About the Protocol
After training and developing the protocol with Rastal, who had refined and expanded the sinking in practice into what is now known as Guided Deepening, Boris and Colette were inspired to take this transformative work to a new level.
Through years of guiding clients in one-on-one sessions, we discovered that The Deepening Protocol reaches its fullest potential when offered as part of a complete, supported journey. The result is a uniquely integrative program designed to support deconditioning, embodiment, and the optimization of well-being within a community of skilled coaches and a cohort of like-minded explorers of consciousness.
Our inaugural pilot program launched in February 2025. Structured in six modules and limited to eight participants per cohort, the program offered personalized guidance and a deeply immersive experience.
Stay tuned for enrollment details and updates for the 2026 Deepening Protocol program.
About Fundamental Okayness
Whether you’re just beginning your journey toward awakening or have already discovered a sense of inner peace and presence, The Deepening Protocol supports the full spectrum of the path, from first realization to the deepest integration.
What Is Fundamental Okayness?
Fundamental Okayness refers to the baseline experience available to all that in its various forms and depths was historically known as awakening, nonduality, unitive consciousness, the peace that passeth understanding. It is marked initially by a natural shift away from worry, fear, and disconnection toward a grounded sense of ease, clarity, and engagement. Life is seen to unfold with an effortless grace. Gratitude and equanimity arise naturally. The sense of separateness begins to dissolve.
For Those Seeking Awakening:
If you feel called to awaken into this deeper reality, our programs provide a direct, research-informed approach supported by skilled mentors who have walked the path themselves. Through guided explorations in awareness, embodied practice, and inquiry, participants begin to experience the natural transformation that reveals the innate wholeness and freedom already present beneath their surface experience.
For Those Ready to Deepen:
For those already living in spacious awareness or nondual realization, the journey does not end. It continues to deepen and reveal suprising new frontiers. Some wish to stabilize this new way of being amid the dynamic experiences of work, family, and creative expression. Others feel a pull towards subtler and more expansive dimensions.
The Deepening Protocol is designed for this next step. Through Guided Deepening, direct inquiry, and intuitive guidance, participants are invited into intimate engagement with what-is, then led beyond it. Each immersion opens the way for new layers of realization and integration to unfold naturally.
Awakening is a foundational transformation in how life is experienced, with a constantly evolving clarity of the indivisible nature of reality.
Deepening is the journey into every aspect of being and beyond.
About the Coaches
Boris:
Originally trained as an engineer, Boris began his coaching work 12 years ago as a canine behaviorist using the Immediate Moment Theory of animal behavior. This naturally led to guiding the wiliest animal of them all, humans. Steeped in human potential work, he trained in the transformative power of belief-busting and cognitive reframing. His lifelong drive for what-else led him to the missing link that immersions in Shaivite, Buddhist, and contemporary meditation revealed.
He served as a coach, mentor, and guide for 8 years before co-developing The Deepening Protocol. As head trainer and head coach of TDP, he leads group and 1on1 transformation through a synthesis of cognitive, somatic, and awareness techniques for lasting equanimity.
Colette:
A lifelong spiritual seeker, my inquiry began in earnest at the age of 15 after finding Alan Watt’s book, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are.
The lifelong journey of awakening provided me with a rich and varied background in spiritual, consciousness, and healing arts studies, including yoga, a variety of healing modalities ranging from the mainstream (massage therapy/chiropractic assistant, craniosacral therapy), to the more esoteric (Polarity Therapy, Brennan Healing Science, Acutonics), to the wildly bizarre (studies with Filipino and Brazilian psychic surgeons and other seriously weird shamanic healers). Over the years I have served as an event coordinator for a number of well-known spiritual teachers, mediums, channels and healers, whose tutelage and guidance provided a unique opportunity for immersion into spiritual practice and a contemplative life.
I came to work with Rastal and Boris through my experience with the Finders Course.
I live on the central coast of California on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula among extended family. You can learn more about my background on my personal website at https://www.colettemartin.me/about