What actually happens
Most inner work happens alone, or across from a professional. This happens in a room full of people, every week.
The same books everyone else is reading — except here you have to say what it did to you.
WeeklyTuesday nights. A dozen people going somewhere uncomfortable on purpose, together.
WeeklyGloves on, in a park. Full consent, real trust, someone keeping time. Nobody leaves angry.
RegularlyBodies before words. The fastest way past a mind that wants to stay in charge.
MonthlyPaddleboards, cold water, and a bonfire big enough to need a permit.
SeasonalNot everything is deep. Some of it is just dinner with people you don't have to perform for.
OftenThree rooms
Everyone enters where they're ready.
Some work only happens with your own. Some only happens across the difference. We run all three, and you're welcome in whichever one fits.
Men with men
Where it started
Brotherhood, accountability, and reflection that only lands coming from another man. The men's team meets every other week against standards they wrote themselves. Around it: sparring, fires, and long days outside.
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Women with women
Held by women, for women
Circle, cacao, and room to take up space. A place to soften, to be witnessed, and to experience power as something to be revered rather than feared.
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Humans with humans
Where the two meet
Men and women in the same circle doing the same work. What you practise with your own gets tested here, in the company of everyone else. Most people meet us in this room first.
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Texts we've gotten
Not our words.
Before you come
The questions everyone asks.
Do I have to know someone?
No. Most people arrive not knowing anyone — that's the normal way in, not the exception. Say so when you get there and someone will stay with you.
Do I have to share?
No. You can sit through an entire evening without saying a word, and plenty of people do their first time. Nobody is put on the spot, and nobody is going around the circle waiting for you.
Is this therapy?
No. Therapy is you and a professional. This is a room of people practising on each other — and plenty of members are in therapy too. It isn't a replacement for it.
The reason it works is simple. Every pattern you have was built in relationship, and it's only visible in relationship. You can read about yours alone. You can't really see it alone.
Is this a men's group?
It started as one. Mantras began to support a version of masculinity that draws its strength from love and uses it for the greatest good.
Over the last year it also became a place for women to take up space and experience power as something to be revered rather than feared. There are three rooms now: men's, women's, and everyone.
Do I have to be a member?
No. A good part of the calendar is open to anyone. Members get the standing rooms that aren't listed publicly, come free to the open events, and pay a third less for the bigger ones.
What does it cost?
Open events are free for members and priced individually for everyone else. Membership is $77.77 a month, or $777 for the year. What's included.
What if it's not for me?
Then you came to one thing on a Tuesday and it wasn't for you. There's no membership to cancel and nobody will chase you. Come to something open first — that's what they're for.
The next step
Come to one.
The whole calendar lives on Luma. Find something open, put your name down, and turn up. That's the entire process.
Some events are open to anyone. Some are for members only.
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Membership
Membership opens the rooms that aren't on the public calendar. It's also a yes: to being challenged, reflected, and known more closely than dropping in allows. These rooms ask more of you. That's the point.
$77.77 / month
Month to month.
$777 / year
Two months on us. No cancellations or refunds.
Inner work is a team sport.