authentic encouragement to thrive. Our world needs beacons of hope. In this program, we will learn, empower, and shine for our own liberated awakening and for the healing and transformation of our world.

I look forward to sharing this journey with you.

Sincerely,