INSIGHTS INTO
THE ARICA GROUP TRAINING

INSIGHTFUL AWAKENINGS

Arica Sponsors offer online and on–site group trainings based on Oscar Ichazo’s teachings. The trainings include a number of different practices such as breathing and movement exercises, meditations, group processes, written processes, meditations with a partner, and lecture material. Each training has a specific purpose with the meditations aligned to awaken this purpose.

TRAINING INFORMATION

The trainings give you a way to return to a fulfilled state of your Essential Self. Being with other people in trainings supports the understanding that we share the same thought–processes, emotional experiences, shared feelings, and have similar spiritual aspirations. Even though each of us is unique in our reaction to life, we come to realize that we have a common connection with others in the great family of humanity.

Also, the training costs are varied and for some trainings, there is no charge.

INTRODUCTIONS

These short programs introduce Oscar’s teachings through guided meditation, knowledge–based information, and direct experience presented across the different programs. The options range from single 2–hour sessions to a series of weekly hour–long programs, many offered at no charge.

Arica Introductory Program^™

The Arica Introductory Program has the purpose of introducing the Arica School and realize there is a direct way to discover what is at the base of the human process. This introduction begins with Ego, Mind and Sudden Enlightenment, a video by Oscar, the founder of the Arica School, followed by an examination of the Three Fundamental Questions: Why is there sadness? Why does anger exist? Why is there fear?

For a deeper understanding that goes beyond the human process, we then practice the “Three Fundamental Forms Meditation” and end with an introduction to other Arica Trainings. This introduction will answer some necessary questions for you.

Length: 2 hours • Prerequisites: None

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The Arica Workshop^™

The purpose of The Arica Workshop is to provide you with the experience of fourteen different aspects of the Arica teachings, training information, and practice.

It also includes a presentation of the specifics to three Arica group trainings: the Arica Fixations Training, the Doors of Compensation, and the Levels of Consciousness.

Other introductory exercises and meditations included are: P–Cals^® (Psychocalisthenics^®) exercises, breathing techniques, introduction of the Five Anatomical Cavities of the Body, the practice of the “Four Elements in Space Meditation,” a review of the “Three Fundamental Questions,” introduction of the “Three Fundamental Forms Meditation,” and visualizations.

Length: 2 hours • Prerequisites: None

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Experience Arica^™

These introductory programs provide a fundamental understanding of the teachings developed by Oscar for observing your process and for awakening your Higher Self.

• Meditations to use afterwards for a daily practice.
• Learn about consciousness and the human process.
• Apply Self–observation methods.
• Learn how to generate vital energy in your body.
• Oscar’s teachings will be presented.

These programs are presented by Sponsors and sessions run 75 to 120 minutes and are conducted online via Zoom^®. Many sessions are offered at no charge; some multi–session programs have a nominal fee. This is an opportunity to experience the original Arica practices and teachings, connecting you with the Arica community.

You are welcome whether you have never meditated before or are an experienced meditator. There are no prerequisites.

Length of program: Varies

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SHORT TRAININGS

One–day to two–day trainings introduce specific practices, teachings and attained states found in Oscar’s teachings. From bodywork and energy generating methods to understanding the human condition (ego) and transcendental states, these trainings offer experiences without requiring time away from your everyday life. Most have no prerequisites.

Arica Day of Light^™

The outcome of The Arica Day of Light meditations is to experience the States of Transcendental Light. It is across the Light that the Highest States of Consciousness can be entered and stabilized.

To facilitate these experiences the Arica Day of Light includes different forms of meditation that incorporate breathing techniques and exercises, guided visualization, mantram or repetitions, yantras (colored meditational illustrations), the Divine Principles and the Divine Virtues, and their related enneagrams, and work with a partner.

Length: One Day • Prerequisites: None

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Arica Mentations Training^™

The purpose of the Arica Mentations Training is to provide a teaching that unites body and mind into the clarity of a complete thought. Thought is not the result of just one specialized organ of the brain. In the Arica Mentations Training, we learn to divide and differentiate the body into twelve parts, each offering specific fact–based data about reality, producing a basic understanding how our mind structures thought.

Thought can be analyzed in twelve Mentations, and we learn how the twelve parts of the body give us with our perceptions of reality, finishing with a complete thought.

You will be able to experience the Mentations through different exercises that include meditations, descriptions of the anatomy, and the cognitive function of each Mentation. Clarification exercises, breathing exercises, and bodywork are included. Change your linear thinking into a multi–dimensional process capable of completely and clearly analyzing any specific situation. The Mentations offers a precise, objective and higher perception of reality.

Length: 2 days • Prerequisites: None

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Arica Minds of Transcendence^™

The result of the Arica Minds of Transcendence training shows us how we can attain and integrate the Highest States of human experience and enter the Transcendental State. The Arica Minds of Transcendence training is based upon the five specific Realms of Existence and Knowledge that make up a human being; they are the basis upon which of the five Divine Minds manifest, enabling entrance into the purest States of Awareness.

The States of Awareness are the outcome of the five Divine Minds that are supported by introductory lectures, clarification processes, theater exercises, Kath State Generation movements, and meditations using yantras (meditational illustrations) of the Deities, culminating in Pure States.

Two meditations at the end of the program will integrate the five Realms of Existence and Knowledge, with the second meditation using the Realms, Divine Minds, and Deities, opening the unifying experience of the higher Pure Transcendental State.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Arica Way of the Heart^™

The Arica Way of the Heart training has the purpose of resulting in the State of Pure Divine Love in our hearts. Searching for real love? Then, this training will awaken an experience of a deep and abiding love for all humankind, giving us true happiness, fulfillment, joy, and a higher experience of love in our lives.

The Arica Way of the Heart training provides us with a transforming way guidance that allow us to continue generating this State of Pure Love in our lives for the benefit of others.

The training presents profound, yet easy–to–practice meditations that awaken real love in our hearts. Introductory material makes the different aspects understandable and straightforward. Through Self–observation processes, we recognize the blocks to love in our life.

Relaxation exercises ensure we embody love at an in–depth and most meaningful level. Meditations affirm and support our experience of Pure Love, and group exercises unite us together in a State where ALL IS LOVE is found, resounding in our hearts as States of joy and happiness arise.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Breath of Core Fire:
Awaken • Generate • Revitalize^™

Discover the direct and invigorating way to live a life full of vitality with your storehouse of vital energy, known as Kath Energy^™ (chi) found in our body. The Breath of Core Fire training awakens, generates and revitalizes you with Kath energy. Live a healthy and energized life and learn how to experience the vital energy of your Kath point, found in the core area of your body, which we call “Core Fire.”

With this knowledge, we can revitalize ourselves with this innate energy or chi that is found in our body. Some martial arts traditions generate chi, but the teachings proposed in the Breath of Core Fire: Awaken • Generate • Revitalize training is unique to Oscar’s teachings. The training offers clear and easy–to–follow indications, making the awakening of your inner fire or Core Fire a direct and an alive experience for an everyday practice.

Length: 6 hours • Prerequisites: None

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Chua K’a Bodywork^®

The purpose of the Chua K‘a Bodywork training is to learn a deep bodywork–massage technique done on yourself that enables the body to evolve to its highest degree of sensitivity and awareness.

Life’s experiences cause networks of muscular tension (pain) with the remembered emotions. In this training, the tissues of the body are worked by using precise hand and finger positions, and a tool called a “K’a.” Learn how to transmit vital energy and the heat of the Kath (chi energy) to the bone, thus removing the long-held tensions and possible trauma. When we release physical tension, we release mental tension as well, since the body and mind are one integrated system.

Length: 2 days • Prerequisites: None

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Couple for Evolution^™

The outcome of this two–day Couple for Evolution training is to awaken an understanding of the couple process in order to gain knowledge and enhance love in any relationship.

Specific enneagrams relate to each aspect of a couple’s interaction and process, and though geared toward the couple, they are also invaluable for understanding relationships in general. Therefore, the Couple for Evolution training is for couples and singles alike.

The training revolves around the five–pointed Key of the Couple, which describes the 1. Couple of Fulfillment, the 2. Conventional Couple, the 3. Sentimental Couple, the 4. Couple for Evolution, and the 5. Essential Couple. The training builds step by step upon the processes provided by the enneagrams associated with these five points.

There are also enneagrams of the antidotes to address the lower levels of relationships that open the way with clarification and understanding into the Awareness that unites us with the higher States that evolve into an Essential Couple.

The result of the training opens the experience of an essential, spiritual life — a life where love, happiness and joy abound, which reflects in the life of the couple or relationships in general.

The training includes breathing and movement exercises, meditations, group processes, written processes, meditations with a partner, lecture material, and examples.

A booklet is provided for each person in the training for note–taking, processing and referring to the Key of the Couple, enneagrams, lecture material, meditations, and meditation information. Because of the information being presented, the training can be easily assimilated and processed by everyone.

Length: 2 days • Prerequisites: None

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Divine Forms Day^™

The purpose of the Divine Forms Day is to gain a Higher Absolute perspective of a Divine Reality. This training compares the Divine Forms to the nine obscure and distorted points of view presented in the Enneagram of the nine “Fixations.”

A Fixation is a lower point of view with preoccupations and sensitivities due to the absence of the corresponding Divine Form. To restore the balance of the lost Divine Forms, we must first identify the Fixations by way of observation, recognition and purification. Then, by entering into the State of the Absolute Mind and with the support of the Primordial Light, it is possible to open and disclose with intuitive insight the content and nature of the Divine Forms.

The Divine Forms are historically described in Integral Philosophy by Oscar as the “Pure Forms in the Mind of Superior Intellect, the supreme patterns of all Creation.”

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Illumination and Completion
in the Process of Death^™

This training has the outcome of opening our knowledge by true initiation of the sacred process of death, awakening in us the fullness of the Supreme State of Awareness, transcendence and Self–realization.

The one–day training fulfills its purpose with:

• Lecture material that explains in detail the actual process of death.
• Clarification processes to recognize specific behavior dynamics and beliefs that obscure our entering the higher States.
• Meditations that awaken our understanding of Truth, Light and Love.
• A video lecture by Oscar that further clarifies the process of death and the real truth behind a “good” death.
• Ceremonies to transform our experience of death.
• A series of meditations where initiation, embodiment and direct approximation with the Divine open the way for the Supreme State of Contemplation of the Highest Mind to be attained into a Transcendental State.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Awaken Energy, Discover Your Inner Fire Training^™

The purpose of the Kath State training is to embody five movements that are Oscar’s Kath (chi) exercises related to the Five Elements, as explained in Oscar’s his book Awaken Energy: Discover your Inner Fire. Breathing techniques and exercises are practiced in the training to enhance the Kath State experience and generate Kath energy throughout the entire body.

Oscar adapted his five movements from Master Cheng Man–Ch’ing’s T’ai Chi Chuan and related them to his (Oscar’s) theory of the Five Elements of Fire, Earth, Air, Water, and Space.

In Oscar’s teaching, each movement energizes the Kath (chi) of the Element that he associates with the five physical Realms of Existence and Knowledge found in the human body. The training includes an Introduction that explains the “Kath State” and how this State is generated in the physical body.

When Kath energy (chi) is generated in specific areas of the body, the endocrine system related to that part of the body is awakened, regenerating all the organs and tissues. When all five areas (Realms) are regenerated through these five movements, the Kath State is attained, awakening the mind and its function, and experienced as vitality throughout the body.

Breathing techniques and exercises are employed to further enhance the Kath State experience. Slides are used in the training to give a clear presentation of the exercises and other material. Meditations with the five movements ensure that a level of embodiment of the Kath State is attained from the day’s training to enjoy and practice daily.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Psychoalchemy –
Awakening Pure Vitality
Group Training^™

The outcome of the Psychoalchemy training is to learn how to transform your everyday sexual energy into internal vital energy, or Kath (chi) energy, awakening the Divine Spiritual Body.

The day includes Clarification Processes about the nine different attachments to sex. These attachments are about how you project different thoughts and feelings about sex from your past onto your present experiences. When you transform these projections, your vital energy is internalized, which opens an experience of pure energy and Light.

The training presents a way to direct your Kath energy so you will discover a totally different experience of your body and its fundamental vitality. This is achieved through lectures, physical exercises, clarification processes, breathing and Kath awakening techniques, movement exercises, and meditations.

The training includes a booklet for your reference. The presentation is easily accessible to anyone at any level of experience.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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P–Cals^® Training^™

In the P–Cals Training, 23 exercises will be learned that follow the anatomical plan of our body with specific breathing patterns which awaken our vital energy, producing awareness, stability and happiness in life. P–Cals rejuvenates our entire body across five specific areas of the body, each corresponding to the specific section of the spine, with the related nerves, muscles, bones, organs, glands, and tissues.

With these exercises our vital Kath energy (chi) or “core fire” is awakened. Each exercise has a specific breathing pattern to generate this vital energy, promoting you to breathe consciously throughout the day, as you become more aware, stable and happy in your life.

The entire series takes only 16 minutes to practice and exercise every muscle group, producing a flash of vital energy through the entire body. It can be learned in a group or individual class taught by certified P–Cals teachers worldwide, or on your own with the help of the P–Cals book, wallchart, CD, or DVD.

Length: 5 hours • Prerequisites: None

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Advanced P–Cals Training^™

The Advanced P–Cals training is for someone who already knows P–Cals. This training offers meditations for all the parts of the body that are energized by the 23 movements. Through this sequential meditation on the different parts of the body, we activate the five Centers of Attention associated with the five cavities of the body. Each Cavity relates to a Realm of our physical nature: vitality, physical sensations, emotional life, mental activities, and spiritual life. By differentiating the cavities and corresponding Realms, Advanced P–Cals improves our life in a systematic and organized way, bringing a higher understanding of the experience of the increased awareness of the Light in our entire body.

Length: 6 hours • Prerequisites: Basic P–Cals training

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The Arica Daily Routine^™

The purpose of The Arica Daily Routine is to transform our daily life energy into alive spiritual energy, for the benefit of all. It is the basic everyday unit of exercises and meditations of the Arica School.

When maintained, the practice of The Arica Daily Routine is the ground for our spiritual life, and it provides immediate short–term benefits, becoming an extraordinarily well–tuned practice for attaining spiritual growth and awakening.

The practices are divided into morning and evening routines that are easy to follow, and by continuing the practice regularly, we develop spiritual energy and strength, directing our life toward attaining an enlightened stability and happiness for the benefit of others.

Length: 6 hours • Prerequisites: None

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The Arica Fixations Training^™

The Arica Fixations Training opens for us a teaching of self–diagnosis (“Autodiagnosis”). By identifying our personal experiences of early life and childhood, this clarification allows us to discover how our projections from past experiences affect and determine our perspective, development and our everyday existence.

Self–diagnosis (Autodiagnosis) employed in the training opens the recognition and understanding of our three Fixations, or Trifix,^™ using clearly–defined enneagram maps for this purpose. These specific enneagrams are applied for clarification from our subjective processes of suffering into witnessing our process objectively and clearly, generating a happy life.

During the training, three meditations will be practiced. These meditations allow you to gain knowledge about the Fixations; the experience of Unity with others in the training and humanity at large; and the embodiment of a higher State of Mind that will awaken another perspective of freedom in you.

With this, the processes of life will become less demanding as your unstable process is naturally reduced and changed by specific knowledge, understanding and awareness, allowing your True Nature to arise.

As with all the trainings of the School, this training is offered for the benefit of all and the realization of Humanity–One or a united humanity.

Length: Opening evening and two full days • Prerequisites: None

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The Arica Nine Ways of Zhikr Training^™

To “zhikr” is to repeat the name of God. The purpose of The Arica Nine Ways of Zhikr Training is to become absorbed into rhythmic repetitions of the name of God.

In the Arica Zhikr, “Toham Kum Rah,” the internal name of the Divine in each of us, is repeated in nine different ways to nine specific patterns of music, movements and breathing, leading to the ecstatic experience of spiritual Unity.

Length: One Day • Prerequisites: None

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The Five Ways of Arica^™

In The Five Ways of Arica training, an expanded experience of the five Realms of Existence and Knowledge that emanate from the five anatomical centers of the body is discovered and awakened.

The Kath State Generation movements that are practiced in the training activate the five different types of vital energy (chi) associated with each Realm, and meditations bring an enhanced awakening of the Mind of each Realm of Freedom, Security, Love, Awareness, and Light.

These exercises lead to an understanding and embodiment of each Realm. The last meditation of the day unites the five Realms of Existence and Knowledge, using color, objective forms, mantra, and embodiment, culminating in an integrated experience of the higher Realized State.

The training includes introductions, clarification processes, theater exercises, the Kath State Generation movements, and meditations in each Realm.

Length: One day • Prerequisites: None

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Vortex Points^™

The Vortex Points technique increases blood flow and vital energy, promoting general health and well–being. The purpose of this workshop is to learn to locate and activate the seventy–two vortex points on our own bodies. Activating a vortex point introduces a deep relaxation around the point, reducing tension and stimulating lymphatic fluid. This relaxation supports us to activate the release of toxins from the body. You will also learn sequences for relaxing the entire body, including the face, the feet and legs, relieving stress, headaches, and tensions after strenuous activity.

Length: 2 days • Prerequisites: None

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RESIDENTIAL TRAININGS

Residential training experiences ensure an in–depth experience in a retreat setting from 6 to 10 days. These group trainings offer an environment to focus and find a state of Self–observation and the subsequent transformation through an ongoing clarification and meditational practices with the dedicated group in attendance.

Nine Hypergnostic Systems
Group Training^™

The purpose of the Hypergnostic training is to awaken our ability to transform our life’s experiences and enter a higher perspective. This is accomplished through objective Self–observation by entering into states of contemplation, developing the Witness, and obtaining a deep pacification with our life experience.

The Nine Hypergnostic Systems Group Training is a two–week retreat which consists of a daily routine of exercise, clarification processes, meditation, and ceremonies. It is a transforming experience that brings an awakening of happiness and experienced Unity within yourself and toward others.

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The Original Arica Trainings^™ (four versions)

The Original Arica Trainings I^™

The Original Arica Trainings I is composed of six trainings across a 10–day training format. The trainings provide an entrance into Transcendence through the exercises and meditations practiced. This happens by the Objective Witness being awakened, freeing you from suffering, attachment, endless mind chatter, and unstable personal processes.

The Original Arica Trainings integrate the Arica Mentations, Arica Autodiagnosis, Levels of Consciousness, Doors of Compensation, Four Functions of Reality, and the Domains of Consciousness trainings.

The Original Arica Trainings II^™

This 10–day training includes Arica Autodiagnosis, Levels of Consciousness, Doors of Compensation, Four Functions of Reality, and the Domains of Consciousness trainings. Two days are focused on Review and further processing of the training material.

The Original Arica Trainings III^™

This 11–day training includes the Arica Mentations, Arica Autodiagnosis, Levels of Consciousness, Doors of Compensation, Four Functions of Reality, and the Domains of Consciousness trainings; and it includes two days of Review.

The Original Arica Trainings IV^™

This 9–day training includes the Arica Autodiagnosis, Levels of Consciousness, Doors of Compensation, and the Domains of Consciousness trainings; and it includes a one–day Review.

Prerequisites: None

Included Trainings

Arica Mentations Training^™

The purpose of the Arica Mentations Training is to provide a teaching that unites body and mind into the clarity of a complete thought. Thought is not the result of just one specialized organ of the brain. In the Arica Mentations Training, we learn to divide and differentiate the body into twelve parts, each offering specific fact–based data about reality, producing a basic understanding how our mind structures thought.

Thought can be analyzed in twelve Mentations, and we learn how the twelve parts of the body give us with our perceptions of reality, finishing with a complete thought.

You will be able to experience the Mentations through different exercises that include meditations, descriptions of the anatomy, and cognitive function of each Mentation. Clarification exercises, breathing exercises, and bodywork are included. Change your linear thinking into a multi–dimensional process capable of completely and clearly analyzing any specific situation. The Mentations offer a precise, objective and higher perception of reality.

Arica Autodiagnosis^® (Sphere 15)

The Arica Autodiagnosis training opens the central process of Protoanalysis (self–analysis), which is to discover our innate humanness. This happens by identifying how our personal experiences of early life and childhood affected and determined our entire development and current everyday existence. Without this fundamental perspective and awareness, we are stuck in an endless cycle of repetitive behavior and suffering.

The self–diagnosis of Autodiagnosis provides us with the recognition and understanding of our three Fixations, or Trifix, using clearly defined maps of nine–pointed figures called “enneagrams.” Their application is used to clarify our subjective processes of suffering into a level of witnessing our process objectively and clearly. This material can be easily assimilated and processed by those new to the training. By awakening the Witness (an objective point of view) and recognizing our mechanisms of suffering, we can open the path to Self–realization and the State of No Suffering.

Levels of Consciousness^™ (Sphere 14)

The Levels of Consciousness training is the study of the nine lower subjective Levels of the human psyche, and the nine higher Levels of the human condition that establish the objectivity that leads into an Enlightened State. When we recognize the lower Levels as attachments and witness them for what they are, we free ourselves from the restrictions they have imposed on us. Enneagrams provide the maps to support the understanding of the Levels of Attachment, so that we can attain Spiritual Realization. By recognizing and processing our attachments, we can transcend the subjectivity of our lower behaviors and experience the objectivity of a Mind of No Attachments.

Four Functions of Reality^™ (Sphere 13)

The three basic Instincts that are correlated with the three major organic body systems (digestion, circulation, nervous) are essential in the Four Functions of Reality training. The Four Functions identify the cardinal points of the fields of activities upon which human life exists, in relationship to the Instincts and the body systems. These fields of activity manifest as wealth, power, fame, and honor, and are vital for human survival in society. By identifying the Four Functions and how we relate to them, we will see how our process complicates and blocks these four areas. Without this clarification, we are unaware of these subjective processes, which remain stuck and firmly in place. Processing the enneagram maps of the Functions allows for the Perspective of a Pure State to arise.

Domains of Consciousness^™ (Sphere 12)

All aspects of society can be found in nine Domains, which are the basis of our motives that are fundamental for our ordinary social and psychic life. The two–day Domains of Consciousness training defines and analyzes the nine Domains and our process in each, providing a re–ordering of our entire life in its nine different Domains. This includes our sentimental life (1) to our spiritual motivations (9).

By clarifying each Domain, we are able to witness and transcend the blocked processes in our social manifestations of the Domains and enter a Mind of Emptiness.

Doors of Compensation^™
(related to Sphere 12)

This training shows us how we use various methods to compensate for the inevitable stresses in our lives. At the extreme, the Doors of Compensation become unstoppable repetitive behaviors, and we become dysfunctional and out of control. Our suffering is attached to a chaotic life, ungrounded perspective about reality, and our subsequent dysfunctional behavior becomes a life of ongoing compensations.

With this training, we learn to recognize our behavioral patterns of compensations in each Domain and to change them so that we can direct our energy toward a more productive and fulfilling life. Witnessing your Doors and transcending them gives you an opportunity to enter a Mind of Emptiness and to experience “the good life.”

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ONLINE GROUP TRAININGS

Participate in Arica trainings from anywhere on Zoom. These programs bring the structure and depth of live group training into an accessible online format, connecting you with the practices and community through live scheduled sessions.

Currently, the Arica Mentations Training is offered online, as well as some introductory programs. Additional introductory programs are being converted from in–person workshops to online programs. This page and the training schedule will list them when they are being presented.