Framing for the 5 Days

This gathering is called “Together Alone Collective” because it holds a paradox: we come as individuals, with our own journeys and needs, and we also come as a field, as one. These days are an experiment in how those truths can live side by side—not as opposites, but as complements.

Why are we here? We are here to listen. To slow down. To strip away the excess so that we can hear ourselves more clearly. Sometimes that means being in stillness and solitude. Sometimes that means being in nature or in movement. Sometimes that means being in the mirror of one another. This gathering is not about performing or proving. It is not about reaching a spiritual goal or earning a title. It is simply about remembering what it feels like to be present—in body, in breath, in spirit—and to notice how that presence ripples when we are together.

What to expect: Mornings will have gentle structure—practices like Qigong, movement, and tuning into the elements. After that, the space opens: walks in nature, shared meals, time for rest, creativity, or simply being. Afternoons are your own; they are as important as the morning practices. You’ll be invited to shape your time in ways that nourish you—whether in silence or expression.

What’s the purpose? Not to achieve or to transform in any dramatic way—but to taste coherence. To feel what it’s like to be alone and yet not separate, to be together and yet not dissolved. Over these five days, we’ll walk a symbolic arc: we begin as points (arriving whole and sovereign), then expand into a sphere (belonging), flow into a torus (collective circulation), balance as a triangle (integration), and finally radiate outward as a wave (carrying what we’ve touched into the world). My wish is not that you learn anything new, but that you remember something very old—that you are already enough, already part of the whole, already alive in the collective field.

What I wish for us all is simplicity, kindness, and clarity. May these days be an invitation to soften, to breathe, to be present. May you find joy in the in-between moments—the pauses, the silences, the small reflections. And may you leave here not with answers, but with a deeper trust in your own rhythm, your own body, your own being.