What else is out there?

Is this life, stretched out before you, in an endless row of repetitive actions.

Is this life, scrolling by in front of you on your phone screen, on the TV screen, passing time in the car.

What if I told you there was more.

Not more in the sense of bigger, better, more exciting. More, in terms of meaning. Purpose. Connection. Relationship.

The need for purpose and connection— to be here for something— doesn’t disappear as we get older and our responsibilities get greater.

As we become grown-ups and learn to live in the ‘real world’, its voice gets buried under the louder voices of the world around us: of everything tugging on your attention, pulling you in a thousand different directions, each of them away from the subtle whispers of your own heart.

You feel it too, right?

The longing for something deeper.

The energy of the earth— this living being that we live upon— is vast, fluid, connected, and coherent. Everything that lives within its sphere is held within its embrace. Everything that lives upon the earth is a part of its rhythm, its flow. Us, too: you, me, your car, your to-do list. All of it is a part of the Web that weaves us all together.

Human energy is like a river, sitting atop this ocean of earth energy. Connected to it, a part of it, but for the most part turned away from it. Not on purpose— most of us feel it as something is missing, just outside the borders of our perception.

It isn’t that we want to be separate from it, it’s that we’ve forgotten how to be a part of it.

The chatter and speed of human civilisation gets louder and faster every year. There is always something drawing your energy, your attention, keeping your nervous system in a state of hyper-alert. Keeping your attention on the newsfeed of life:

This is what’s important, we are told.

This is what to pay attention to, it says.

This is what being human is about, it shouts, as we scroll.

This person married this person, this person said this thing wrong. This politician did this screwed up thing. This cycle of oppression has repeated itself again. We are transfixed by it, and feel helpless in the face of it.

This is the river of human civilisation. It is loud, it is fast. It feeds itself with our attention. It keeps us engaged with it, with the hum of its chatter, that is a constant drone in the back of our minds:

It’s not enough. It’s never enough. You’re not enough. More. Faster. Push harder. Faster. This is the only way to belong in life. Push. Faster. Now.

If you pay attention, you can feel the echoes of its voice in your own body. Feel it tensing your jaw, your shoulders, deep in your belly, your pelvic floor.

This is the voice of the stream of human civilisation. It is what we have been taught to tune into. It is what we have been taught is important.

We are taught that this fast-paced world is all there is.

It isn’t.

Out there, beyond this river of energy, there lies an entire world that is so vast it makes the river we all pay attention to look silly and small.

It is the web of the earth, and the universe beyond it: this vast, fluid, shifting, powerful flow of life that we all belong to.

If you listen to the chambers of your heart,

hold it up to your ear like a shell,

you will hear the echoes of this ocean of energy,

calling you home.

To yourself.

To the earth.

To your inner guidance.

To the web that we all belong within.

It is there, calling you, weaving around and through you already.

You don’t need to DO anything to find it again.

You only need to learn to remember,

how to receive it.

How to hear it.

How to live as a part of it again.

But how do you do that? Is there a map for it? A to-do list you can follow to find your way back there?

Well, it turns out there is.

The Wonder Sessions is a map: an 18 month course designed to guide you back into relationship with the world around you, in a way that brings purpose, meaning, and a deep sense of trust in yourself and your inner guidance.

In this 18-month journey, you will learn to re-establish your direct connection with god/source/all-that-is/spirit.

As you are.

Where you are.

Not from an idealistic place: we aren’t talking about pretending the real world doesn’t exist. You don’t have to leave your own life in order to connect with the earth, or to have time to find somewhere pristine and wild (unless that’s where you live already). You don’t have to move to a hut on a remote mountain side somewhere in order to find the connection you long for. You don’t have to work hard enough to be worthy, or be good, or pure, or meet some other pre-requisite.

The thing about removing yourself from your life in order to find something is that, eventually, you have to go back. It creates a separation— this idea that you can only have the thing you seek if you are somewhere or someone else. Sure, it might be easier to connect if you aren’t dealing with the stressors of every day life, or if you remove yourself to a place where there’s nothing but the earth to connect to, but that won’t teach you how to live from within the connection.

I want you to feel that kind of connection, knowing, purpose, and meaning wherever you are.

Not just on weekends, or on vacation, but also while stuck in traffic or while making dinner, or while facing down too many emails and not enough time.

It is here, available for you all the time. I want to help you experience it all the time, so that you LIVE the connection.

It will mean unraveling many of the stories you have learned:

-Un-weaving stories about where humans lie in the hierarchy of life (spoiler: there’s no hierarchy).

-Un-weaving stories about our worthiness to be a part of the living, connected world (spoiler: the only thing standing in between you receiving the full bounty and beauty of the endless abundance of the earth is your perception of yourself). Un-weaving our stories about what’s possible (spoiler: trees and rocks and plants are living beings and they will communicate with you and be in relationship with you if you let them).

-Un-weaving patterns of scarcity, pushing, trying to control or force.

-Un-weaving ideas about needing a middleman between you and god/source/all-that-is/spirit/the universe.

-Un-weaving our energetic patterns that hold us apart from the world, from the depths of our power, and from each other.

-Un-weaving stories about what is out there, and what’s possible.

Then, there’s the re-weaving:

-Re-weaving the stories and filaments of connection between us and the living world around us.

-Re-weaving the connections between us and the spirits and energies that co-exist in this world with us.

-Re-weaving ourselves back into the web of all-that-is. Receiving what is freely offered to us. Hearing the call of the ocean of energy as it draws you home.

-Re-connecting directly with god/source/all-that-is/spirit/the universe.

-Re-membering yourself back into wholeness.

-Re-establishing your connection with your deep inner wisdom and knowing (I also call this ‘becoming ungovernable’)

-Re-membering the other beings that share this existence with us, and that you can be in relationship with them: tree spirits, land spirits, elemental spirits, spirit guides.

-Re-membering your deeper purpose for coming here, and being here.

These threads are happening simultaneously, leading you on a spiraling journey home into your true sense of power, purpose, and place..

Where did this come from? Who is teaching it?

Hi. I’m Rebecca. Captain of the Wonder-ship for the last 5 years now. The Wonder Sessions came to me in an odd way.

I’m about to get super weird on you, so if you’re not into trees talking and such, I’d walk away now.

Ok. They’re gone. It’s just us. Gather closely and let me tell you a story.

One day I was gathering elderflowers in a grove near Los Angeles, when all the trees leaned in and whispered to me ‘You must teach them the old ways’.

I had no idea what they were talking about. I spent a lot of time sitting with trees but I’d never actually had them come out and speak to me like that. Also, the ‘old ways’? I had no idea what that was. I asked for clarification, and they repeated themselves: ‘You must teach them the old ways’.

It felt like time had stopped. Like there was this opening in front of me, like a portal created in time and space, and a hand reaching out offering for me to take it. I didn’t know what was on the other side, but I knew I would regret not saying yes. So I said ‘okay. Yes. I’ll do it.’

Saying yes was like stepping onto the back of a dragon. It took off, and I clung on for dear life. Everything that I was had to change. Everything I believed had to shift. Everything I knew got turned inside out. I sat with trees, I sat with rocks, I allowed the energy of the earth, and this being whose hand I’d taken to guide me. I read, and pulled together information, and spent a lot (I mean a LOT) of time sitting and integrating and receiving. I wrote things down.

The Wonder Sessions came from this. When it was done, and I started teaching it, I realised that whatever the ‘old ways’ were, they were OLD. Not just old. That it’s not about taking another culture’s traditions and claiming them as our own (I’m super wary about trying to adopt things from traditions that I am not a part of, especially as a white, British person). Nor is it about un-doing anything that has been done, or recreating the past (the past, for MANY of us, was pretty shitty).

This is, however, about remembering a way of being in the world, in which we are all in relationship to the ecosystem of the world we live in. It is about living that way here, and now. With our cars, with concrete, with plastics, with computers, with the online world, and also with the trees, rocks, plants, elemental spirits, earth spirits, that we co-exist with.

I have more stories about the ‘old ways’ that I will tell you some day— they involve a past life somewhere in Southern Italy and a temple devoted to the Cthonic deities, but that’s for another day, maybe with a cup of tea. But for now, that’s where The Wonder Sessions came from.

What does The Wonder Sessions look like? What happens in it?

The Wonder Sessions is hosted on our private Mighty Network community.

There are course materials— writings, videos and exercises for you to follow along with as we lead you through the materials.

The largest part of the course itself is going to be you:

The wonder sessions is 97% practice, 3% theory*.

*(I stole this phrase from ashtanga yoga, and adjusted the percentages a bit)

That is, while there are readings and videos to watch, the changes happen from you creating space for your wonder practice, and doing it.

10-20 minutes a day, of either practicing or reading the current section you’re working on.

Then making space to actively weave this work into your daily life.

So for example, a typical day could look like, having a 10-minute wonder practice upon waking up: Perhaps it is doing the reading for that week, or spending 10 minutes doing the exercise for the week’s reading. After that, as you move about your life, it is about keeping the current practice somewhere near the front of your mind, as you walk the dog, or are stuck in traffic: how do you apply this energetic movement that you’re learning to the current moment.

Throughout this journey, we are here to support you, with:

-weekly meetings to go to with the Wonder Guides.

-reminders and nudges in the Mighty Network.

-different ideas for how to apply the Wonder work in different ways.

-an active community on the Wonder School network.

-active support spaces for you to come to with questions, whether they are about your Wonder work, or about life in general.

-private office hours with me on Telegram.

-monthly group Q&As on zoom.

I cannot stress enough how much of this course is about actually doing the practice.

Interestingly, the work we do here is not ‘work’ in the traditional sense. It doesn’t require effort, or energy. It doesn’t require you to memorize things, and it doesn’t draw on your already stretched-thin bandwidth. The work we do here comes from the other side of your energy— you know, the part of you that’s been tapping on your shoulder for years, reminding you that it exists and wants to be let out— and that part of your energy is a NOT-doing.

So I mean it when I say this: you create the space for it, and show up for it every day, and it will weave its way into your life and world in beautiful ways.

(More questions? Here are our FAQs, or shoot me an email— there’s no such thing as a silly question)

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The Wonder Sessions is comprised of 3 modules and an extensive toolkit:

Module 1:

The invitation

In module 1, you will learn to receive nourishment and energy from the earth. You will start to develop an understanding of how you, specifically, interact with the hidden world, and learn to test your abilities/ intuitions, so that you can trust more of your deeper senses. In this module, you’ll also start to push your perception, to start to interact with the hidden world more deeply, and will learn a series of deeply grounding, calming, nervous system-regulating exercises. This is the foundation of all that comes later. You’ll also begin the journey of your heart-path, and re-establishing your connection to your inner knowing.

Module 2:

Not-Self

Module 2 is an exploration of the world outside yourself. You will meet tree, rock, plant, and land spirits. Fire spirits, air spirits, water spirits. You’ll learn to find power places, and to charge your body with the energy of the earth. Learn to communicate with the spirits of the world around you, to receive feedback, guidance, and wisdom from these beings.

Module 3:

Heart

The Wonderkit:

Module 3 is where we start to get REALLY weird. We take the skills you’ve learned in module 2 and go… cosmic. To find your heart’s purpose by going back to the moment you decided to come here. To remember how it feels to be an energetic being, pre-conception. To meet the other beings in the place you came from, and remember, in your body, how it feels to be connected to them. To meet your spirit-guides and start interacting with them and learning from them. This module requires all the tools and skills you’ve learned before, to be able to do some of these giant energetic leaps. It shifts your perspective on life and being human in a deeply profound way, teaching you trust in your place in the universe on a DNA-level.

The Wonderkit is a toolkit that gives you the self-healing, self-regulating, self-exploratory, and pattern-shifting tools you need to navigate some of the weirdness you’ll meet.

Think of your energetic shifting and reconnecting as opening up paths in your energy. Inevitably, as you grow in certain areas, you will come up against yourself, and the things you have learned about who you are and how the world is. The patterns you have developed to cope, the ways that you have kept yourself safe, the ways you’ve learned to survive in this world that teaches you every day that scarcity/ capitalism/ white supremacy/ hustle culture is THE WAY. This toolkit gently helps you to get out of your own way.

Each module contains written and video lessons that weave together a range of topics including neuroscience, ecology, stories from peoples’ lives, spirituality, physics, economics, and psychology. These lessons are accompanied by rituals, practices, recorded meditations, and journal prompts for you to use in your Wonder practice.

We want you to be as supported on your journey as possible.

As a part of the Wonder Sessions, we also include:

Monthly group coaching call with me, where you bring yourself, and I Guide you through where you are in your process.
Office hours with me on Telegram— once a month option for 1:1 voice memo coaching from me.
A private social network (Mighty Networks) where you can discuss your experiences with the Wonder work you’re doing, and receive guidance and feedback from me, the Guides, and other past and current students.
Live group meetings with the Wonder Guides (TWS graduates who have undergone a teacher training with me)
Downloadable meditation recordings for each exercise.
Full access to the Wonder School membership, with its monthly classes and additional Toolbox (I’m so freaking proud of the Toolbox :) ).
Support from a group of experienced Wonderers who have integrated this work into their lives.
Optional private coaching/ guidance from Wonder Guides.
An extra 6 months in The Wonder School membership after course completion, and after that a low monthly cost to continue.

There are side-effects of this work I should warn you about: Side effects of being immersed in the Wonder World include:

Learning to navigate life with curiosity and joy.
Becoming ungovernable because you have an inner GPS that steers you.
Find an understanding of your place within the larger context of humanity.
Using your sensitivity as a superpower.
A deep connection to your own spirit guides.
Clarity, control and insight through your emotions.
An understanding of your purpose and why you are here on earth at this time.
A relationship with the earth, and plants, and earth spirits.
Deep emotional and energetic healing.
A deep sense of trust and belonging in the world.

Step in. watch your life change .

You will look back one day and realise that the energy you longed for is now a part of you.

That your connection to god/source/the universe/all-that-is, is the north star of your existence, and that you navigate the world using it as your guide.

The Wonder Sessions starts on April 20, 2023, and runs until October 2024.

THE PRICE FOR TWS IS $4600

(or $4400 if you pay-in-full).

Payment plans are available:

-2 payments of $2300

-4 payments of $1150

-10 payments of $460

-18 payments of $256

Sign up here.

What do current and past Wonderers have to say about The Wonder Sessions:

“It’s almost like TWS changes our DNA…”

Lisa Ritter Grabenbauer

Laurel Eastling

“This class is community medicine & Rebecca Altman is the teacher of my heart. I found I was having difficulties on how to describe this class. I came across these words from a woman named Natasha Clarke. She was speaking about roses but I thought it fit. This class is a slower path, to engage in this dance of trust, a trust of self, a trust of others that can lead us eventually into seeking supported spaces, that can enable us one day to hold again a generosity of spirit to look at other without hatred or shame or judgement but curiosity and care.

It has also brought about for me a deepening of connection, to plants and to people. I can't find the words to express all the changes and wonder that it has brought to me.”

“Almost a year into The Wonder Sessions and the most significant shifts have been:

Slowing down. Seeing the overwhelm for what it is. Paying attention even more than before. Allowing a feeling but not owning it forever. Connecting ever deeper with the natural world surrounding. Allowing the not knowing of the future to be okay. Letting love touch my heart. Forgiveness seems easier. Letting habits go. Thankful.”

Emily Willis

Caitlin McMullen

“Through the Wonder Sessions, I've gained more clarity in noticing, understanding, contextualizing and accepting how I'm feeling and what I'm currently dealing with, as well as a myriad of tools and frameworks with which to decide what to do with that clarity. In deepening my own self relating, I'm in turn deepening my ability and desire to connect with other energies and entities, be they people, plants, rocks, rivers or those less easily defined. I'm more deeply interconnected with those around me on many levels, rooted in this web of relationship in a way that feels critical and generative.”

“When I was a young, I saw the world so much differently than everyone else. I could see the energy field of living things but over time, I learned to turn that off because I didn't have anyone to validate those experiences or explain what was happening. During my time with The Wonder Sessions, I have learned to reconnect with that young girl and see the world like she did, and trust myself in the process. This program is like a reawakening and this time around, there are like-minded people around to learn from and share with.”

Kelley Stangl

Andrea B

"There are changes in my life that I have noticed since starting The Wonder Sessions, and they have appeared softly and quietly. I am learning to approach situations, myself, and others with more curiosity. I understand myself better, and have a greater sense of self awareness. I believe I am more grounded in the present moment than I used to be. I have a myriad of new tools that I can use in difficult situations (and better still, I am starting to remember I have these tools, in the moment!) The exercises and work (play!) that we are doing in the The Wonder Sessions are encouraging and opening up my creativity and art practice. I am also experiencing more moments of compassion for myself, than I have before. And I can feel this compassion then flowing back out into the wider world. It is becoming easier to sense and interact with the everyday magic of the world I inhabit. I am sure The Wonder Sessions have changed me in many other ways that I won't be aware of for some time to come. I am so very grateful for Rebecca, and so thankful to be a part of this community. Words seem inadequate."

"The Wonder Sessions has been a gift. It’s like uncovering a home that feels perfectly natural and familiar, but at the same time surprising. I’ve drifted in and out of the Wonder Sessions, yet always come back to not only feel completely accepted and welcomed exactly where and how I am, but also to realize how that drifting is part of the rhythmn of who I am. It’s helped me more deeply appreciate and understand how I move through the world, uncover levels of self censorship, and slowly learn the diaphanous, airy heart of my being in connection with the world. The exercises in the Wonder Sessions are like little pebbles that lead me back home when things have taken a confusing turn. It’s one of the best experiences of my life, and yet it’s hard to find words to express that. Like the wing flap sounds of a raven’s wings it is a remembrance. Like a poem, it needs the spaces between the words to truly encompass it."

Cindy Carroll

Tracie

“I have an image of a giant wooden, arched door surrounded by the forest, I unlock the door with my key and find myself in a huge cavern with more locked doors, the keys to each of these doors appear in my hand as soon as I’m ready and behind each door is some new elemental and magical mystery to be with, listen to and learn from. I have lived most of my life thinking I was a project, that I was broken and someone I needed to be healed before I could actually get on with my living my dreams. I have also been a life long digger, picker and scraper and through this wonder work I’ve come to know that all of that digging only hurt me more and caused me to stay in old stories and pain. There is power in the telling of our stories and now I know how to share mine without creating a new wound. Through the Wonder Sessions I have found so much more self acceptance, regulation, self love and the discernment of understanding what is mine and what is yours and that I won’t try to make you take my stuff so I feel better and I’m also not going to take your stuff so you feel better. Rebecca has taught me how to witness at a deeper level then I’ve experienced before and this opens my heart to all of the worlds around me. There’s so much more that I don’t have words for but I do know this, I am changed from these mysteries in ways that continue to reveal themselves to me in profound and organic ways. I am full of gratitude for Rebecca, the Wonder community and for the holy creatures that make up The Wonder Sessions.”

Victoria

“I chose to join the Wonder Sessions because of the idea of connecting to the world around me. Rebecca had an image of her sitting in nature and these tendrils moving out into the landscape around me. I was hooked.

My life has had a number of traumatic events (both big T and little t). Almost 20 years ago now I had an event happen that fundamentally changed me and as part of it I lost my spiritual connection - something that had always carried me through all the ups and downs of life.

The Wonder Sessions seeps into your bones, softening up all the hard places. It's a life-changing journey that is soft and sweet and has changed me again. I'm not the person I was before we started nor the person I was twenty years ago. I feel whole and strong in a new way. I'm no longer as reactive to things in my life. I'm able to speak my truth, mostly with love. Many of those old childhood wounds are falling away, almost healing themselves. I find myself opening to the world. I did find the connection to nature and the world around me I initially sought. But more importantly, I have my spiritual connection back and that's priceless.

Thank you Rebecca.”

If you want to see more testimonials, you can watch some video testimonials here.