Breakthrough with Breath: Claiming Your Humanity in the Age of AI

In the midst of an AI boom, we need something just as powerful: a "human boom".

AI is advancing faster than most people can track. In the Bay Area especially, many of us feel the subtle pressure to optimize everything—our work, our attention, our creativity, our lives. We see others running after the newest tools, the newest prompt hacks, the newest way to stay ahead, and a quiet fear arises:

“If I don’t keep up, will I fall behind?”
“If AI can do everything… what is mine to do?”
“Where does my humanity fit into this future?”

This retreat recognizes the role for AI, without losing our humanity.
It's a reclamation.
A re-rooting, so that we can grow alongside AI in a way that works for everyone.

A day to come home to the one thing AI can never replicate:

Your living, breathing, sensing, intuiting human self.

Why This Retreat, Why Now?

AI is trained on the written universe—the artifacts of human thought.
But human beings are connected to the living universe—a field of feeling, intuition, embodied knowing, deep purpose, and evolutionary creativity.

AI can analyze patterns.
But you can feel truth.

AI can predict next tokens.
But you can discern your next authentic step.

AI can simulate empathy.
But you can enter the relational field, sense the room, connect soul-to-soul.

AI can generate responses.
But you can access emergence—the fresh, alive, unrepeatable knowing that rises from presence.

This retreat is a half-day immersion in the parts of your humanity that cannot be automated, optimized, or replaced.

Through breathwork, somatic practices, and a powerful teaching in the Unique Self Emergence framework, you will:

1. Reconnect with Your Inner Compass

Breathwork helps dissolve egoic contraction and opens the system to your deeper desires and wisdom. You experience clarity of purpose from the inside—not produced by an algorithm, but arising from your own grounded presence.

2. (Re)discover Your Unique Self

Based on the visionary teachings of Dr. Marc Gafni, you’ll learn a simple but profound map of Reality and your own self:

• Separate Self: reactive, fearful, automatic, limited
• True Self: spacious, connected, grounded, full of possibility
• Unique Self: your unique perspective, presence, and gifts that can be given by you and only you in your circle of influence.

This framework gives validation to the felt sense of purpose you’ve always carried but often doubted.

3. Remember What Makes You Human

You’ll tap into capacities AI cannot replicate:

• Intuition
• Empathy
• Discernment
• Somatic knowing
• Evolutionary purpose
• Your unique voice and creative response

4. Experience the Collective Human Boom

This retreat helps us feel the energy and inspiration possible when we come together with other humans to stand for what makes us truly human.

• People in tech or AI development feeling overstimulated, disconnected, or unsure how to stay grounded in the midst of this technology.
• Creatives, professionals, and leaders who want to clarify their next steps in this rapidly changing world.
• Anyone who senses we need not just smarter tools, but deeper humans.
• Individuals longing to reconnect with authenticity, aliveness, and purpose.
• People curious about breathwork, somatic bodywork, and inner clarity.

This is not a spiritual bypass or a productivity hack. This is an invitation into cultivating radical humanness.

Because breathwork brings you back into your body.
Because "story work" dissolves the contractions that keep you reactive.
Because the Unique Self lens reconnects you to the larger evolutionary story of your life.
Because collective practice activates something in you that solo effort can’t touch.

And because, in an AI-saturated world, the greatest competitive edge is not speed or optimization—it is your own depth.

• A felt sense of inner calm and clarity
• Renewed connection to your purpose
• A deeper ability to discern your next steps
• Tools to stay human in an accelerating world
• A grounded experience of your Unique Self
• A community of others committed to the evolution of humanity.

No prior experience with breathwork or transformational coaching is necessary.

Regular and Sliding Scale Tickets Available to accommodate anyone who is drawn to this transformative experience.

Why join us?

David and Kelly bring a depth of training and experience in transformational coaching, breathwork, and somatic practices. With a combined 25+ years of experience in coaching and breathwork, David and Kelly have organized several transformational breathwork events, providing a safe and supportive environment for participants to explore and embody profound shifts in identity.

The format of the retreat combines breathwork techniques with the visionary Unique Self teachings of Dr. Marc Gafni and integral coaching methodology from Claire Molinard of the Unique Self Institute.