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Intention and manifestation practice with Lexa
On Lexa's retreats manifestation begins with an intention. You write it by hand, carry it through the breath, the sound and the places of power, and come back to it in your journal day after day. The intention you leave with is often a different one from the one you arrived with, and that is the whole point.
What it means here
Manifestation starts with hearing what you want
Most of what is sold as manifestation is a technique for getting. Write the sentence 369 times, cut pictures out of magazines, think positively, and the universe will deliver. People arrive with all of that, and with a quiet suspicion that the wish they keep rewriting is not entirely theirs.
Lexa starts from the other end. Before you call something into your life you have to hear what you actually want under the noise of what you were taught to want. That is why her intention work lives inside the practice: kundalini, breath, hypnomeditation, sound. The state comes first, and the intention is written from inside it.
Lexa names six states people take away from her retreats, and two of them are exactly this: your real voice, audible again, and with it a clearer sense of what you want; clarity, and the strength for the next step.
How it goes
The intention and the journal through the retreat
The intention is written by hand, in the present tense, in your own words. Short enough to remember, honest enough to be slightly uncomfortable. Then it goes into the journal you keep for the whole retreat.
After breath, after a sound meditation, after a hypnomeditation there is time to write. Nobody asks for a report on the practice. You write what came: an image, a sentence, a refusal. Sometimes by the middle of the retreat the intention shifts under your hand. A goal about money becomes a sentence about permission, a wish about a man becomes a wish about your own voice.
Sedona's places of power carry rituals of their own, and many people bring their intention to them. A word said at the red rock, among people who have lived the days beside you, sounds different from a line typed into a phone at midnight.
What people ask about
Vision boards, 369 and the law of attraction
I agree with half of the law of attraction: attention really does shape a life. The other half, that wanting hard enough brings the thing, I leave aside. A wish made from fear and a wish made from a settled body are two different wishes, and the practice is about the second.
The 369 method, where a sentence is written 3 times in the morning, 6 in the afternoon and 9 at night, is repetition. Repetition helps when the sentence is true. A vision board is the same idea in pictures. If you make one, make it after a practice and see what you still want to glue down.
If you would rather begin with writing, scripting and the intention journal have a page of their own.
Who guides it here
Who holds the intention work
Intention work belongs to Lexa's retreats. Evgenia comes in when a wish keeps hitting the same wall, because that wall often stands in the family.
Lexa · Amrita Devi Kaur
Weaves the intention into the days of her retreats, from the first practice to the last morning.
Evgenia Arkhipenko
Looks at whose prohibition stands between you and the wish: a mother's, a grandmother's, a vow made long ago.
Where and when
Where to set an intention with us
The next retreat comes first. The others show where this work, and the work around it, has already happened.
Miami, Florida
Universal Therapy with Evgenia Arkhipenko in a Miami house: work with the field and the family line. Milena Chernomorets curates the retreat.
Sedona, Arizona
An intention at the start, a journal through the days, rituals at Bell Rock and Cathedral Rock.
Mount Shasta, California
Lexa's September retreat at the mountain: practice, time outdoors and time to write.
Kauai, Hawaii
Evgenia's retreat on Kauai, for when a wish keeps meeting the same family story.
Miami, Florida
Vadim Borisov's NeuroWave course, for when the body still says no to what the head has decided.
Questions
Two honest answers
Is manifestation a promise that I will get what I want?
No. Nobody here promises an outcome. The practice gives a clearer sense of what you want and the strength for the next step. What happens after that is your life.
Should I bring a journal?
Bring one you enjoy writing in. A phone works worst of all, because it pulls you straight back into the noise.
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