8 weeks live & online | begins may 6th, 2026 | lifetime access
Meditation as a way of being
with Kurt Iwanina and guest teacher Amber Hawken
Your life is full. You are capable and awake and genuinely trying. And there is a thread to be in contact with that can accompany you through it all. This course will take you to it.
You do not have to be drowning, broken, or overwhelmed to be here.
You are a sincere, capable, conscious person.
You sit down and feel it.
The weight of being a caring human being trying to stay upright in a world that is architecturally opposed to rest.
You want to bring more of yourself to your life. More presence. More depth.
More of that quality of being fully here that you have touched before.
A thread of contact with aliveness you struggle to maintain.
The world is genuinely hard to stay upright in right now. The load is real. The pace is real.
The inner life keeps getting crowded out by the very real weight of being alive.
The space between tasks is thin, and the friction across everything burns through your resources faster than you can restore them.
You have been navigating most of it alone.
You have done the work. You have not been avoiding this. Something has just not felt met yet.
The world is not slowing down. The demand on your attention is only increasing.
And given the growth-obsessed world, most of us have become very good at living beside ourselves rather than with ourselves.
When you pause, you can notice the distance between you and the inside of your own experience.
Your thoughts have more momentum than you have patience left.
You reach for thinking again. There is brief relief in ideation, being inspired, and planning a way out. But the agitation always returns.
There is no clear path forward out of this cycle. Forced rest. Return at pace. Stress peaks. Collapse. Begin again.
You watch yourself do it. That is the paradox of someone who is self-aware.
There has never been more available and less that actually reaches the root.
The seeking becomes its own weight.
And moving at this pace, without a trusted place to land inside yourself, is a slow erosion.
Moving at this pace, without a trusted place to land inside yourself, is a slow erosion.
But you CAN end the cycle. The world needs you fully here, fully inhabiting your experience, fully alive.
You have sat with good teachers. Read the books. Done the work. And something still has not felt met.
You have a practice. It helps. It does not hold.
You can describe your inner life with precision. You are less sure how to inhabit it.
You feel most alive under pressure and adrift on an ordinary Tuesday.
You are tired of growing and ready to arrive.
You have become very good at living beside yourself.
You are doing everything and belonging nowhere.
You want depth, but keep getting busy instead.
You are kind to everyone and running on empty.You are moving through something significant, doing so without a map.
You are suspicious of ease. Rest feels like something you have to earn.
You want to bring more of yourself to your life. You want the conditions to learn how to do it on your own.
who it’s for
You cannot think your way out of an overwhelmed system.
You need to give the energy direction, time and space to move.
And you cannot find your way back to yourself alone.
You need the presence of someone who has already arrived there.
You need a container held consistently enough that the inner life stops getting crowded out.
You need community.
This course all of those things at once.
Eight weeks of movement, meditation, community and transmission
Meditation here is approached as a foundational orientation, a way of inhabiting your body, your attention, and your life from within awareness itself.
Across eight carefully sequenced teachings, we move from effort to ease, from fragmentation to coherence, and from the idea of meditation to its lived reality.
This is a course for those who sense that stillness is not an escape from life, but an entry point into deeper intimacy with it.
What this course actually is
Eight-week live course beginning in May.
Immediate access to BONUS material upon registration before April 3rd.
structure
Begins: May 6th, 2026
Duration: 8 Weeks online
Live Calls: Weekly via Zoom every Wednesday 6:30PM — 8:30PM AEST.
All calls are recorded, and replays are uploaded within 24 hours
Membership Portal: All course materials, recordings, and resources are uploaded to a private membership portal with lifetime access
Call Dates: 6th May | 13th May | 20th May | 27th May | 3rd June | 10th June 17th June | 24th June
what this course
explores
Meditation as Awareness
Remembering meditation as a natural capacity rather than a skill to perfect. Recognising awareness as your primary ground. Stable, present, already here.
Why Stillness Can Feel Confronting
Slowing down surfaces what movement keeps at bay. We explore the nervous system, attachment patterns, and how to cultivate safety that allows rest to land.
The Nature of Mind, Ego, and Persona
Learning to differentiate between awareness and mind, ego and function, persona and essence and allowing each to take its rightful place.
Crafting the Field
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, not separate from it.
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.
What You Receive Upon
Registration before april 3rd
• Immediate access to five meditations
• A Healing Journey with the Breath and Live music (studio quality recording)
• Six months of Satsang access if registered before April 3rd
• Access to both live inquiry sessions
• Eight live weekly teachings beginning in May
After April 3rd, you receive the course itself without the above bonuses, including all recordings and access to a private signal channel for connection and resource sharing (not for mentoring or managing personal healing).
exchange
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
-
No. This course welcomes both experienced practitioners and those new to structured practice.
-
No. They are offered as orientation and exploration. You may attend before or after enrolling.
-
Yes. All sessions will be recorded for participants and are yours to keep.
-
Participants often experience greater steadiness and clarity. The deeper focus of the course is a shift in how awareness is understood and lived.
the tone of the work
This is not about striving, fixing, or transcending the human experience.
It is about learning how to inhabit it fully from the ground of awareness.
You are welcome here whether your practice feels steady, uncertain, or somewhere in between.
