Dear friends,

A limited number of spaces are available for a weeklong I Ching immersion on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, held during the monthlong Sundari Immersion. If you’ve ever felt the pull of this ancient practice — or simply wondered what all the fuss is about — this is a rare hands-on opportunity to find out: in depth, in person, in one of the most gorgeous places on Earth.

The I Ching — the ancient Chinese Book of Changes — is one of the oldest surviving oracle traditions on the planet, pre-dating Lao-Tzu and Confucius by hundreds of years. It is the philosophical bedrock beneath Taoism, a living conversation between ourselves and the Cosmos, and a remarkably prescient and precise instrument for navigating life’s challenge-filled terrain.

I was introduced to it at sixteen by my father, and I’ve been practicing ever since — forty-five years of relationship with this text, twenty-five of them teaching it in workshops, private consultations, and online courses. But never in a retreat like this one. This is truly the best way to learn: in person, in community, intensively.

I promise you this: the I Ching is not just woo-woo mumbo jumbo. I think of it as an antidote to the ills of the modern world — an entirely different operating system for living in effective and harmonious relation with the Tao, the Natural Order of the world. It is a legit oracle, an unparalleled tool for genuine insight and personal development. And a week together is enough time to get introduced and actually learn how to use it.