A Meditation Membership with Scott Schwenk
Awake
What is awake is already awake. This is not a path of becoming someone new. It is the ongoing work of removing what obscures the boundless timeless Awareness already here — and learning to live from here.
Why an Ongoing Practice
Inspiration is not the same as transformation.
A retreat, an immersion, a single powerful sit, a psychedelic experience can open a door. What walks you through it — and empowers you to embody and live from there — is cultivation: a living relationship with a transformative practice that evolves as you grow and deepens over time.
Peak experience
One-time peak experiences can give faith, inspiration, even a genuine taste of freedom. States come and go. As ordinary life resumes, and the habitual mind quietly takes the wheel again, we see the ways we react and get lost in mental events. With practice, we learn to see these humbling moments with more grace, illuminating our path of growth.
Living practice
Awake is not a collection of meditations or an occasional event. It is a living and vibrant container nourishing your recognition of Awareness distinct from mental events. And it’s an ongoing relationship with a transformative meditation practice that you learn to carry into your life moments and have support you to flourish in all ways while also being an ever-more uplifting and nourishing presence for all beings.
Embodied change
The point is not more peak states. The point is a shift in the basis of operation: without practice, most of us live in and react from our mental events. These mental events are like clouds covering the Sun. The Sun is always shining whether clouds are present or not. Awake is designed to help you recognize the difference between Awareness and mental events, and to help you become more familiar with Awareness, with shifting more easily to the perspectives that come through Awareness rather than solely through mental events. Eventually, Awareness will become your primary basis of operation.
Who This Is For
This is for people who know there is something more to life than simply getting through the day. It’s for people like you who may not be able to define the “more,” but when you come across terms like living awake, awakening, enlightenment and self-realization sense there is something real to discover and embody. It’s also for people who simply want to begin and deepen a transformative meditation practice that brings greater resilience, adaptability, access to love, joy and wisdom and the flourishing of everything good.
Awake uses strong language on purpose. If something in you recognizes itself here, you are likely in the right place.
- ✦You have tasted something real in meditation — a retreat, a teacher, a moment of unmistakable presence — and you know a peak experience is not the same as consistent embodiment throughout the natural hills and valleys of life.
- ✦You are done with generic wellness messaging. You want practice with liberatory power, not another way to temporarily optimize or self-soothe without getting the roots of living from embodied wholeness.
- ✦You sense and perhaps have experienced to some degree that there is a vibrant luminous timeless boundless field of awakened Awareneness behind your stream of mental events, and you want help recognizing and transforming what seems to obscure it and knock you out of that recognition.
- ✦You want to experience the transformative power of ancient contemplative teachings, brought into a modern and relevant context without being diluted or cut off from their infinitely powerful roots.
- ✦You are willing to practice, explore and cultivate curiosity while letting go of the need to be perfect, to get something “right” or to arrive at some imagined final destination by some imagined timeline. In this Awake program, there is a living vibrant field of Awareness holding us all, and revealing itself progressively within your direct experience. In part this is the impact of lineage – the collective power of the enlightened awareness from all of the great realized masters, yogis, saints and sages who have ever practiced in these lineages, not only fully available, but intentionally directed to benefit all who come to the practice with a sincere willingness to awaken and grow and be of maximum benefit to beings primarily by embodying what one awakens to.
And who it is not for
If you are looking for a meditation app, a productivity hack, or a one-off experience to feel better for a weekend, this is not that. Awake is a living practice. It asks for continuity. And it gives inexhaustibly. That’s what love does. That’s how living wisdom flows.
The Teaching
Meditation as transmission.
You can collect methods forever. What makes meditation come alive is transmission: the way recognition moves from a living teacher and a living lineage into your own direct experience. The way it’s expressed in the traditions is that the recognition of awakened Awareness enters your mindstream and begins to transform it. Your mindstream, until it transforms, is usually an unbroken flow of mental events that act as clouds obscuring awakened Awareness, love, wisdom, joy and wholeness.
One could design many beautiful lamps. Without the current running through them, there is no light. Awakened Awareness is already everywhere. It has to be recognized within and that recognition has to become stabilized into consistent embodiment to be of lasting benefit.
Each session of Awake is offered as a transmission — a guided experience to explore and practice with. Scott will open each session guiding the group to set a fresh intention for the practice and give some context and any tips for approaching the practice for that session. There will be time at the end of each live session for questions about the practice. The live sessions are a doorway you enter, again and again, until it’s simply how you live.
The Source
Ancient. Unwatered.
Alive now.
Much of this work draws from the Vijñāna Bhairava (a 6th century tantric meditation manual for revealing enlightened awareness as your true nature) and related contemplative teachings. These wisdom streams offer us an unwavering living transmission of the awakened Awareness of all of the enlightened masters who practiced in these lineages. The practices of Awake are training to recognize, stabilize and live from awakened Awareness 24/7, and manifesting as compassion, love, equanimity, empathetic joy, adaptability, creativity and much more.
Scott brings these teachings into a contemporary practice without sanding down their liberatory power. The language is current. The wisdom is not. You do not need to be a scholar. You need a willing attention, a body you are willing to inhabit, and enough honesty to notice what runs the show.
Not becoming awakened. Recognizing what has never been asleep.Inside the Membership
The container is simple.
Simple on purpose. Deep by continuity. Centered entirely on meditation.
Two live sessions
Practice with Scott in real time. Teaching and meditation offered as transmission of direct experience, not as content to consume.
Foundational material
Core teachings and practices that establish the ground of Awake, so you are not starting from scratch each time you sit.
Session recordings
Miss the live room, or want to return? Every session is recorded so the practice can meet you where your life actually is.
An opportunity, not a demand
Some members will be live every time. Others will practice primarily on their own. Both belong. Both are contributing to and experiencing the living transformative energy field of the practice. Each practice is a discovery. You can’t fail.
The Field Effect
Practice is magnified in a living field.
Community does not have to be the reason you join. It is one of the hidden powers of practicing together.
The field itself practices
On retreat, many people feel something they cannot quite name: the energetic field that includes and far transcends the practice level of all of the meditators is doing work that the individual mind cannot. That is the field effect. Awake is a container for amplifying this field effect both on the cushion as well as in your daily life..
Leapfrogging development
You do not have to fully understand the teachings, or consider yourself highly skilled, for the field to support you. Practicing inside a collective meditation field can move what personal effort alone has not.
Come as you are
Sit live when you can. Work with the recordings when you cannot. The field is vibrantly alive and available and moves uniquely between live sessions and recordings. The practice meets and supports the ripening of your journey either way.
The Fruit
Wisdom and compassion are not extras. They are evidence.
Genuine practice does not announce itself with a peak experience. It shows up as how you meet a difficult person. As clarity that does not require argument. As a tenderness that is not performed. Wisdom and compassion reveal and radiate far and wide when the habitual mind is no longer running the whole of your life.
Scott Schwenk is a deeply skilled teacher and healer, with a rare and authentic gift for helping people create positive inner change in their lives.
Sally Kempton (Swami Durgananda)Master meditation teacher · author of Meditation for the Love of It and Awakening Shakti
Your Guide
Scott Schwenk
Scott has spent decades in living relationship with tantric meditation traditions, including years of residential study in a meditation monastery, and more than thirty years guiding others into direct recognition and embodiment of their innate wholeness.
Scott cross-trained and continues deepening in several streams of meditative practice which include Trika Shaivism, Sri Vidya and Mahamudra.
His teaching is practical, grounded and light-hearted, rooted in the power of lineage without being precious, and uninterested in the performance of spirituality. Students come for a method. They stay because something actually moves — in awareness, in the body, in the life they have to live on Monday.
Awake is the container for the heart of that work: meditation as a living practice, offered as transmission, in a field that can hold you while the practice transforms and ripens you.
From the Field
What happens when practice is given time.
These words come from people who have sat with Scott in intensives and ongoing practice. Awake exists so that what opens in a few hours can become a way of living.
“Nothing has expanded my meditation practice as much as this; in a few hours I gained more than 10-day meditation retreats and years of daily practice… resulting in a sustained, deeper meditation practice.”
“Before, meditation felt like a routine task, easily disrupted by tension in the mind or outside circumstances. Now I have a deeper, more focused practice, and feel the vast possibilities of greater awareness.”
“The experience of deep silence during and after, and the desire to practice more to embody and integrate these new practices, supports me on my journey forward.”
The Membership
Enter a living practice.
Two live sessions each month. Foundational material. Recordings whenever you need to return. The work continues between the peaks.
- ✦Two live meditation sessions with Scott each month
- ✦Foundational teachings and practices to establish the ground
- ✦Recordings of every session, to practice in your own time
- ✦A gathered field you can enter live — or work with independently
- ✦An ongoing private community message board to ask Scott questions about navigating, deepening and embodying your practice as well sharing your insights from the practice and connecting with the community around the practices
- ✦Meditation as transmission, not as content to collect
$99 per month, or $990 per year (two months free). Cancel anytime. Come for the live sessions when you can. The recordings keep the thread intact when you cannot.
Common Questions
Before you say yes.
How is Awake different from a retreat or immersion?+
Do I have to attend live?+
Is this breathwork, or a mix of modalities?+
Do I need prior experience with these teachings?+
What does “living practice” actually mean?+
What is the field effect?+
Can I cancel?+
Awake
What is awake is already awake.
The membership is simply a way of keeping that recognition in motion — twice a month in a living field, deepening as you practice with the recordings and suggested micro-practies in the days in between.
Begin the Practice$99 / month · Two live sessions · Foundational material · Recordings · Awake community message board to get your practice questions answered, share insights and breakthroughs, and connect with your community
