Self-Enquiry Enlightenment Intensive and Awareness Intensive Meetups

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A Request for Support

We intend to continue offering these gatherings free of charge and would like some help to cover costs. If that is something you feel moved to help with, please see our Donate page. Thank you!

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For New People without Experience of Self-enquiry Dyads

As a new person, you are warmly invited to attend all the presentations which occur at the beginning of each monthly event. To participate in dyads in breakout rooms (the second part of each event), it will be necessary for you to be introduced to the particular dyad technique we use. There is an opportunity for this during the first dyad period so that you may then, if you wish, join the second dyad practice with another participant. For more information and an explanation of terms used, see ‘New to Dyads?’

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With special thanks to Osha Reader, Lawrence Noyes, and Grace Honore for their support and suggestions. Dedicated to Murray Kennedy and Edrid for their inspiration and personal guidance. Dedicated to Osho. 

If you have any queries, please email us at info@selfenquirydyads.org 

The Presentations

Each month an Awareness Intensive Leader from the Osho communities or an Enlightenment Intensive Master will present an informative and inspiring talk about various aspects of these intensives and of the dyad process.

“Awareness Intensive (AI)” is the name used in Osho communities; the process is the same as in other communities where they use the name “Enlightenment Intensive (EI)”.

Each monthly presentation will include the unique, and often inspiring, personal experiences of the presenter.

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There are many benefits of these intensives, especially how they are an opportunity for you to discover and “directly experience” the truth of who and what you actually are, of what life is, of what love is, and of what others are.

This process is suitable for every sincere seeker of truth in their lives, regardless of religious or spiritual orientation. Care is taken so that no belief system is introduced or taught. Only a method is provided to facilitate effective and satisfying personal enquiry and experience.

Previous Presenters

These monthly gatherings started in April 2022,  So far we’ve had presentations by Edrid (a student of Charles Berner, the creator of Enlightenment Intensives); Murray Kennedy leading a tribute to Jeff Love; Lawrence Noyes, Ganga and Garimo, Simone Anliker from Global Dyads, Zen Reverend Pitaka Christie Close, Forest Dalton, founder of the Love Intensive, Avikal Costantino, Colleen Santini, Smaran Stockard, Bill Savoie, Osha Reader, Russell Scott, Emma and Barry McGuinness, Murray Kennedy, Yoah Wexler, Doug Seeley, John Heron, Emir Salihovic, Paul Weiss, Grace Honore, Jake Chapman, Shivam O'Brien, Lila Paradigm group, Joseph Rubano, Satyen Raja, Luke and Matthew Farren, Attila Kalo, Sally Dearman-Cummings ,Zarina Parpia, Katrin Potticary and Ava Harrison (Berner)

Event Dates and Times

All events in this Zoom series occur on the first Wednesday of each month.

Events begin at:

• 8pm Central European time
• 7pm London time
• 2pm in Eastern USA/Canada  
• 11am Pacific Time  

Privacy: If you would like to remain anonymous on the Zoom call, please see Privacy on Zoom.

Next Presentation in this Series

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 - presentation by Tim Wang

The Embodied Spiritual Journey

Drawing on decades of experience as a martial artist, body worker, and spiritual seeker, Tim Wang will share how physical practices have been and continue to be an integral part of his journey. From going to a gym for the first time in college to immersing himself in the study and practice of Tai Chi, from wandering the US on a motorcycle at age 27 — in what he jokingly refers to as an early midlife crisis — to his first Enlightenment Intensive in 2007, Tim traces a life shaped by following his curiosity and the search for Truth.

Through personal stories - sparring with friends and discovering the power of a quiet mind, witnessing a monarch butterfly migration in the mountains of Mexico, and tasting a grapefruit with fresh eyes during an Enlightenment Intensive - he will talk about how connecting with one's body is a useful, even foundational, part of a path to Awakening. When we are truly in our bodies, we are here, now, and available to Truth in a way the thinking mind cannot offer.

This talk will be a heart based exploration of what it might mean to live this embodied life as a spiritual practice.  It will be a reminder that enlightenment isn't somewhere else - it's always here, in this moment, and grounded in our bodies.

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Bio

Tim attended his first Enlightenment Intensive in 2007 and, after more than 20 retreats, began leading them in the Chicago area in 2024. A seeker for most of his life, practicing and teaching body work, the moving meditation of Tai Chi, other martial arts, and seated mindfulness meditation have all been important parts of his journey. Along the way, he spent 20 years as a professional body worker before finding an unexpected calling in Architecture. His life has been shaped less by plans than by curiosity.

Always in search of what would connect him more deeply to truth, he found it in EIs and the dyad technique, which he believes makes enlightenment experiences accessible to anyone, not just monks sitting in caves for decades.

www.EITimWang.com

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The presentation will be followed by two optional dyad sessions. If you have not participated in online dyads before, you are welcome to join a free training session during the first dyad and then participate in the second one if you wish.

Join the Zoom Call

A few minutes before the event start time (we have music playing 15 minutes before the start), click the link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83979867311?pwd=aFJjTkN5b0FzRDYvMkNVTkFjZmVnUT09

Meeting ID: 839 7986 7311

Passcode: 768440

Future Presentations

Wednesday, May 6, 2026 - presentation by Shivam O'Brien

A comparison between 

EI and —- 

• Satsang 
• Vipassana 
• Dzogchen and Mahamudra 
• Tibetan dharma. 
• Ayahuasca and other plant medicines 
• Psychedelics 
• Shamanic ritual and traditional indigenous wisdom 

I have spent my years immersed in these paths, and I find it remarkable that established traditions that are thousands of years old did not discover what Charles Berner hit upon in the 60’s. 

EI’s hold up well next to any approach. Why? I would also like to touch upon the limitations of EI breakthroughs compared to long-haul traditional paths. 

I will also share a bit about why I am doubtful that online EIs can uphold the standard and why I have up to now agreed with Berner that three days is the best length for an EI . I still do.  

About Shivam

I discovered Enlightenment intensives in 1987.

Any searching, reading, travelling I had done previously paled into insignificance.

A whole cycle of struggle ended. A new adventure began; punctuated by awakenings, fresh experiment in all directions and a kundalini explosion that was not part of this world.

In that same first year I took part in a six-week EI in the Austrian alps.

A year or two after all that I took the masters training ( and a two week ) with Jake and Eva Chapman.

I started leading Intensives when I was 31 and now 35 years later must have run something like 80. They still surprise me. They still inspire me. They still taste fresh.

I set up my own off-grid retreat centre - SPIRIT HORSE - in wildest wales UK. Originally in tipis and yurts camping out under a waterfall. 34 years on we are somewhat more settled and comfortable in our mountain retreat village of roundhouses and temple spaces.

A community grew up around my work and we set up a charity to purchase 200 acres of woods and waterfalls around the original camp. That’s been my main place for EI s over the years.

I’ve had good teachers in later life, taken satsang with great masters, received transmission from Tibetan lamas whose stature amazed me and also worked with indigenous shamans and drunk the medicine.

I’ve explored quite a few spokes of the wheel - but Enlightenment Intensives still stand up to any comparison with traditional spiritual paths or meditation techniques.

After all these decades of exploration I would still not claim to understand how or why dyads work. They just do. Profoundly.

If you have discovered this path to awakening, you have found a jewel. Beyond compare.

At this stage I have decided to train EI masters, and started in August 2025.

I ran two EI s in the Peruvian jungle this January followed by a week of ayahuasca. A first experiment of its kind that I know of. One that I did discuss with very experienced EI masters. 

I am offering a 7 day EI this October - the first time I’ve felt called to offer a long Intensive. 

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Look forward to sharing a bit of the journey with you all.

Shivam

Website: spirithorse.co.uk

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Some Appreciation

"Thank you so much for this!

I'm training to be a Master and all this early history helps me learn more about the nature of the intensive.

Warmly, MM, US"