The Fall Retreat
Powerful Consciousness Workshops
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To enroll yourself in these workshops is to take action that speaks louder than words about your personal commitment to awakening.
Cheng Hsin Consciousness work is INTENSE and DEMANDS your attention, energy, and commitment. The only other requirement is to be there. If you’re up for a mind-blowing adventure, consider yourself invited to these powerful events.
We question not for an answer, but to experience the truth.
The Fall Retreat takes place each year usually in October and consists of four consecutive workshops deeply exploring some of the most advanced Consciousness work on the planet. All of these workshops have been created by Peter Ralston and are facilitated by Brendan Lea with daily visits by Peter Ralston.
We start with Transforming Your Experience of Life Workshop (TEL), this workshop offers a practical look into how to change your life perspective. Following this we move on to the Transcending Self Workshop (TSW), a deeper existential investigation into the origins and overlooked foundations that make up our experience of self. Then we jump to a brand new workshop—the most advanced workshop ever created—called, The Absolute Consciousness Workshop (ACW), this one is deeply challenging and cannot be attended without having done at least the ENB because it requires a foundation not offered in the workshop itself. We end with total immersive contemplation in The Contemplation Intensive (CI).
Though most of these workshops can be done alone, they are designed for consecutive study. We recommend that you participate in the entire four weeks. Taken together, the new Fall Retreat is the most off the charts powerful and transformative investigation of consciousness that has ever been created. Use the buttons below to get more details about the workshops, download a brochure, or to register.
Transforming Experience of Life Workshop
(Week One)
This workshop is about undertaking a shift in perspective that will change your fundamental experience of self and life. Our most common self-experience is based on a sense of separation that fails to produce the happiness that we seek, and always will. Since our experience of life is so closely related to our experience of each other, creating a new context for relating to others will transform our experience of self and life. Some of what we will work on: Transcend “Self Introversion” Become free of the closed loop of self-referencing perception Let go of existential assumptions of brokenness Immerse yourself in the truth about self and other Create a new Context for relating to others and life Increase your ability for real communication Reduce your sense of isolation and separation
Transcending Self Workshop
(Week Two)
This advanced workshop goes deeply into the existential origins of the elements necessary to produce what you experience as the world in which you live—your experience of you, others, and life as you live it. In this workshop you will stretch far beyond anything humans have confronted or collectively understood heretofore.
Absolute Consciousness Workshop
(Week Three)
This is the most advanced workshop I have ever created, I am committed to the attempt to lead people into an absolute consciousness, free from self and even beyond the limitations of humanity.
As always with a new workshop, I plan to personally do this workshop for the first time during the Fall Retreat 2025. I hope you can attend. It will truly blow your mind and expose you to assertions you are very likely to be stunned by.
Again, it is REQUIRED that you do the Experiencing the Nature of Being Workshop before attempting this one!
Contemplation Intensive
(Week Four)
A highly structured week of contemplating from dawn to late at night. This deep and focused questioning is an essential tool for increasing consciousness. Our main exercise is a diad where partners contemplate and then communicate to a non-judgmental, silent listening partner.
*Note – The Insight and Enlightenment Workshop is available to everybody with no prior experience required.
The Retreat Space
This retreat will be held on a private 14 acre property. Breaks should be refreshing and relaxing. The schedule leaves some room for swimming and introspection as you reflect on the work and soak in the experiences of the day.
What’s Included:
The cost of the martial sections includes instruction, room and board, a huge space with good mats. For those with the courage to participate in the consciousness work, the cost includes room and board plus a guided tour of your own consciousness by one of the most riveting and focused teachers you will ever encounter.
The Center
Our center includes a 40×80 foot hall with kitchen, showers, sinks, and toilets. Participants will be housed in the building, or in large tent-cabins, and provided with a huge cot, foam, sleeping bag, pillow and lights. There is also a large swimming pool and hot tub.
Signing Up:
To secure the most inexpensive fee available, a non-refundable deposit is due far in advance. For exact dates and amounts go to registration, and for dates see the Schedule of Events.
Fall Retreat On Zoom
For the first time we have been working to create a way for people to participate in the workshops online. So far it seems it can work. If you want to participate in these workshops online you will need a computer and the newest Zoom application. If you have never used Zoom it would be good to try it out and get to know how it works beforehand.
The times for the workshops will generally start at 8am and end around 9 or 10pm, Central Standard Time in the USA. So depending on where you live you will have to adjust your sleeping schedule and perhaps be up much of the night and sleep during the day. Best to start that shift a few days before the workshop.
Making this alteration to your sleep schedule and having to sit in front of a computer for about 8 hours a day (with many breaks) is the down side. The upside is you don’t have to travel and during the pandemic can remain at home. If you are willing to make these adjustments then join us in the Fall Retreat.
More details will be sent if you sign up and click the Zoom option.
*ZOOM Fall Retreat Registration
