Level One: Integrity

Weekend Workshop
October 25-October 26, 2025

Co-Facilitated by John Ruskell, Founder of the Awareness Institute

Special Event

Free Intro Night
”Integrity” Workshop Previews:
Wednesday, Sept. 17 | 7:00-9:00 PT
Wednesday, Oct. 8 | 7:00-9:00 PT
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Integrity: A Journey to Wholeness

True integrity begins with integration—bringing together all parts of yourself with honesty, compassion, and acceptance. It’s a simple, though not often easy, process.

The "Integrity" retreat provides a platform to begin—or accelerate—your integration process. Through a grounded, intuitively-guided experiential journey, this two-day workshop invites you to examine the fragmented roles you learned to play and learn to accept and integrate the disparate elements. The result is a feeling of being at home in yourself—an experience of wholeness.

Genuine empowerment is simply knowing and living the truth.

Your participation in the "Integrity" weekend serves as a powerful catalyst for transformation—not through dramatic (and often temporary) reinvention, but through the patient and honest work of integration and radical self-acceptance. As we begin to see and experience ourselves as whole, life aligns with a deeper and more conscious intent.

Your participation in the “Integrity” weekend will serve as a powerful turning point in how you experience yourself, your relationships, and the way you choose to live. Wherever you are in your life, this weekend can open up a deeply transforming experience of boundless joy and openhearted loving.

Through one-on-one sharing, group dialogue, breathwork, embodied movement, creative expression, and contemplative practice, we will explore:

  • Presence Through Uncertainty: How the intensity of this time provides an opportunity to break free from conditioned beliefs and fear-based, limiting patterns and behaviors

  • Healing the Mother Wound: Discovering the roots of trust and intimacy by integrating your relationship with the feminine—both within yourself and in your lineage

  • Somatic Integration: How to actively release trauma and blockages stored in your body

  • Living the Practice: Weaving new tools and practices seamlessly into your everyday life, making transformation sustainable rather than transitory

  • Relational Integrity: How to connect open-heartedly and authentically

This retreat recognizes that real change happens not through bypassing, but by integrating disparate aspects of ourselves. If you're ready to live wholeheartedly, this retreat will support you in this essential work.

Come as you are. Leave more integrated, more whole, more truly yourself.

“The workshops changed my life! I grew up, found myself and my passion, learned to love/accept myself and others unconditionally. There are no words to describe how grateful I am to the founder and volunteer team for the experience they provide for anyone and everyone who enters their doors.” – Tammi J.

What does “Integrity” offer?

  • A life-changing, in-person weekend workshop.

    More than 16 hours of self-awareness processes that will help you to break free from conditioned beliefs and self-limiting behaviors.

    Introduction of new tools that can help foster enduring behavioral changes and life perspectives.

  • Profound and accelerated insights, growth, and transformation – without the use of mind-altering substances.

    Support to honestly assess and take responsibility for the life you’ve lived.

    Opportunities to integrate and release trauma stored in your body through breathwork, movement, and sharing.

  • Pre- and post-workshop integration support with experienced team members.

    Authentic connection with yourself and others as you actualize new ways of being in your life.

    The support of a warm and open-minded community.

This workshop is for you if:

  • You’re drawn to symbolic languages like astrology, myth, archetypes, and dream interpretation.

  • You've explored meditation, yoga, or spiritual practices and want to more deeply integrate and apply awareness principles into your daily life.

  • You've experienced loss or grief and want to expand your capacity for love, receptivity, and connection.

  • The complexity of modern life, especially since Covid, has left you feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, and you're seeking tools to better integrate.

  • You’re a parent (or aunt, uncle, grandparent, friend, teacher, neighbor) who wants to break generational patterns.

  • You’re ready to nurture real connections and create more depth in your relationships.

Pricing

$525 if paid in full by Oct. 20, 2025
$550 after October 20th (space permitting)

Your retreat price includes:

  • More than 16 hours of self-awareness processes that will help you to break free from conditioned beliefs and fearful, limiting behaviors that no longer serve who you are today.

  • Introduction of new tools that can help foster enduring behavioral changes and life perspectives.

  • Family-style meals and lodging for two days, one night.

  • A pre-workshop orientation call with an experienced Awareness Institute team member, guiding you through what to expect at the weekend retreat and an intention-setting exercise for the immersive experience.

  • Two post-workshop integration calls with Awareness Institute team members to support your integration as you actualize new ways of being in your life.

  • BONUS: Join three Wednesday Community Classes FREE!

ENROLL

Please fill out and submit the enrollment form and then pay for your workshop below. Your spot in the retreat is not guaranteed until payment has been received. Payments are non-refundable, though may under certain circumstances be transferable to the next scheduled retreat or workshop, minus an administrative fee of at least 10%.

STEP 1: SUBMIT ENROLLMENT FORM:

STEP 2: PAY TUITION:

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What workshop participants are saying:

  • “I can’t recommend this workshop enough. I will say you’ll need to find your courage and be brave, but you’ll have more support than you can imagine. If you want to make a real, fundamental change – this workshop has all the potential to rock your world!” – Sara M

  • “I blamed my mom for so much of my trauma. But I see now she gave me everything she had. It really transformed my perception. I walked out of the workshop and really wanted to hug my mom. And that’s not something I’d wanted to do before. I realized that my mind was filled with personal turmoil. And I was finally able to release so much of that pressure that I’d been holding onto for so many years. Sunday was the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I didn’t want to leave. It was life changing. I’m so glad I went.” – Justin

  • “I’d been covering myself with all of the positivity I’d been hiding behind. And I got to drop beneath that to face what was really going on underneath. I got to drop in and start to own more of my life and my experience. I’m so grateful to this space and everyone here to help me discover and allow more of myself.” – Chris

  • “I experienced myself in a whole new way. Like a piece of my child self is now okay to come out and love the world. I AM. I haven’t felt this light, peaceful and less distracted in over 20 years. I have been the recipient of tools to now work with in my daily life, allowing my ego and mind to be quiet. I feel loved, I feel worthy of love and I am open to giving love like no other time in my adult life. I am humbled and grateful for my workshop experience, the love and support that I have been afforded and the ability to bring what I have learned and will continue to learn in all my relationships, especially those with myself, my wife and children.” – Lorne

  • “If you are craving a complete shift in your body, mind and emotions, you must try this work.” – Jen 

  • “I felt like I really let my mom off the hook. I’m ready to take responsibility for my life. I saw the patterns of the generations before me and really let them go.” – Elena

  • “This is what I’ve been searching for all my adult life. I have worked so hard to get where I am…therapy, chanting, yoga, self help books, meditation, church, and in 48 hours I am free of the chatter, my heart is open to love, and I am able to create and maintain clear boundaries.” – Terri

FAQ’s

  • Each weekend is different, so we encourage you to come in with an open mind. Our workshops are experiential, which means that we provide a platform where organic reactions and responses can arise, so you see yourself more clearly. We will be going beyond a conceptual discourse into an experience where ideas are blended with feeling and emotion, providing a more holistic experience. The workshop uses a variety of modalities: one-on-one and group sharing, movement, breathing, music, release work, etc. Strong emotions may surface and that could look like crying, anger, grief, etc. People will be coming to the workshop who are ready to change old patterns and begin trusting in the flow of life. This requires an objective look at why and how we shut down. For many of us, coping has become so normalized, that we don’t see it until we’re in this kind of workshop setting.

  • We have found that participants benefit most when they stop using recreational drugs and alcohol a few days prior to (and of course during) the workshop.

    We also encourage daily journaling and provide a list of optional supplemental reading after you register for the workshop. This isn’t required reading, but the book list provides a good primer for better understanding your personal makeup and what it takes to break free from your conditioning. These books are also helpful to read after the retreat to help integrate what you learned.

  • Although workshop registration payments are non-refundable, under certain circumstances the funds may be transferable to the next scheduled retreat or workshop, minus an administrative fee of at least 10%.

  • If you have any questions, please contact us at info@awarenessinstitute.org.