Welcome to This Thing Called Life: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Creative Healing
Led by Atlas, a seasoned wellness educator, hypnotherapist, and meditation coach, "This Thing Called Life" offers transformative programs that guide individuals toward purpose, inner peace, and emotional resilience. Beginning in 2026, Atlas will be traveling from Maine to Florida, partnering with retreat centers and colleges/universities to offer immersive experiences that awaken the soul and calm the nervous system.
What we offer:
Each course is an integrative blend of:
Meditation & Mindfulness
Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy
Breathwork & Somatic Awareness
Journaling & Reflective Writing
Photography, Music, & Visual Art
Peer-to-Peer Support & Group Dialogue
These elements combine to support personal growth, emotional regulation, and creative exploration. The programs are experiential, inclusive, trauma-informed, and grounded in both ancient wisdom and modern psychology.
Program Formats:
We offer flexible options that can be adapted to your community's needs:
For Retreat Centers:
Single-Day Workshops (3–6 hours)
Weekend Retreats (2–3 days)
Weeklong Immersive Retreats (5–7 days)
Monthlong Residency Series (ideal for lifestyle transformation programs)
For Colleges & Universities:
Guest Lectures or Workshops (60–120 minutes)
One-Day Experiential Events
4–6 Week Series (meeting 2–3x per week)
Weeklong Campus Residencies
Core Themes:
Self-Discovery & Purpose
Inner Child & Parts Work
Creative Expression as Healing
Mind-Body Integration
Stress Relief & Nervous System Regulation
Interpersonal Connection & Community
Omega Institute
Classes with Atlas
Omega Institute – June-August 2025
Discover healing, creativity, and self-discovery through a series of immersive workshops designed to foster clarity, inner peace, and empowerment. Each class blends therapeutic modalities, creative expression, and group connection, guiding you on a journey to unlock your true potential.
Join me for the RnR program at the Omega Institute in 2025 for these life-changing classes!
Each workshop is designed to foster deep healing, creative expression, and inner peace.
For more information email thisthingcalledlife7@gmail.com
To register, visit https://www.eomega.org/omega-rest-rejuvenation-retreats.
1. Breath of Becoming: Breathwork & Future Self Hypnotherapy
Modalities: Breathwork, Future Self Hypnotherapy, Journaling
Focus: Activate clarity and confidence
Description: Breathwork opens the energetic channels, preparing participants for a guided hypnosis journey to meet their empowered future self. Journaling prompts help integrate visions and affirmations.
2. Parts of Me: Inner Dialogue Through Parts Hypnotherapy
Modalities: Parts Hypnotherapy, Art, Journaling
Focus: Understanding inner conflict with compassion
Description: Participants are gently guided to meet and communicate with a significant “inner part.” After the hypnosis, there will be time and space to reflect and journal our experience.
3. Echoes of the Soul: Past-Life Regression for Insight & Healing
Modalities: Past-Life Regression Hypnotherapy, Journaling, Sharing Circle
Focus: Exploring soul memory and karmic patterns
Description: Through a past-life regression journey, participants access wisdom from another time. The class closes with journaling and optional group sharing to process and connect.
4. Release & Renew: Forgiveness Hypnotherapy & Ritual Writing
Modalities: Forgiveness Hypnotherapy, Poetry, Journaling
Focus: Letting go of resentment or guilt
Description: A deeply healing session that combines hypnosis for forgiveness with ritual writing. Guests compose poems or letters they may never send — a symbolic act of emotional release.
5. Loving the Self: A Self-Compassion Hypnotherapy Journey
Modalities: Self Love Hypnotherapy, Art, Sharing Circle
Focus: Building self-worth and inner safety
Description: Participants are guided into a safe hypnotherapeutic space to cultivate self-love. Afterward, they create symbolic self-portraits and share their discoveries in a compassionate group setting.
6. Breathe to the Bone: Embodied Breathwork & Emotional Clearing
Modalities: Breathwork, Journaling, Sharing Circle
Focus: Emotional release and nervous system reset
Description: This powerful session focuses on deep, rhythmic breathwork to move stuck emotions. Reflection and open sharing follow to help digest the experience.
7. Vision in Vibration: Sound Bath & Intuitive Art
Modalities: Sound Bath, Art, Journaling
Focus: Receiving intuitive guidance
Description: A calming sound bath opens the creative mind. Participants then create intuitive artwork based on sensations, colors, or images they perceived during the experience. Journaling captures deeper meaning.
8. Poetic Soul: Guided Writing for Healing and Truth
Modalities: Poetry, Journaling, Sharing Circle
Focus: Emotional honesty and creative expression
Description: A guided poetry-writing workshop using prompts that explore identity, healing, and dreams. Participants may share their writing aloud in a safe circle to practice vulnerability and voice.
9. The Ocean Within: Past-Life Regression & Creative Storytelling
Modalities: Past-Life Regression Hypnotherapy, Journaling, Poetry
Focus: Transforming past-life insight into story telling
Description: Participants undergo a regression journey and then transform what they experience into a short poetic or mythic story. Optional sharing deepens group resonance.
10. Mirror of the Heart: Art & Self Love Hypnotherapy
Modalities: Self Love Hypnotherapy, Art, Journaling
Focus: Seeing oneself through loving eyes
Description: After a hypnosis session focused on worthiness and inner beauty, participants create a symbolic “mirror” or visual representation of their truest, most loving self.
11. "Through the Lens Within: A Creative Journey of Vision and Voice"
Modalities: Hypnotherapy, Meditation, Photography, Writing, Poetry
Focus: Release inner resistance and creative blockages,trust intuitive guidance through art, use photography as a mirror for self-awareness, translate emotion and vision into poetic expression, build confidence and community through shared creativity
Description: This two-part wellness experience blends hypnotherapy, intuitive photography, meditation, writing, and poetry to help participants unlock creative blocks and express their inner world through image and word. Participants will journey inward through hypnosis, capture meaningful images using intuition, and return to reflect and write with intention and heart.
12.Resonance & Release: Breathwork and Sound Bath Fusion
Modalities: Breathwork, Sound Bath, Sharing Circle
Focus: Clearing emotional weight and restoring harmony
Description: Begins with breathwork to stir and release emotional blocks, followed by an immersive sound bath for integration. A short circle afterward allows for gentle processing and grounding.
13. Root to Rise: Integration Circle & Journaling Ritual
Modalities: Peer-Peer Sharing Circle, Journaling, Poetry
Focus: Integrating the retreat experience
Description: A sacred closing circle where participants reflect on their journey through writing, poetry, and story. Everyone is invited to share something they are taking home with them — a lesson, a mantra, a shift.
Unlock Your Inner Potential: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Empowerment
Where: Yoga Shala 1961 Post Road, 2nd floor, side entrance
Fairfield, CT 06824
When: Saturday April 5th, 19th, and May 3rd 12:30-2pm
Tickets: Single Session 45$; Package Purchase (30$each) $90
This 3-part wellness workshop series is designed to guide participants on a transformative journey of self-exploration and healing. Combining Meditation, Hypnotherapy, Journaling, and Peer-to-Peer Support, each session offers a safe and supportive space for participants to connect deeply with themselves and others.
Throughout this series, participants will:
✅ Learn powerful tools for cultivating a positive mindset and meaningful life.
✅ Explore inner parts to heal emotional blocks and foster self-compassion.
✅ Access past-life memories to gain deeper insights and release limiting patterns.
Whether you're seeking personal growth, emotional healing, or clarity about your life’s path, this series provides practical techniques to unlock your potential and embrace lasting transformation.
*** Please bring a journal, water and comfortable clothes***
Session 1: Positive Affirmations & Cultivating a Meaningful Life
Description:
This session focuses on the power of language and thought in shaping our reality. Participants will explore how positive affirmations can rewire the subconscious mind, improve self-belief, and inspire meaningful change. Through guided meditation, journaling, and a powerful hypnotherapy session, participants will identify limiting beliefs, reframe them, and create affirmations that align with their values and goals. This session encourages self-reflection and empowers participants to cultivate a life of purpose, fulfillment, and positivity.
Session 2: Parts Hypnotherapy
Description:
In this session, participants will be introduced to the concept of inner parts — the different aspects of ourselves that shape our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Through meditation, journaling, and guided hypnotherapy, participants will connect with these inner parts to gain understanding, build self-compassion, and resolve internal conflicts. This process encourages deep healing by integrating protective, critical, and wounded parts into a harmonious and empowered whole.
Session 3: Past-Life Regression
Description:
This session invites participants on a profound journey of self-discovery through past-life regression. By exploring past-life memories, participants can uncover patterns, relationships, and experiences that may be influencing their current behaviors, emotions, or obstacles. Through meditation, journaling, and guided hypnotherapy, participants will gain insights, release limiting patterns, and connect with a deeper sense of purpose. This session offers a powerful opportunity for clarity, healing, and transformation.
