The Energy Collective International Practice Community
Month-Long Intensives
We are currently doing Month-long Online Intensives quarterly. January, April, July, October.
The Energy Collective is a group of people working together through online classes, workshops, and Month-long Intensives.
The practices utilized in the Energy Collective are rooted in Zhan Zhuang, Non-Directed Body Movement, and Zazen meditation.
When the pandemic hit, a couple of people familiar with my blog requested that I lead some classes to help people either discover or keep their practice going while not able to go to meditation centers or qigong classes. As I’d already been teaching a few in person workshops over the years, having discovered some unique insights doing energetic embodiment work in a zen monastery in my twenties in Japan, I decided to begin a bi-weekly class focused around helping people develop their practice and explore their internal world.
These classes blossomed into six weekly times. The online venue proved to be surprisingly effective, with people joining in from all over the globe.
We did a couple of very successful mini-retreats, and then in October of 2020 we had our first month-long Online Intensive.
It is shocking how well the classes come through online. One would think that we would feel disconnected but this is far from the truth. The energy comes through, and we all benefit from the collective focus.
We have a general Facebook Group and an inner circle Discord Group.
The first group, Internal Process with Corey Hess, is the general group, for less committed practitioners.
The second group is the Inner Circle Discord Group, and it is the private. In this safe environment, we work together to support one another to go into our stuck places and deepen as a collective group. I have been blown away by the camaraderie and sincerity of the practitioners. And it is wonderful to see people truly change, deepen, mature, and become healthier. Please message Corey of you’d like to join the Discord Group.
We also do a monthly mini-retreat one Saturday each month. People find these mini retreats, about a half day, very powerfu! Please check the Internal Process FB group for details.
I feel so blessed to be involved with this wonderful group of people and I am so inspired by how the people and the classes are changing and growing. Thank you to all who are involved.
Year-Long Training Program
http://coreyhessbodytherapy.com/purchase-packages/yearlong-training-program
Our first Yearlong training program began October 1st, 2022. This year-long training program grew out of the desire of practitioners to just keep going with their practice with the support of the group after the month-long intensives. This program is still open and can be joined at any time!
The new Yearlong Program will begin in January, 2024. Please register here!
The support people give, and the energy people bring is so helpful, and so we decided to just keep going after our October Intensive.
We will meet regularly to check in via Zoom, and still have normal classes.
We will continue with our very active discord group.
We will have special workshops in these zoom calls, such as tutorials on chanting or seated zazen or healing modalities. Please contact me for more information!
“Hello all. I joined Corey's group for about a year ago. This work has had great impact on the quality of my meditation and perhaps more importantly given me a completely new outlook and experience of life — a source of healing and discovery.
Corey's experience and ability to connect with his students is both powerful and deeply supportive, I don't feel it's an understatement to say that participating in his classes or attending a month-long intensive can be life-altering. It has been so for me.
I came to the group in late august 2020, my experience with zen meditation in the stages somewhere between beginner and intermediary, I've read and heard about concepts such as Ki or Tanden or Hara etc and had some glimpses of it say during retreat but didn't really catch on to what was meant.
As I progressed into the year with these classes these points started to open up to me in a very real and tangible way, and it has made such a big difference in, well, everything.
Getting into a process of knowing this energy in a more intimate way I've also noticed I easier slip into samadhi during sitting, but not just that, a sense of well being in daily life, a shift in how I deal with myself and others, and that is no small thing.
You would also, upon joining, take part in an incredibly warm and insightful fellowship of practicioners, coming from a vast spectrum of different traditions and disciplines, some with decade's worth of experience, all contributing to a very sincere and supportive atmosphere.
It has been such a rewarding process and I feel as if I've been given access to something precious and ineffable thanks to Corey and the efforts of this group. Thank you.”
M.A. from Norway
“Took up ZZ and NDBM classes with Corey Hess about a year ago and have been practicing with him since. This is a continuation of Zazen (Meditation) practice, which might be described as an attempt to get in touch with.. 'this life energy'..'to get in touch with that which we truly are'. The classes themselves have proved to be wonderful, open and supportive spaces to continue this exploration. Corey's energy, enthusiasm and commitment to this process infuse the classes, creating a vibrant and nurturing environment. The support, openness and honesty of those who attend is a feature of the classes and is a blessing. With Gratitude." J.L., Dublin Ireland