OUR MEDITATION PROGRAM
The Wisdom dojo brings meditation experts directly to you. Our veteran trainers help you integrate and process the peak experiences of life. Key to these is your experience with medicine and your journey with psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy has the potential to create a vast shift in worldview and, with that, the possibility for powerful and transformative change.
These medicines can open a temporary portal – a window showing possibilities for abiding in inner freedom – but optimally, practices like meditation support your integration of these changes and help to lock in and sustain them for the rest of your life.
Our meditation program facilitates a more open and clear understanding of the psychedelic experience, and also provides you the ability to close the experiential gap between the normal waking state and the worldview experienced during your medicine journey.
The Wisdom dojo meditation program was developed by bringing together traditional meditation methods, military high-performance instruction, and elite level athletic training program design. To date, it’s been delivered to fighter pilots, special operators, helicopter pilots, Olympic and other world-class athletes, and elite firefighting and law enforcement units.
(Heads up – The Wisdom dojo does NOT provide psychedelic-assisted therapy. Check out VETS, The Mission Within, and Heroic Hearts Project to learn more.)
WHY MEDITATION FOR INTEGRATION?
Self-Awareness
Learn tools and techniques to increase self-awareness of your mental, physical and emotional states.
Self-Regulation
- Recalibrating and resting the nervous system
- Recognizing and releasing challenging emotions
- Attention control to strengthen and maintain concentration and focus
Self-Compassion
You’ll also learn meditation techniques that develop and increase compassion for yourself and others.
AMP dojo TRAINING PROGRAM
AMP dojo training is a somatic, bottom-up, embodied practice that teaches meditation in a very intimate way. You’ll learn to tap into the experience of the body, mind and heart and to establish a direct relationship with the wisdom of each, helping you to sustain lasting, positive changes. By softening the need for control, your healing journey continues to unfold, often bringing profound transformation and the ability to tap into your innate goodness, clarity, and compassion.
White Belt >> Yellow Belt >> Blue Belt
AMP dojo CORE TRAINING - 10 WEEK PROGRAM
- Connection: Connect with a trainer who is also a veteran, has experienced psychedelics and who is walking the journey of meditation for integration of psychedelic therapy.
- Integration: Learn meditation techniques that help blend the therapeutic psychedelic experience into your daily, ordinary life.
- Training: Develop proficiency and confidence in meditation techniques and begin practicing meditation workouts independently.
- Skills: (Note: Training & support assets are available for download)
- BODY Training (White Belt -> Yellow Belt / 4 Sessions): Learning self-awareness to recognize the various states (activated vs deactivated) of the body, nervous system and mind. Practice breathing skills for self-regulation and deactivation of the body and nervous system.
- MIND Training (Yellow Belt -> Blue Belt / 3-4 Sessions): Once the body and nervous system have been recalibrated, the training shifts to stabilizing attentional focus. These skills help manage the “wandering” mind and the habits of anxious thinking, prevarication, and catastrophic thinking.
- HEART Training (Yellow Belt -> Blue Belt / 3 Sessions): With attentional control in place, you’ll learn “loving-kindness” and “giving and taking” meditations to cultivate compassion for yourself and others.
Blue Belt >> Purple Belt
WEEKLY COMMUNITY TRAINING
- Connection: Practice integrative, non-conceptual Body, Mind and Heart meditation techniques together, as a community, with other veterans.
- Integration: Begin sessions with guided meditation exercises and follow with discussions pointing group members towards deeper integration of the therapeutic psychedelic experience.
- Training: Deepen skills, share experiences, develop a practice community.
- Skills: (Note: Weekly group trainings are recorded and available for download)
- Level 1: Body, Mind and Heart – Group practice for AMP dojo Blue Belts, facilitated by instructors.
- Level 2: Expansive Awareness – Advanced practices facilitated by instructors designed to help participants become more comfortable with the vulnerability associated with a more flexible mind state. Group members will practice opening to the vast, relaxed mental landscape which brings a sense of peace, freedom and compassion towards self and others.
Purple Belts >> Brown Belt
AMP dojo TRAIN THE TRAINER - 10 WEEK PROGRAM
Motivated AMP dojo participants will be invited to become mentor certified and train other veterans interested in meditation for PAT integration. Mentorship helps deepen PAT integration through shared stories, training, and connection with others.
By encouraging and supporting a cadre of certified veteran trainers who have undergone PAT and meditation integration, we’ll continue to build and expand The Wisdom dojo community.
And the training keeps deepening…Once the body, nervous system, mind and heart meditation techniques have been learned, you’ll investigate the more subtle aspects of mind to identify and change deeply ingrained, self-defeating habits and behaviors.
TESTIMONIALS
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