Are you feeling worried, exhausted, or stressed?
I sure have been. In May this year I became depressed and pessimistic. A dear friend was dying. I had lost my inspiration to teach, something I love to do. My life felt gray. Everything I knew about getting me to a place of joy and inner peace didn’t work. Then I discovered the book Awe by Dacher Keltner. He tells fascinating stories about the different kinds of awe inspirations — people, music, nature, art, etc along with the health benefits of feeling awe. So I immediately asked myself what brings me to feeling awe. That was easy. I quickly remembered an experience and it was as if my body and mind time-traveled. Now I have learned to come from a place of awe more regularly.
Turn your melodrama into a mellow drama – Ram Dass
It turns out that all the practices I already knew just needed this extra dimension, this extra light. So I share the old and new with you in this online course, Reclaim, replenish, refresh yourself with awe
AWE(Keltner): The feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.
As I dove more deeply into the science in this book, I realized that the physiological benefits of awe are exactly what our cells are able to do. It is what I’ve been teaching all these years from a different framework. In fact, when we experience awe, our consciousness changes and we may even be in the realm of quantum healing. Now I combine my own 40 years of cellular journeys with the concept of awe to teach you how to tap into your cells’ wisdom and align all your innate healing powers. In this new program, you will experience connecting with your inner cellular universe and coming into coherence with mindbody spirit, finding awe. Wisdom = Knowledge + Experience. I realized that finding and being open to awe is a state of consciousness. It is a willingness and openness to see and feel awe. Not just thinking or feeling it in the body. Discover yourself anew. Shifting mindbody perception and consciousness, even if only for moments, moments add up to hours, then days and ultimately being here now. Wow. We reclaim a state of inner peace and calm. Using the skills of sound, visualization, and finding awe, you will experience connecting with the four dimensions of healing — physical-cellular, mental-emotional, spiritual, and quantum, With curiosity you can find many ways that bring you to feeling awe, that reduce stress. This is an exploration of self-discovery where you will feel stress and negative thoughts lessening and your feelings of wonder, awe and sense of wholeness are enhanced. When we routinely feel stress or worry, our energy plummets. Chronic ongoing stress lowers our cells’ ability to produce molecular energy needed to maintain and repair our body. No wonder we feel tired. Digestion may change. Inflammation increases.Immune system gets out of balance. Your relationships suffer. Are you having more pain, more allergy symptoms, heartburn? Learn simple strategies along with cellular science of how to activate the relaxation response while dimming fight and flight. Our cells know how, and so can you, to enjoy life again. Physically, the threat/stress response is strongly hardwired in our bodies to ensure survival. Its opposite response, relaxation needs a lot of help to counter stress yet can be strengthened and activated. Awe quiets the stress response and activates that inner peace response in our brain. Awe shifts our consciousness to that quantum level of unlimited possibilities for wholeness. With this new additional focus on Awe, you will learn the why and how of inner cellular healing practices, plus open your awareness to life and the divine. Yet my friends. AWE is more than AWE. For me, AWE is also A. W. E. – Air, Water, Earth, the four elements, with the 4th F being Fire. Or AWEF -AWE found. Matthew Fox’ A.W.E is the acronym for Ancestral Wisdom Education. Education for wisdom—not only for knowledge; education for earth’s survival, education as awakening awe, excitement, joy, and creativity in learning. Join me in this new 8-week Master Class to learn and fill your medicine bag with practical wisdom from the science of our cells, awe, and spirit. Each week in this live online program there will be a visual presentation of information, a guided visualization, experiential practice plus interactive discussion and community. Experience deep relaxation. You have everything to feel wholeness and peace again. Benefits you will experience from this program:
- Less stress reactivity, inflammation, and pain
- More energy, vitality, awe, and joy
- Enhanced soothing relaxation
- A deeper relationship with the divine
- Greater self-knowledge
Cultivate Inner Peace and Awe with the Wisdom of Your Cells
Week 1. Cell intelligence, consciousness and information transfer 
- The architecture of Life: Cells are designed to survive, connect and communicate
- Discover how to connect with your cellular kingdom through imagination
- Quantum consciousness
- What is Awe
- Beginnings – you are the experiment
Week 2. Stress/Danger signals, real vs imagined threats 
- Stress biology, immune health, energy, brain, cells and genes
- Changing the brain, loosening the grips of tension and stress
- Discover skills for activating ease and relaxation
- Awe strategies: activating relaxation (the parasympathetic nervous system) with body, mind, art and music
Week 3. A Breath of Fresh Air – Air
- Sacred breath, connection to nature and the divine
- Energy production, refilling your energy bank
- Scent, nature, wind
- Air Wisdom – Mind, Inspiration, conversation, connection,and communication
- Awe of MicroCosmic Wisdom
Week 4. Embodying Cell Intelligence – Earth
- Body awareness, sensory wisdom, pleasure and presence
- Qi, walk, dance, tension, vibration
- Earth Wisdom. Be present, be here wow, get down to earth
- Brain – anchoring and conditioning body learning Beauty and awe walk
- Take your cells for a walk of discovery
Week 5. Flow, Feelings and Letting Go – Water
- Emotions, energy in motion
- Water wisdom – Letting go of stories that fuel fear, intuition, soul
- Emotions and body experiences
- Awe and gratitude, music and art
Week 6. Awe and the sacred, love, legacies -Fire
- Reverence for life, to live before we die
- Fire wisdom – Spirit, vitality, love, courage
- Connection with the divine
- Symbols and well-being, magic
- Amazement at things outside and within yourself
Week 7. Living life fully, celebrating gratitude and awe
- Recognizing who you are
- Creative expression Nature, music
- Your awe show
- How do you feel now? What’s different for you?
BONUS Week 8. Cosmic energy, the Moon 
- We come from the stars, your birthday and the Zodiac
- Awe and the night skies
- Inner nature your birthday, mineral magic
- Vast mysteries of life from stardust, heavens, birth, life, God
Sign up now for this 8-week master class that starts on June 21 at noon PDT. All sessions are recorded so that you don’t have to miss anything if you can’t make a class in person.
“One scientist who is busy reinventing herself and her profession by regaining awe as a priority is Sondra Barrett. Barrett has brought awe into her life by asking different questions about her specialty, biology, and by connecting biology to photography so that she and others can actually meditate on the awesome wonder of the cell itself. ~Matthew Fox. Theologian, Episcopal priest, author of more than 20 books including The Awe Project: Reinventing Education, Reinventing the Human.
Resources: Awe by Dacher Keltner Secrets of Your Cells by Sondra Barrett Weekly handouts