Workshop description
Level 7: Accessing Subconscious Wisdom
A six-day retreat with five days in complete darkness to access the clarity of the subconscious mind and deep personal wisdom.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
— Mark Twain
Description
Level 7 is not a retreat to escape life.
It is an advanced training designed to radically upgrade how you perceive, manage, and move through it.
Set in a WWII bunker over the course of six days in total darkness and silence with minimal distractions, you will learn a new form of meditation developed by Alexa Vartman that will give you access to your subconscious, unlocking a form of intuitive intelligence that operates beyond effort, analysis and habitual thinking. This meditation will not only allow you to focus on your life purpose while in the bunker, but also in your daily life once you leave it.
In the modern world, knowledge and intelligence have been made into cheap commodities by the rise of AI tools and the availability of information. However, the wisdom required to know your next step with a certainty has never been rarer or more valuable. You already possess this wisdom, in the form of a subconscious mind that integrates all of the knowledge and experience you’ve gathered throughout your life. This course is designed to give you access to personal wisdom; the ability to listen to this part of your mind rather than allow it to be drowned out by the incessant rambling of your conscious mind.
Life Purpose & the Masculine Core
To find one’s life purpose is one of the deepest longings of any human being. For many, particularly those of us with a strong masculine spiritual drive, it is the core inquiry of their entire life: Why am I here? What am I supposed to do with my life? What’s my purpose?
Though most ask this question their entire lives, the majority will never be brave enough to seek an answer, and will ultimately become one of the many who cite this as their greatest regret at the end of their life.
Level 7 aims to provide those brave enough with the tools to address this question directly, not by asking their conscious “working mind”, but rather their subconscious intuitive mind, a deeper intelligence capable of providing answers beyond the reach of conscious thought.
Why Darkness Works
To merely sit in total darkness is not the goal. Darkness is the setting, the meditation is the technology. We remove the distraction of constant stimulation and sensory input in order to naturally downshift the nervous system from an active state to a state of deep relaxation. This will shift your brainwave activity from the beta waves you normally experience when alert, to the alpha and theta waves associated with deeper relaxation, meditation, creativity, and subconscious access.
In this more relaxed state: You can stop trying to actively find answers and instead allow clarity to arise on its own.
Accessing Subconscious Wisdom
The term Subconscious Wisdom is not intended as a scientific claim. It is a functional metaphor, intended to highlight just how much more capable the subconscious mind (akin to a quantum supercomputer) is when compared to the conscious mind (the laptop sitting on your desk).
This is because your conscious mind thinks linearly and can only think in a limited number of steps at a time, while the subconscious mind is capable of non-linear insights by analyzing the whole of your life experience and considering the entirety of the solution at once. As such, while your conscious mind may struggle to find answers, your subconscious mind can find them effortlessly.
Unfortunately, the subconscious must then give these answers to a conscious mind that doesn’t want to listen, often resorting to putting clues in dreams and providing intuitive hints where it can. In Level 7, you will learn a meditation which will allow you to enter a state where your conscious mind takes a backseat and you can access this deeper, more profound intelligence while conscious and aware.
Those who are able to perform this meditation on a regular basis report:
- The ever chattering “monkey mind” grows quieter
- The suppressed thoughts of the subconscious naturally bubble up to the surface
- Creativity and intuition become effortless
- Overthinking is replaced by insight
- Profound clarity regarding their life direction and priorities
- Effortless creative insight
The Level 7 Process
Day 1 – Preparation & Entry:
The retreat begins with a full introduction and preparation day, during which you’ll be prepared with a clear theoretical framework and a crash course on meditation and feeling the right side of the spiritual heart (Level 4 theory).
You’ll receive tools to differentiate between the working mind and intuitive awareness and instructions on how to capture insights from the intuitive spiritual mind without disrupting the deeper process.
Also the group goes through the logistics of living in the dark, practicing basic things like moving around in the bunker and finding your own gear.
After a guided meditation, the lights are turned off.
The first 24h you’ll sleep most of the time, since we’re usually way more tired from all external input than we’re aware of. But you’ll reach a point when you won’t be tired anymore which usually happens during the second day. Then the mind-fucks starts. The difference is that we will not be able to distract ourselves with our usual distractions, TV, work, internet… even just being able to look at things. This is the moment where you’ll focus back on your meditation practice.
Five Star-quality food is brought to you once a day by someone with night vision goggles, and you’ll eat like a dog out of a bowl with a spoon. Eating in the dark will need some getting used to, but the food will be of exceptional quality to support you in your process.
The location is set up so that strings can lead you to the toilet and back to your mattresses.
During the 6 days in the dark you don’t have the possibility to shower but warm wet towels are provided every day to clean your body, although it’s not a big problem since we don’t move much during the week.
If you want to read more about the day-to-day process of level 7, click HERE.
If you want to read more about the actual experience of a level 7 participant, click HERE.
After the Level 7 Process
Level 7 does not end in the bunker.
The retreat concludes with a group integration circle, supported by the TNT team and Alexa Vartman via video. Participants share insights, receive guidance, and form accountability connections to support real-world integration.
Post-retreat integration support helps translate insights into:
- Clear next steps
- Practical structures
- Real-world application
The aim is not a singular peak experience, but rather to provide you with the tools to get ongoing clarity about your life’s direction, purpose and priorities moving forward.
Who This Is For
To qualify for this intense training you’ll need to have passed Level 2, and received approval from the TNT team.
We reserve the right to refuse anyone we don’t think is ready for this step.
This is an advanced process. It’s not therapeutic, and it’s not suitable for those seeking emotional caretaking.
Contact us for any questions. Sign up below to one of our upcoming trainings.
