E.H., Creative, Artist, Mystic

This was a WILD ride. It called me in at the 11th hour and Jonathan referred to us as feral unicorns. Epic, incredible people. Appropriately, my experience opened with the bang of technicolor dreams. I’m not even clear yet about all that happened. My adventures are going to keep unfolding long after the course is over…and I hate that it’s over.

Z.P., Artist & Writer

The main thing that I absolutely loved in this container were the meditations. And I was so grateful they were not the traditional ones of just rooting into the earth and noticing our breath (honestly those kinda give me anxiety, as someone with a highly sensitive nervous system).

I most especially loved the meditation where we experienced ourselves in various locations in relation to our bodies. I got so much out of this and think it is an important experience for people to have for many reasons. Mainly, I feel like it helps us understand each other better and have more compassion for each other. Not everyone experiences the world the same way (for different reasons) but I feel it develops self awareness and compassion. In my culture (both andean and amazonian, and also even my africana ancestral traditions), experiencing disembodiment is a useful tool. And it helps us to better understand the way the universe works and feel less scared of the unknown and chaos of life and the cosmos.

The other most sacred thing for me was being able to witness and connect to others who feel affinity with the shapeshifting experience. I have felt like an outlier and outcast (misunderstood and all that) for most of my life. I'm in a very different place with that now. But it still never stops amazing me how validating and welcoming it feels to be in a space of people who are also in some way different.

Overall, I also really like that you're eccentric and out of the box. I believe that people who are eccentrics or outliers tend to be more connected to reality than those in the supposed mainstream.

B.C., Writer, Photographer, Community Builder

Shapeshifting can feel foreign to people who are more in tune/need of stability and continuity, but change is the fundamental constant of life (hello, Octavia Butler!) so just about everyone can benefit from getting more in touch with this.

The container felt supportive, welcoming and nurturing. I took it entirely asynchronously and still felt part of the collective body created for the container. The pace felt correct - just the perfect a amount of input to deliver a lot of aha! moment, get me thinking the whole week without being overwhelming.

Jonathan has a calming, loving presence and goes about the material in a very gracious way, a making room for what wants to come through. The impression I had was of an incredibly knowledgeable and sensitive person and facilitator that treats the wisdom of shapeshifting as a beautiful offering to everyone in the room. No wonder the weekly calls were called rituals!

M.S., Musician & Astrologer

Damn, I absolutely loved being a part of this container.

What comes up now is ... an appreciation for mutability, but also the ways in which it plays with fixedness; learning so much about the incredible dragonfly and how little it's changed, from an evolutionary standpoint, over a very long period of time ... and how it hasn't needed to change much because it's already so skilled at being mutable.

Something else that was powerful to me is the wisdom in the statement Be Nothing, Do Nothing .... Sitting in and with Nothingness is so essential in being able to experience Anything. Or Everything, as hungry Dragon seems to desire.