Deep Dive in the Desert
Tucson, AZ
Saturday, April 4 - Monday April 6, 2026
(with options to extend your experience if you are staying additional days)
The Deep Dive in the Desert Immersion is a rare opportunity to explore innovative techniques for embodied transformation. We’ve gathered a group of facilitators whose work uniquely complements each other and has the potential to catalyze your experience in a new way.
Many of the offerings will debut here for the first time.
The focus will be on exploring, integrating, and living from a deeper sense of connection to all that is. Beyond philosophy, beyond understanding, these curated sessions will be relational, experiential, and practical.
Whether you’re looking to stabilize in peace and clarity or wanting to explore the furthest reaches of consciousness, this immersion is designed to deepen your experience of Full Human existence.
We invite you to participate in what’s possible when you enter, open up to, engage, and embrace the Reciprocal Universe, where openness and curiosity are met with wholeness.
We envision this to be the first of many Deep Dives and hope to see you there!
Schedule
Daily Schedule (subject to change)
10:00-11:30am Group Session
11:30-11:45am Break
11:45am-1:15pm Group Session
1:15-3:00pm Lunch break
3:00-4:30pm Group Session
4:30-4:45pm Break
4:45-6:00pm Embodiment Session/Facilitator Panel
Beverages and light snacks will be available throughout the day. Meals are on your own.
For those who wish to extend their experience, optional activities that are not part of the immersion will be available for the remainder of the week. Including: SEMA lab visit, integration hikes, one-on-one sessions, small group interactions
Location
Registration
Registration Fee:
Early Registration (ends 2/21/26): $397
Registration (after 2/21/26): $497
Because this is an intimate gathering with very limited registration, we encourage you to claim your spot early
Sessions
Boris
Deepening 2.0, the Magic of Attention
We start with recognizing what's just beneath your thoughts + senses, your common everyday perception. As we settle into this underlying quality of experience, we’ll meet all that arises to be seen, heard, felt with openness and appreciation. This meeting of the common and the undefined allows for simultaneous release and integration.
With this newfound perspective we effortlessly explore what else might be accessed, what’s on the horizon. We find that the seemingly elusive - connection, peace, stillness, warmth, what’s truly wanted at our deepest level - is here for the taking. We discover the wounded within alongside our growing capacity for compassion and acceptance. As we invite in all our sensory and mental faculties to participate, we come full circle to natural everyday functioning.
Welcome to the Non-Resistant Life. As we train this dormant organ of attention, it becomes as automatic as breathing.
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. https://thedeepeningprotocol.com
Colette
Erring on the Side of Ecstasy: Finding the way home without a map
A reflection on the relevance of mystical and paranormal experience, divine intervention, holy sites, dreams, visions, synchronicity, neuroscience and (mostly) surrender on the path to awakening.
Colette’s lifelong spiritual journey has traversed spiritual, consciousness, and healing arts studies, including yoga, a variety of healing modalities ranging from the mainstream (massage and 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).
She has served as an event coordinator for a number of well-known spiritual teachers, mediums, channels and healers. Most recently she co-developed and is a head coach of The Deepening Protocol. She lives on the beautiful Monterey Peninsula in California.
www.colettemartin.me, thedeepeningprotocol.com
Rastal
Noticing
Teaching and hands-on practice for a skill as simple and profound as sinking in: noticing. In other words, how to notice how things are showing up for you, when things change, and how to communicate it with others.
Rastal's just a guy who likes solving hard problems and working on interesting projects. He's best known for his consciousness work, where he makes esoteric inner stuff simple and practical. He created the Deepening Framework to make lasting inner peace accessible to anyone, not just serious spiritual seeker. https://rastal.me/
Luciano Melo
Omni-Integration
Omni-Integration helps participants access, explore, deepen, and integrate multiple dimensions of spiritual awakening simultaneously, then merging them seamlessly with themselves, the body and daily life.
Presentation: Omni-Integration model, the multiple dimensions of awakening, unique features and commonalities with the work of fellow teachers and facilitators
Experiential: experiments and practices based on a fundamental polarity of reality (yin/yang, feminine/masculine, existence/non-existence) to help you work with these dimensions with a focus on intuitive and effortless integration
Luciano brings over 35 years of experience exploring consciousness in all its manifestations. He works in Brazil and the United States as a practitioner, researcher, teacher, and mentor. He is currently a Visiting Scholar in Contemplative Studies at Penn State University and Co-Principal Investigator examining spiritual awakening across contemplative traditions.
He offers online sessions 1-on-1 in English and Portuguese, as well as retreats, workshops, and immersions. He loves languages, traveling and culture, and finding unity in diversity. His intention is to build a Peace, Democracy, and Human Rights Museum in the future. www.omniintegration.org
Sanjay Manchanda
Mulitdimensional Integration & Deepening After Awakening
As you Awaken and Deepen, fundamental shifts occur in your inner landscape of self. But what about the rest of you? Many Finders discover that while the "I" has shifted, the nervous system, the emotional body, and the "dreambody" often have their own timelines for transformation.
When deepening and multidimensional integration go hand in hand, the functional issues of later stage awakening are avoided; they are seen as signposts not landing places. By releasing separation at every layer, you can develop and deepen the everyday aspects of human existence: personality, the expression of love, work and service. In this workshop, you will gain an experiential understanding of how this framework applies to you.
Sanjay has been a psychotherapist and wisdom teacher for over thirty years. Prior to that he was an Electrical Engineer and Computer Scientist. Following a major spiritual awakening, he trained in different forms of Buddhism and Hinduism, and various forms of body and mind therapeutic work. For 20 years he has studied neurofeedback for helping people access mind-body states and improve mood and attention, specializing in in various forms of brain stimulation (tDCS and PEMF, and photo-biomodulation).
Currently he divides his time between Tucson and the San Francisco Bay area. In addition to his work at CIHS as Director of Psychedelic Studies, Adjunct Faculty, he assists people individually with non-dual awakening, shadow work, psycho-spiritual integration, meditation, improved performance, brain injuries, and cognitive issues. He also consults with companies and individuals on the creation of products to support consciousness evolution and service to humanity. https://cihs.edu/, https://neuromatrix.health/
Erik Unger
Metaphysical Experiencing
Discussion of the intersection of the psychological and the metaphysical. Navigating peak experiences, far-out states of mind, and the woo-woo while staying sane. Followed by a guided exercise and transmission: "sinking in and merging with the metaphysical"
Erik is a very left-brained software developer who learned to integrate the right-brained intuitive and feeling side later in life. Triggered by general unhappiness in 2020, he went on a journey to end his suffering and find inner balance. Since then he has been integrating mystical and psychological peak experiences with a logical thinking mind to create a grounded and rational view of awakening that still allows for magic to happen.
The Role of the Body in Deep Awakening
Awakening at times can be ungrounding, destabilizing, or dissociative—particularly when transcendence or deconstruction is emphasized. In this session, the body is approached not as something to bypass, but as a refuge and stabilizing resource.
As familiar reference points fall away, attending to the body can establish safety, support smoother transitions, and deepen integration. Care of the body and nervous system can also reduce common challenges such as anxiety, insomnia, and physical imbalance.
This session is experiential and may include therapeutic yoga, somatic exploration, and subtle energy-based practices.
Andrea is an Ayurvedic doctor, yoga therapist, and meditation teacher with over 25 years of experience in holistic health and spiritual transformation. In her own awakening process, she found care of the body to be essential. Nervous system regulation, physical practice, herbal support, and consistent lifestyle routines were central to stabilizing, deepening, and integration.
She completed the 10 Fetters Inquiry and The Deepening Protocol coach training, which supports stable and swift transformation through and beyond the various stages of awakening.
Andrea is based between Midwestern U.S. and Costa Rica, leads international retreats, and offers an online yoga and somatics membership, holistic health consultations, and awakening guidance. https://andrearussell.com/
Registration Fee:
Early Registration (ends 2/21/26): $397
Registration (after 2/21/26): $497
Because this is an intimate gathering with very limited registration, we encourage you to claim your spot early