Reflections on ORIGIN - Return to Self: A Transformational Shadow Integration & Non-Duality Embodiment Immersion
This past weekend in Spain, 21 brave and beautiful souls stepped into ORIGIN — Return to Self, a transformational retreat devoted to Kundalini Awakening, Shadow integration, Non-duality, Embodied awakening, and the Remembrance of our true nature.
ORIGIN is not simply a workshop. It is a threshold — a return to what is real beneath conditioning, protection, and performance.
At its core, ORIGIN is devoted to one essential movement:
The release of the false self… and the remembrance of what is real.
Through deep embodied processes, participants were guided through shadow and light, through the meeting of Western depth psychology and Eastern non-duality, through the realm of the formless — and into the sacred return to form.
This is the living heart of our work at the School of KCA: not transcendence that leaves the human behind, but awakening that lands in the nervous system, the emotional body, the psyche, and the heart.
Shadow Integration & the Return to the True Self
Throughout the weekend, participants experienced profound shadow integration as a somatic and energetic process, not as a mental exercise.
Shadow work in this field is not about fixing what is broken. It is about reuniting with what was exiled or separated from us.
As suppressed emotions, protective patterns, and unconscious identities were gently brought into awareness, many experienced a direct encounter with what lies beneath the false self — the authentic, living soul-self that has always been present.
This is the paradox of true transformation: As the false self dissolves, the true self naturally emerges.
Healing the Split Between the Masculine & the Feminine
One of the deepest currents moving through this ORIGIN retreat was the healing of the split between the masculine and the feminine.
The transformation was felt as a lived, embodied reunion.
This union emerges through safety, attunement, regulation, and truth, when the inner masculine and feminine finally meet without domination, collapse, or defense.
For many, this reunion created a profound shift in:
self-trust
emotional regulation
relational patterns
and embodied presence
Embodied Non-Duality: The Return from the Formless to Form
A central pillar of ORIGIN is the direct lived experience of non-duality — not as a spiritual belief system, but as a felt reality.
Participants were guided into states of:
deep inner stillness
expanded awareness
dissolution of separation
And just as importantly, they were supported in the return from the formless back into form — into the body, identity, relationships, and daily life.
This is where true embodiment happens: not in leaving the world, but in re-entering it with presence, coherence, and truth.
A Transformational Retreat for Participants & Facilitators Alike
ORIGIN exists for those who feel the call to go deep.
For some, it is their first transformational retreat, an introduction to shadow work, energy awareness, nervous system regulation, and embodied spirituality.
For others, it is a space of re-nourishment and recalibration, particularly for facilitators, therapists, and space-holders who spend their lives holding others.
Because those who guide must also be guided. Those who hold must also be held. And those who teach must also return to their own origin.
A Living Field of Gratitude
We bow in deep gratitude to every soul who shaped this ORIGIN field.
Each nervous system that softened. Each heart that opened. Each layer of identity that fell away. Each remembrance that arrived without effort.
You are the living prayer of this work.
ORIGIN 2026: Upcoming International Retreats
ORIGIN 2026 is now in quiet formation in:
the United Kingdom
Sweden
Canada
and beyond
If you feel the call to host ORIGIN in your city, retreat land, or conscious community, we invite you to reach out and begin the conversation with us.
You are always welcome back to yourself.
If this field speaks to you, explore our upcoming retreats, workshops, and facilitator trainings through the School of KCA.