8 WEEKS LIVE & ONLINE · BEGINS MAY 6TH, 2026
meditation as a way of being
8 Week Meditation Course with Kurt Iwanina and Guest Teacher Amber Hawken
WEEKLY VIA ZOOM · LIFETIME ACCESS
It is glaringly obvious that we are at a crossroads as a collective.
And there is no shortage of advice on doing our part: Stay informed. Heal your lineage. Regulate your nervous system. Don’t lose hope. Show up.
Our relationship with what’s real, what’s important, and what we can and cannot do about it is… complicated.
And the question isn’t, what do I do?
It’s…
How present am I to what is actually important, not just what is pulling at my attention, and how do I become available to tend to that?
If we cannot discern what we truly need to do and sustain access to enough of ourselves to do it, we will either slip into collapse, or leap into overdrive.
So let’s commit to the truest practice of meditation, which is cultivating aliveness in such a way that it is available to you at any time and useful in all things.
This course is a doorway into the restorative, nourishing, alive, benevolent, willful and spirited essence that cannot be tainted or taken away.
The world needs you wholly here and deeply alive.
“It allows you to feel the intangible again”
— Emma Rennie-Hynes, course student and student mentorMeditation is an unlearning, not a learning.
Attention has become one of the most shaped and directed forces in human life. Measured, analysed, redirected, monetised.
Even interior life is approached through tracking, optimisation and improvement. Ironically, the intention to slow down has been turned into a productivity strategy.
Meditation has not been spared from this. It is frequently offered as a tool. Something to use on yourself. Another place where you are not living how you 'should'.
This course is none of that. There is a permeation, a very organic rearrangement, an osmotic effect that should take place, that is really the working of presence. The work of love.
There is a difference between doing the work, having a practice, and simply and honestly inhabiting your experience.
Eight weeks of live transmission with Kurt Iwanina and guest teacher Amber Hawken.
Urgency and desire for efficiency are your main energetic patterns. People think you're a superhero, but you couldn't feel more stretched inside.
You keep looping between efficiency strategies, going hard on self-care when exhausted, then back to a hundred miles an hour once recovered.
You're full to the brim. Simple changes to plan, time and space can do your head in.
You're on again, off again with personal practice and with community, for both belonging and a sense of contribution.
You have an urge to respond to things right away, and relaxing before it’s complete is difficult.
You're grateful, and you're also tired.
You've been leant on a lot by those around you. You can do it, but you can feel there is a long-term consequence you'll regret. You're not sure what the answer is, but for now, you're pushing on.
You cope with it. But there is background anxiety, tension and niggles that never quite let go, and deep holes of existential thinking that really impact you.
You're strong, and that has been reflected to you a lot. But you'd actually just like a nap and for others to initiate instead of you.
Overdrive might be at the root
of some of your challenges
“The work that we do is one of connection and forming connections within ourselves so that we can see more clearly and we can understand and feel each other. And what's alive from a place of really, really sturdy, but flexible and malleable adaptability where we can move and bend and shape and feel. Without feeling like we're gonna be broken. And it's just a really soft, gentle, nurturing, but real, absolutely real relationship in the work.”
— Ryan Cook, course studentWhat Happens When you Inhabit Your life?
You find yourself feeling inspired rather than having to seek it from external sources.
Deciding what is for you and what is not becomes easy.
You stop conflating doing more with doing better.
There is more room to listen and meet people in ways that give equally. There is nourishment in giving.
You hold less tension. Slow is soft, soft is smooth, smooth is fast.
Your sense of urgency moves into purposeful movement. Excessive yes falls away. No comes out clear, clean and lands well.
You stop feeling you need to fix, address and tend to every fracture or rupture in your life or the world.
You are more present for what and who is most important.
You can accept responsibility without feeling shame or burden.
You feel clear and connected to what is important, and motivated to let what is not fall away, guilt-free.
You don't need to be broken
and battered by life to join us
Distracted and chaotic is our culture's theme, and most of us could do with a teacher who inhabits this place as a reminder that the answer is both simple and readily available.
We all get caught up in the chaos at times. Feeling dictated by external circumstance. By internal circumstance. By the world's circumstances. But we are not.
This course will be deeply nourishing, enriching and enlivening.
It's critical you know the difference between urgency and purpose. Between avoidance and regeneration. Between chaos and creative stride.
what this course
explores
Meditation as Awareness
Meditation as a natural capacity rather than a skill to perfect. You learn to recognise awareness as your primary ground. Stable, present, already here.
Why Stillness Can Feel Threatening
Slowing down surfaces what movement has kept at bay. We explore why the interior can feel unfamiliar or unsafe, and how safety develops through experience rather than understanding.
The Nature of Mind, Ego, and Persona
You learn to differentiate between awareness and mind, ego and function, persona and essence — allowing each to take its rightful place without suppression or inflation.
Crafting the Field
Meditation is relational. We explore how attention shapes experience, how coherence emerges, and how presence reorganises perception and conduct.
Gathering Attention & Entering the Slipstream
Attention gathered without force. A steadiness that does not narrow or strain. A quality of practice that carries you rather than being driven by effort.
The Art of Presence
Awareness lived through the body, breath, work, and relationship. Practice integrated into ordinary life.
Lineage and Living Transmission
Meditation arises from ancient streams of wisdom. We trace lineages not as historical references, but as living transmissions that continue to shape serious practice.
Relative and Absolute Reality
We examine the paradox of the human and the divine, of form and formlessness, of time and timelessness and what it means to live without splitting them.
“I had to shatter that image of perfection and realise the depths of the humanness in me. And in the shadow of that, you find your true brilliance.”
— Jessica Smith, Student and student mentormeditation as a way of being
An 8-week course, live online with Kurt Iwanina, starting May 6th
Live calls weekly via Zoom, Wednesdays 6:30 to 8:30 pm AEST
Recordings: All sessions recorded and uploaded within 24 hours
Access: Lifetime access to recordings via private membership portal
Community: Private Signal channel for connection and resource sharing
Call dates6 May · 13 May · 20 May · 27 May · 3 Jun · 10 Jun · 17 Jun · 24 Jun
included
Eight live weekly teachings beginning in May
A robust library of different meditations and
practices to keep for life
Lifetime access to the recordings
Access to a private signal channel for connection
and resource sharing (not for mentoring or
managing personal healing).
investment
3 Month
Payment Plan
3 x Monthly payments
$122 / Month
PAY IN FULL
$333
12 Month
Payment Plan
12 x Monthly payments
$33 / Month
Our Team
about amber hawken
Amber brings a developmental and relational lens to meditation. Her background integrates psychotherapy training, attachment theory, somatic practice, and Rites of Passage work. She speaks to the conditions that make stillness complex for many people, including hyper-attunement, arousal patterns, and cultural dislocation.
Her role in this course includes teaching on safety, embodiment, and the psychological terrain surrounding contemplative practice. Her teaching invites steadiness.
about kurt iwanina
Kurt has practised meditation for over two decades and has been teaching since 2010. His work translates contemplative principles into lived experience with uncanny clarity and depth. His orientation is devotional in the truest sense, a steady commitment to helping people experience inner and outer alignment.
He works with therapists, leaders, practitioners, and everyday people seeking depth and healing. His field is grounded, precise, and gently transformative.
Frequently Asked Questions
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No. This course does not assume you have an established practice. It assumes you are sincere and willing to slow down. Both beginners and long-term practitioners find this work genuinely meets them where they are.
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No. Stress reduction may be a byproduct. It is not the orientation. This course is concerned with something prior to stress: the relationship between you and your own inner life, and what happens when that relationship changes.
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Yes. All sessions are recorded and uploaded within 24 hours. You have lifetime access.
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This is for people who have done sincere work and sense that something essential has not yet settled. The orientation here is not toward more information or more technique. It is toward a different quality of presence with yourself. Many people find it genuinely unlike what they have encountered before.
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Connection and resource sharing between participants. It is not a space for mentoring or personal processing.
This course is for
an engaged human being.
Meditator or spiritual seeker.
Therapist or practitioner.
Somatic or bodywork practitioner.
Someone who has done the work and senses something is still unmet.
A person trying to show up more fully in their life.
Someone exhausted by the self-improvement loop.
A parent, a leader, a carer.
Anyone genuinely ready to slow down.
There is an old exhaustion in all of us. You deserve to be held.
