The Forge · Apprenticeship with Witalij
The path beyond healing, peak experiences, activations and ceremonies.
The Forge
A Six-Week Rite of Passage
An actionable vertical path of daily discipline and energetic sovereignty and the entry point to the solar system level of development.
"I've been searching my whole life for a program just like this." ✦ "I cried tears of life. It was just so pure." ✦
Who Walks This
Who the Forge is for:
Seasoned Explorer
You've tried yoga, psychedelics, silent retreats — and still sense something deeper calling. The map is full of ceremonies and modalities, and none of them turned out to be the destination.
You Crave Structure
You thrive on clear daily drills and measurable milestones — not vague "flow with the universe" advice. You want something you can actually do, every day, at a specific time, with specific results to notice.
Practical Mystic
You want spirituality that sharpens perception and creates change in day-to-day life. Boots-on-the-ground awakening. Not a separate spiritual life. One life, refined.
Hungry for Direct Experience
Books, sacred texts, ceremonies helped — but you want living knowledge tested in real time, not hints. You've read enough. You want to do.
Comfortable at the Edge
You prefer straight talk over incense. Accountability over affirmation. Growth forged under pressure, not invited gently. You don't need to be cushioned through the work.
Outgrown the Healing Loop
You feel the presence of Spirit but lack the structure to embody it. You've done the healing rounds. You're done with the cycle of release-and-recover. You're ready for legitimate training.
Done With Borrowed Light
The ceremonies wear off. The retreats fade. The high evaporates and leaves the same person behind. You want to build the structure that generates its own light — not the experiences that keep showing you someone else's.
Two Hours a Day Available
You have the time to commit to the work. Not theoretically — actually. One hour before sunrise. Thirty minutes near midday. Thirty minutes before bed. If that time isn't available right now, the path can wait until it is.
Recognition, Not Persuasion
Something moved in you during the lecture or the e-book. You're not asking should I. You're asking when. The decision is mostly made — you just need the operational details to act on it.
If two or more of these describe you — this is your container.
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Who Teaches This
A decade, compressed.
When you learn from me, you learn from someone who experienced the contrast of the lower and higher worlds. Here is a bit of what happened in the last 10 years.
"You cannot repay a teacher in 10,000 lifetimes."
2016
Paralysis
Couldn't walk for over a year. The shamanic sickness. Initiation through the body.
My first initiation began with paralysis. In 2016, I lost my ability to walk. I was an athlete, living in Los Angeles, preparing for a basketball contract. Overnight, my world, my identity crumbled. I became paralyzed for over a year for unknown reasons. No doctor could help. No one could fix me.
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It was the moment I had to turn inward and the moment my spiritual journey accelerated. In many cultures they call events like this the "shamanic sickness." The collapse of either your body, your mind or both — that forces you to awaken from the inside out.
2017
First ayahuasca ceremony
After recovery. The mind opens. A new realm enters.
At the end of 2017, after I'd recovered from paralysis, I sat in my first Ayahuasca ceremony. The medicine opened me to a vast world I always knew was true — but now it became undoubted. It also gave me more confidence to completely step away from being an athlete and fully go into this new realm of things.
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Back then, the mind was one of the most important things I wanted to understand. Since it basically caused the paralysis, and at the same time opened up these insane realms of perception through plant medicine, I thought the mind is where all the answers are.
2018
The Other Eighty
Mind-body book. NLP, hypnosis, TV. The mental layer mapped.
I spent the next few years trying to understand the mind through hypnosis, neuroscience, mind-body work, every possible modality of healing, books, NLP, retreats. I did the amounts of entheogens people shouldn't even think about doing. It felt like I knew what I'm up to and I'm starting to be really good at it.
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I ended up writing a book about the mind, and even though my life was still a bit messy, I thought I am close to figuring it all out.
2020
First teacher — Taita Pedro Davila
Chindoy lineage. The structure of creation, shown for the first time.
In 2020 I met my first teacher — Taita Pedro — and realized I don't know shit about fuck, to the point that I unpublished my book and thought — never again will I try to position myself as an expert in anything. It was the hardest humility pill I've ever had to swallow.
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I'd drunk plenty of ayahuasca with different tribes, and since I knew it all, I was very hard to impress. But this — it was a pivotal moment where I understood that this is who I want to learn from, and this is the energy I want to understand. There is a big difference between a teacher who gives you information and a teacher who helps you understand existence itself through direct experience. Taita was the latter.
2021
Breathwork tours begin
Translation layer. Carrying medicine work into a method that uses breath.
After about a year of working with Taita, I understood that breathwork was a perfect medium through which I could translate to the masses everything I was learning from the realm of shamanism — guiding ceremonies, healing, purging, self-improvement.
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So in 2021, I started breathwork tours while apprenticing under Taita. I would drink ayahuasca on the weekends, then go on tour during the week, then drink again on the weekends. I would help facilitate ceremonies and also drink while doing it. It was my path. It was my life. I was on a mission to one day become a Taita — to receive the blessing to cook and serve the medicine on my own.
2023
Second teacher
A 180-degree shift. Out of the egregor. Into the solar layer of development.
Around 2023, approaching my Saturn return, I started feeling that something was not right between me, my teacher and the whole egregor of the jungle. It came simultaneously with the deep awareness that I was losing my essence in the process. There is a difference between killing your ego and allowing your light to vanish. I felt the latter was happening.
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I met my second teacher in 2023. This time I knew it was coming. It was a 180 degree shift from working with suffering, with pain, with puking, with lower hellish realms — into something a lot lighter, higher, heavenly, ethereal and beyond orgasmic. It was an insane contrast not only between darkness and light but between the mind and no-mind. To grasp even the micro level of what this path is about, you need to reacquire yourself through the WILL, and move away from any kind of influences, forces and egregors — back to your light essence.
2025
~200,000 people
Across 80+ cities. The horizontal teaching reaches its limit.
We are now in 2025. I have by now worked with close to 200,000 people all over the world helping them heal their core traumas within hours. If you are reading this, I have finally retired from hosting the tours and any kind of healing sessions.
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Just imagine what kind of energetic capacity it took to do 60 cities in 65 days, hosting 300-400 people each day. Now I am able to accumulate all this energy, expand it even more and use it to teach this advanced work.
Today
Becoming a teacher
The vertical work. The Forge.
Healing is a little pit stop on the journey of your development. You are not meant to stay there forever, and it definitely shouldn't become your whole identity. If you interact with creation through the mind alone — healing will never stop. It is time to expand.
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I want to take people outside of the loop completely — to the state of being and the interaction with creation where you don't need healing anymore. The Forge is the entry point to that path. The Path of the Warrior of Spirit and Light.
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What this is
A lifelong journey toward higher knowledge, light, expansion, creation, and self refinement.
The Forge is the entry point to the Path of the Warrior of Spirit and Light and the solar system level of development — an actionable path of daily discipline, radical responsibility, and energetic sovereignty designed to awaken your full multidimensional potential without substances, medicines, entities, magic rituals, or outside forces.
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The goal is not a single breakthrough. The goal is a steady refinement of will, of attention, of awareness — so you can act from clear presence, not from the distortion of trauma, emotion, or social programming.
The Axis
Horizontal vs Vertical.
Horizontal
Most spiritual and personal-development work is horizontal. It moves you across the same plane — processing emotions, rewiring beliefs, releasing trauma, healing wounds. Each cycle improves the inside of the room you're already in. Same walls. New wallpaper.
Vertical
The vertical path doesn't try to fix the inside of the room. It moves you out of it — into a level of reality where the issues of the previous level dissolve, not because you defeated them, but because their gravity no longer reaches you.
The mind, the emotions, the wounds are all real. All worth attention at certain stages. But you cannot solve the problems of the mind from inside the mind. You cannot keep healing what only stops being a wound when you outgrow the layer it lives on. The Forge is built to take you there.
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This is not bypassing. The physical plane gets integrated within something larger. The matryoshka is one doll inside another, never separate. The previous layer is still there, fully alive, still operating — but the center of gravity has moved up. You are no longer governed by it. You hold it from above while standing fully inside it. We don't close our eyes on the manifested world. The more your capacity expands, the more will be asked of you in the physical.
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What the six weeks do
Ten things that change.
Here are 10 things that this work changes in you over the six weeks. Click each to read in depth.
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Ending Spiritual Dependency
Many approach spirituality seeking support, answers, a quick fix, comfort, or validation.
This orientation places authority outside the self. Energy leaks outward. It creates dependency instead of self-autonomy and the accumulation of your own spiritual resource — your own light.
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Break reliance on inspiration, emotion, and external feedback. Responsibility is returned fully to the student. Instead of being under the influence of other forces, students begin to develop themselves as one.
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Establishing Inner Order
Most people live in mixed states where thoughts, emotions, impulses, and actions contradict each other.
Without order, any power amplifies distortion. Order is the first expression of respect toward Spirit and the path itself.
The Six Weeks
Establish higher inner order — thought, intention, action, and responsibility become aligned. Avoidance, justification, and self-deception are exposed. Through this, the student develops capacity to interact with higher energetic profiles without burnout or fragmentation.
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Reacquiring Yourself Through Will
Most people do not possess themselves. They are driven by reactions, habits, forces, and egregors.
When inner authority is absent, direction is replaced by influence. When the owner is not home, that's when the burglary happens.
The Six Weeks
Reclaim inner authority through will — not emotion, not insight. Will as the primary energetic ingredient. An instrument of Spirit. A tool to discern truth, choose action, and hold direction even when nothing externally supports you.
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Developing Energetic Structure
Most people pursue experiences, insights, and power without having a structure to hold them.
Without structure, energy disperses or creates a pendulum effect — continuously swinging from ecstasy to suffering. Contact with Spirit happens by chance or through a third party.
The Six Weeks
Build internal form through discipline, not philosophy. Boots on the ground. Staying awake. Structure is energetic architecture built from many ingredients and layers beyond the traditional chakra system. Activations without structure dissipate. Structure allows the accumulation of power.
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Developing Beyond Five Senses
Most people are confined to what they can see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and interpret emotionally.
The five senses are sufficient for survival. They are insufficient for navigating higher planes of reality.
The Six Weeks
Perception is refined. Sensitivity increases without imagination, fantasy, or dissociation. New layers of perception emerge as sober orientation, not altered state. The student learns to perceive knowledge directly through the energetic structure — without relying on mental or sensory confirmation.
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Reclaiming Your Attention
Most people do not own their attention. It is constantly taken by thoughts, devices, impulses, people. Energy leaks.
Attention is the primary resource of the warrior. Wherever it is directed, that's where energy accumulates. That's where you mostly exist.
The Six Weeks
Train attention to return inward, again and again, regardless of what you do or how you feel. Inward gaze is refined. The spiritual plane becomes the more consistent area of operation. Reclaimed attention ends unconscious leakage, restores inner authority, and builds energetic capacity.
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Stopping The World
Most people are in constant interaction with the mind: commentary, interpretation, judgment, inner dialogue never stop.
Continuous mental interaction overlays reality with personal meaning and distortion. Direct perception becomes impossible.
The Six Weeks
Compulsive interaction with the mind is gradually shut off. Mind becomes a tool used when needed. It loses its position as the primary interpreter of reality. Interaction with creation changes from thinking to sensing directly — much deeper than what the mind could comprehend.
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Exiting Horizontal Life
Most people live horizontally — moving in constant loops between problems, relationships, emotions, and stories.
Horizontal life consumes attention and continuously dissipates inner resource.
The Six Weeks
This pattern is interrupted deliberately and redirected vertically. Attention is gradually removed from the drama of the external plane and redirected inward and upward. The student learns to become energetically vaster and relate to life from a higher altitude — with greater clarity, stability, and capacity. Becoming thinner and lighter than the physical form.
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Shared Language and Orientation
Most people arrive with therapy, New Age, mainstream spirituality languages, or trauma-identity narratives.
Relearning takes time. All teachings are tested through practice, not intellect. Nothing in this path is based on faith — you go and test it.
The Six Weeks
Reorient how suffering, effort, responsibility, and healing are understood and lived. Conflicting interpretations are cleared before deeper work begins. The path is rooted in lived experience rather than interpretation. The focus is structural change of being, not refinement of worldview.
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Awakening Variety of Fires
Fire is not physical flame, but the principle of evolution of consciousness and Spirit.
Fire initiates movement, destroys old forms, forges new ones, awakens dormant structures, and a lot more.
The Six Weeks
Develop multiple kinds of inner fires. Teach their correct function. Establish order before power, so fire becomes conscious instead of destructive. Only conscious fire makes a human a transformer of reality. It burns illusions, false roles, fears, attachments — and maintains a steady awareness of inner light.
A warrior speaks
What this work actually does.
JY
Jody
From inside the Forge · Week 6
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Witnesses
What the path produces.
Words from warriors who walked the six-week Forge. Not as proof. As recognition for the reader who needs to hear it in a voice other than mine.
Working with Witalij was like being a floating buoy in water, and a boat grabbed it and started pulling it — but in the sky. The sky itself expanded.
By week six I wasn't the same person who signed up. The structure of how I held my attention, my body, my day — all of it reorganized. I came in looking for something. I walked out building it.
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Maria S.
Community Member · 5 months in
A calm I have never experienced in my life. Not a calm I built — a calm that was suddenly there because there was room for it.
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Esther
From inside the Forge · Week 6
This work doesn't add anything to you. It removes what isn't yours — and what's left is the only thing that was ever real.
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Jody
From inside the Forge · Week 6
Standing on an open beach with no separation between land and sky. My body lit up with colors I have no name for.
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Tia
From inside the Forge · Week 6
I no longer need anything outside of me to feel alive. No substance, no ceremony, no high. The aliveness is structural now.
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Maria
From inside the Forge · Week 6
I had over 5,000 hours of my own practice before this. I thought I was tapped into source. With this work — it's way, way beyond.
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Chris
From inside the Forge · Week 6
No promises are made about what your six weeks will produce. The path gives what your readiness can hold. These are the words of warriors who showed up, did the work, and were ready.
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The daily structure
Three practices. Every day.
Three practices a day, each one corresponding to the cycle of the sun and to the cycle of the seasons. Each will take no less than 30 minutes, ideally an hour, and they evolve as you go.
1 hour before sunrise
Zapusk
The launch.
In Slavic culture we call this period radun when the sun is not up yet, birds and crickets are quiet, no cock-a-doodling. In that moment we direct the current of our attention inward, we stop the world and bring our energetic structure to life. In the morning it is spring we plant the seeds.
Around noon, sun at zenith
Sozrevaniye
The ripening.
When the sun is at its full power — at the zenith — to use the least of our own resource, we do Sozrevaniye. A practice for expansion of our energetic structure beyond the Earth itself. In the afternoon it is summer — we water the plants, the fruits are starting to show.
30 min before sunset
Zbor
The gathering.
When the sun is setting, we have Zbor. Gathering or harvesting. This is the fall of the day — the time to gather and integrate the knowledge you've acquired throughout the day, and collect everything that you grew.
Very simple: if you didn't plant anything in the morning, there will be nothing to harvest in the evening. If you planted in the morning and watered in the midday but forgot to harvest — it's equivalent to you forgetting to collect your paycheck at the end of your work day. Most spiritual practices look exactly like this. You build up some kind of energy or force, very often losing yourself in the process — and then you never click the save button. You never really accumulate anything. Just your imagination.
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The base practices repeat every week. That repetition is the mechanism — the structures you're building need reps to become real. What changes is what gets added on top. Each week, new layers stack onto the foundation: new practices, new lectures, new material. You don't trade week one for week two. You carry week one with you, deeper, while week two opens. The base never stops. The path keeps unfolding from it.
The minimum
This is not a 100-mile run I'm asking you to do every morning. It is one hour before anybody needs anything from you, then half an hour through the day, and another half an hour before bed. About two hours a day to be with yourself. If that's hard, it's because you're scared of being with yourself. The practices will show you exactly how far away from yourself you actually are. If your attention is shit in practice, it's shit in your life as well.
"There is an entire reality inside of me that is alive, available, interacting, illuminating, integrating, opening, expressing."
Jody
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Why six weeks
Long enough to build.
Short enough to find out.
Six weeks is the entry container by design. It's a rite of passage — for the student, to discover whether the path is theirs. And for the teacher, to see who shows up to the work.
Time to undo
The first weeks slow your internal world down enough to notice the cycles you've been living inside. You can't see the loop while you're moving in it.
Time to fail
Failures don't derail the work. They become the work. You won't get this right on day one. The Forge gives you space to fall and realign without exiting.
Time to become
You're not learning what to do. You're learning how to be. The energy body needs time to activate and stabilize. Depth cannot be rushed.
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The Distinction
Borrowed power always
comes with interest.
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Activation
A peak experience. None of it is yours. Borrowed power with a cost. You glimpse it, then it leaves.
The medicine ceremony. The breathwork session. The retreat. The download. The kundalini awakening that lasted a weekend and left the nervous system thin for months.
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These are real. They are not fake. They borrow energy from somewhere — your reserves, the facilitator's structure, the plant's intelligence — and show you a state. Then they leave.
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The state is real. The structure that held it was not yours. You don't have the structure and enough resource to sustain that awareness. That's why it doesn't stay.
Accumulation
Patching the leaks. Building your own current. Self-powered growth that keeps evolving.
You can't accumulate anything in a barrel that has holes in it. The first work is sealing the leaks. The second is regaining your attention — because wherever it goes, your energy goes. The third is building the energetic circuitry and infrastructure that allows you to not only accumulate your own resource, but to interact with higher energetic profiles without burnout or fragmentation.
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What you build cannot be taken from you. What you borrowed always leaves.
"Here, we build a baseline that is stronger than any peak. We stabilize the light. We become the force. And that changes everything."
"I just realized I haven't had any super intense release in a long time, and I feel much better. I'm not always crying and having some super dramatic release draining my life force."
Amanda
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On the exchange
A note about money.
"Knowledge is everywhere. It is available to anyone. But when a teacher initiates you, they are not passing on information. They activate inner structures with their own energetic potential. This is not a mechanical transfer. It is the transformation of subtle energies through their body and channels. It is energy-intensive. An equal exchange is necessary."
Today, that exchange most often takes the form of money — because money is one of the most accessible forms of stored energy. A person gives what they have, in order to receive what is most important to them.
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I do not offer payment plans. The right orientation toward the Forge is that you are giving the resource and forgetting about it — trusting that what is given back through the work will be worth more than what you paid. This is not a transaction with guaranteed deliverables. Each student is given what is appropriate to their readiness and commitment.
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The contract you sign will reflect this frame plainly. Read it before you commit. If the orientation does not work for you, this is not the right container.
On the law of exchange, paraphrased from my teacher's words.
A warrior speaks
One more, before you decide.
CH
Chris
From inside the Forge · Week 6
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The three doors
Choose your container.
The Forge is the entry point. Everyone starts here. The deeper tiers add direct contact, individual transmission, and in-person work — and require an application.
Tier 01
The Forge
6 weeks · Self-paced
$
3000
A six-week rite of passage. Join when a spot is available, your contract is signed, and payment is complete.
Included
Three daily practices — base repeats, new layers each week
Two live calls with Witalij during the six weeks
Skool platform, private warriors group
50+ hours of recorded lectures, unlocked weekly
Group Q&A — post questions, answered publicly
Six-week container — start anytime there's an opening
Contract signed at checkout.
Tier 03
ADVANCED INITIATION
12 months · In-person in LA
$
25,000
The deepest tier. Two in-person sessions with Witalij in Los Angeles. Advanced initiation. Application required.
Included
Everything in The Apprenticeship
Two in-person sessions in Los Angeles (open + close)
Advanced initiation
Year-long individual mentorship arc
Limited slots per year
Limited acceptance. Personal review by Witalij.
Tier 02
Apprenticeship
6 months · Online
$
10,000
Beyond The Forge: advanced practices, lectures, individual transmission, and direct contact with Witalij. Application required.
Included
Everything in The Forge — and substantially beyond
Advanced practices not taught at the Forge level
Daily report review with Witalij directly
Individual practice adjustments and transmissions
Weekly live group calls across six months
Personal review by Witalij. Response within 7 days.
If you complete The Forge and decide to continue, you can extend into the Apprenticeship by paying the difference — not the full price. The work compounds.
"Truly, it feels like I'm finally at the head of my own ship." ✦ "My wife told me I am much calmer, more full of love and positivity." ✦ "I went from thinking I was gonna have a divorce, to my marriage now flourishing." ✦
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On the exchange
Four steps from
decision to first practice.
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Click Join
You'll see a short orientation video from Witalij before checkout — covering the operational mechanics in his own voice.
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Sign the Contract
Plain language. No payment plans. No refunds. Everything is made explicit before you commit — so there are no surprises after.
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Enter the Group
Access to the private Skool community within 24 hours. The first week's material unlocks. You meet your cohort.
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Begin Day One
An hour before sunrise. The first Zapusk. This is where the work actually starts — not when you signed up, but when you show up.
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Before you decide
Sit with the work first.
If you haven't read the e-book or watched the full lecture yet — those are the right next steps before signing anything. Both are free. Both go deeper than this page can.
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On the exchange
Practical matters.
The Forge is the foundation. Six weeks. Three daily practices. Public Q&A inside the Skool group. Two live calls with me as anchor points. It contains enough material to work with for years.
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The Apprenticeship is something else. The Forge is the entry; the Apprenticeship is roughly 100× the material — advanced practices that don't exist at the Forge level, the full advanced lecture library, daily direct contact with me, individual review of your reports, and ~50 weekly group calls across six months.
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So it's not "the Forge plus daily calls." It's a fundamentally larger body of teaching that opens when you cross into the Apprenticeship tier. The Forge gets you to the door of that body of work. The Apprenticeship walks you through it.
If you sign up for the Apprenticeship or the Year, your first six weeks are still the Forge container — that's the foundation. The difference is that at the higher tiers, my direct contact begins from day one, not after the six weeks complete.
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You cannot skip the foundational weeks. They are the path's entry on every tier.
You can start the Forge any time there is an open seat. Once you begin, you have six full weeks of access. After six weeks, access ends — this is intentional. It urges full engagement during the container and prevents the work from sliding into a passive shelf of saved videos.
Two hours per day, minimum. Three practices: roughly an hour before sunrise, thirty minutes near midday, thirty minutes before bed. If two hours per day are not available in your current life, this is not the right container yet — and signing up will not change that. Wait until the time is real.
Two calls across the six weeks — anchor points where the group comes together with me directly. Q&A, alignment, transmission, adjustments to common patterns I'm seeing in the reports. They're recorded for anyone who can't attend live, but attending live is the recommended posture. Specific dates are shared once you're inside the container.
The contract makes the orientation explicit: this is not a transaction with guaranteed deliverables. You receive material and transmission appropriate to your readiness and commitment. It also covers no payment plans, no refunds, the structure of access, and the conditions under which a student may be removed from the container. Read it before you commit. If anything in it doesn't work for you, the right move is to not sign.
No. The orientation toward the exchange is that you are giving the resource fully and forgetting it. Splitting the resource into smaller chunks across time changes the energetic posture of the exchange. If the resource is not available in full, the right move is to wait until it is.
Yes. Live events are a different product entirely — oriented around release and clearing. The Forge is the construction of an operating system. They are not prerequisites for each other. What is required is that you've encountered the lecture or the e-book, and that what was said in either of them landed in you as recognition rather than curiosity.
The Year tier includes two in-person sessions with me — one at the beginning of the year, one at the end. Both in Los Angeles. Travel and accommodation are the student's responsibility. Specific dates are coordinated after acceptance.
I review every application personally. You'll hear back within seven days with one of three responses: accepted, not the right time, or a request to talk further. Acceptance is followed by contract review and onboarding into the container.
After the Forge, you can apply to join the six-month Apprenticeship container. If you're accepted, the $3,000 you paid for the Forge counts toward the $10,000 — so the remaining balance is $7,000.
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The Apprenticeship is a different level of work: individual contact, daily report review, advanced practices and lectures not available at the Forge level, and weekly live group calls across six months. It requires an application because not everyone who completes the Forge is ready for it.
"My life feels amazing even when life is lifing. The peace and joy I feel when I just drop in at any moment is what keeps me from chasing."