A place to return to what matters

You can recognise a pattern and still find yourself inside it next Tuesday.

Practice gives you another encounter with the moment itself. The hesitation before you agree. The need you explain away. The pleasure you keep postponing until everything else is done.

I AWAKE Practice Space brings the material, my recorded guidance and the original music of The Sensual Hero’s Journey™ into a place you can return to as you explore these moments in your own life.

One subscription, with practices across all nine destinations.

Applications are open for The Sensual Hero’s Journey™ Practice Space. We will reply with the access arrangements and subscription details before you decide.

Find a way in that meets you where you are

Some days you want to understand a thought. Other days you notice the tension before you have words for it. The Practice Space brings together different ways of exploring experience, so your starting point does not always have to be a written answer.

Somatic exercises

Pay attention to sensation, breath and movement. Notice what is happening and how it relates to the situation you are in, without rushing to decide what it must mean.

Visualisations

Explore an image, a possibility or a familiar scene from another angle. Notice what becomes easier to imagine and what still meets resistance.

Socratic exercises

Question an assumption. Separate what happened from the story you told about it. Consider what you might see if your first explanation were not the only one.

Somatic shadow work

Explore the feelings, needs or ways of being you tend to push aside, including how they show up in your bodily experience. You choose what to approach and when to stop.

My recorded guidance and music

Let your attention follow my voice and the original music when you would rather listen than keep looking at a screen. Return to the material in the form that suits the moment.

My voice and music composed especially for the I AWAKE universe accompany the practices. The scripts use a deliberate pace, pauses and sequence designed to help your nervous system settle, with room to notice your own response.

Nine destinations, more than one starting point

The Sensual Hero’s Journey™ follows nine destinations through questions of identity, closeness, feeling, desire and the life you want to inhabit.

You do not have to turn your life into another performance project. Start with a question that matters to you. Practise, notice what happens and return with what you discover.

Human capacities you can practise

Noticing what you feel. Distinguishing a thought from a fact. Recognising a need before you dismiss it. Explore the human capacities connected to the material and see which ones speak to what you are working with.

A glossary for the words worth understanding

When a term such as interoception or emotional regulation appears, you should be able to find out what it means. The glossary separates established concepts, everyday language and I AWAKE’s own terms.

Go further in the Reading Room

Follow the questions that stay with you. The Reading Room offers longer explorations of the ideas behind the practices, including their distinctions, research context and limits.

Three journeys, beginning here

The I AWAKE universe includes The Sensual Hero’s Journey™, The Creative Hero’s Journey™ and The Hidden Hero’s Journey™. Each has its own territory and is intended to have its own Practice Space.

The Sensual Hero’s Journey™ is the first space accepting applications. Access to the other spaces is not being offered here.

Your questions

What does the subscription cover?

Practice material across the nine destinations of The Sensual Hero’s Journey™, with somatic exercises, visualisations, Socratic exercises, somatic shadow work and my recorded guidance with the original music. We will confirm the available material and subscription terms when we reply to your application.