The work with Ken is much more resonant — I can go much deeper with it. Over the last five years, it has profoundly changed me in ways I really cannot say were true before, in that other system. In that earlier work, I would very often fall back into the same patterns I had just released, sometimes within a week. And I saw the same thing happen with others I walked alongside in that system — whatever we had worked on would come back.

With this work, the change is much more permanent. I had come from a yogic tradition where everything was about going out of your body — out through the crown, and so on. I had done this very intensively for many years, and it really led me to bypass a lot of things. Whenever something wasn’t working, I could just go meditate, get out of my body, and feel happy again. It didn’t last long, but it worked for that period of time.

So for me, learning to actually be in the body was something I genuinely had to work through, because I was deeply resistant to it. About twenty years ago, another teacher said we shouldn’t go out — we should go in — and my honest reaction was complete dismissal. It was the last thing I ever wanted to do. I just wanted to get out of it all.

Ken has this wonderful way of working where you go a little bit, and then a little bit more, and then a little bit more — and you feel whatever needs to be addressed, so that you can be, more or less, who you truly are.

The Embodied Divine Experience unfolds live online across three sessions spread over five days, each about two hours. The sessions take place as a Zoom meeting rather than a webinar, which reinforces the sense of a virtual circle. You’ll never be asked to turn your camera on, unmute, speak, or share. There’s nothing you need to do to prepare — you can simply arrive and be present.

Each session begins with a teaching for about 45 to 60 minutes. These provide reference points for the theme of each session — handholds as you orient to your path. They also help you recognize what may begin unfolding once we move into silent transmission. While the teaching is happening, some people in the circle simply listen. Others turn the volume down and sit with the transmission beneath the words.

What happens in transmission is difficult to put into words. The best phrase for it is Embodied Divine Resonance.

Once silence opens, you have an opportunity to be fully with whatever is unfolding for you. Each experience is unique. Nothing is forced, nothing is directed.

Something begins moving again where effort had stopped working.

This view moves me profoundly. When I look at it, I think of the divine — by whatever name. For me, the divine is everything. It not only holds the container, it is everything inside of the container. And by container I mean everything in the cosmos — here on our planet, so much beauty in nature, including this, here in southwest Colorado. Isn’t that extraordinary?

It makes my entire body buzz and tingle, especially my hands and feet. That’s one of the ways I have an experience of the divine. In fact, when I’m in session with others, that’s exactly what happens — my hands and feet start buzzing and tingling. And for the people I’m in session with, whether we’re gathered virtually, they’re listening to a recording, or we’re in person, they begin having a visceral experience of the divine in their body. For a lot of people, that opens a deeper relationship, a deeper intimacy with the divine — perhaps similar to what opens when we’re out in nature.

But here’s the thing: when we’re in nature, we might have these peak experiences and then return to our lives as if they’re disconnected, as if they’re separate. When we do deep inner spiritual work — work through the noise and open to a deeper experience and deeper intimacy with the divine — those peak experiences, the kind many people can identify with, the profound beauty of a moment like this one, that resonance, that presence — it becomes available all the time. From my perspective, that’s the foundational aspect of who we are. There is nothing more essential to our nature as human beings than the expression and experience of divine presence.

The opportunity, as I see it, is to open to a deeper and deeper experience of divine presence — and to do so in a predictable and accessible way, through deeper spiritual practice, opening to something that is available all the time and that we can actually experience all the time. It is exquisite out here. But it’s also exquisite in there — inside you, inside all of us.

What’s available to us as human beings is a wholesale transformation. Instead of momentary peak experiences — in nature, with people we love, holding a newborn baby — there is another depth available all the time. And ultimately that leads to sustaining fulfillment and inner peace. It’s an exquisite transformation, one I’ve been involved in with people from around the world for nearly 18 years — probably longer by the time you see this. It results in a real and extraordinary shift in lived experience. Nothing short of a literal shift in consciousness.

I’m grateful we’re connected in this way. Until we’re together again very soon — peace.

I was introduced to this program because my sister-in-law wanted to help with my high blood pressure. And lo and behold, I got to come off my blood pressure medicine because of this program and the process. But what I had really been looking for, for the past year, was the Divine Within. I’m in many 12-step programs — one of them will be 40 years this April — and I could never quite get there. God was outside. The Divine was outside. I knew how to surrender, but I surrendered outside.

So when I first heard Ken talking about the breath of God, breathing it in, I just started crying. And then I started to feel it inside — for the first time in my life. Coming into the sessions each week, listening to a lot of the replays, I began experiencing surrender from within.

Something else that has helped me enormously is the teaching around story — limiting the story when I’m talking to people, and getting to the feeling instead. What is the feeling before I tell the story? Just get to the feeling. That has been very, very powerful.

And then there’s the fixing. I’m the youngest of 11 kids, and 10 of them above me have spent my whole life trying to fix me. At 64, I don’t want unsolicited advice. I don’t need it. And here is a safe place where that simply doesn’t happen. What I need comes from me and from God. All of my 12-step programs are coming together in this process, and I’m just so grateful.