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Full-bodied Awakening: Unbinding the Nervous System
November 02 - November 08, 2025
Chelsea Muth, PhD
Angelo Dilullo, MD
Richard Witteman
Gregory Allison
Victor Bucklew, PhD
Can you notice a sense of fixity that feels connected to who you take yourself to be right now? As if you are experiencing life from a space that appears more central and solid than elsewhere in your inner or outer experience?This reflex—this habit of orienting—isn’t a flaw or a sign of misunderstanding. It’s a natural pattern of the nervous system trying to find safety. It’s the nervous system whispering, “Stay here. Don’t let go. We can survive this.”Many spiritual and healing practices, while helping the practitioner to address fundamental perceptual delusions, subtly reinforce another layer of nervous system conditioning—one that says, “This experience is not ok. I need to fix it, transcend it, or make it go away.” What if this sense of separateness wasn’t only something to wake up from, but also something to wake more deeply into? Identity and separateness are byproducts of our natural movement toward simplicity, naturalness and innocence–movements of safety, belonging, and love.When we awaken to what’s really happening—that we are experiencing life through the adaptive perceptual filters of our nervous system—something shifts. We stop struggling. We stop fighting against what is natural and human. A gentle, full-bodied release begins to arise, not from effort or analysis, but from the tender recognition of what’s here.This retreat supports participants in deepening realization of their awake nature by helping them reconnect with the wisdom of their nervous systems and bodies–the same wisdom which calls us to meet ourselves and the world as we truly are, with all the rawness, connection, and complexity that life entails.ScheduleSunday, November 2
ABOUT THE TEACHERs
Chelsea Muth, PhD
Chelsea Muth, PhD, is a psychologist, psychotherapist, and teacher, whose life’s work has centered on helping others find relief from frozen states of suffering and access freedom to live dynamically. She has worked as a PhD scholar and fellow of the National Institutes of Heal...
Angelo Dilullo, MD
Angelo Dilullo is the author of the book Awake: It's Your Turn, which is ranked among the Top 50 books in spirituality on Amazon. He is also an MD who is board certified in Family Medicine and Anesthesiology. At the age of 24, after years of intense internal suffering and an in...
Richard Witteman
Richard began meditating in his early 20’s, and was a student of Roshi Philip Kapleau at the Rochester Zen Center for ten years. He then began working with Toni Packer, who was Philip Kapleau's dharma heir. In the early 1980’s, Toni decided to leave the Zen tradition to exp...
Gregory Allison
Gregory Allison creates with a single violin a sound that travels across great landscapes. He has toured the world with violin in hand and is endlessly inspired by the instrument’s journey around the globe, especially its use in South Indian Classical Music. His live performanc...
Victor Bucklew, PhD
Victor is a psychotherapist and physicist who studies the quantum mechanics of light. He is also the author of the award-winning book The Hidden Gifts of Addiction, which explores healing from trauma and addiction through presence and compassion. Victor’s journey has been shape...
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