Our deepest relational hurts and patterns are rarely healed by meditation practice or 1:1 therapy alone.
In a group of people with a shared intention, deeply connected friendships can grow rapidly, shifting lifelong patterns and opening us to more connection with ourselves and others for years to come.
In nine days, we will explore six aspects of human experience that we think are fundamental to building a sense of wellbeing and connection. Your deepest learning will arise through immersive games and activities among attendees, so our curriculum vastly focuses on experiential learning.
Know how to work with your emotions and trust them as deep intelligence; learn how to connect and communicate more deeply.
Learn how consciousness evolves through life, and how to work with stress patterns in your mind and body.
Awaken the power and pleasure that lays dormant in your body, and strengthen your interoception and somatic tracking.
Sing and dance like everybody’s watching and enjoy your unique way of doing it.
Deepen your metacognition and expand the range of responses available to you under stress.
Learn how to feel joyous in your body.
"I broke through decades of shame and judgement and found a deep well of unconditional love and acceptance."
- Jason, 2024 Sleepawake Camper
Though some individual days may differ, a typical day at Sleepawake Immersive will look like:
8:00am-9:00am: Breakfast
9:00am-9:30am: Small group check ins
9:30am-10:00am: Full group physical activity and opening circle
10:00am-12:30pm: Experiential emotional relational curriculum
12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch break
1:30pm-5:30pm: Experiential emotional relational curriculum
5:30pm-7:00pm: Dinner break
7:00pm-7:15pm: Full group daily reflection
7:15pm-9:00pm: Creative expression & embodiment curriculum
9:00pm-10:00pm: Open time (often used for hanging out, group singalongs, journaling, or early bed)
Book a short call with our facilitators to explore your questions
and learn to hear their loving wisdom about what you want and need
and begin asking for what you really want in your relationships
and practice setting loving boundaries in your most important relationships
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and find out how many others run into the same limiting fears and self judgements as you
increase in relationship satisfaction
increase in willingness to set a boundary with someone in your life
reduction from severe anxiety to moderate or mild
One of Sleepawake's unique strengths is standing outside any particular modality or institution. We draw from inspiring work of many lineages, but fundamentally care about what feels significant and powerful for you. At our programs, you'll be introduced to a wide range of modalities, exercises, and practices -- so you can find the ones that open doors for your process right now.
Our facilitation team draws on modalities and frameworks including: Byron Katie’s The Work, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetics, Integral Theory, Emotional Resolution, Doug Tataryn's Bio-Emotive Framework, and Tibetan Buddhist meditation practices. Our facilitators also bring a deep appreciation of the evolution of consciousness and the sources of human suffering and joy.
years of meditation practice
hours co-facilitating relational programs
collective years of being friends with each other
Cat and Jeff have been exploring and experimenting with group process together since 2018. They will be joined by two other facilitators at Sleepawake Immersive, and the retreat will be capped at 24 attendees.
Book a short call to explore your curiosities with Jeff & Cat
Sleepawake Camp was our first program, and is a 30 day version of Sleepawake Immersive.
"Sleepawake was the most incredible gift I've ever received. Every day, I felt invited to embrace and love the full breadth and depth of my experience. With this invitation, I started a new relationship with many parts of myself."
"I have never felt so encouraged, loved, and held through all of my messiness and most raw version of self."
"I will be harvesting the seeds that were planted and watered at Sleepawake for years to come...If you have the opportunity to go to this camp.....it's like winning the lottery!"
"I’ve never experienced such safety to feel all of what I am feeling."
"I have never felt so free in my humanness and self expression. Any way that I wanted to show up was perfect and accepted. I was so deeply met, seen and held in my pain. I cannot rave and thank the facilitators enough for the gift that they gave. My life is only enhanced and more rich after attending camp."
"There are few shifts more profound than to go from being suspicious of your every thought and feeling to having a deep trust of yourself. I feel tremendously more confident about everything in my life... my relationships, my work, my emotions, etc. I've gone from anxiously waiting for whatever is around the corner to striving confidently into each new challenge."
We offer partial and full scholarships to Sleepawake programs through the generosity of our donors. At Sleepawake Camp 2024, nearly 75% of campers received some amount of financial aid. More information on scholarships for Sleepawake Immersive is available here.
Tuition to Sleepawake Immersive includes:
9 days of high-quality programming in a 1:6 facilitator : attendee ratio
Access to a wider Sleepawake alum community for resources, support, and more
Group calls after the initial 9 day retreat to support integrating your learnings into the rest of your life
Accommodations for 9 nights and 3 meals per day
"After Sleepawake, I feel like a different person. I’m so much more confident and powerful. I feel capable of taking care of myself."
- 2023 Sleepawake Camper
We make sure each person who comes to the program is a good fit and is ready to receive the gifts this program has to offer. To do this, we have an application with a few short answer questions, followed by a 30 minute interview. The process takes under an hour, spread over 1-3 weeks.
We work backwards to set the tuition price to reflect what we're investing to run the retreat. That investment includes the venue rental, food, modest facilitator wages, a small kitchen staff, operational costs for the organization, and a very small marketing budget (<5%).
Sleepawake doesn't use a specific program, modality, or theory of practice. Instead, it uses many! The combined experience of our team allows us to embrace all sorts of practices and use them in tandem.
Some of our team's experience includes Byron Katie’s The Work, Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, Alexander Lowen’s Bioenergetics, Integral Theory, as well as a deep appreciation of the evolution of consciousness and the sources of human suffering and joy.
