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, Ava Harrison (Berner) and Tim Wang.

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, 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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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, June 3, 2026 - presentation by Jessica Lamm

I want this talk to be a lively, motivated talk about how far can we go?

I received a download while running an intensive recently that said, “I’m no Alice, I am the rabbit hole!” and later I went into Direct Experience of being a neuron in a brain in a holographic way.

I find these realizations to be inspiring me to really push the limits; to go to the edge of my edge and try and explore what lies beyond that.

We are all connected, and I encourage you to think about the 4 minute mile where no one thought it was possible until 1 person did it and then suddenly others could as well. Or about major scientific discoveries happening at the same time in different places in the world by researchers that were not collaborating. So, with Indra’s Web, the field of connection, what are the implications and possibilities of us pushing ourselves past our preconceived limitations and cultural upbringings? What membranes can we cross and how far can we go?

I believe the Enlightenment Intensive technique, with its structure and discipline can really help us fast track our evolution and our understanding of ourselves and our role in the nature of reality. I invite you to come listen, ponder and ask questions as we contemplate and explore the power and possibilities of this powerful technique. And as a bonus, ha!, I will even propose new wording that I have found to be very profound that does not veer away from but potentially enhances the contemplation practice. I hope you enjoy it.

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About Jessica

In 2009 I was just about to graduate University with a self designed degree in Environmental Advocacy and Policy (Environmental Law was not really a thing yet) when I had a message come through telling me to find another way besides politics to help.

Very soon after I was introduced to Enlightenment Intensives, Lakota Sundance and learned telekinesis...

Within just a few months I took two three day EIs and then attended a two week with Murray Kennedy. Within a year I was monitoring for several different masters and had started taking the two week every fall (8 in total, plus quite a few week longs).

Around 2017 I took an “Advanced Master’s Training Course” with Osha and Edrid at Origin and quickly began running EIs in person until Covid came along.

Recently I have begun hosting Zoom EIs with the desire to bring more people into the practice.

I am fascinated with quantum physics, neuroscience and the finally becoming more widely accepted addition of consciousness as an essential element in equations and the understanding of the nature of the universe.

I am an NTS, CMT, certified qi gong instructor, pranic healing practitioner, past lives and lives between lives hypnotherapist, and a trained remote viewer among other things and do floral design for my primary income source.

I am a firm believer in making life fun:)

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"