Making Sense of Spiritual Awakening
Learn to navigate the upheaval of awakening and integrate your true self
A five-week, self-paced course for anyone whose spiritual awakening didn't come with a map.
You've read the books. Sat the retreats. Tried the meditations. And you still hurt.
Maybe the bliss lasted a day, a week, a year or two. Then it disappeared, and you've been trying to get it back ever since. Instead: trouble sleeping. Mood swings. A body that won't settle. A sense of being disconnected from the people around you, or from yourself.
You might even wonder if you're losing your mind. You're not. You're in an integration process that almost no one prepared you for, and most teachers don't have the tools to walk you through it.
Meet your guides
Thirty years of study, one shared understanding of what awakening actually asks of you.
Dani Antman
Energy healing & Somatic Experiencing practitioner
Dani has spent thirty years studying mind-body practices, including the yogic study of the subtle body, Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah, and Somatic Experiencing, work shaped by her own twelve-year Kundalini process and a near-death experience that changed the direction of her life.
Today she blends her understanding of the nervous system with her knowledge of the subtle body to help people address the entirety of what's happening as they wake up.
Kate West
Author, filmmaker and dark night companion
Kate founded When Lightning Strikes after releasing a trailer for a film by the same name, documenting her own difficult Kundalini awakening. When people started coming forward describing the same experiences, she realized she wasn't alone, and that community was key to restoring well-being.
She founded the When Lightning Strikes community and works within Internal Family Systems, the Realization Process, and attachment-based meditation.
"When I finally understood what was happening in my mind, body, and spirit, my symptoms began to calm down. I won't say it's been easy. But having the right understanding changes everything." — Kate West, on working with Dani through her own awakening
Here's what you get
FIVE ON-DEMAND MODULES
The course itself
Video lessons walking you through the root causes behind your symptoms, plus the protocols and practices I use with clients, built from years of personal and professional experience.
SIX MONTHS INCLUDED
A community that gets it
Full membership to the When Lightning Strikes community: weekly support circles and a group of people who understand exactly what you're going through, because they're going through it too.
You shouldn't have to do this alone. Co-regulation, being around others who understand, is part of what helps your nervous system actually settle.
What we'll cover
How to navigate the roller coaster
- Expansion, contraction, and stasis
- What happens when the bliss fades
- Understanding where you are and how to support yourself
- Meditation: expansion, contraction, stasis
Understanding the chakras
- What is the subtle body
- A deeper look into the chakras
- What we can do to heal our own chakras
- Meditation: creating healthy chakras
Understanding the koshas
- What are the koshas
- Themes of the vasanas
- The koshas, part one and part two
- Meditation: inner and outer light
Understanding the nervous system
- What is PTSD and trauma
- The "mending zone"
- The vagus nerve and its branches
- Five pathways to regulation
- Exercise: regulating your nervous system, plus Dani's dorsal freeze practice
Working with sensations in the body
- Getting familiar with the different sensations
- Managing difficult sensations
- The language of sensations
- Exercise: feeling sensations in the body
Bonus: meditation with Om
- The meaning of the sacred mantra Om and its effects on the nervous system and subtle body
- A guided practice to stabilize energy and consciousness
What members are saying
I took this course with Dani Antman for the first time about two years ago. It was as if the internal lights were turned up significantly. I can't think of anyone more gifted at teaching and imparting such sacred wisdom about the Kundalini process. I highly recommend this course.
— Lila Sterling
I gained a greater understanding of the nervous system, and now I more easily recognize when I'm in freeze and can gently shift to a calmer, more relaxed state. Both of you have been wonderful teachers, and I appreciate all the time and energy you put into developing this course.
— Angela Brasher
Thank you, Dani and Kate, for making this possible. I feel like this is just the beginning of something. This is the most extraordinary thing happening in the world today, and thank you for bringing us together to discuss it.
— Catherine Goerz
Thank you for sharing this wonderful conversation, Kate. It was helpful and affirming. Thank you for the work you're doing to help build community and understanding for those of us trying to make sense of this mysterious process.
— Teresa, Making Sense course
Real feedback from people who've taken this course.
The details
Once you sign up, you'll get immediate access to the course material and an invitation to create your profile inside our Mighty Network. Already a member? The course will simply show up in your feed.
While Dani Antman and Kate West can't guarantee specific results, and testimonials shared here don't constitute a warranty or prediction of outcome, this is what real course participants have said about their experience.
Your life is not a mistake.
It's totally possible to be less confused, to have more faith and trust, and even reverence for the process you're in. Restoring your well-being can happen. Kate is living proof.
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