Awakened Life Project

Awaken & Live Your True Nature

After 15 years as a thriving experiment in consciousness and culture, led by co-founders Pete Bampton and Cynthia Rose, The Awakened Life Project has closed. Pete is currently on sabbatical and will continue to offer Retreats/Events and lead the Men's Collective in 2024. This website will be adapted to reflect these developments. We extend our deepest gratitude to all those who came and gave their hearts as retreat participants, volunteers and community members over the years.

Awakened Manhood Initiation Weekend

22-24 March | Centro 4 Ventos, Mafra, Portugal
Registration is open. Please email: info@thefireoftheheart.com

What is an authentic expression of an integrated and awakened manhood in the 21st century? If you are compelled by this question and long to experience a context of spiritual strength, open vulnerability and deep brotherhood that embraces a full-spectrum transformational process, then this Initiation may be for you...

320€

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1 WEEK EASTER RETREAT
The Dance of Shiva & Shakti

28 March - 4 April 2024 | Monte Mariposa, Tavira, Algarve, Portugal
Registration is open. Please email: info@thefireoftheheart.com

During this 7 day journey with Pete you will be immersed in guided meditations and profound explorations into the Art of Sacred Intimacy, the "True Tantra" of Awakened Embodiment, including the principles of Regenerative Sexual Yoga and the authentic actualisation of the Shiva & Shakti Polarity.

690 - 850€

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4 Day Spring Meditation Retreat:
Awakening to the Spiritual Heart
24 - 28 April 2024 | Centro 4 Ventos, Mafra, Portugal
Registration is open. Please email: info@thefireoftheheart.com

A 4-day immersion in deep meditation and non-dual contemplation awakening to the Profound Peace, Brightness & Love-Bliss of the Universal Spiritual Heart.

This retreat will be held in Silence except for daily Q&A sessions and will include morning pranayama and qi gong. It doesn't matter whether you are a beginner or an experienced practitioner, the Awakened Heart is equally available to you.

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Do not be afraid. Do not doubt what has been heard and seen and Realized. Be strong. Love and trust and surrender to the God of the body-mind. Let the One Who Lives us all achieve Victory in this time of universal bewilderment and aggressive denial of the Living God.

Let not any worldly power confirm the doubt of the bodily Truth of Man in God. Let mankind hear this Truth by our witness and our defense. All of mankind is suffering the doubt of the body, the world, and God. Let them hear our defense of the body in God.

Let them feel the world- transfiguring Destiny that arises with the bodily love of God and the world. Let them know that we have transcended the error whereby human beings find it impossible to delight in one another and to love and be free as the body itself.

We must devote ourselves to Awakening through the positive and free defense of our Way.
Let us never collapse into self-destructive doubts. Let us join with all the friends and allies of humanity to serve all beings with the Blessings of the Great One. Let us meet every trial that comes upon us with the strength of Truth.

Let us do what is right for the sake of mankind, and let God determine the trial and all results for whatever purposes the very Divine will choose to serve in this world.

Let us surrender into doubt-free and positive commitment to the One we cannot deny. Let us recognize the humor of it all, and so let us be ready to freely defend the Way with intelligence and vital strength.

Adi Da Samraj

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Men's Collective Membership

A Journey Into Awakened Brotherhood
For men are ready to embark on a path of authentic liberation and the blossoming of their highest potential.

The Fire of the Heart

True Meditation as a Direct Doorway to Spiritual Awakening

Pete's Retreats

Women's Creative Archive

We stand alone and together

Guided meditations

An open library of guided meditations

Inspiration from Adi Da Samraj (coming soon)

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When I first met the Awakened Life Project over 10 years ago I could hardly believe that something so precious existed so close to home. Today I live a life completely transformed, mostly as a result of giving myself to what this project stands for and that could simply be resumed to "Faith, Trust and Surrender". But don't be fooled if you think that a spiritual journey is only about bliss and joy. If the path is true and real, then we will inevitably encounter challenging trials that we need to bear and stay with in the heat of the fire. But with a clear intention and the loving support of our brothers and sisters, there is no obstacle or limitation that cannot be transcended.

Ricardo Gonçalves, Portugal

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Being a part of the Sangha for me has been a journey into pure happiness, feeling more and more how nothing is missing in my life, feeling full and empty at the same time. By practicing daily meditation and being exposed to my ego patterns I have faced how much I am obsessed about myself most of the time, and therefore realized how much I actually want to be in relationship and this has brought me to experience love in a totally different level, not only towards everything and everyone around me and life itself, but also to know I AM that love.

Liva Reidzane, Latvia

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I've been given a gift for Life. That's what being part of this Sangha and the Awakened Life Project feels like. Every moment of my life I get to open a gift, and the exhilarating feeling, enthusiasm and warmth of being loved, of opening gift after gift permeates my daily existence and all I want is to give back gifts and Love. The mysterious part of it is that it keeps getting better. The intimacy of sharing these teachings and intention of being truly free human beings, through the guidance of Cynthia and Pete, is becoming ever more palpable. It transforms us individually and the collective is brought down to its knees in awe and devotion to this mystery that continues to transform this Sangha and Awakened Life project towards true intimate relationships bathing in unconditional Love. Embracing this mystery and being in Love with the ground where everything arises, my 9 to 5 job, my role as a mother, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a stranger, pulls in me the responsibility to walk my talk and share far and wide our potential as human beings to tap into and go beyond our beliefs and conditionings setting free our authentic expressions. What else is there to do other than embark full heartedly in this journey?

Sara Silva, Portugal