Sunday, July 19th to Saturday, August 1st, 2026
2 x 90min Workshops + 12 x 45min Practice Sessions
Online via Zoom Video Conferencing
$150

I’m very happy to invite you to participate in the Resting in Deep Presence meditation intensive. During this 14-day intensive we will meet every day to explore what I consider to be the true essence of meditation: the ability to rest in consciousness prior to thought.

Meditation is most often understood as a practice of disentanglement from thought. We begin lost in the turbulence of a busy mind and gradually liberate ourselves from inner confusion.

For more than twenty years I have predominantly taught meditation as the practice of conscious contentment, and I know it is a profound path for disentangling from the mind. But as powerful as that practice is, it still begins from the assumption that we are entangled to begin with.

During this meditation intensive, I want to introduce you to a different approach to meditation, one that begins from the truth that we are already free from entanglement.

Our original consciousness is not embroiled in thought. It is naturally free, open, and clear. And I am not speaking about our consciousness at birth. I am referring to consciousness as it arises in each and every moment. The profound realization of nondual traditions such as the Hindu tradition of advaita vedanta and the Buddhist tradition of dzogchen is that our true nature is already free. We are not separate from the freedom we seek. When meditation is practiced as resting in deep presence, we do not struggle to disentangle ourselves from thought and feeling; we simply avoid becoming involved in the first place. With practice, we begin to recognize the original awareness that exists prior to mental involvement, an awareness that is inherently peaceful, free, and undisturbed.

During these fourteen days you will either begin, or deepen, your journey into the awareness that is present before the arising of mind. This represents a profoundly direct path to inner freedom because it begins in freedom and rests there.

In some ways this can be seen as an advanced form of meditation, and yet it is also the perfect place to begin. If you learn to rest in deep presence from the very start, you discover the wonders of inner freedom remarkably quickly.

In my own practice, I have become irresistibly drawn toward this approach to meditation and have shaped my personal practice sessions to become deeply immersive experiences of presence. During this intensive I want to share the wonder of this form of meditation with you and invite you to make it part of your daily life.

Over the past few years I have run numerous programs built around daily sessions with me and this format has proven to be a powerful vehicle for catalyzing profound shifts in awareness in the midst of ordinary life. By turning your attention each day toward the source of freedom within you, awareness naturally begins to open and expand.

Beyond the glimpses of inner freedom that you will inevitably experience, you will also begin to notice greater ease and spaciousness throughout your day. This peacefulness gradually becomes the ground for ever-deeper spiritual insight and realization.

You will discover that inner freedom is found through radical acceptance of life as it is. Surrendering completely to the present moment opens the door to vibrant experiences of immediacy, presence, and the simple joy of being alive. By the end of these fourteen days, you will recognize your own potential to live an awakened life.

If you long to live a life filled with spiritual joy, boundless creativity, and unshakable inner peace, please join me for two weeks this summer and rest in the depths of your awakened heart and mind.

During this program we will work with each of these six key triggers of inner freedom.

  • Intention
  • Presence
  • Faith
  • Discernment
  • Contentment
  • Awareness

We will begin our intensive with a 90-minute workshop, continuing with twelve 45-min daily practice sessions, and completing with a 90-min closing workshop. All of these events will be held live via Zoom. You can join me live for these sessions or listen to the recordings later that same day. Past participants have found both options to be equally powerful.

The opening workshop is an opportunity to explore the essence of the practice and to clarify any initial questions that might come up. Each daily practice session will include a few brief words of guidance to support your meditation. We will then sit together in unbroken silence for twenty minutes, allowing that guidance to deepen into direct experience. Occasionally, when time allows, there will also be an opportunity to ask clarifying questions. The closing workshop will be an opportunity to integrate all that we have discovered about our true spiritual potential and explore how to more fully embody and realize it in everyday life.

Throughout these fourteen days you will be fully supported in turning your attention toward the deepest dimensions of meditation and continually encouraged to let go, relax, and open to the experience of your own true nature.

I hope you will join me for this journey into enlightened awareness.

Sincerely,

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Jeff Carreira
Co-Founder & Director of Education, Emergence Education

"All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?"

~ Ramana Maharshi

The Work We Will Focus On
 
Recovering Your Sense of Basic Trust
Our culture has trained us to live with an undercurrent of fear, where at the very core of our experience, we have become convinced that we must defend ourselves against anything that might go wrong. This deep cultural habit means that most of us live in a fundamental habit of constriction, bound up in concerns and vigilantly on the lookout for problems, and as a result never realize our true potential. However, when you begin to transcend your existential fears and doubts, and open up vulnerably to the true bounty that always already exists, the higher potentials of your life will begin to reveal themselves. As you experience the miraculous nature of life, your inner being will open wide and your outer life will become a reflection of your highest potential.
Practicing the Art of Nondual Change
The transformative principles in this program are in alignment with the ultimate nondual truth that you are always already complete, whole and free. Each day you will discover more and more that transformation is not an incremental journey that leads somewhere else. Transformation starts when you realize at the deepest level of your being, that you are already the person you want to be. The transformative process, to the extent that there is one, has only to do with holding fast to the deepest truth of who you are and never allowing yourself to believe that you are anything less than that. By never forgetting who you really are, you will be able to create a life that is a powerful and unambiguous expression of your True Self.
 
 
Integrating Inner Revelations into Your Life
In this program you will begin to build a new life on the foundation of your own spiritual awakening, starting with the inner awakening, and ultimatey living an awakened life. It is important to realize that the inner revelation of awakened consciousness always happens instantaneously, but recreating your life in light of that revelation takes time. In this program, you will have the time to integrate the inner and outer shifts that will transform your life. You will not only learn about powerful principles of transformation, you will receive guidance that allows you to personalize those principles and apply them to your own life circumstances.
The Daily Insights We Will Work With:
  1. Like a river that always flows beyond your mind, meditation is always there.
  2. Meditation is not an activity. Let the meditation instructions meditate you.
  3. If you know that you are going to let everything be as it is, then there is nothing left to do and no reason to watch yourself doing it.
  4. Meditation is not a means to an end. It is an end in itself.
  5. Discover the part of you that never gets lost in thought.
  6. Who is judging the progress of your meditation?
  7. Stop listening to the voices in your mind that sound like “you coaching yourself.”
  8. Simply resist the temptation to move away from where you already are.
  9. Being relaxed and letting everything be as it is, couldn’t possibly require any effort.
  10. Are you willing to be perfectly content and at peace with the person you already are?
  11. Meditation does not need an idea of “me” to support it. Meditation goes on just fine without that.
  12. When you have no memory of yourself, who are you?
  13. You are not the originator of the thoughts in your mind. They are happening all by themselves.
  14. Recognize that you are a free-floating awareness, and your meditation will become very deep, very quickly.
Schedule
  • Opening Workshop: Sunday, July 19th at 12:00pm - 1:30pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Monday, July 20th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Tuesday, July 21st at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Wednesday, July 22nd at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Thursday, July 23rd at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Friday, July 24th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Saturday, July 25th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Sunday, July 26th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Monday, July 27th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Tuesday, July 28th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Wednesday, July 29th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Thursday, July 30th at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Practice Session: Friday, July 31st at 12:00pm - 12:45pm US Eastern time.
  • Closing Workshop: Saturday, August 1st at 12:00pm - 1:30pm US Eastern time.

“Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.”

~ Anais Nin

Guiding Resource for Our Journey
During this intensive we will draw from the wisdom and insight from the Finding Inner Freedom Wisdom Deck. Participants will have the option to purchase the deck at 50% off. (Full price is $19.50)
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Finding Inner Freedom
A tool for your spiritual evolution
This wisdom deck is a 24 card deck designed to guide you into the deepest possibilities of meditation and awakened awareness. Each card offers a distilled teaching that invites you to release effort, quiet the mind, and rest in the natural clarity of pure consciousness. Whether used as daily inspiration, meditation prompting, or as doorways into mystical practice, the deck supports a gentle yet profound shift into inner freedom and the living presence of awakened being.
Whats Included
14 Live Video Conference Teachings with Jeff Carreira
  • We begin with a 90-minute opening workshop, followed by twelve 45-min daily practice sessions, and completing with a 90-min closing workshop. These sessions will incorporate teachings, meditation and Q and A.
14 Audio Recordings of the Daily Teachings
  • Each session will be recorded and made available a few hours later in the online portal.
An Online Course Portal
  • The protected online portal will contain the materials you will use in the program, and can return to again and again after the program has finished.
50% Discount on the Finding Inner Freedom Wisdom Deck
  • During this program we will draw from the wisdom and insight from the Finding Inner Freedom Wisdom Deck, A tool for your spiritual evolution. (Full price is $19.50).
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What past participants have said about working with Jeff...

"After 28 years of meditating, this program was an amazing discovery of greater awareness, receptivity and availability to experience the divine."

~ D. Johnson

"My meditation experience was deeper than ever during this program. Some days I felt like I got swept up in the flow, like I was absorbed in life. No self-conscious concerns. I felt that what was happening was the most wonderful experience. I was in a place that I just wanted to stay in. I felt complete gratitude because there seemed to be a collective experience happening. I was at the still point; no push, no shove, just enough."

~ R. Conte

"During the program I found that I was changing without trying to change...and I’m loving the difference!"

~ R. Smith

"There has been a dramatic shift in my consciousness. I am more relaxed, surrendered and trusting more deeply in the guidance of the Divine. Thank you Jeff for the gift that you are. Your presence and the transmission that has come through you has changed my life."

~ R. Hovakimian

"The program was truly amazing. It was like a group experience of growth and awakening. A collective adventure into the not knowing, surrendering to the mystery and being open to all possibilities. Jeff is a teacher like no other, leading us on this path with wisdom, love and human-ness. It was a beautiful, life-changing experience for which I will be endlessly grateful."

~ N. Morenos

"I appreciated the consistency of a daily practice. It felt as if each message we focused on and practiced fit my life perfectly."

~ A. Brusca

"The program continues to amaze and delight. I continue to discover fresh new insights, opportunities and possibilities."

~ W. Takahashi

"The daily tuning made the rest of the day the focus of surrender, of turning away from struggle to let go into the flow of life was a perfect way to allow Consciousness to permeate my life."

~ M. Earlenbaugh

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