Getting to Eight - 2026

Among other things, you will learn

• 📊 Benchmarking: Setting your starting point and tracking your progress.
• ⬆️⬇️ Shifting Between Stages: Learning to navigate the ups and downs of your growth journey.
• 🎭 Creative Games and Tricks: Fun techniques to enhance your progress and keep things exciting.
• 🔍 Tried-and-Tested Indicators: Discover reliable signs that you're on the right track.
• 🏃 Meditating fast and slow: Interval training for your mind
• 🤝 Copilot Sessions: Collaborative sessions where we'll support each other.

This workshop offers a set of tools, including field-tested techniques and heuristics to help you understand where you are at, and what to do next. You will also have access to group coaching, to help you navigate stage four to eight described in The Mind Illuminated or the Elephant Path.

Requirement

Having reached stage three or thereabout, and be willing to meditate 1-2 hours a day.

Class structure outline

Saturdays PST

• 09 am -10 am Introduction to the subject of the day
• 1 0 am -12 pm Meditation, co-piloting and exercises.

Schedule

We will meet weekly on Saturdays.

1. Intro and getting to know each other
2. General tools and techniques
3. Stabilizing four
4. Stabilizing five
5. Stabilizing six
6. Stabilizing seven
7. Getting to eight
8. Day of practise

The retreat will be scheduled after the workshop, taking people's preferences and availability into account.

About the teacher

Henrik A. Norberg has meditated in the mountains of Sri Lanka, the jungle of Thailand, and led forest monks on Tudong in the Mountains of Norway. He is a cave yogi, wanderer, and mind explorer interested in early Buddhism and samadhi practices, and is a certified TMI/ Mind Illuminated instructor. Henrik was personally trained as a retreat teacher by Culadasa at Dharma Treasure , Cochise Stronghold Retreat Center.

He is currently residing at https://arannagato.com/