The Monroe Institute
Half a century of research into expanded states of consciousness, built on a single premise: you are more than the physical body. The nearest thing there is to a laboratory for the eternal. The campus covers more than 300 acres in the Blue Ridge foothills of Nelson County, Virginia. Robert A. Monroe, a radio producer who began having out-of-body experiences in 1958, founded it, and it runs as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that also runs research. Residential programmes last five days and six nights at the Nancy Penn Center or Roberts Mountain Retreat, once Monroe's home. Gateway Voyage is the entry point, built on his original binaural beat exercises. Others cover out-of-body states, lucid dreaming and remote viewing. Every place needs an approved application. Anyone with a history of seizures, auditory disorders or adverse mental health conditions is told to see a physician first.
Sedonya Conscious Living Center
A sanctuary for sacred retreat held inside a living ceremonial field in the Sedona red rock. Collective awakening in partnership with wisdom keepers, never a performance for tourists. Sedonya is a retreat and event campus on Deer Trail Drive in Sedona, owned by Sedona Creative Life Center, a nondenominational 501(c)(3) nonprofit. The Cathedral holds up to 55 retreat guests, the gardens hold a medicine lodge and ceremony fire, and a Temple in a grove of trees is open to anyone who wants to sit. Retreat leaders rent the campus, and guests sleep in nearby hotels and rentals. Weekly classes include vinyasa, yin, a women's frame drum circle, crystal bowl sound healing, and ceremony with medicine songs led by Uqualla. It has hosted Gaden Shartse monks and a day for the Q'ero. Scholarships and donation-based programmes keep some offerings open to people who cannot pay full rate.
Collective Awakening
A breathwork and meditation retreat center in the Sierra, home to the SoulFlow method. Inner healing pursued in common, because no one wakes up alone. Collective Awakening is the practice of founder Mahsa Ghafourian in Truckee, California. She offers meditation, breathwork, energy healing, Akashic record reading, integration support and spiritual coaching, and runs Grof Breathwork retreats. SoulFlow Breathwork is her method: deep, rapid breathing to reach an altered state, music that moves from intense to calm, hands-on bodywork only if the breather asks, then a sharing circle and drawing or journaling. Retreats add hiking, cold plunge swimming and kayaking. The breathing is built to bring up repressed memories and strong release, so it suits people ready for cathartic work. Private integration sessions support people processing psychedelic experiences and spiritual emergencies.
Spirit Camp
A retreat sanctuary in the Mendocino redwoods. Holotropic breathwork, somatic healing, and ecstatic dance held under trees that have kept time far longer than we have. Spirit Camp is a queer-owned retreat centre on 27 acres of coastal redwoods in Little River, 12 minutes from Mendocino town and three hours north of San Francisco. Co-founders Julian Cressman and Nathaniel Reagan run it. Most retreats are led by independent facilitators who rent the land and set their own programme. The calendar includes breathwork healer training, ecstatic dance, shadow work, fire ritual, cacao ceremony, kirtan, and women's and gay men's retreats. On site: seven cabins, seasonal bell tents, a Finnish sauna, a cold plunge and a redwood trail. The camp is substance-free: no alcohol, cannabis or recreational substances. It suits clear-headed group work, and not anyone planning to drink or use while there.
Structure In Motion
A private structural bodywork practice in Bankers Hill, San Diego, held by Henry Kagey since 1995. Rolfing and Structural Integration in a direct line from Ida Rolf's own hands, through Kagey's fourteen years alongside Edward Maupin, one of her first students. Sessions run ninety clinical minutes in a single room with the floor kept clear, because the movement work happens standing as often as it happens on the table. The ten series is the long form of it. Alongside that he builds single and multi-session protocols for one person's problem: repetitive stress, recurring sprains, herniation, scoliosis, plantar fasciitis, tendonitis. Rates come down by a fifth for active military, first responders, teachers and full-time students, and one client is carried at all times who cannot pay at all.
Thomas Hatsis
Thomas Hatsis, who writes and speaks as Tom Hatsis, is a historian of witchcraft, magic and psychedelic practice, based in Portland, Oregon.[1][2] In 2023 he was entrusted with the last thirty-four boxes of Timothy Leary's papers still in private hands, to catalogue, digitise and preserve.[1][4] He has written four books. The Witches' Ointment (Inner Traditions, 2015) goes back to inquisitorial and medical trial records to find the pharmacology behind the witch stereotype.[5] Psychedelic Mystery Traditions (Inner Traditions, 2018) traces entheogen use from prehistory through Renaissance magic.[6] Microdosing Magic (2018) is a short practical primer.[7] LSD: The Wonderchild (Park Street Press, 2021), written with the journalist Martin A. Lee, tells the story of LSD research in the 1950s, before Leary took it public.[8] A fifth, Psychedelic Injustice, is forthcoming.[1][11] Since 2018 he has run Psanctum, a psychedelic education and harm reduction nonprofit in Portland, with his co-founder Eden Woodruff.[1][4] He has also worked in historical research at Queens College and taught history at Pioneer Pacific College.[2][3]
Makenzie Darling
Makenzie Darling is a movement builder based in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more than a decade she has built community-led campaigns where social impact meets spiritual change.[1] Let It Ripple's Character Day and 50/50 Day, which she worked on, reached more than five million people across 128 countries, and the World Happiness Festival reached more than ten million people in 145 countries.[1][3] She teaches founders and leaders of mission-driven organisations how to build movements that outlast them.[1] She works through Global Movement Maker, which runs a four-day programme called the Movement Maker Incubator, a leadership podcast called The Call to Rise, and a free workbook, Bloodline to Blueprint.[1][2] She is a trained Entheogenic Minister. She completed a two-year seminary programme and helped launch a leadership seminary for psychedelic guide training, The Congregation for Sacred Practices, where she studied from 2022 to 2023.[1][4]
Bradley McDevitt
Bradley McDevitt is an American executive coach and depth psychology scholar in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, working with leaders at an inflection point.[1] He is an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation and a certified practitioner of Presence-Based Coaching, and he holds an MA in Depth Psychology and Creativity from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he now teaches as adjunct faculty.[2][3] His practice rests on a thirty year career in professional theatre, which came first and still supplies the method.[1] Out of it he built Theater of Self, an intensive that puts physical theatre, Jungian depth psychology and Iain McGilchrist's work on the divided brain in one room, and runs it through movement, voice and improvisation.[4] He is also certified to deliver the WorkPlace Big Five, ISI, PerSight and Benchmark 360 assessments as an affiliate of the Center for Creative Leadership, and works alongside Michael Valverde at Coherence Lab on organisational clarity.[1]
Henry Kagey, PhD
Henry Kagey is an American practitioner of Rolfing and Structural Integration, in private practice in San Diego since 1995.[1][3] He learned the method from Dr Edward Maupin, one of the first students of its originator Ida Rolf, and worked closely with Maupin for fourteen years as his protege.[2] He also holds a PhD in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, which he took in order to understand the body as a structure.[1][2] With Maupin he built the Structural Integration internship at IPSB in San Diego and co-wrote A Dynamic Relation to Gravity, a two-volume classroom manual still used to teach the ten sessions.[2][4] He taught at IPSB from 1998 to 2010 and led workshops in Ohio, at Esalen, and in Japan and China.[2] Separately from the bodywork, Henry was a nationally ranked Taiji athlete, winning gold at national and international level in Chinese internal martial arts between 2000 and 2002.[1][2] Since 1998 he has kept one low-income client on his books at all times who cannot meet his session rate.[2]
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