Contemporary Foundational Practices
A 2-Day Online Workshop for Embodied Emotional Regulation, Attachment Repair, and Self-Development
January 17–18, 2026 · Live Online · 7:00am–3:00pm PT
Event Details
🗓 Dates: Saturday & Sunday, January 17–18, 2026
🕖 Time: 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM PST (8 hours/day including breaks)
🌐 Location: Online via Zoom
🎓 Teachers: Stefan Passvogel and Stas Fedechkin
💲 Tuition: $250, suggested contribution
📌 Registration Deadline: Jan 16, 2026
Making the Mind and Body Fit for Meditation
In many spiritual traditions, preliminary practices are used to prepare the mind as a vessel for more advanced forms of meditation. This 2-day retreat offers a Western approach, drawing from developmental psychology, integrative attachment therapy, neuroscience, and more. The aim is to overcome inner obstacles such as unresolved emotional content, trauma, and developmental wounds — to be able to fully show up on the meditation cushion.
We follow the developmental path of the human being toward full embodiment and a strong, stable sense of self. You’ll be introduced to methods for nervous system regulation, embodiment, emotional regulation, attachment repair, and self-development. Within the domain of self-development, we focus on four core attributes of the relative sense of self: self-definition, self-esteem, self-efficacy and self-compassion.
Schedule
DAY 1 - Saturday, January 17
Heart Centered Self-Regulation, Embodiment, Emotional Processing & Attachment Foundations
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An orienting overview of Contemporary Foundational Practices, grounding the day in theory, intention, and shared language.
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A guided experiential process for sensing and stabilizing a coherent, supportive field of awareness and care.
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A regulation practice that engages the heart as an anchor for emotional balance and nervous system settling.
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A sustained somatic exploration to deepen body awareness, presence, and experiential integration.
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An experiential process for safely allowing, processing, and integrating emotional experience as it arises.
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A teaching segment connecting attachment theory to lived experience, regulation, and relational patterns.
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A guided meditation supporting felt safety, internal secure base, and attachment-informed reflection
DAY 2 - Sunday, January 18
Attachment, Self-Development, Self-Compassion & Integration
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An integrative teaching on the development of a coherent sense of self and the role of heart qualities in attachment and emotional maturity.
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A guided practice supporting recognition, valuing, and internal acknowledgment of one’s efforts and capacities.
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An experiential exploration focused on strengthening inner trust, agency, and confidence in one’s own experience.
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A practice designed to cultivate stable self-worth through embodied recognition of competence and value.
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A deepening practice to develop warmth, care, and responsiveness toward oneself, especially in moments of difficulty.
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A closing integration space for reflection, meaning-making, and consolidating the weekend’s learning.
This Workshop is Ideal For:
Meditators working through blocks, unresolved wounding, and chronic dysregulation
Those interested in somatic grounding and nervous system health
Practitioners ready to integrate the relative and absolute aspects of practice
Anyone curious about the connection between attachment and awakening
What You’ll Take Away:
Grounding techniques for nervous system regulation
Tools to recognize and shift attachment patterns
Practices for integrating body, mind, and narrative
A stronger internal foundation for meditative insight
Supportive connections with like-minded practitioners
Have You Faced Meditation Adversities?
This retreat also addresses common experiences like:
Emotional flooding, disembodiment and numbness
Intense memories and feelings during practice
Terror, confusion, and spiritual bypassing
We offer a safe, structured space to stabilize and process.
